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Polish Immigration To Mexico
There is a Polish diaspora in Mexico. According to the 2005 intercensal estimate, there were 971 Polish citizens living in Mexico. Furthermore, by the estimate of the Jewish community, there may be as many as 15,000 descendants of Jewish migrants from Poland living in Mexico. Migration history The first Poles arrived in Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. In May 1942, Mexico declared war on Germany. To show solidarity with the Polish people, Mexico accepted in 1943 over 2,000 Polish refugees including 1,400 Polish orphans to settle in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. After the war, many of the refugees remained to live in Mexico. Many members of the Polish Jewish community trying to immigrate to the United States were refused entry; not wanting to return to Europe they requested asylum in Mexico, some ships were diverted to the Mexican territory and entered them through ports of Tampico, Veracruz and Puerto Progreso. A large part of the Ashkenazi Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. One of the world's Globalization and World Cities Research Network, alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban area, urban agglomeration in the Weste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xawery Wolski
Xawery Wolski (born 1960 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish artist. Biography Wolski's work is predominantly sculpture. Some of the projects he has undertaken in Mexico include; the sculpture "Infinity Chains" at the entrance of the Rufino Tamayo Museum, the series of works created for the Four Seasons Hotel in Punta Mita, and the ''Stelae'' arranged at Álvaro Obregón (at the exit of Metro Zapata) in Mexico City. Wolski created this work in collaboration with street children from the area with the help of the French Ministry of External Relations. He has participated in many artist in residence programs, spent long periods of his creative time in Asia and India producing sculptures related to specific cultural and meta physical issues, made over seventy individual exhibitions throughout the world. Among them the Liu Haisu Museum in Shanghai, The Zachęta National Gallery of Art, The Lux Art Institute, Museo Carillo Gil, Museo Rufino Tamayo and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basia Batorska
Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska (Polish: , born 30 September 1954), better known as Basia, is a Polish singer-songwriter and recording artist noted for her Latin-inspired jazz-pop music. She began singing professionally in various Polish bands from the late 1960s throughout the 1970s, then relocated to the UK in 1981. She rose to fame as a singer in the British trio Matt Bianco. By 1986, Basia and her bandmate Danny White had left the group to focus on her solo career. She signed on with Epic Records and enjoyed a successful international career between 1987 and 1995, particularly in the USA where her first two albums '' Time and Tide'' and ''London Warsaw New York'' were platinum-certified, million-unit sellers. During that period, her biggest hits were " Time and Tide", "New Day for You", " Promises", "Baby You're Mine", "Cruising for Bruising", and " Drunk on Love". She had also built up a fan base in Asia. She took a lengthy hiatus due to personal tragedies, then made a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara De Lempicka
Tamara Łempicka (born Tamara Rosalia Gurwik-Górska; 16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes. Born in Warsaw, Lempicka briefly moved to Saint Petersburg where she married Tadeusz Łempicki, a prominent Polish lawyer, then travelled to Paris. She studied painting with Maurice Denis and André Lhote. Her style was a blend of late, refined cubism and the neoclassical style, particularly inspired by the work of Jean-Dominique Ingres. She was an active participant in the artistic and social life of Paris between the wars. In 1928 she became the mistress of Baron Raoul Kuffner, a wealthy art collector from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. After her divorce from Łempicki in 1931 and the death of his wife in 1933, Kuffner married Lempic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawel Anaszkiewicz
Pawel Anaszkiewicz, born in Gdynia, Poland, is a Polish- Mexican artist. He is a visual artist working with video-installations and sculptures. His video-installations are confronting real and projected spaces. In sculpture he is working with big pieces of rusted metal, and his conception of metal and the space surrounding it is that of two element embracing each other. He is currently working as a professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado Morelo's Facultad de Artes Plasticas at Cuernavaca Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D. The na .... References Mexican artists People from Gdynia Polish emigrants to Mexico Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Mexico-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Paleta
Zbigniew Paleta (born 1940) is a Polish violinist and composer for telenovelas and the Cinema of Mexico. He is the father of actresses Ludwika and Dominika Paleta. They relocated to Mexico City in 1980. Awards * Ariel Award in 1998 by the Mexican Academy of Film **''Musical score'' for '' Libre de culpas''. **''Best song'' for ''Libre de culpas'' Albums * '' EL tri (Sinfónico, celebrando los 30 años de El tri) '', primer violin * '' El Tri MTV Unplugged'', violin Telenovelas * ''Prisionera de amor'' (1994) Films Mexico * '' Knórosov. El desciframiento de la escritura Maya'' (2000), original music * '' Brisa de Navidad'' (1999), original music * '' Al borde'' (1998), original music * '' Libre de culpas'' (1996), original music * '' 4 maneras de tapar un hoyo'' (1995), original music * ''La otra familia'' (2011), original music Poland * '' Trzy kolory: Bialy'' (1994), director * '' Miroslava'' (1993), violin External links *1998Ariel Awards. *Three Colors: Blue' soundtrack a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Rabel
