Poland

Sue Ryder's name is associated with some of Poland's most vulnerable communities: disabled people and those in need of palliative care.

The Dom Sue Ryder in Bydgoszcz is one of 14 hospices, social care homes and oncology units throughout Poland which bears her name. The Dom Sue Ryder provides residential and home-based hospice care benefiting 8,500 people and their families every year.

Our Polish Roots

Sue Ryder worked with the Polish detachment of the Special Operations Executive in World War II and witnessed for herself the suffering of the Poles in the years immediately following the war.  Her work with Polish refugees, the victims of Holocaust, and those suffering the mental and physical scars of war inspired her to establish the Sue Ryder Foundation in the UK in 1953. When Sue Ryder was ennobled she chose to become Baroness Ryder of Warsaw as an expression of her "great admiration, respect and love for the Polish people".

"The Sue Ryder Foundation is a Living Memorial to all those millions who gave their lives during the two World Wars in defence of human values, and to countless others who are suffering and dying today as a result of persecution."  (Sue Ryder, 1953)

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