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Marianna Dolińska

Polish murderer · Lived 1891 to 1928 · aged 37

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Marianna Dolińska (1891-1928) was a Romani woman from the village of Antoniówka in Radom County, Poland. In 1923, after her husband was arrested for burglary and her wagon camp was dispersed, she wandered in the wilderness with her four children, aged six months to seven years.

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Dolińska in the psychiatric hospitalDolińska in the psychiatric hospitalA photograph of the murdered children accompanied a 1928 article by Polish psychiatrist Witold Łuniewski. It later came to be informally known as the "wreath of children".[1]A photograph of the murdered children accompanied a 1928 article by Polish psychiatrist Witold Łuniewski. It later came to be informally known as the "wreath of children".[1]A second photograph of the children was published in 1948 in Wiktor Grzywo-Dąbrowski's A Manual of Forensic Medicine for Students and Doctors.A second photograph of the children was published in 1948 in Wiktor Grzywo-Dąbrowski's A Manual of Forensic Medicine for Students and Doctors.In another photograph, lines crossing the image, probably caused by folding of the developed print or scratches on the negative, were wrongly interpreted to be barbed wire securing the children to the tree.[1]In another photograph, lines crossing the image, probably caused by folding of the developed print or scratches on the negative, were wrongly interpreted to be barbed wire securing the children to the tree.[1]A monument in Przemyśl dedicated to victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, depicted the "wreath of children". It was removed in 2008.A monument in Przemyśl dedicated to victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, depicted the "wreath of children". It was removed in 2008.

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Marianna Dolińska (1891-1928) was a Romani woman from the village of Antoniówka in Radom County, Poland. In 1923, after her husband was arrested for burglary and her wagon camp was dispersed, she wandered in the wilderness with her four children, aged six months to seven years. Fearing for their starvation, on the night of 11 December, she murdered them, hanging them from a tree. She confessed at a police station the following day. Dolińska was sent to a psychiatric hospital and died there in 1928.

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Lived 1891 to 1928 · aged 37

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