How to Pronounce Henryka Łazowertówna
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Jun 19, 1909 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1908)
Polish poet
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About Henryka Łazowertówna
- Henryka Lazowertówna (pronounced ['x?n'r?ka wa?z?v?r'tuvna]; in full Henryka Wanda Lazowertówna); also Henryka Lazowert, or incorrectly Lazawert, (June 19, 1909, Warsaw – August 1942, Treblinka extermination camp) was a Polish lyric poet.
- While in general deeply personal in nature and of great emotive intensity, her poetry is not devoid of social concerns and patriotic overtones.
- She is considered one of the eminent Polish authors of Jewish descent.To the reading public she is best known as the author of the famous poem "Maly szmugler" (The Little Smuggler), written in the Warsaw Ghetto c.1941 and first published posthumously in 1947.
- The poem deals with the subject of a child struggling single-handedly to keep his family alive in the Ghetto by smuggling provisions from the "Aryan" side at the risk of his own life.
- A poem begins with the stanza also known from an adaptive translation provided by Richard C.
- Lukas.
- It reads as follows: The original text of the poem, together with translations in English and in Hebrew, is today inscribed on the Memorial to the Child Victims of the Holocaust (Pomnik Pamieci Dzieci in Warsaw), serving as the epitaph for the million children murdered in the Holocaust.
