Zofia Posmysz

Zofia Posmysz
Zofia Posmysz as inmate No 7566 at the Auschwitz concentration camp, 1942. Credited to Wilhelm Brasse
Born(1923-08-23)23 August 1923
Kraków, Second Polish Republic
Died8 August 2022(2022-08-08) (aged 98)
Oświęcim, Poland
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
EmployerPolskie Radio
Known forPassenger
Awards
Zofia Posmysz in KL Auschwitz. SS administration mug shot

Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka[1] (née Posmysz; 23 August 1923 – 8 August 2022) was a Polish journalist, novelist, and author. She was a resistance fighter in World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, Passenger from Cabin 45, became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, subsequently translated into 15 languages.[2] The original radio drama was adapted for an award-winning feature film, while the novel was adapted into an opera of the same name with music by Mieczysław Weinberg.[3]

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