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Andrzejewski, Jerzy b. August 19, 1909 d. April 20, 1983
Author. He was born and died in Warsaw (Poland). He is best known for his works "Ashes and Diamonds", "And Darkness Covered the Earth (The Inquisitors)", "The Gates of Paradise", "He Cometh Leaping Upon The Mountains", "Inescapable Ways", "Mode of the Heart', "No Man", "Night" and "All But Gone". (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Baird, Tadeusz b. July 26, 1928 d. September 2, 1981
Composer. Often cited with Krzystof Penderecki and Henryk Gorecki as a leader of Poland's post-World War II musical avant-garde. Born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, he began music studies during the Nazi occupation and afterwards at the State College of Music in Warsaw (1947 to 1951). His early compositions, including the First and Second Symphonies (1950, 1952), a Piano Concerto (1949), and the Concerto for Orchestra (1953), adhered to "socialist realism" dictates under Stalinism, but after...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Boguslawski, Wojciech b. April 9, 1757 d. July 23, 1829
Actor, Director, Producer, Playwright. "The Father of Polish Theatre", he devoted his 50-year career to disseminating nationalist ideals and broadening his homeland's cultural horizons through drama. The son of nobility, Boguslawski was born at the family estate in Glinno, near Poznan, Poland. As a teen he was an avid participant in amateur theatre, but in 1775 he was sent to Warsaw for officer training in the Polish Army. In Eastern Europe it was common for authors to write short comedies for...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Borowski, Tadeusz b. November 12, 1922 d. July 1, 1951
Author. His short story collection "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" (1959), based on his World War II experiences in Nazi death camps, is considered a masterpiece of Holocaust Literature. Written in a pitiless documentary style, these first-person accounts compel readers to imagine what they would do to survive in similar circumstances. They were gathered from two books published during Borowski's lifetime: "Farewell to Maria" (1948) and "World of Stone" (1948). Born in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Ciechowski, Grzegorz b. August 29, 1957 d. December 22, 2001
Rock Musician. He was a frontman of Poland's rock band called "Republika," which was active from 1981 to 2001. He wrote this band's biggest hits such as "White Flag," "Telephones" and many others. He was also a music producer and film music composer. (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Dygat, Kalina b. February 5, 1931 d. August 7, 1991
Actress. Born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1931, her parents brought her up together with two other children. In 1953 she debuted on stage and year later married famous Polish writer Stanislaw Dygat ( Bodenskie Lake, Disneyland). Her long list of theatre work includes plays by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz and Bertolt Brecht among others. Jedrusik first appeared on screen in 1957 with the movie "Ewa Wants to Sleep" (1958). She is mostly known for playing Joanna in comedy "Medicine on Lov " (1966) and Lucy...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Elsner, Jozef b. June 1, 1769 d. April 18, 1854
Composer, Conductor, Educator, Author. An important precursor of Polish Nationalism in music, he pioneered in using folk elements in his work. Some of his operas have themes taken from Polish history and legend. Among his many students the greatest was Frederic Chopin. Joseph Anton Franz Elsner was born in Grottkau (now Grodków), Silesia, a region of Poland then under Prussian rule. His ancestry was German, he received a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Gierek, Edward b. January 6, 1913 d. July 29, 2001
He was the communist ruler of Poland in the 1970s who was forced to resign amid anti-communist worker protests that gave birth to Solidarity. (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Cause of death: Lung infection
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Gomulka, Wladyslaw b. February 6, 1905 d. September 1, 1982
Polish Communist Leader. He helped establish the Polish Workers' Party and was secretary of its Central Committee from 1943 to 1949. After World War II, he served from 1945 to 1949 as Deputy Premier of Poland. A Polish nationalist, Gomulka was purged in 1949 for his alleged sympathy with the Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Broz Tito, and was arrested in 1951. If it had not been for the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, he would have been executed. He was freed in 1954 and was...[Read More]
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Herbert, Zbigniew b. October 29, 1924 d. July 28, 1998
Zbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist and moralist. He was a member of the Polish resistance movement during World War II. He was one of the most famous and translated Polish writers.His family came to Galicia from the United Kingdom. His grandfather was an English teacher and his father fought for Polish liberation in the Polish Legions.In 1938 Herbert started studies at the Casimir The Great Gymnasium in Lvow. During World War II he joined the Armia Krajowa (Home Army)...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Jezioranski, Jan Nowak b. October 3, 1913 d. January 20, 2005
Poland's Home Army's courier to London during WW2, director of the polish section of Radio Free Europe after war, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President Bill Clinton in 1996. (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kaczmarski, Jacek b. March 22, 1957 d. April 10, 2004
