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Amelia Hertzówna
Amelia Hertzówna (born 15 October 1879 in Warsaw, died 1942 in Warsaw) (sometimes spelled Amelia Hertz) was a Polish writer and cultural historian who earned a doctorate in chemistry in Berlin and taught in Warsaw. She was arrested during the Nazi occupation of Poland and murdered in Pawiak, Pawiak prison in 1942. Biography Hertzówna was born Jewish and some time later became a baptized Christian. She remained unmarried. She was the daughter of Paulina, née Lande, and an internist named Maksymilian who helped the physician Janusz Korczak establish a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children. Amelia graduated from the clandestine Flying University (a former underground educational enterprise) in Warsaw. Because educational opportunities for girls in Poland were scarce in the late 1890s, she went abroad to Germany and remained there for six years. In Berlin, she passed her secondary school leaving exam as an external student and on 6 August 1904 she obtained a doctorate in chemistry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawiak
Pawiak () was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland. During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia. During the World War II German occupation of Poland, it was used by the Germans, and in 1944 it was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising. History Pawiak Prison took its name from that of the street on which it stood, ''ulica Pawia'' ( Polish for "Peacock Street"). Pawiak Prison was built in 1829–35 to the design of Enrico Marconi and Fryderyk Florian Skarbek, prison reformer, godfather to composer Frédéric Chopin, and ancestor of Krystyna Skarbek, the first woman to serve Britain as a special agent in the Second World War. During the 19th century, it was under tsarist control as Warsaw was part of the Russian Empire. During that time, it was the main prison of central Poland, where political prisoners and criminals alike were incarcerated. During the January 1863 Uprising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |