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Kuroñ, Jacek b. March 3, 1934 d. June 16, 2004
Polish dissident, politician and journalist. An honest man who changed Poland, he was a colorful figure among the leaders of Poland's Solidarity movement wearing denim, regardless of the occasion, and a heavy smoker with a raspy voice. He was known as the godfather of Solidarity who, with Lech Walesa, helped spawn the events of August 1980 leading to widespread strikes and communism's collapse. Born in Lvov, eastern Poland (now Ukraine), he was a secular Jew in Catholic Poland who grew up a...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kurpinski, Karol b. March 6, 1785 d. September 18, 1857
Composer, Conductor. A pioneer of nationalism in Polish music, he was one of his country's most celebrated composers before Chopin. His operas, nearly all on Polish subjects, were very popular in their day and illustrate the transition between the Classical and early Romantic movements. Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski was born in Wloszakowice, Poland, into a musical family. At age 12 he became organist at a local church, and from 1800 to 1808 he was a violinist in the private orchestra of Count...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Kwiatkowska, Irena b. September 17, 1912 d. March 3, 2011
Actress. She was a comedic star of Polish stage, screen, and television for around 75 years. Trained at Warsaw's Institute of Dramatic Arts she broke into cabaret in 1935 at Warsaw's Barber Theatre and was seen in increasingly important venues up to the outbreak of war. During World War II she served in the Polish Army as part of the Resistance and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Kwiatkowska made her silver screen bow in 1945 with "2+2=4" and returned to her stage work performing at the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Lomnicki, Tadeusz b. July 18, 1927 d. February 22, 1992
Actor. A director and teacher, he is considered one of Poland's greatest actors. He passed away one week before the premiere of King Lear, while rehearsing. He worked with Andrzej Wajda (including "Man of Marble" as Burski) Andrzej Munk, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Janusz Morgenstern, Roman Polanski and many others. (Bio by: dei)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Lutoslawski, Witold b. January 25, 1913 d. February 7, 1994
Musician. He is considered one of Poland's three greatest composers, along with Frederic Chopin and Karol Szymanowski. A native of Warsaw, he studied at the conservatory there from 1932 to 1937, but political events would stymie his international career for more than two decades. He joined the Army at the start of World War II, and during the Nazi occupation he barely supported himself playing the piano in cafes. Most of what he wrote before 1945 was left unpublished. He then had to contend...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Malcuzynski, Witold b. August 10, 1914 d. July 17, 1977
Polish Pianist. Well-known classical pianist, best-known for his renditions of classical Frederic Chopin pieces. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and later under Ignace Paderewski in Switzerland. During World War II he toured the United States and in 1942 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City and in 1945 he appeared in London with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Between 1949 and 1956 he made two world tours and 14 tours of the United States. He was made an honorary member...[Read More]
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Memorial, Warsaw Uprising d. 1944
Started on August 1, 1944, the Warsaw Uprising was an armied action against Nazi occupation that lasted 63 days and costed the lives of 18,000 Polish Home Army soldiers (25,000 wounded) and over 250,000 civilians. Warsaw was destroyed in 85% percent. The bodies of underground soldiers were later buried on Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw. The Warsaw Uprising monument was built on Krasinski Square in 1989. (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Niemen (Wydrzycki), Czeslaw b. February 16, 1939 d. January 17, 2004
Polish artist, musician and composer. He was a member of the big beat group named Niebiesko Czarni, then creator of bands Akwarele, Niemen Enigmatics and Grupa Niemen. His most remembered hits are "Dziwny jest ten swiat," "Pod papugami," "Wspomnienie." He was also a movie music composer, working with Andrzej Wajda for his project "Wesele" based on the drama by Stanislaw Wyspianski. (Bio by: dei)
Cause of death: Cancer
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Pawlowski, Marcin b. 1971 d. November 20, 2004
Polish TV Journalist. He worked in TVN, major Polish commercial television network , in TVN24 news channel. He reported for example terrorist attacks in America on 11th September 2001 and attack on Iraq and Poland's entry to European Union. Diagnosed with cancer in 2000, he said to his TV audience after coming back to work, "It's true that I'm sick, but important part of my fight with it it's my work, that's why I decided to come back. My doctors, friends in work and family understand it and I...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Podkowinski, Wladyslaw b. February 4, 1866 d. January 5, 1895
Polish painter and illustrator. His most famous painting it's "Madness." In 1880–84 he studied in Warsaw at Wojciech Gerson’s Drawing School. From 1884 he regularly contributed illustrations to leading Warsaw journals such as Tygodnik Ilustrowany and Wedrowiec. In 1885, accompanied by his fellow artist Jozef Pankiewicz, he went to St Petersburg and studied (1885–6) at the Academy of Fine Arts. Disappointed with the conservative teaching system and short of money, he returned to Warsaw in 1886...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Rakowski, Mieczyslaw Franciszek b. December 1, 1926 d. November 7, 2008
