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Szwarc
Szwarc is a Polonized-Yiddish version of the German surname Schwartz. The surname may refer to: * (born 1951), Polish historian, University of Warsaw professor * Arthur Szwarc (born 1995), Canadian volleyball player * Dawid Szwarc, better known as Juliusz Hibner (1912–1994), brigadier general in the Polish People's Army and recipient of the title of Hero of Soviet Union * Halina Szwarc (1923–2002), member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War * Jan Szwarc (born 1946), Polish politician * Jeannot Szwarc (born 1939), director of film and television * Jerzy Szwarc, LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 first officer * Michael Szwarc (1909–2000), Polish-Jewish born British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization * Marek Szwarc (1892–1958), Polish-Jewish painter and sculptor * Sabina Szwarc (1923–2021), Polish-American ophthalmologist and memoirist * Samuel Schwarz, born Samuel Szwarc (1880–1953), Polish-Portuguese J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Szwarc
Marek Szwarc (9 May 1892 – 28 December 1958) was a painter and sculptor associated with the School of Paris (École de Paris), as well as with the Yiddish cultural avant-garde movement in Poland ''Yung-yidish''. Early years Marek Szwarc was born in Zgierz, Poland, on 9 May 1892, the youngest of ten sons. His eldest brother was Polish-Portuguese mining engineer and historian Samuel Schwarz. Their father Isucher Moshe Szwarc (1859–1939) was an Orthodox Jew heavily involved in Zgierz's Jewish community and the late Haskalah movement. Isucher was a fervent Zionist, participating in the First Zionist Congress and subsequent congresses. From 1910 to 1914, Marek lived and studied art at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He boarded at '' la Ruche'' together with Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani and Kremegne, and together with Tchaikov and Lichtenstein inaugurated the first Jewish art journal ''Makhmadim'' (Precious Ones). In 1913 he exhibited his first sculpture, ''Eve'', in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabina Szwarc
Sabina Zimering (née Szwarc; February 24, 1923 – September 6, 2021) was a Polish-American ophthalmologist and memoirist known for sharing her experiences during the Holocaust. Born in Poland, she survived the Holocaust living in Germany under an assumed identity as a Catholic Pole. After the war, she resumed her studies and earned a medical degree at Munich Medical College, one of the only women and Jewish students to do so. She immigrated to the United States to join what family remained after the Holocaust, and practiced ophthalmology. In 2001, she published her memoirs, ''Hiding in the Open: A Holocaust Memoir'', which has twice been adapted as a play. Early life Sabina Szwarc was born February 24, 1923, to a Polish Jewish family. She had a sister, Helka, and brother, Nathan. They lived in Piotrków Trybunalski. The family spoke both Yiddish and Polish in the home and attended synagogue and celebrated holidays, but did not keep kosher, a source of conflict with Sabina' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Schwarz (engineer And Historian)
Samuel Schwarz (12 February 188010 June 1953), or Samuel Szwarc, was a Polish-Portuguese Jewish mining engineer, archaeologist, and historian of the Jewish diaspora, specifically of the Sephardic and crypto-Jewish communities of Portugal and Spain. He is known for his rediscovery of the Jews of Belmonte, Portugal, and restoration of the Synagogue of Tomar. Life and work Early life Samuel Szwarc was born in Zgierz, Poland, on 12 February 1880, the first of ten eventual sons. His youngest brother was Polish-French painter and sculptor Marek Szwarc. Their father Isucher Moshe Szwarc (1859–1939) was an Orthodox Jew heavily involved in Zgierz's Jewish community and the late Haskalah movement. In Zgierz Isucher was known for his bibliophilia and owned an extensive library. He was also a fervent Zionist, participating in the First Zionist Congress and subsequent congresses. Samuel studied at a ''cheder'' and a Jewish high school in his youth. His father considered sending Samuel to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Szwarc
Arthur Damian Szwarc (born 30 March 1995) is a Canadian professional volleyball player who plays for Vero Volley Monza and the Canada national team. He took part in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. Personal life Szwarc is of Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ... descent. Honours Individual awards * 2023: NORCECA Championship – Best opposite spiker References External links * * Player profileat ''Volleybox.net'' York Lions 2015–16 Roster – Arthur Szwarc {{DEFAULTSORT:Szwarc, Arthur 1995 births Living people Canadian people of Polish descent Volleyball players from Toronto Canadian men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Canada Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Canadian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannot Szwarc
Jeannot Szwarc (born November 21, 1939) is a French director of film and television, known for such films as ''Jaws 2'', ''Somewhere in Time'', ''Supergirl'' and '' Santa Claus: The Movie''. He has also produced and written for TV. Life and career Szwarc was born in Paris. He began working as a director in American television during the 1960s, in particular on '' Ironside''. He has also directed episodes of ''The Rockford Files'', ''Kojak'', ''Night Gallery'', '' JAG'', ''Bones'', ''Castle'', ''Numbers'', ''Columbo'', ''Heroes'', and dozens of other series.Jeannot Szwarc Yahoo! TV. His feature films include '' Bug'' (1975), '' |
Michael Szwarc
