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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 98,663 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Zofia Posmysz is the 4,531st most popular writer (down from 3,913th in 2019), the 898th most popular biography from Poland (down from 763rd in 2019) and the 118th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

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  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zofia Posmysz ranks 4,531 out of 5,755Before her are Birgitta Trotzig, Robert Greene, Ferreira de Castro, Alan Dean Foster, Francis Davis Millet, and Aisha Taymur. After her are Sylvia Browne, Andrejs Upīts, Peter F. Hamilton, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Enric Valor i Vives, and Igor Newerly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Zofia Posmysz ranks 283Before her are Vittorio De Seta, Ivan Gubijan, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Gerrit Voorting, Emilio Rodríguez, and Dina Merrill. After her are Eugenio Calabi, Hanna Maron, Mrinal Sen, James E. Gunn, Juan Acuña, and Jaroslav Pelikan. Among people deceased in 2022, Zofia Posmysz ranks 287Before her are Yoko Shimada, Freddy Rincón, Jô Soares, Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Jüri Tarmak, and L. Q. Jones. After her are Gerben Karstens, Eileen Ryan, Alan White, Norman Mineta, Vesa-Matti Loiri, and Oleksandr Sydorenko.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 898 out of 1,454Before her are Hyman G. Rickover (1900), Ryszard Szurkowski (1946), Józef Oleksy (1946), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Łukasz Fabiański (1985), and Bogusław Linda (1952). After her are Igor Newerly (1903), Georg Sterzinsky (1936), Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Anna Maria Jopek (1970), and Erich Mende (1916).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Zofia Posmysz ranks 118Before her are Mascha Kaléko (1907), Hanna Krall (1935), Adam Asnyk (1838), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer (1865), and Florian Ceynowa (1817). After her are Igor Newerly (1903), Alexander Abusch (1902), Jan Kasprowicz (1860), Władysław Broniewski (1897), Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891), and Halina Poświatowska (1935).