Maja Berezowska

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Birth Date:
13.04.1893
Death date:
31.05.1978
Length of life:
85
Days since birth:
47852
Years since birth:
131
Days since death:
16758
Years since death:
45
Extra names:
Maja Berezowska, Maria Berezowska
Categories:
Graphic Artist, Painter, Stage designer
Nationality:
 pole
Cemetery:
Warszawa, Powązki Military Cemetery

Maja Berezowska (born April 13, 1893 or 1898 in Baranowicze - May 31, 1978 in Warsaw) was a Polish painter.

From 1933 to 1936 she lived in Paris and worked with magazines such as "Le Figaro", "Le Rire" and "Ici Paris". She made a few caricature cartoons of Adolf Hitler which resulted in the official protest of the German Embassy in Paris, which sued Berezowska. She appeared in court but escaped having to pay any fine. However, Nazi Germans remembered her "outrage". After her return to Poland and the outbreak of World War II she was imprisoned at Pawiak, and later - with the death sentence - sent and imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation of the Ravensbrück camp by the Soviet forces she left, with a group of other Polish women, first for Stockholm and a year later, in 1946, returned to her native Poland.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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