Episodes

  • Antonina Żabińska

    Antonina Żabińska
    Dec 5 2024
    Honoured as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, Antonina Żabińska and her husband Jan, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, saved nearly 300 Jews in World War II.
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    6 mins
  • Tamara Łempicka

    Tamara Łempicka
    Dec 5 2024
    The queen of Art Deco, counted among the most outstanding female artists of th 20th century.
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    7 mins
  • Urszula Dudziak

    Urszula Dudziak
    Dec 5 2024
    The queen of jazz and a revolutionary vocalist, she was the world's first singer to use transducers and live vocal looping.
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    7 mins
  • Helena Modrzejewska

    Helena Modrzejewska
    Dec 5 2024
    Poland's first world-femaous actress achieved star status in Europe and America, especially for playing Shakespearean heroines.
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    6 mins
  • Lidia Morawska

    Lidia Morawska
    Dec 5 2024
    A physicist specialising in research on air quality and its impact on human health, Professor Morawska helped stop the COVID-19 pandemic by proving the virus is airborne.
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    6 mins
  • Magdalena Abakanowicz

    Magdalena Abakanowicz
    Dec 5 2024
    Her fabric sculptures were exhibited at the world's great art galleries. She was the only artist to give her surname to a new art genre - Abakans.
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    8 mins
  • Krystyna Skarbek

    Krystyna Skarbek
    Dec 5 2024
    One of World War II's bravest secret agents known as Churchill's 'favourite spy'.
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    6 mins
  • Maria Szymanowska

    Maria Szymanowska
    Dec 5 2024
    Europe's first woman to win international fame as a professional pianist was also one of Poland's earliest female composers.
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    6 mins