Leokadia Rowinski Papers, 1917-1988
1 box (0.25 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 102
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Leokadia Rowinski Papers
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Leokadia Rowinski Papers, 1917-1988
1 box (0.25 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 102
Abstract:
Courier for the underground in Nazi occupied Poland during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising who was apprehended and placed in a concentration camp. After the war she and her husband moved from England to Holyoke, Massachusetts. Includes typescripts and photocopies of short stories; "Ameryce", a booklet of poems; Poklosie, a book of poems published in Polish and English (Artex Press, 1987); audiotaped oral histories of Leokadia and Stanley Rowinski (primarily in Polish) done by their children; and photographs, audiotape, program and text of poems read at a public reading.
Terms of Access and Use: The collection is open for research. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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