Michael Szwarc (9 June 1909, Będzin, Poland – 4 August 2000, San Diego, California) was a British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization. Biography Michael Mojżesz Szwarc was born into a Polish-Jewish family in Będzin, Poland. In 1932 he received the title of engineer in chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1935 he emigrated to Palestine, where he joined his sister and cousin. In 1942 he defended his first Ph.D. dissertation in organic chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1945 he joined Michael Polanyi's research group at the University of Manchester in the UK. In 1947 he defended his second Ph.D. thesis, this time in physical chemistry. Two years later, he was awarded D.Sc. for work on measurements of energy distribution of chemical bonds, and was promoted to senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. In 1952 Michael Szwarc moved to the United States and was a professor of physical chemistry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tereska Torrès
Tereska Torrès (born Tereska Szwarc; 3 September 192020 September 2012) was a French writer known for the 1950 book ''Women's Barracks'', the first "original paperback bestseller." In 2008 historians credited the republished book as the first pulp fiction book published in America to candidly address lesbian relationships, although Torrès did not agree with this analysis. Life Torrès was born Tereska Szwarc to the Jewish Polish sculptor Marek Szwarc and his wife Guina Pinkus in Paris. Her paternal uncle Samuel Schwarz was a noted historian of the Jewish diaspora and crypto-Judaism. Torrès fled her native country in 1940 via Lisbon to England when France surrendered to Nazi Germany after the Battle of France while her father—serving in the Polish Armed Forces in the West—was evacuated from La Rochelle by the British Home Fleet. Her family was able to escape because they received visas signed by Portuguese vice-consul Manuel Vieira Braga (following instructions from Aris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Szwarc
Halina Szwarc '' de domo'' Kłąb (1923–2002) - was a member of the Polish resistance during the Second World War, working undercover first under the pseudonym Ryszard, then Jacek II. Postwar, she became a professor of medicine in gerontology, and in 1970/1971, the prorector of the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw. After the outbreak of war, at the age of 16, she joined the Związek Walki Zbronej (ZWZ), the resistance organization that eventually became the Polish Home Army. Under order, she signed the ''Volksliste'', basing her claim to ''Volksdeutsche'' status on a German grandmother. She was allowed to finish her schooling in a German language school and in 1940, travelled west into the heart of the Third Reich, ostensibly to further her education. She would, in fact, be spying for the ZWZ. She conducted operations in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, and other major German cities. Szwarc's greatest contribution to the war effect was her surveying of militar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Szwarc
Jan Szwarc (born 8 July 1946 in Ustroń) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7642 votes in 27 Bielsko-Biała district as a candidate from Democratic Left Alliance list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External links Jan Szwarc - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. 1946 births Living people Mayors of places in Poland Democratic Left Alliance politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 People from Ustroń {{Poland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was a Boeing 767 passenger jet on a scheduled service from Newark, United States, to Warsaw, Poland, that on 1 November 2011 made a successful gear-up emergency landing at Warsaw Chopin Airport, after its landing gear failed to extend. All 231 aboard survived without serious injuries. A leak in one of the aircraft's hydraulic systems occurred shortly after takeoff, resulting in the loss of all of the hydraulic fluid supplying the primary landing gear system. History of the flight LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16 was scheduled to arrive at Warsaw Chopin Airport from Newark Liberty International Airport on 1 November 2011 at 13:35 CET with 220 passengers and 11 crew on board. The aircraft operating the service was a Boeing 767-35DER, registered SP-LPC, named ''Poznań'', serial number 28656. It was first delivered to LOT in 1997. Within 30 minutes of departing from Newark, the crew received a warning that the center hydraulic system had malfunctioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliusz Hibner
Juliusz Hibner (real name Dawid Szwarc; 11 October 1912 – 13 November 1994) was a brigadier general in the Polish People's Army and recipient of the title of Hero of Soviet Union. He also served as the commander of the Internal Security Corps and later became a nuclear physicist. Early life Hibner was born in a poor Jewish family. His father joined the Zarudzia Region Council organized by the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War. In 1931, Hibner graduated from a gymnasium in Ternopil and in the summer of the same year, he joined the Young Communist League of Western Ukraine (KZMZU), an autonomous section of the Union of Polish Youth, where he was active in the propaganda division. He also continued his activity with KZMZU during his studies at the Polytechnic University in Lwów, where he started studying in 1932, but he did not graduate. In 1933 he returned to Ternopil, where he continued his activity in KZMZU, acting for the benefit of Communist Party of Western Ukraine. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polonization
Polonization (or Polonisation; pl, polonizacja)In Polish historiography, particularly pre-WWII (e.g., L. Wasilewski. As noted in Смалянчук А. Ф. (Smalyanchuk 2001) Паміж краёвасцю і нацыянальнай ідэяй. Польскі рух на беларускіх і літоўскіх землях. 1864–1917 г. / Пад рэд. С. Куль-Сяльверставай. – Гродна: ГрДУ, 2001. – 322 с. (2004). Pp.24, 28.), an additional distinction between the Polonization ( pl, polonizacja) and self-Polonization ( pl, polszczenie się) has been being made, however, most modern Polish researchers don't use the term ''polszczenie się''. is the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular the Polish language. This happened in some historic periods among non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially under the influence of Poland. Like other examples of cultural assimilation, Polonization c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