Polish Prime Minister. Born in Kowalewko, Poland, he served as Poland's last Communist prime minister from September 1988 to August 1989. He served as an officer in the Polish People's Army from 1945 to 1949, and received a doctorate in history from Warsaw's Institute for Social Sciences in 1956. He was a member of the Polish Communist Party's Central Committee from 1964 to 1990, and editor of "Polityka," a weekly political news magazine from 1958 to 1981. A noted historian and journalist, he...[Read More] (Bio by: Nils M. Solsvik Jr.)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Reymont, Wladislaw Stanislaw b. May 7, 1867 d. December 5, 1925
Polish writer, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. (His rivals were Thomas Mann, Gorki and Thomas Hardy.) He was born in Kobiele Wielkie, a small country side village near Radomsko. Then his family moved to Tuszyn near Lodz. He was one of nine children in a profoundly catholic family. In 1880 he moved to Warsaw, when he learnt the craft of weaving. He became a fournayman in 1885. At the same time he took an interest in theatre. In 1882 he wrote his first poems and one year later -...[Read More] (Bio by: Apats)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Rommel, Julius b. June 3, 1881 d. November 8, 1967
Polish Army General. He defended Warsaw during World War II. He fought in the First World War, was promoted to Brigadier General in 1919, and was considered a brilliant cavalry commander in the Polish-Russian war of 1919 to 1920. In 1928 he became a Major General and in 1939 he was commander of Army Group Lodz and later led the defense of Warsaw for which he is considered a hero by its citizens. (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Rowicki, Witold b. February 26, 1914 d. October 1, 1989
Conductor. He helped rebuild Poland's classical music scene after World War II. Born in Taganrog, Russia, Rowicki studied violin at the Krakow Conservatory and became a professor there upon graduating in 1938. During the Nazi occupation he played violin and viola with the Krakow Symphony. After the war he was founding director of the Polish Radio Orchestra (1945 to 1950). As Principal Conductor of the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra from 1950 to 1955, and again from 1958 to 1977, Rowicki...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Sari, Ada b. June 29, 1886 d. July 12, 1968
Opera Singer. Called "the new Patti", she was one of Europe's leading coloratura sopranos over a long career. Born Jadwiga Szayer in the southern Polish city of Wadowice, she was raised in Stary Sacz from age three by a well-off family. Just when her talent became apparent is unclear but after private vocal study in her native land she trained in Vienna, Austria and in Milan, Italy, then made her 1909 professional debut at Rome's Teatro National as ‘Marguerite’ from Charles Gounod's "Faust"...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Plot: Avenue of the Notables
Sendler, Irena b. February 15, 1910 d. May 12, 2008
World War II Heroine. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Sendler was working for the Warsaw Social Welfare Department, providing services for orphans and the poor, including food, clothing, and medicine. To shelter the Jews who were receiving such services, she started registering them under fictitious Christian names and reporting that they had infectious diseases to ward off inspections. Upon the Nazis' creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, she joined the underground and took on the task...[Read More] (Bio by: countedx58)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Sobocinski, Piotr b. February 3, 1958 d. March 26, 2003
Polish cinematographer. Sobocinski studied at the Film Academy in Lodz. In 1994 he won the Silver Frog Award at Camerimage, Poland’s International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography for his rendering of images in Kieslowski's “Red.” The following year, he stepped into the global limelight when he was nominated for a cinematography Oscar for “Red”. He also did with Kieslowski two "Decalogue" episodes III and IX. Sobocinski also won the Golden Frog Award at Camerimage in 1995 for “Seventh...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Sosabowski, Stanislaw b. 1892 d. 1967
Polish Army General. During World War II, he fought in the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1944 as commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Starzynski, Stefan b. January 19, 1893 d. 1943
Polish politician, economist, writer and statesman. President of Warsaw before and during the Siege of Warsaw in 1939. After the start of Polish Defence War of 1939 Starzynski refused to leave Warsaw together with other state authorities and diplomats on September 4, 1939. After the Germans entered the city on September 28, 1939, Starzynski was allowed to continue his service as the president of Warsaw. He was active in organisation of life in the occupied city as well as its reconstruction...[Read More] (Bio by: Kasia)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Plot: Symbolic grave erected in 1957
Stefani, Jan b. 1746 d. February 24, 1829
Composer, Conductor, Violinist. He wrote the most famous Polish opera of the 18th Century, "The Supposed Miracle, or Krakovians and Highlanders" (1794), to a libretto by Wojciech Boguslawski. The patriotic sentiments evident in its words and music made it a landmark of Polish nationalist art. Stefani was born in Prague, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), and trained as a musician at the Benedictine monastery there. He may also have studied music in Italy. From 1765 he worked in Vienna as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Powazki Cemetery, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

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