Mrs. Joan Ashe, wife of U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe, represented the American people on February 1, 2008 at the 64th anniversary memorial celebration of a Home Army action aimed against the notorious Franz Kutschera, SS General and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, who was responsible for the murders of hundreds of Polish resistance members and civilians. Mrs. Ashe, accompanying the legendary Mrs. Maria “Kama” Stypułkowska-Chojecka, winner of Poland’s highest order – the “Virtuti Militari” –laid wreaths at the location of the Home Army action and at a nearby spot at the Hungarian Embassy where hundreds of Warsaw residents were executed by the SS following the Home Army's successful elimination of Kutschera.