Halina Konopacka

Warsaw University she also took up skiing and athletics, but soon abandoned winter sports because the training facilities were too far from her home. In 1926, after only a few months of training, she set her first world record in the discus throw, which was then followed by two more records in 1927 and 1928.^[4][2]

interbellum Poland, earning recognition among established writers of the day such as Mieczysław Grydzewski, Kazimierz Wierzyński and Antoni Słonimski. According to professor Anna Nasiłowska, Konopacka's works were valued for their feminist approach to analyzing the relationship between a man and a woman, and for their reminiscences of youth and the treatment of the topic of jealousy.^[2][5]

Polish National Bank to France to help finance the Polish government-in-exile. After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, the couple immigrated to the United States, arriving there through Spain, Portugal and Brazil in September 1941. After her husband died suddenly in New York in 1946, she founded a skiing school near New York City, as well as tried her hand at fashion design and ran a boutique shop there. In 1949, she married George Szczerbiński, an accomplished tennis player. After her second husband's death in 1959, she moved to Florida, where in 1960 she graduated from an art college at which point she became a painter, working under the alias of Helen George. She painted mostly flowers. She died on January 28, 1989,^[2] and soon thereafter was awarded posthumously the Silver Cross of Merit by the Polish Government. Her ashes were laid to rest in her parents' grave at the Bródno Cemetery of Warsaw.^[6][2]