Hanna Krall
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Hanna Krall is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland.
Krall in 2011
Pawel Huelle, Hanna Krall and Dorota Nowak discussion at the Literaturomania in Gdańsk, 2009
Otwock
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Otwock is a city in the Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland, some 23 kilometres south-east of Warsaw, with 43,895 inhabitants. Otwock is part of the Warsaw metropolitan area. It is situated on
Hanna Krall
…deportations to death camps only because she was hidden from the Germans by the Polish rescuers. After the war, she stayed in her childhood home in Otwock until going to the University of Warsaw for her education from 1951 to 1955. She is married to reporter Jerzy Szperkowicz and together have one daughter…
Świdermajer-styled house in Otwock
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"The Commandant" Józef Piłsudski with his legionaries in Otwock in 1915
Layover yard in Otwock, 19 August 1942. In the distance, Jews sit on the ground overnight, while awaiting transport to Treblinka extermination camp. Clandestine photo