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...DIED. KAZIMIERZ DEJMEK, 78, Polish stage director and political dissident; in Warsaw. Born in what was then the Polish city of Kovle (now in Ukraine), Dejmek staged plays that strongly criticized the Communist government. His most famous work was a 1968 production of Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady (Forefathers), which led to mass student protests after it was shut down by the government...
Wladyslaw Szpilman is playing a recital for Polish radio on Aug. 1, 1939. He continues as the first bombs of the invading Nazis rock the studio. He quits only when the station is knocked...
...voice, let alone one that would give her the chance to make her Covent Garden debut? Then she read the book. "I was a little bit anxious," she recalls, struggling to find the words in English to convey how overwhelmed she was by the story, whose central character, a Polish gentile survivor of Auschwitz, is forced to choose which of her two children will live. "I'm still a little anxious," she confessed shortly before opening night. The emotional demands of Sophie's story frightened Kirchschlager, but also fired her creative energy. "I have to do things I've never...
Mann read part of the play aloud for the audience, adopting a Polish accent. In the passage, her protagonist spoke about her life before and during World War II and the plight of Jews under Hitler...
...Polish agricultural sector is a burden,” he told the audience...