Firefighters confirmed the object posed no threat
Three rocket fragments were previously found on February 19 in Komorniki
with a fourth piece discovered in Szamotuły on February 21
part of a Falcon 9 rocket re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on February 19
The roughly four-ton segment originated from the SpaceX Starlink Group 11-4 mission
launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on February 1
Peter Dembowski died peacefully at this home in Hyde Park in the afternoon on November 4
Włodzimierz Dembowski and Henryka Sokolowska were raised in Russian occupied Poland
entered the Riflemen’s Organization (Związek Strzelecki)
 It was legal in Austria and illegal in Russia
he joined the Warsaw battalion of the Polish Military Organization headed by Josef Piłsudski
He was able to return to Poland in the summer of 1918
 In October of 1918 he married Henryka Sokolowska
In August of 1920 Włodzimierz Dembowski volunteered to join the Polish army
Poland had become independent on November 11
but the Bolsheviks were at the gates of Warsaw
Peter’s father decided to stay in the army as a professional soldier
Peter and his four siblings were raised in Międzychód in northwestern Poland and in Grajevo northeastern Poland close to what was then East Prussia
At that time Międzychód had a large German speaking Lutheran minority and Grajevo a large Jewish minority
Włodzimierz Dembowski died suddenly on February 19
Peter spent one year in the school for the blind in the village of Laski
In 1938 he enrolled in the Stefan Żeromski High School in Warsaw
He was in the countryside in Warka at the outset of World War II
His mother Henryka was a volunteer social worker
She also joined clandestine organizations in 1916-18 and in 1939-41
sent to Ravensbruck and shot on September 25
In 1940 Peter returned to Warsaw and to his old high school
which had been renamed Preparatory School for Commerce Personnel
the German authorities were not able to ensure that their changes to the curriculum were implemented
he was recruited by two older classmates (Jerzy Kłowczowski and Mieczysław Chorąży ) in the clandestine organization that came to be called the Armia Krajo or National Army
On April 7 1944 he was among those arrested when the Security Service of the SS (Sicherheitsdienst der WaffenSS) organized a search for illegal arms
 Peter had placed a few arms in the basement of the apartment building where he was residing
The Wehrmach soldier who had seen him leave the basement
and Peter looked much younger than his 18 years and had mastered the art of looking stupid
His release allowed him to fight in the Warsaw Uprising
Peter was among the insurrectionists who crawled through the sewers to give themselves up
He was taken prisoner and sent to the prisoner of war camp Stalag XB in Sandbostel
Prisoners of War did receive food parcels but there was a severe shortage of food at the end of the War
and Peter remembered being very hungry at the time
he hitchhiked to Italy to join the Second Polish Corps
He emigrated to Canada in September of 1946
He worked on a dairy farm in Spruce Grove and as a truck driver
he took steps to pursue his studies encouraged by letters from his aunt Janina Landy
the wife of his paternal uncle Kazimierz Dembowski
Many years later he wrote “Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto
an epitaph for the unremembered” in fulfillment of Janina’s wishes
Between 1948 and 1952 Peter attended the University of British Columbia
 He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Russian
He got a scholarship from the French government
he took a course designed for future teachers of French and wrote a memoir on Old Church Slavonic borrowings in Russian
he met and married Yolande Jessop a French Canadian who was also studying in Paris
They stayed happily married until Yolande’s death in 2014
He taught French and Russian at the University of British Columbia between 1954 and 1956
 For the rest of his professional life he combined teaching and preparing critical editions of old French texts
He taught at the University of Toronto between 1960 and 1966 and at the University of Chicago from 1966 to 1995
He was dean of students between 1968 and 1970 and chairman of the department of Romance Language and Literature between 1976 and 1983 and again in 1986-1987
he and Yolande also became resident heads of Hitchcock Hall between 1973 and 1979
 They hosted a tuna casserole supper prepared by Mrs
He spent the last years of his life living quietly in his Hyde Park residence
He is survived by his children Anna Dembowski
Eve (Frank Strangio) and Paul (Azisti Yunati)
Arrie Dembowski and Alexander Dembowski and his great-grandchildren Felix and Zadie Strangio
A funeral Mass for Peter and Yolande Dembowski will take place at St
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