SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Franceska Mann

1917 - 1943

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Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg (4 February 1917 – 23 October 1943), better known as Franceska Mann, was a Polish Jewish ballerina who, according to some accounts, killed a Nazi guard, Josef Schillinger, while a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and wounded at least one other, Wilhelm Emmerich. Her actions are said to have sparked an uprising among fellow female Jewish prisoners before she herself was killed. In the most popular but unverified version of the event, Mann is said to have performed a striptease for Nazis at the camp and, once down to naught but high heels took one of her shoes and stabbed Walter Quakernack in the face with the heel, causing him to drop his firearm. She then used it to shoot Schillinger and Emmerich. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franceska Mann is the 399th most popular social activist (down from 298th in 2019), the 796th most popular biography from Poland (down from 590th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Polish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Franceska Mann ranks 399 out of 840. Before her are Sergei Kovalev, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Sophie Liebknecht, Sumner Paine, Lempira, and Black Elk. After her are Dhondo Keshav Karve, Meri Mangakāhia, Germaine Tillion, Ram Manohar Lohia, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, and Ivan Bolotnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Franceska Mann ranks 186. Before her are Jean Lucas, Betty Holberton, William P. Gottlieb, Otto Glória, Domenico Bartolucci, and Yuri Lyubimov. After her are Robert Manzon, Durward Knowles, Joshua Nkomo, Simon Slåttvik, Vasiľ Biľak, and R. G. Armstrong. Among people deceased in 1943, Franceska Mann ranks 137. Before her are Ruth Belville, Aristarkh Lentulov, Curt Haase, W. S. Van Dyke, Elise Richter, and Erich Bey. After her are René de Saussure, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Kočo Racin, Leonhard Stejneger, Ernst Trygger, and Dora Gerson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Franceska Mann ranks 796 out of 1,694. Before her are Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885), Karol Borsuk (1905), Michał Sopoćko (1888), Eugen Schüfftan (1893), Johann Dzierzon (1811), and Jan Olszewski (1930). After her are Stanisław Mikulski (1929), Gerda Steinhoff (1922), Salomon Jadassohn (1831), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Leo White (1882), and Danuta Siedzikówna (1928).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Franceska Mann ranks 11. Before her are Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), and Ryszard Siwiec (1909). After her are Danuta Wałęsa (1949), and Ernestine Rose (1810).

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