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    Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈzɔfʲja ˈkɔssak ˈʂt͡ʂut͡ska] (also Kossak-Szatkowska); 10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer...
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  • painter, son of Juliusz Kossak Jerzy Kossak (1886–1955), painter, son of Wojciech Kossak, grandson of Juliusz Kossak Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968),...
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    Wojciech's granddaughter, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), novelist, daughter of Wojciech's twin brother, Tadeusz Kossak Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska...
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  • Polish paleobiologist Zofia Kisielew Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1890–1968) Zofia Krasińska (died 1640s) Zofia Kulik (born 1947) Zofia Licharewa (1883–1980)...
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  • founded after World War I by Emil Zegadłowicz. Its most famous member was Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. Other members included Edward Kozikowski, Jan Nepomucen Miller...
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    fighter Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. He was the son of the celebrated painter Juliusz Kossak, and twin brother to another noted painter, Wojciech Kossak. After...
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    Michałowski. Beginning in 1844 Kossak worked on commissions for the local aristocracy in Małopolska, Podolia and Wolyn. He married Zofia Gałczyńska in 1855 and...
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    of Simona and Gloria. Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), daughter of Tadeusz Kossak, the twin brother of Jerzy's father Kossak family; 4 generations of...
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  • Charles Darrow, American game designer, created Monopoly (d. 1967) 1889 – Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and member of the WW II Polish Resistance (d...
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    during World War II, by a group of secular Catholics of Warsaw led by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Father Edmund Krauze. The Front upheld Christian ideals...
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    Chrzanowska at the castle in Trembowla Józef Wybicki (1747–1822), drama Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), novel Trembowla Maria Krüger (1904–1999), story...
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    Romanian actress Sophia Kokosalaki (1972–2019), Greek fashion designer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889–1968), Polish writer Sophia Laforteza (born 2002), Filipino-American...
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    Trilogy by Helena P. Schrader; in Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ("The Leper King"), Graham Shelby's The Knights...
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  • (1885–1954) Zofia Nałkowska (1886–1980) Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886–1981) Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1887–1936) Stefan Grabiński (1889–1968) Zofia Kossak-Szczucka...
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    worked for the Polish underground in Hungary and later joined SOE. Writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka helped Jews during the Holocaust, was arrested and imprisoned...
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    networks. Two women founded the movement: the Catholic writer and activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and the socialist Wanda Filipowicz. Some of its members had...
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    that was founded on 27 September 1942 by Polish Catholic activists Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz ("Alinka"). The Provisional Committee...
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  • of William of Tyre: see Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan der Weise, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty (The Leper King), Manuel Mujica Láinez's El...
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    prewar Catholic Action. Its president at the time was the Polish writer, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. Protest! was clandestinely issued as a leaflet in 5,000 copies...
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    chocimskiej), and he also appeared in the works of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, usually portrayed as a patriot and military genius. In 2021...
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    writer Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Catholic democrat activists. Two women founded the movement, the Catholic writer and activist, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka...
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    resistance courier who reported on the ghetto for the Allies. Died in 2000. Zofia Kossak-Szczucka – Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter and co-founder...
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    Guardia Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Theodor Kramer Robie Macauley Thomas Mann Predrag Matvejević Arthur Miller Charles Langbridge Morgan Toni Morrison Zofia Nałkowska...
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  • Albrecht Moser [de]: Vineta. Ein Gegenwartsroman aus künftiger Sicht (1955) Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Zygmunt Szatkowski: Troja północy (Troy of North), Pax (1960)...
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    on 27 September 1942 as the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews, led by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, a resistance fighter and writer. By that time, most Polish...
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  • 1942. The organisation, founded by the Catholic writer and activist, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and the socialist Wanda Filipowicz, ultimately saved thousands...
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  • In September 1942, the Council to Aid Jews (Żegota) was founded by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz ("Alinka") and made up of Polish...
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  • Peace on Earth and Observation on the Spot Kasia Tomaszewski, played by Zofia Wichłacz, a character in World on Fire, a 2019 war drama miniseries broadcast...
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    Adventures of Nils A. A. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner Zofia Kossak-Szczucka: The Troubles of a Gnome Erich Kästner: The 35th of May, or...
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  • the first volume of the trilogy The Crusaders by the Polish novelist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, written in 1935. In Harry Turtledove's Videssos cycle of novels...
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