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Halina
Halina is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Halina Łukomska (born 1929), Polish soprano *Halina Aszkiełowicz (born 1947), Polish former volleyball player and 1968 Olympic medallist * Halina Balon (born 1948), Polish fencer *Halina Biegun (born 1955), Polish luger who competed during the late 1970s *Halina Birenbaum (born 1929), Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator *Halina Buyno-Łoza (1907–1991), Polish theatre actress and dancer * Halina Czerny-Stefańska (1922–2001), Polish pianist *Halina Górecka (born 1938), former Polish and German sprinter and Olympic gold and bronze medal winner *Halina Górska (1898–1942), Polish writer and a communist activist *Halina Harelava (born 1951), Belarusian contemporary composer *Halina Kanasz (born 1953), Polish luger who competed during the 1970s * Halina Karnatsevich (born 1969), Belarusian long-distance runner *Halina Konopacka (born 1900), famous athlete, first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amsterdam) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Reijn
Halina Reijn (; born 10 November 1975) is a Dutch actress, writer and film director. Early life and education Halina Reijn was born on 10 November 1975 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Fleur ten Kate and Frank Volkert Reijn (1931-1986). Reijn's parents were both artists. She is the middle child of three daughters, with an older sister named Leonora and a younger named Esther. Her father was Gay men, gay despite being in a Heterosexuality, heterosexual marriage with her mother. Reijn grew up in an anthroposophy household, and her parents were followers of the Subud spiritual movement. In her early years, she grew up in a "Pippi Longstocking" house with her family in the tiny village of Wildervank, Groningen (province), Groningen, which attracted many artists. They lived without television and never visited the cinema, instead they played music, drew and painted; her father built a theater room with a podium and Flat (theatre), flats for her. When she was around six or seven years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Aszkiełowicz
Halina is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Halina Łukomska (born 1929), Polish soprano * Halina Aszkiełowicz (born 1947), Polish former volleyball player and 1968 Olympic medallist *Halina Balon (born 1948), Polish fencer * Halina Biegun (born 1955), Polish luger who competed during the late 1970s * Halina Birenbaum (born 1929), Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator * Halina Buyno-Łoza (1907–1991), Polish theatre actress and dancer *Halina Czerny-Stefańska (1922–2001), Polish pianist * Halina Górecka (born 1938), former Polish and German sprinter and Olympic gold and bronze medal winner * Halina Górska (1898–1942), Polish writer and a communist activist * Halina Harelava (born 1951), Belarusian contemporary composer * Halina Kanasz (born 1953), Polish luger who competed during the 1970s *Halina Karnatsevich (born 1969), Belarusian long-distance runner *Halina Konopacka (born 1900), famous athlete, first Polish Olympic Champion (1928, Amste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Poświatowska
Halina Poświatowska (; née Halina Myga, entered into church records as Helena Myga; born 9 May 1935 – 11 October 1967) was a Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern/contemporary Polish literature. Poświatowska is famous for her lyrical poetry, and for her intellectual, passionate yet unsentimental poetry on the themes of death, love, existence, famous historical personages, especially women, as well as her mordant treatment of life, living, being, bees, cats and the sensual qualities of loving, grieving and desiring. Biography Her first heart operation was performed in Philadelphia, in 1958, her sea passage on the Polish ocean liner ''MS Batory'', the costs of her stay, and the procedure itself, funded by monies gathered in collection by Polish-Americans, and was successful enough to enable her to live for nine more years. Instead of returning to Poland afterward, she enrolled at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Mlynkova
Halina Mlynkova (born 22 June 1977 in Návsí) is a Polish singer originally from the Czech Republic. From 1998 to 2003, she was the vocalist of a popular Polish folk-rock group Brathanki. She was born in Zaolzie, Cieszyn Silesia in the Polish family, as a daughter of Władysław and Anna Młynek. She graduated from Medical High School in Cieszyn and Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She was married to Polish actor Łukasz Nowicki for nine years. They divorced on 25 May 2012. Łukasz and Halina have a son Piotr. Since February 2015 she is married to the Czech music producer Lešek Wronka. Mlynkova is a Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th .... Discography Studio albums Music videos References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mlynkova, Halina Living people 1977 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Szymańska
Halina Szymańska (1906–1989) was a Polish spy, working for the British government, known as the Allies' conduit to Nazi German Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. She was the wife of Colonel Antoni Szymański, the last prewar Polish military attaché in Berlin, and of later General Kazimierz Wiśniowski. Life After being recruited by the Allied secret intelligence services (via Polish officers in Bern, Switzerland, who made contact with the British), Szymańska provided a conduit of information between the Allies and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr. In autumn 1939 he helped her and her children move from occupied Poland to Switzerland in compensation for a contact with the British Secret Intelligence Service. Szymańska, as a British agent, met several times with Canaris in Switzerland and Italy. Then she met with his courier, Hans Bernd Gisevius. Szymańska played an important role, as an intermediary, in secret contacts between the Allies and German anti- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Kwiatkowska
Halina Kwiatkowska ( Królikiewiczówna, 25 April 192112 November 2020) was a Polish actress, educator, and writer. She performed in ''The Cherry Orchard'' at the National Stary Theatre in Kraków, and starred in the films ''Ashes and Diamonds'', '' The Doll'', and ''And Along Come Tourists''. Personal life Kwiatkowska was born in Bochnia, Poland. She attended Wadowice High School, where she met Karol Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II). She last saw Wojtyla in 2002, after Wojtyla made a special effort to see her despite suffering from ill health. Kwiatkowska denied rumours that she and Wojtyla had been a couple in their early years, after the 2005 miniseries '' Karol: A Man Who Became Pope'' portrayed Kwiatkowska as a former lover of the Pope. Kwiatkowska was married to ; they married shortly after the end of the Second World War. Kwiatkowska died in Konstancin-Jeziorna. She was interred in the Rakowicki Cemetery, Kraków. Career Kwiatkowska started acting at the Juliusz Słow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Czerny-Stefańska
