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Grażyna Chrostowska

Grażyna Chrostowska

1921–1942

Nationality
Second Polish Republic
Occupation
poet

Grażyna Chrostowska (20 September 1921, Lublin - 18 April 1942, Ravensbrück), was a Polish poet and an activist of the Polish underground during the Second World War.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Ravensbrück concentration camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

Grażyna Chrostowska (20 September 1921, Lublin - 18 April 1942, Ravensbrück), was a Polish poet and an activist of the Polish underground during the Second World War. She came from Polish nobility (Clan of Ostoja). She graduated from high school in Lublin. During her school time she wrote poems and showed interests in film and acted in the school's theater. She was also a member of the scouts. After the German occupation of Poland, she was a member of the underground organization Komenda Obrońców Polski. On 8 May 1941 she was arrested along with her father while visiting her sister Apolonia who was already imprisoned. On 23 September 1941 she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was shot by the Nazis together with her sister, Pola (Apolonia), on 18 April 1942.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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