Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907–1946) was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 noble (szlachcic). He was the son of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski

Adam Ludwik Czartoryski

Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski was a Polish nobleman, landowner, and patron of the arts.Adam became the head of the Czartoryski family after the death of his father Władysław. In 1897 he became Ordynat of the Sieniawa Ordynacja property. Capital assets were estimated at 4.5 million Austrian...

 (a son of Princess Marguerite Adélaïde of Orléans

Princess Marguerite Adelaide of Orléans

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) and Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska

Maria Ludwika Krasinska

Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska was a Polish noble lady.Maria was married to Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski, married on August 31, 1901 in Warsaw....

.

Augustyn took over the running of the Family Museum

Czartoryski Museum

The Czartoryski Museum and Library is a museum located in Kraków, Poland, founded in Puławy in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The Puławy collections were partly destroyed after the November uprising of 1830–1831 and the subsequent confiscation of the Czartoryskis' property by the Russians...

 and became ordynat of the Sieniawa

Sieniawa

Sieniawa is a town in southeastern Poland. It had a population of 2,127 inhabitants . Since 1999, Sieniawa has been part of Subcarpathian Province.-References:Notes...

 Ordynacja properties. On 12th August 1937, He married Princess Maria de los Dolores of Borbon y Orleans, daughter of The Infant Don Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

Don Carlos, Prince of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Infante of Spain was the son of Prince Alfonso of the Two...

 and Princess Louise of Orléans

Princess Louise of Orléans

Louise d'Orléans was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain....

.

Due to the prospect of war The Museum prepared 16 cases with the most precious objects to be transported to Sieniawa Palace and walled up. The rest of the items were carried down to the Museum cellars, but in September as the bombs fell on Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 Prince Augustyn and Princess Dolores, who was pregnant, decided to leave Sieniawa for a better refuge. On 18 September German

Germany

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 troops found the cases and looted them for small tradable objects.

After the Germans moved on, Prince Augustyn removed all the treasures to his cousin's estate in Pelkinie

Pelkinie

Pełkinie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jarosław, within Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Jarosław and east of the regional capital Rzeszów.-References:...

 saving them from the Russia

Russia

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n army, but the Gestapo

Gestapo

The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 traced all objects and removed all important cases from their hiding places. Soon after, Prince Augustyn and Princess Dolores were picked up by the Gestapo and put under arrest. After heavy negotiation and thanks to their Royal Italian and Spanish connections they were deported and managed to reach Spain

Spain

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 before the end of 1939.

In 1946 Prince Augustyn died and was buried in the crypt of the Silesian Church in Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

, Spain.

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