Marie Curie

Marie Curie

female, deceased (1934)
physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Chemist, 1867-1934, sorbonne…FromWarsaw
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; known in France and most other countries as Marie Curie; November 7, 1867 - July 4 1934) was a Po...
Krzysztof Kieślowski

Krzysztof Kieślowski

male, deceased (1996)
Roman Catholic, agnostic, FromWarsaw, the decalogue, Screenwriter, oscar
Krzysztof Kieślowski was an influential Oscar-nominated Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles "Three C...
Lech Kaczyński

Lech Kaczyński

male, 60 years old
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość politician, lawyer, Warsaw University alumni, President of Poland, President of Warsaw, Law and Justice…FromWarsaw
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński, IPA: (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i S...
Emanuel Ringelblum

Emanuel Ringelblum

male, deceased (1944)
Oyneg Shabbos, Ringelblum's Archives, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugee in Zbąszyn, death by firearm in Poland, Polish-Jewish…warsaw ghetto, FromWarsaw, warsaw ghetto uprising
Emanuel Ringelblum was a Polish-Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his "Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto", "Notes on the...
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

male, 81 years old
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, Geostrategist, Center for Strategic and International Studies, project for the new american century, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Republican…FromWarsaw, from McLean, Virginia
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who...
Jarosław Kaczyński

Jarosław Kaczyński

male, 60 years old
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość politician, Law and Justice, child actor, FromWarsaw, politician, ex Prime Minister of Poland
"'"' IPA: (born June 18, 1949) has been the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland since July 14, 2006 and is the chairman of Law and Justice, a...
Roman Dmowski

Roman Dmowski

male, deceased (1939)
FromWarsaw, polish, politician, statesman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, National Democratic Party
Roman Dmowski (b. August 9, 1864, Warsaw - d. January 2, 1939, Drozdowo, Poland) was a Polish politician, statesman, and chief ideologue and...
Agnieszka Holland

Agnieszka Holland

female, 60 years old
roman catholic church, Jewish, FromWarsaw, martial law in Poland, Angry Harvest, Prague Film and TV Academy…born in Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Holland (born November 28, 1948 in Warsaw, Poland) is a film and TV director and screenplay writer. She was born to a Jewish father and a...
Marek Borowski

Marek Borowski

male, 63 years old
Economist, World War II, Socjaldemokracja Polska, Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej, Piła, FromWarsaw
Marek Stefan Borowski is a Polish left-wing politician, the former leader of Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej and the former Speaker of the Sejm (the...
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

male, deceased (1972)
Jews and Judaism in Cincinnati, Pacifist, FromWarsaw, APT, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America, panentheist
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th century. Heschel was a...