Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna

1926 – 1999

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Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna (4 February 1926 – 25 July 1999) was a Polish girl whose prayer, scratched on a cell wall during arrest by Nazis in 1944, was set to music by Henryk Górecki in his Symphony No. 3 Sorrowful Songs. She was born in Szczawnica, a town in the far south of Poland only half a mile from the border with Slovakia, and was a member of the Góral ("mountain dweller") community, which spanned the border with Czechoslovakia in the Tatra mountains.

Name
Helena Wanda Błażusiakówna
Locality
Wadowice, Polonia
Born
4 februarie 1926
Died
25 iulie 1999
Age
73 years
From
Szczawnica
Location
Cmentarz parafialny ↗
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48728

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Cemetery
Cmentarz parafialny
Locality
Wadowice
Country
Polonia
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Yes

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