Zuzanna Ginczanka
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| Born | Zuzanna Polina Ginzburg March 9, 1917 Kiev, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 1945 (aged 27) Kraków, General Government, Nazi Germany-occupied Poland (see below) |
| Pen name | Zuzanna Gincburżanka Zuzanna Polonia Gincburg Sana Ginzburg Sana Ginsburg Sana Weinzieher |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, translator, author of radio dramas |
| Nationality | Stateless |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Period |
Interbellum Ciemne dziesięciolecie ("Dark Decade"; 1928–1939) Second World War |
| Genre |
Catastrophism () Lyric poetry Satirical poetry |
| Subject | Sensuous joie de vivre, biologism |
| Literary movement |
Grupa poetycka Wołyń (Równe) Skamander |
| Notable works |
O centaurach (1936) Poem "Non omnis moriar" (1942) |
| Notable awards | Honourable mention, Young Poets’ Competition (Turniej Młodych Poetów) of the , 1934 |
| Spouse | Michał Weinzieher (from 1940) |
| Children | none |
| Relatives | Simon Ginzburg (Pol., Szymon Gincburg; father) Tsetsiliya Ginzburg (Pol., Cecylia Gincburg; secundo voto Roth; mother); Klara Sandberg (maternal grandmother) |
Zuzanna Ginczanka, pen name Sara Ginzburg (March 9, 15, or 20, 1917 – January 1945) was a Polish poet of the interwar period. Although she published only a single collection of poetry in her lifetime, the book O centaurach (About the Centaurs, 1936) created a sensation in Poland's literary circles. She was arrested and executed in Kraków shortly before the end of World War II.
Zuzanna Ginczanka was born Zuzanna Polina Ginzburg ("Gincburg" in Polish phonetic respelling) in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. Her Jewish parents fled the Russian Civil War, settling in 1922 in the predominantly Yiddish-speaking town of Równe, also called Równe Wołyńskie by the inhabitants, in the Kresy Wschodnie (Eastern Borderlands) of pre-War Poland (now in Western part of the Ukraine). Her father, Simon Ginzburg, was a lawyer by profession, while her mother Tsetsiliya () Ginzburg, née Sandberg, a housewife. Ginczanka was a holder of a Nansen passport and despite efforts made to this end was unsuccessful in obtaining Polish citizenship before the outbreak of the War. Abandoned by her father who after a divorce left for Berlin, and later by her mother who after remarriage left for Spain, she lived in the Równe home of her maternal grandmother, Klara Sandberg, by all accounts a wise and prudent woman who was responsible for her upbringing. The moderately affluent house of Klara Sandberg in the town's main street, with its ground-floor shop, was described by the writer Jerzy Andrzejewski, Ginczanka's contemporary who sought her acquaintance, and independently by the poet , the town's fellow resident. She was called "Sana" by her closest friends. Between 1927 and 1935 she attended a state high school at Równe, the Państwowe Gimnazjum im. T. Kościuszki. In 1935 she moved to Warsaw to begin studies at Warsaw University. Her studies there soon ended, likely due to antisemitic incidents at the University.
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