Singer, Songwriter. In the late 1970s he was hailed as a voice of Poland's Solidarity movement with such fiery protest songs as "Walls" and "Wolf Hunt", which criticized the communist regime and appealed to his people's sense of nationalism in fighting oppression. Faced with imprisonment after martial law was declared in Poland in 1981, Kaczmarski escaped to the west and worked as a broadcast journalist for Radio Free Europe. He returned to a hero's welcome in 1990, after the communist...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kamienski, Maciej b. October 13, 1734 d. January 25, 1821
Composer. He won fame as the composer of the first Polish opera, "Misery Made Happy" (1778), a cornerstone of cultural nationalism in his adopted country. It paved the way for a Polish brand of music theatre that thrived for nearly a century. Kamienski was born into a Slovak family in Sopron, Hungary. As a youth he sang in the court chapel of Sopron's Count Henckel von Donnersmarck, and in 1760 he accompanied his widow's entourage to Vienna. There he heard a six year-old Mozart perform at Schö...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kapuscinski, Ryszard b. March 4, 1932 d. January 23, 2007
Author, Journalist. Born in Pińsk, Kapuscinski was considered Poland's leading journalist of his time. His experiences covering international conflicts were reflected in such books as "The Emperor", about the decline of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, "Shah of Shahs", "Imperium", and "Travels with Herodotus". Kapuscinski was frequently mentioned as a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in literature, but it was never awarded to him. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Karlowicz, Mieczyslaw b. December 11, 1876 d. February 8, 1909
An important representative of "Young Poland", an early 20th Century movement that combined Polish nationalist impulses with modern European techniques. His style is romantic and melancholy in character, and has a strong individual stamp. Among his notable works are the Symphony in E minor ("Revival", 1902), a Violin Concerto (1902), the "Lithuanian Rhapsody" for orchestra (1906), and symphonic poems "Eternal Songs" (1906), "The Sorrowful Tale" (1908), and "Episode at a Masquerade" (1908)...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kawalerowicz, Jerzy b. January 19, 1922 d. December 27, 2007
Filmmaker. A leading Polish motion picture director of post-World War II era. After working as an assistant director, Kawalerowicz made his 1951 screen debut with "The Village Mill". He then became a founder of the Polish Film School. He was probablay best remembered by his 1966 film "Pharaoh," which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. His credits also include "Shadow" (Cień, 1956), "Night Train" (Pociąg, 1959) and "Mother Joan of the Angels" (Matka Joanna od aniolów...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kiepura, Jan b. May 16, 1902 d. August 15, 1966
Actor, Singer. He was born in Sonowiec, Poland. He began his career as opera singer in 1925, getting a big success. In the final yeras of the 1920s and in the early 1930s, he toured for Europe, South America and United States. He made his film debut already in 1926 with the Polish production "O czem sie nie mysli", but is best remembered for the movies "Die singende Stadt" (1930), "Das Lied einer Nacht" (1932) and "Ein Lied für Dich" (1933). In 1934, he knew his future wife Martha Eggerth...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kieslowski, Krzysztof b. June 27, 1941 d. March 13, 1996
Polish film director, screenwriter. He worked on the films "Red" (1994), "Threes Colors: White" (1994), "Blue" (1993), "The Double Life Of Veronique" (1991), "Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother" (1988), "Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of Thy Lord God In Vain" (1988), "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Wife" (1988), "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness" (1988), "I Am The Lord Thy God" (1988), "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (1988), "Thou Shalt Not Steal" (1988), "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery" (1988), "Honor...[Read More]
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Komeda, Krzysztof b. April 27, 1931 d. April 23, 1969
Musician. Real name Krzysztof Trzcinski. He was one of Poland's leading exponents of jazz, which became an underground phenomenon in several Soviet-satellite countries after the 1956 political "thaw." Since the communists strongly disapproved of that art form, he changed his last name to Komeda to protect his family. His music was influenced by be-bop and the "cool jazz" stylings of the late 1950s, which he initially discovered through records purchased on the black market in Warsaw. Outside...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kuklinski, Ryszard Jerzy b. June 13, 1930 d. February 10, 2004
Polish Army Officer and spy. Colonel in the Polish Army, he spied against for the United States against the Polish communist government. He fled the country weeks before martial law was imposed in December 1981, and the government seized his house and other property. He was sentenced to death by Poland's former communist government in 1984 and visited his homeland for the first time since fleeing in May 1998, months after a court cleared him of the treason charges. He died in Tampa, Florida. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

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