Background on Leokadia Rowinska
As a teenager, Leokadia Rowinska served as a courier for the underground in Nazi occupied Poland during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. She was apprehended by the Germans and placed in a concentration camp. After the war she moved to England where she met her husband, a Polish soldier who served in the North Africa campaign. They moved to Holyoke, Massachusetts, where they raised their family. In her late 50s, Rowinska earned an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and worked for a film manufacturing company.
Scope of collection
Typescripts and photocopies of short stories; "Ameryce", a booklet of poems; Poklosie, a book of poems published in Polish and English (Artex Press, 1987); audiotaped oral histories of Leokadia and Stanley Rowinska (primarily in Polish) done by their children; and photographs, audiotape, program and text of poems read by Leokadia Rowinska at a reading in Amherst, Massachusetts in April, 1988.
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Subjects
- Polish Americans--Massachusetts.
- Rowinska, Leokadia.
- Rowinska, Stanley.
Contributors
- Rowinska, Leokadia [main entry]
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