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Read more about the artist at: culture.pl/en/artist/zofia-po...
Zofia Posmysz is a Polish journalist, novelist and author. She was a resistance fighter during World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
Her novel The Passenger (1959) was one of the first literary portrayals of concentration camp realities. The Passenger has been published in 16 languages. In 1968, the first opera version of the novel appeared in the former Soviet Union (libretto by Yuri Lukin and Aleksander Medvedev, with music by Mieczysław Weinberg). The Passenger was also adapted for the stage, both in Poland and abroad.
The opera version is due to be performed in Tel Aviv: culture.pl/en/event/major-cel...
Interviews: Żenia Klimakin
Cameras: Katarzyna Łuka /Marek Sokołowski
Editing: Katarzyna Łuka