Seweryna Szmaglewska
Seweryna Szmaglewska ( February 11, 1916 in Przygłów - July 7, 1992 in Warsaw ) was a Polish writer who wrote books for children and adults. Her novels Czarne Stopy ( Black Feet ) and Dymy nad Birkenau ( Smoke over Birkenau ) are required reading in Polish schools.
Life
Szmaglewska was born in 1916 in Przygłów near Piotrków Trybunalski in the part of the Kingdom of Poland that was then occupied by the Central Powers . She graduated from the Free Polish University and then studied Polish language and literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and the University of Łódź . Between 1942 and 1945 she was a prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . As an Auschwitz survivor, she was one of the few witnesses from Poland at the Nuremberg trials .
After the war she became a successful writer. At first she mainly wrote about her experiences during the war and in the concentration camp ("Dymy nad Birkenau", "Łączy nas gniew", "Niewinni w Norymberdze"), later she began to write children's books. Her best-known work "Czarne Stopy" (published in 1960) was successfully filmed in 1986 by Waldemar Podgórski .
Works (selection)
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Dymy nad Birkenau . 1945
- Die Frauen von Birkenau , translated from Polish by Marta Kijowska , Frankfurt am Main: Schöffling 2020, ISBN 978-3-89561-536-8
Web links
- Seweryna Szmaglewska in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marta Kijowska : The second smoke over Birkenau. Stock report from Poland. In: FAZ, January 27, 2019 (detailed article about Szmaglewska and her book Dymy nad Birkenau )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szmaglewska, Seweryna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Przygłów |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1992 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |