Dagmar Falk

Dagmar Inez Falk nee Larson (28 December 1912 - 23 March 2019) was a Swedish centenarian, philologist, activist and Honorary Citizen of Suwalki [Polish: Suwałki].

Biography
Dagmar Falk was born in Sodetalje, [Swedish: Södertälje], Sweden on 28 December 1912. She spent her childhood in Sundsvall. She studied Polish philology at the Lund University. In 1936, she defended her BA in philosophy. After graduating, she worked in the Swedish-Polish Chamber of Commerce for two years, maintaining lively contacts with Poland. In Gdynia, Pomerania, Poland she met an outstanding linguist, head of the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Lund, Knut Olof Falk.

n 1945, she married him and moved to Lund, where she lived until her death. Together with Zygmunt Łakociński, a Polish language teacher at the University of Lund, she went to Germany, where she collected Polish war refugees and former prisoners of concentration camps, and then transported them to Sweden. In the difficult years of martial law and the economic crisis of the eighties, she was involved in material and financial help for many residents of the Suwalki region.

After her husband's death in 1990, Falk was still keenly interested in Poland, especially the Suwalki region and the changes taking place in our country.

In 2005, she took part in an international scientific conference organized by the District Museum in Suwałki on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the commencement of cemeteries research in Switzerland and the establishment of the Comprehensive Expedition of Jaćwieska.

In the spring of 2007, Dagmar Falk decided to hand over the entire scientific legacy of Knut Olof Falk and many materials from the Swedish Expedition of the Yotvingian District Museum in Suwałki.

For her deed and for many years of sympathy for Poland, especially the Suwalki region and its residents, in the same year she was awarded the prestigious title of the Honorary Citizen of Suwałki by the city authorities and also counted among the Friends of the District Museum in Suwałki.