Fanny Rabel (August 27, 1922 in Poland – November 25, 2008 in Mexico City), born Fanny Rabinovich, was a Polish-born Mexican artist who is considered to be the first modern female muralist and one of the youngest associated with the Mexican muralism of the early to mid 20th century. She and her family arrived to Mexico in 1938 from Europe and she studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", where she met and became friends with Frida Kahlo. She became the only female member of “Los Fridos” a group of students under Kahlo’s tutelage. She also worked as an assistant and apprentice to Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, painting a number of murals of her own during her career. The most significant of these is "Ronda en el tiempo" at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. She also created canvases and other works, with children often featured in her work, and was one of the first of her generation to work with eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Maria Zuk
Eva Maria Zuk (24 December 1945 – 27 February 2017) was a Polish- Mexican piano concertist. She was raised in Caracas, New York City and Mexico City . She began music studies with her mother at the age of 4. Education By age 6 she had her first public performance and received the title of Piano Professor and Performer from the Venezuelan Ministry of Education at age 13. When she was 20 years old, she had earned Bachelor of Music/Master of Science degrees from the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Her teachers included Rosina Lhévinne and Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Musical career Eva Maria Zuk has recorded eight LPs and five CDs, which include: the two Chopin concerti with the London Philharmonic; a Chopin recital; and Anthology of the Polonaise for the piano, from her own research, first recorded collection containing the historic evolution of a musical form; Haydn’s D major Concerto with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, playing and conducting from the piano, with her o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ostrosky
David Ostrosky Vinograd (born December 1, 1956) is a Mexican actor, active since 1984. Early life Ostrosky was born in Mexico, and is of Jewish descent. His father, Pedro Ostrosky, is Lithuanian Jewish from Kyiv, Ukraine, and his mother ''Gueña'' Vinograd is from Poland. Career He is known for his moustache, and for appearing in numerous telenovellas, and plays in Mexico City. Telenovelas *'' Vencer la ausencia'' (2022) as Homero Funes *'' La Casa de las Flores'' (2018) as Dr. Salomón Cohen *''Hasta el fin del mundo'' (2014) as Maestro Coria *'' Por Siempre mi Amor'' (2013) as Gilberto Cervantes *'' Porque el Amor Manda'' (2012-2013) as Lic. Astudillo *'' Un Refugio para el Amor'' (2012) as Claudio *''Una familia con suerte'' (2011) as Ernesto Quesada *''Cuando me enamoro'' (2011) as Benjamín Casillas *'' Soy tu dueña'' (2010) as Moisés Macotela *'' Alma de hierro'' (2009) as Alonso *''En nombre del amor'' (2008) as Dr. Rodolfo Bermúdez *''Central de abastos'' (2008) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelica Zawadzki
Angelica Zawadzki (born June 15, 1952) is a Mexican sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer .... ReferencesSports-reference.com profile 1952 births Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Living people Mexican female canoeists Olympic canoeists for Mexico Mexican people of Polish descent Place of birth missing (living people) {{Mexico-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Plaschinski
Helen Plaschinski Farca (born April 8, 1963) is a former female freestyle swimmer from Mexico, who participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics for her native country. Her best result in Moscow, Soviet Union was a sixth place in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay. She competed in the 1977 Maccabiah Games (as a 14 year old) and the 1981 Maccabiah Games The 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 35 nations. The Opening Ceremony was held on July 7, 1981, before a crowd of 53,000 and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Ramat Gan Stadium, with 3,500 Jewish athletes paradin ... in Israel. In each, she won gold medals in the 100 and 200 m freestyle. References * 1963 births Living people Mexican people of Polish descent Mexican female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Mexico Place of birth missing (living people) Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Krauze
Enrique Krauze (Mexico City, September 16, 1947) is a Mexican historian, essayist, editor, and entrepreneur. He has written more than twenty books, some of which are: ''Mexico: Biography of Power'', ''Redeemers'', and ''El pueblo soy yo'' (''I am the people''). He has also produced more than 500 television programs and documentaries about Mexico’s history. His biographical, historical works, and his political and literary essays, which have reached a broad audience, have made him famous. Life and career He received his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1965-1969). He received a Doctorate in History from the Center of Historical Studies in El Colegio de México (1969-1974). He is a member of the Mexican Academy of History and the Mexican National College (El Colegio Nacional (Mexico)). He is also director of the publishing house Clío and director of ''Letras Libres'', a cultural magazine. The Engineering Facul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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