Ewa karpinska biography for kids
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VilaWeb : April 18, 2022 (Assumpció Maresma)
Ewa Karpińska: "Trying to understand what made Catalan artists different made me learn Catalan".
Interview with Ewa Karpińska about her exhibition in Paris with Biel Mesquida
The work of Ewa Karpińska (Warsaw, 1962) and Biel Mesquida (Castellón, 1947) is on display in Paris, in the Marais, at the Centre d'études catalanes de la Sorbonne, in the exhibition entitled "L'utilité de l'inutile". Karpińska's watercolours, and her paper cut-outs, establish links with Mesquida's texts. The exhibition is a challenge. It's a lot of stories and desires superimposed between two artists who didn't know each other and who act as stonecutters against the darkness. They did not speak the same language, they did not practice the same art, but they found each other through the desire for the useless to become useful, indispensable to life. Living in the suburbs of Paris, Ewa Karpińska, tries to improve her Catalan as a student at the Sorbonne by r
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Overview
- Description
- The papers consist of a portrait photograph of the Szotland family and a 7-page, typewritten biography which is probably a transcript of an interview conducted on August 16, 1995, with two letters to Minna Wosk, subject of the interview. These letters are from Dr. Thomas Lange, are written on "Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" letterhead, and are dated September 12, 1997, and January 26, 1998.
- Date
- inclusive: 1930-1998
- Collection Creator
- Ewa Karpinska
- Biography
Minna Wiwiecka Wosk was born in Darmstadt, Germany on April 19, 1922. Her father, Maylech Wiwiecka, her mother, Rywka Schottland Wiwiecka, and her younger sister were Polish citizens, and in 1938 they were forced to leave Germany. They joined their relatives in Łódź, Poland and in 1940 were forced into the Łódź ghetto. In August 1944 Minna and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where only Minna was selected for labor. In
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Ewa Gierat (Karpinska)
Social worker, scout leader, author
Born Jan. 2, 1922, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1951; daughter of Zygmunt and Grazyna (Jezewska); married Stanislaw Gierat.
Education: Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Glasgow (Scotland), 1944; School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York City, 1967.
Career: Bureau of Polish Scouting Abroad - Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego (Z.H.P.), London (United Kingdom), 1943-44; World League of Poles Abroad "Swiatpol", London, Paris (France), 1945-46; editor researcher and indexer, Engineering News Record Weekly, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York City, 1953-68; social worker, Catholic Family Services, Waterbury (CT), 1968-84. Retired.
Author: Good Morning Joy (essay) in Beginnings - New Catholic Writers, 1956; Polonia Vademecum, 1988; Historia Harcerstwa w USA, 1990; World Polonia Almanac, 1979-88; editor, scout quarterly Znicz; articles in scouts journals and magazines; various