Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak

male, deceased (1942)
Jewish, Stary Doktor, writer, pedagogy, Humanist, humanitarian…borninPoland
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 - August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and...
Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn

male, deceased (1974)
Producer, Golden Globe Award, film producer, American film studio executive, Business Person, Warsaw, Poland…borninPoland, A Song Is Born film producer
Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 - 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion...
Edyta Sliwinska

Edyta Sliwinska

female
Ballroom dancer, US Dancing with the Stars participant, Dancing with the Stars, Polish Background, 1st Place, 2001 Holiday Ball, 1st place, 2001 International Grand Ball…borninPoland
Edyta Sliwinska (born May 5, 1982) is a professional ballroom dancer. She is best known as the only professional dancer to appear on all four...
Jack Yellen

Jack Yellen

male, deceased (1991)
yiddish, English, vaudeville, emigration, Lyricist, Jewish…borninPoland
Jack Selig Yellen ]] (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist. Yellen's family emigrated to the United States when he was five. He...
Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

male, deceased (1954)
January 15, Propaganda film director, Cinematographer, Russian, Russian and Soviet film director, polish…borninPoland
Dziga (Dzyga) Vertov January 15 (New Style), 1896-February 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His brothers...
Jan Kiepura

Jan Kiepura

male
From Sosnowiec, O czym się nie myśli, Before the World War II, Neapol, śpiewające miasto, Powązki cemetery, Jan Wiktor Kiepura…borninPoland
Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Polish singer (tenor) and actor. He was born of a Jewish mother and a Polish father. Before the World War II, he built a...
Boris Kaufman

Boris Kaufman

male, deceased (1980)
french army, anti-nazi, emigrant, Canada, from Białystok, Boris Abramovich Kaufman…Congress Poland, Poland regained its independence, Splendor in the Grass cinematographer, borninPoland
Boris Abramovich Kaufman was an Oscar-winning (1954) cinematographer. He was the younger brother of famous filmmakers Dziga Vertov (Denis Kaufman)...

Leo Rosten

male, deceased (1997)
The Joys of Yiddish, yiddish, Lured, film noir, the new yorker, all through the night…borninPoland
Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908-February 19, 1997) was born on 11 April 1908 in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died on 19 February 1997 in...
Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt

female, 72 years old
film actor, Actress appearing in Hammer films, horror films, Polish karateka, Jewish person, actor…borninPoland
Ingrid Pitt (born November 21, 1937 in Poland) is an actress best known for her work in horror films of the 1960s and 70s.
Eugeniusz Bodo

Eugeniusz Bodo

male, deceased (1943)
death by firearm in Russia, wehrmacht, stage actor, From geneva, film producer, film director…invasion of poland, borninPoland
Eugeniusz Bodo (born Bohdan Eugène Junod was a film director, producer and one of the most popular Polish actors of the inter-war period. He was p...