Halina Czerny-Stefańska ( xaˈlina t͡ʂɛrnɨ stɛˈfaj᷉ska31 December 19221 July 2001) was a Polish pianist. Life She studied piano under her father, Stanisław Szwarcenberg-Czerny, as well as with Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, and later with Józef Turczyński and Zbigniew Drzewiecki in Warsaw. She was a joint First Prize winner at the IV International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1949, sharing this prize with Bella Davidovich. Her repertoire was restricted to few composers other than Frédéric Chopin and even her Chopin repertoire was not large. For example, she did not play the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor live until 1951, and she never played the F minor concerto at all, as she did not like it. She was proven to be the real pianist in a recording of the E minor concerto that was misattributed to Dinu Lipatti. The recording was released in 1966 by EMI, and on the 1971 British release was a note to the effect that, although the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Birenbaum
Halina Birenbaum (Hebrew: הלינה בירנבאום; Warsaw, 15 September 1929) is a Holocaust survivor, writer, poet, translator and activist. Life Born in Warsaw, to Jakub Grynsztajn and Pola formerly Perl, née Kijewska, she was the youngest of three and the only daughter. After the occupation of Poland by Germany, the family's home was in area that was part of the Warsaw Ghetto. After its destruction in July 1943 they were briefly transferred to Majdanek, then on to Auschwitz. She survived forced evacuation of the camp, the Death March of January 1945, from Auschwitz to Wodzisław Śląski, from which she was transported to Ravensbrück and in February on to Neustadt-Glewe, from where she was liberated by the Red Army in May 1945. Her mother was murdered in Majdanek while her father was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. In 1947, due to antisemitism, she emigrated to Israel, where she married Chaim Birenbaum and had two sons. Until the end of 1950 she worked on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Konopacka
Halina Konopacka (Leonarda Kazimiera Konopacka-Matuszewska-Szczerbińska) (26 February 1900 – 28 January 1989) was a Polish athlete. She won the discus throw event at the 1928 Summer Olympics, defeating American silver medal winner Lillian Copeland, breaking her own world record, and becoming the first Polish Olympic champion. After retiring from athletics she became a writer and poet. She immigrated to the United States after World War II, and died there. Biography Konopacka was born in Rawa Mazowiecka, Congress Poland, and grew up in Warsaw, where she trained in horse riding, swimming, and skating. Her whole family also played tennis, including her father Jakub, sister Czesława, and brother Tadeusz. While studying at the Faculty of Philology of the Warsaw University she also took up skiing and athletics, but soon abandoned winter sports because the training facilities were too far from her home. In 1926 she set her first world record in the discus throw, after only a few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Machulska
Halina Machulska (born March 2, 1929 Łódź, Poland) is a Polish theater, film and television actress. Machulska is the widow of theater director and actor, Jan Machulski, who died in 2008. The couple's son is Polish film director, Juliusz Machulski. Halina and her husband co-starred together in their son's 1987 film, ''Kingsajz''. Filmography * 1998-2003: '' Miodowe lata'' - as Lasakowa * 2000-2001: ''Miasteczko'' - as grandmother Ola, mother of Wanda Tarnawska * 1998: '' Matki, żony i kochanki II'' - as Zofia Stokowa, ex-director of nursery school * 1995: '' Matki, żony i kochanki'' - as Zofia Stokowa, ex-director of nursery school * 1987: ''Kingsajz ''Kingsajz'' is a 1988 cult Polish comedy fantasy film directed by Juliusz Machulski. The action takes place in late communist Poland and in a fictional Lilliputian kingdom called Szuflandia (Drawerland), hidden deep underground the Quaternar ...'' - as Ewa's mother * 1982: '' Dolina Issy'' - as Akulonisowa * 1980: '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Tam
Halina Tam Siu-Wan, also known as May (born 6 September 1972) is a model, singer and actress. She is best known for her role in ''Legend of the Demigods'' and ''The Gentle Crackdown'' with co-star Wayne Lai. Career Tam was the winner of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 1994. She went on to represent Hong Kong at the Miss Chinese International 1995 pageant where she placed in the top 5, resulting in a berth at Miss Universe 1995 where she placed 45th. She had a singing career with BMG (Hong Kong) in 1997 and worked as an actress with TVB in Hong Kong. She also hosted ''Leisure and Pleasure'' from 2008 to 2010 and co-hosted ''Destiny and Beyond'' for the network. She left TVB after 18 years of working for the network, having last appeared on screen in 2012. Personal life Halina married her boyfriend Eric Choi on 11 September 2007. She opened her first craft supplies store in 2013 and continued with a small snack shop in Causeway Bay in March 2014. Filmography Films *''Young and Danger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Buyno-Łoza
Halina Buyno-Łoza (12 December 1907, Łódź – 13 September 1991, Wrocław), also known separately with each last name, was a Polish theatre actress and dancer. She is also known for being imprisoned after making public her former role as an informant for the Polish Ministry of Public Security on her colleagues at the Municipal Theatre. Education and career In 1937 she graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. Before World War II, she was an actress at the Vilnius City Theatre. After the war, she was recruited by the communist Polish government's Security Service to act as an informant for "anti-state crimes", especially among her colleagues at the Municipal Theatre. After a few years, she became worried about what would happen to her friends in the theatre industry if she continued, so she outed herself to others of her actions. In response, from 1952 to 1953, the Polish authorities sentenced her to 1.5 years in prison, but she was released after nine m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
