When is the funeral of author passenger Zofia Posmysz, who sadly passed away a few days before her 99th birthday?
Journalist, novelist and author Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka was from Poland. She was a resistant who managed to get out of the prison camps of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück during the Second World War.
His autobiographical account of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, Passenger from Cabin 45, served as inspiration for his 1962 novel Passenger, which was eventually translated into 15 different languages.
The novel was turned into an opera with music by Mieczyslaw Weinberg and the award-winning feature film version of the original radio drama.
Zofia Posmysz
Sadly, Zofia Posmysz passed away a few days before she turned 99.
Polish resistance fighter Zofia Posmysz, who lived in the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück death camps and became a writer and author, has died aged 98.
Posmysz died Monday in an assisted living facility in Owicim, a town in southern Poland and the site of Auschwitz when Nazi Germany occupied the country during World War II.
She would have been 99 in two weeks. On August 23, 1923, a Polish Catholic named Posmysz was born in Krakow.
When she was imprisoned in Krakow in 1942 for her participation in the Polish resistance, she was 18 years old.
When are the funeral services for the author passenger?
Zofia Posmysz, 98, a well-known Polish author and Auschwitz survivor, died in a hospice in Oswiecim.
Memorial services and available date are still unknown to the general public. It is possible that the family of the deceased will organize the funeral behind closed doors.
She returned to Poland after the war, where she published numerous novels and worked as a journalist for Polish radio.
The novel “The Passenger”, which was originally a radio play entitled “The Passenger in Cabin 45”, is his most famous creation.
It tells the story of an Auschwitz survivor who meets her former concentration camp guard on a cruise, and it has served as the basis for a film and an opera.
Has Posmysz ever been married? Who is her husband and family?
Posmysz was designed in Krakow. The Gestapo detained her in 1942 and she spent six weeks in Montelupich prison in Krakow.
She was taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp after a long interrogation. She was twice saved by the camp doctor while serving a hard labor sentence in a correctional facility in Budy.
Details of his family have not been made public. Whether she was married or not is also unknown.
After the war, she graduated as a teacher and wrote for over 30 years until she completed her last article for publication at the age of 73. She became famous for her 1959 autobiography Passenger in Cabin 45.
Zofia’s net worth: How rich was she?
Posmysz was born in Krakow and remained there until the German invasion of Poland in 1939. She participated in underground training programs and worked in the cable industry.
She was arrested by the Gestapo at the age of 19 and accused of distributing anti-Nazi posters.
She studied at the University of Warsaw after World War II and worked in the cultural department of Polskie Radio.
Written in 1959, Pasaerka z kabiny 45 is a radio play based on his experiences in Nazi detention camps.
The deceased author’s estimated net worth is between $5 million and $10 million. She was also composing a book based on her personal experiences.
