Wajda. founder of the crusade. posthumously will receive the Cross of the Black Knight. the highest honor the Knights of Dabrowski can bestow. in recognition of his many years of community service to Polania. Dr. Wajda. known affectionately as "Doc." came to this country in 1945 with a group of 30 other refugee boys. after spending his adolescent years in a Soviet labor camp. a victim of Soviet conducted mass deportations of Poles into Siberia. and later in various refugee camps in Iran. Pakistan. and India. Doc completed his secondary education at the Orchard Lakes Schools. and 7 years later obtained a medical diploma from the University of Illinois Medical School in Chicago.
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