Janina Bauman
Janina Bauman (born August 18, 1926 in Warsaw , † December 29, 2009 in Leeds ) was a Polish survivor of the Warsaw ghetto .
Janina Bauman's father was a surgeon and was captured as a Polish officer by the Soviet Union in 1939 and murdered in Katyn . She completed her studies at the University of Warsaw in 1959 with a master's degree. Janina Bauman then worked as a translator and editor for the Polish state film company. She had to leave Poland in 1968 with her three daughters Anna, Irena and Lydia and her husband Zygmunt Bauman . After living in Israel for three years, the family moved to Great Britain in 1971.
Publications
- Janina Bauman, As a girl in the Warsaw Ghetto. A survival report. From the English by Reinhard Wagner. With an afterword by Władysław Bartoszewski . Verlag Max Hueber, Ismaning near Munich 1986. ISBN 3-19-005510-6
- Janina Baumann, Dream of Belonging: My Years in Postwar Poland Virago Press Ltd. March 1991.
- Peter Wagner (Ed.): Between two wars: Janina and Zygmunt Bauman's analyzes of the contemporary human condition , 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Janina Bauman in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauman, Janina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janina Baumann-Lewinson |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 2009 |
| Place of death | Leeds |