Karolina Lanckorońska
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska | |
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 Lanckorońska in 1945 | |
| Pronunciation | [ka.rɔˈlʲi.na lant͡skɔˈrɔɲska] |
| Born | 11 August 1898 |
| Died | 25 August 2002 (aged 104) |
| Burial place | Campo Verano, Rome |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Occupation(s) | Philanthropist, educator, and historian |
| Known for | Anti-Nazi resistance |
Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989. The Lanckoronski Collection may now, for the most part, be seen in Warsaw's Royal Castle and Kraków's Wawel Castle.
Life
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Lanckorońska was born in
Reared and educated in
Following the invasion of Poland, including
Lanckorońska was active in the Polish resistance and was arrested, interrogated, tortured, tried and sentenced to death at
Karolina was liberated from the
Lanckorońska was then sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. She somehow survived and, immediately after release in 1945, wrote her war memoirs. After the war, she left Poland and lived in Fribourg, Switzerland, and later, until her death, in Rome.
She did not want her war memoirs published in her lifetime. After much persuasion, however, she consented to publication in Poland, by Znak Publishing of Kraków, in 2001, just a year before her death. The book, whose British version is titled Those Who Trespass against Us: One Woman's War against the Nazis, sold over 50,000 copies in the Polish original and is now selling well in English. The U.S. edition was published in hardback in Spring 2007 by Da Capo Press (Perseus Publishing Group) under the new title Michelangelo in Ravensbrück.
In 1967, Lanckorońska established the
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska died in 2002 in Rome, Italy, aged 104, and is buried at the Campo Verano. Her final resting place is located in the 38th quarter (also called foreigners quarter - riquadro stranieri) of the XIX Vecchio Reparto sector.
Works
- Karolina Lanckorońska, Wspomnienia wojenne (War Memoirs), ISBN 83-240-0077-1
- Karolina Lanckorońska, Mut ist angeboren (Courage Is Inborn), ISBN 3-205-77086-2
- Karolina Lanckorońska, Those Who Trespass against Us: One Woman's War against the Nazis, Pimlico, 2006, ISBN 1-84413-417-2, 366 pp.
- Karolina Lanckorońska, ISBN 978-0306816116
Honours and awards
- Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1991)
- Cross of Valour (1942)
- Bronze Cross of Merit with Swords(1946)
- Home Army Cross(1968)
- Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1997)
- Commander's Cross with Star of the John Paul IIfor her 100th birthday
- Honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University (1983),[4] Polish University Abroad (1988), University of Wrocław (1990)[5]
See also
- List of Poles
- Czarny Las Massacre
Notes
- ^ a b Jurij Smirnow (24 December 2004). "Rzecz o Karolinie Lanckorońskiej..." Gazeta Lwowska. Culture.pl. Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
- ^ Ewa Prządka (31 October 2002). "Karolina Lanckorońska – obrończyni kultury polskiej". Historia. Polskie Radio. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ Lanckoronska, Karolina (2007). Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Womans War Against the Nazis. Cambridge, MA, USA: Da Capo Press. p. 149.
- ^ "Honorary Doctorate - Jagiellonian University - Jagiellonian University". en.uj.edu.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ "Kobieca twarz Uniwersytetu". uni.wroc.pl (in Polish). 7 March 2018. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
References
- Review of Those Who Trespass Against Us, Times Online, February 26, 2006
- Review of Michelangelo in Ravensbruck, Washington Post Online, April 22, 2007
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