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Zofia Posmysz

1923 - 2022

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Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka (née Posmysz; 23 August 1923 – 8 August 2022) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zofia Posmysz is the 2,925th most popular writer (up from 3,320th in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from Poland (up from 727th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zofia Posmysz ranks 2,925 out of 7,302. Before her are Leah Goldberg, Joan Alcover, Richard Wright, Louise Weiss, Acusilaus, and Julius Pomponius Laetus. After her are Kató Lomb, Bernardo Guimarães, Maryana Marrash, T. H. White, Marie Marvingt, and Moderata Fonte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Zofia Posmysz ranks 172. Before her are Morris Halle, Ferenc Szusza, Tonino Delli Colli, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Gloria Grahame, and Holden Roberto. After her are Gordon Mitchell, Milt Jackson, Arthur Hiller, Shoshana Damari, Linda Darnell, and Seijun Suzuki. Among people deceased in 2022, Zofia Posmysz ranks 190. Before her are John Powell, Leonid Kuravlyov, Ercole Baldini, Milutin Šoškić, Man of the Hole, and John Aniston. After her are Joe Turkel, Rupiah Banda, Herman Van Springel, Fred Brooks, Eugene Parker, and Kitten Natividad.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 643 out of 1,694. Before her are Julius von Sachs (1832), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Heinrich George (1893), Walther Wever (1887), Hugo von Pohl (1855), and Wincenty Witos (1874). After her are Abraham Robinson (1918), Leszek Miller (1946), Yehuda Ashlag (1886), Szymon Marciniak (1981), Jan Sarkander (1576), and Johannes Thiele (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 66. Before her are Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Sholem Asch (1880), Isaac Deutscher (1907), Adam Michnik (1946), Alexander Imich (1903), and Aleksander Fredro (1793). After her are Stefanie Zweig (1932), Marcin Bielski (1495), Bronisława Wajs (1908), Yakov Perelman (1882), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), and Ernst Wiechert (1887).

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