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Zofia Posmysz

Polish journalist and writer · Poland · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1923 to 2022 · aged 98

Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka was a Polish journalist, novelist, and author. She was a resistance fighter in World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps.

Zofia Posmysz is read about 27 times a day, in 26 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 8 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 142 days, one point a day.

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Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Zasłużony Działacz Kultury
Medal of the 30th Anniversary of People's Poland
Silver Cross of Merit
Golden Medal for Merit to Culture
Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta

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Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, Passenger from Cabin 45, became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, subsequently translated into 15 languages. The original radio drama was adapted for an award-winning feature film, while the novel was adapted into an opera of the same name with music by Mieczysław Weinberg.

Country
Poland
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2022 · aged 98

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