Wiktoria Sliwowska
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Wiktoria Sliwowska / (F / Poland, 1931), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Warsaw Ghetto> <Hidden Children>
Biography
Śliwowska was born June 26, 1931 in Warsaw, Poland, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Józef Lewin-Łaski (known after World War II as Wacław Zawadzki) and Sara née Fryszman. During World War II she was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in which Sara died.
From 1949 to 1953, Śliwowska studied at the Polish Pedagogical Institute of Alexander Hercena in Leningrad, where she met her future husband René Śliwowski. In 1953 she started working at the Institute of History in Poland, where in 1960 she defended her doctoral thesis, and in 1971 she was habilitated. In 1994 Śliwowska received the title professor of humanities.