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Katarzyna Piskorska

Polish sculptor (1937-2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ8864240 ↗
Source-derived summary

Katarzyna Piskorska (2 March 1937 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish sculptor.

She died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk on 10 April 2010. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta.

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“Katarzyna Piskorska” enters the record as polish sculptor (1937-2010). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Katarzyna, Piskorska and Polish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-03-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Katarzyna, Piskorska and Polish.
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“Katarzyna Piskorska” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Katarzyna, Piskorska and Polish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8864240. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Katarzyna Piskorska” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.