Wanda Jakubowska
Wanda Jakubowska

Wanda Jakubowska

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Biography

Film director

  • Primary profession
  • Director·miscellaneous·writer
  • Country
  • Poland
  • Nationality
  • Polish
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 10 October 1907
  • Place of birth
  • Warsaw
  • Death age
  • 91
  • Place of death
  • Warsaw
  • Education
  • University of Warsaw
  • Knows language
  • Polish language
  • Member of
  • Polish Workers' Party

Movies

Wspomnienie o Aleksandrze Fordzie (1994)

Wspomnienie o Aleksandrze Fordzie

1994

Books

Where History Meets Poetry - Wanda Powe

Where History Meets Poetry

Wanda Powe

Del Otro Lado de la Call - Wanda Vasquez-Garcia

Del Otro Lado de la Call

Wanda Vasquez-Garcia

Sugarcreek Surprise - Wanda E. Brunstetter

Sugarcreek Surprise

Wanda E. Brunstetter

My Coronavirus Vacation - Wanda Casson

My Coronavirus Vacation

Wanda Casson

Awards

Trivia

Studied art history at Warsaw University.

Jakubowska became a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp after being arrested in 1942 as an active member of the Polish Resistance. Her landmark 1947 film "Ostatni etap" (The Last Stage), based on her experiences, was in part shot on location. It is considered one of the most harrowing holocaust films ever made.

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