Zofia Posmysz

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Polish journalist and writer

JournalistsLived 1923 to 2022 · aged 98

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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.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 3

Zofia Posmysz in KL Auschwitz. SS administration mug shot

Zofia Posmysz speaking at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Conference on the anniversary of the camp's liberation, 27 January 2014

Awards 6

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

Connected to Zofia 6

Elżbieta CzyżewskaAlso in Passenger (1963)

Andrzej KopiczyńskiAlso in Cierpkie głogi (1966)

Anna NehrebeckaAlso in Mały (1970)

Barbara HorawiankaAlso in Passenger (1963)

Jerzy JaneczekAlso in Cierpkie głogi (1966)

Wiesław GołasAlso in Mały (1970)

About this person

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. 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.