Janina Bauman ( Lewinson; 18 August 1926, in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

– 29 December 2009, in

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) was a Polish journalist and writer of Jewish origin.

Biography

She was the daughter of Szymon Lewinson (1896–1940), a

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and

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officer murdered in the

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, and of Alina, née Fryszman (1900–1980). She had one sister, Zofia (1930–1971). On her mother's side she was the granddaughter of the physician Aleksander Fryszman (1874–1939) and the niece of Jerzy Fryszman (1904–1976) and of Leon Płockier (1895–1965). During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

she was a prisoner in the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the G ...

with her mother and sister. They managed to escape and were sheltered by a peasant family in the countryside. After the war she studied journalism at the Warsaw Academy of Political and Social Science, where she met her future husband,

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrat ...

. She subsequently worked in the film industry as a translator, researcher and script editor. She left Poland with her husband in 1968 after the antisemitic purges, that followed the

March 1968 events The Polish 1968 political crisis, also known in Poland as March 1968, Students' March, or March events ( pl, Marzec 1968; studencki Marzec; wydarzenia marcowe), was a series of major student, intellectual and other protests against the ruling Poli ...

. They initially went to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, however, after three years they decided to settle permanently in Leeds, England, where she lived until the end of her life. She married

(1925–2017). They had three daughters. In 2010 the Bauman Family established the ''Janina Bauman Prize'' to be awarded for a winning essay submitted to the Bauman Institute at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

Books

In Polish * * * In English * ''Winter in the Morning'' (1986), based on diaries she kept as a young girl during the war * ''A Dream of Belonging'' (1988). Both were republished in one volume as: * ''Beyond These Walls'' (2009) all with

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About Janina Bauman

* ''Janina Bauman, Als Mädchen im Warschauer Ghetto. Ein Überlebensbericht.'' Aus dem Englischen von Reinhard Wagner. Mit einem Nachwort von

Władysław Bartoszewski Władysław Bartoszewski (; 19 February 1922 – 24 April 2015) was a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War II resistance fighter as part of th ...

. Verlag Max Hueber, Ismaning bei München 1986. * Peter Wagner : ''Between two wars: Janina and Zygmunt Bauman's analyses of the contemporary human condition '', 2003

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