Given name: Anna Irena Family name: Trojanowska-Kaczmarska

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  • Female
  • Anna Irena
  • Trojanowska-Kaczmarska
  • Trojanowska
  • 1931-00-00
  • 1931
  • Warszawa

  • She lived in so called 'Aryan part' of Warsaw in Zoliborz district at Slowackiego Street No. 20. During the Warsaw Uprising she made illustrations co-operating with a young poet - Nowicki - the editor of the magazine for children: "Jawnutki'. After the fall of the uprising she stayed with her mother in different parts of Poland. Among the others in Lowicz and Bakow village, where with the family of her father acquaintance she lived to the end of the war. After the war she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Kiev and the humanities at the University of Warsaw.

  • Intelligentsia, survivors, hideout

  • Compiled on the basis of Anna Irena Trojanowska -Kaczmarska's text, pp. 127-129, (in:) Dzieci Holocaustu Mówia...(Children of the Holocaust Speak), vol. 1

  • Several dozen of biographies and memoirs of Holocaust children in Poland, describing the reality of the occupation. Stories of the youngest witnesses of those events virtually from all over the country. they depict their daily struggle for survival, struggling with the occupier's terror, family tragedies and the deaths of their family members. Some of these testimonies even refer to pre-war times, while others to post-war years as well. These are biographies of those who stayed in Poland after the war. Two of them were sent from Israel.

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