Author
Barbara Toporska 1913-1985

She was born on 23 August 1913 in Warsaw, and died on 20 June 1985 in Munich. In 1934, she started working in the Vilnius daily Słowo, with which she collaborated until the outbreak of World War II. There, she met her future husband, a distinguished Polish writer, anti-communist, Józef Mackiewicz. Toporska and Mackiewicz spent the early years of the German occupation in the Vilnius region. In May 1944, in the face of the approaching Soviet army, they left Vilnius to move to Warsaw and then to Kraków. They left the country in January 1945. Toporska spent the years 1947-1954 in London, where she was working with the Polish section of the radio Voice of America. After moving to Munich, she worked for the local section of the radio Voice of America from Europe (Głos Ameryki z Europy). She published in the Polish émigré press, including London’s Wiadomości, and Paris’ KulturaDziennik Polski, and Kurier Polski. She published the novel Siostry (Sisters) (1966, award from the Literary Academy of Wiadomości), Na Mlecznej Drodze (On the Milky Way) (1982), Droga Pani (Dear Madam) (1984, together with J. Mackiewicz

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