Szmaglewska as seen on the cover of her 1967 novel "Szum wiatru"
Born
Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska
(1916-02-11)11 February 1916
Przygłów, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died
7 July 1992(1992-07-07) (aged 76)
Warsaw, Poland
Resting place
Bródno Cemetery
Nationality
Polish
Other names
Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska-Wiśniewska
Occupation(s)
writer and children's author
Spouse
Witold Wiśniewski (m. 1946)
Children
2
Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska (Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska-Wiśniewska) (11 February 1916 – 7 July 1992) was a Polish writer, known for both books for children and adults alike, and an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Her novels Czarne Stopy [pl] (Black Feet) and Dymy nad Birkenau (Smoke over Birkenau) are compulsory reading in Polish schools.
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