WRITER

Zofia Posmysz

1923 - 2022

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Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zofia Posmysz has received more than 103,051 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Zofia Posmysz is the 3,321st most popular writer (up from 4,517th in 2019), the 727th most popular biography from Poland (up from 898th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 100k

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  • 58.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zofia Posmysz ranks 3,321 out of 7,302. Before her are Enrique Vila-Matas, Ibn Warraq, Igor Gouzenko, Ai Yazawa, Maryana Marrash, and Marcellus of Ancyra. After her are Arnold Wesker, Robert McKee, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Shen Congwen, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, and Willem Frederik Hermans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Zofia Posmysz ranks 203. Before her are Richard Herrmann, Josep Seguer, Nora Brockstedt, James Karen, Victor Papanek, and Don Adams. After her are Vladimir Basov, Louis Lansana Beavogui, Eugenio Calabi, Cathy O'Donnell, Galyani Vadhana, and Achille Silvestrini. Among people deceased in 2022, Zofia Posmysz ranks 222. Before her are Phil Read, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Olavo de Carvalho, Sven-Bertil Taube, Jüri Tarmak, and Nino Cerruti. After her are Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Leslie Phillips, Arno, Kazuki Takahashi, and Chaim Kanievsky.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 727 out of 1,694. Before her are Miliza Korjus (1905), Leopold von Wiese (1876), Gisela Hahn (1943), Bernhard Grzimek (1909), Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), and Hypatius Pociej (1541). After her are Józef Glemp (1929), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Johann Gottfried Piefke (1815), Stanisław Konarski (1700), Kurt Feldt (1897), and Wincenty Kadłubek (1150).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 80. Before her are Stefanie Zweig (1932), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (1925), Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905), and Bernhard Grzimek (1909). After her are Stanisław Konarski (1700), Salomėja Nėris (1904), Willibald Alexis (1798), Marcin Bielski (1495), Martin Gray (1922), and Rutka Laskier (1929).

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