Polesie, he also belonged to the initiative group of the creation of the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Ścibor-Rylski was also in the Honour Committee for the Museum's Construction. He was one of those who signed the protest against the building of the Warsaw monument to the victims of massacres in Volhynia in the form proposed by Marian Konieczny. From December 1, 2004, he is a member of the Virtuti Militari Order's Chapter. Collaboration with communists According to documents gathered by the National Remembrance Institute, Ścibor-Rylski was registered as an informant of the communist secret police Służba Bezpieczeństwa. He does not deny that he was an informant. As he stated, he worked mainly to pull information from SB and he is convinced that he had managed to warn several of his partisans friends from being arrested by SB. He explains that he was advised by his insurgent commander, "Radosław", to become an informant for this. Private life Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski had three sisters: Kalina, Ewa, Danuta. He was married to Zofia Kochanska (also known as Marie Springer ace of Polish underground intelligence. Located the battleship Tirpitz (Operation Catechism), escaped from the Gestapo while 8 months pregnant). Ranks Lieutenant – September 4, 1939 First lieutenant – 1943 Captain – August 28, 1944 Major – October 2, 1944 Colonel in reserve – after the war Brigadier general in reserve – May 7, 2005 Awards and distinctions Virtuti Militari, Silver Cross (twice) Polonia Restituta, Grand Cross Polonia Restituta, Commander's Cross with Star Cross of Valour (Poland), twice Partisan Cross Warsaw Uprising Cross Pro Patria Medal Augustus Ferdinand Wollf Medal – the highest award of Warsaw Medical Association, presented to Ścibor-Rylski by Association President Jerzy Jurkiewicz Honorary Citizen of the City of Warsaw See also Clan of Ostoja Ostoja coat of arms References 1917 births 2018 deaths People from Zhytomyr Oblast 20th-century Polish nobility Polish generals Polish Air Force officers Polish World War II pilots Polish prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Germany Home Army members Recipients of the Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari Recipients of the Cross of Valour (Poland) Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta Warsaw Uprising insurgents Clan of Ostoja Polish centenarians Men centenarians Burials at Powązki Cemetery Recipients of the Pro Patria Medal