Zofia Posmysz as inmate No 7566 at the Auschwitz concentration camp, 1942. Credited to Wilhelm Brasse
Born
(1923-08-23)23 August 1923
Kraków, Second Polish Republic
Died
8 August 2022(2022-08-08) (aged 98)
Oświęcim, Poland
Alma mater
University of Warsaw
Employer
Polskie Radio
Known for
Passenger
Awards
Order of Polonia Restituta
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Zofia Posmysz in KL Auschwitz. SS administration mug shot
Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka[1] (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.[2] 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.[3]
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