Category: HER

A major activist in the Polish Socialist Party, charismatic, energetic, skilled opponent of both fascism and communism, Lidia Ciolkoszowa was born as Lidia Kahan on…

During the Second World War, she was Poland’s most famous ‘spy in a skirt’. A Polish aristocrat on her father’s side, Skarbek’s mother had Jewish…

She was one of the most important figures in the Polish post-war émigré community. Together with her husband Zygmunt Hertz and Jerzy Giedroyc, she ran…

The younger – and only – sister of Julian Tuwim, one of Polish best-known poets. She gained universal acclaim as an excellent translator of ‘Winnie…