Zuzanna Ginczanka

Born in Kiev but raised by her grandmother in the predominantly Jewish city of Rivne, Zuzanna Ginczanka (also known as Gincburg) was a Polish-language poet, literary translator, and author of radio plays. Ginczanka moved to Warsaw in 1935, bringing with her a reputation as an innovative poet. Her one published collection of poetry, the volume O centaurach (1936), was considered a literary sensation in its day. During the war, Ginczanka spent much of her time in hiding, going back to Rivne, then to Lviv, and finally to Kraków. She was ultimately betrayed by one of the landlords who had kept her in hiding in Kraków and likely murdered at a Nazi prison outside the city. Ginczanka’s most famous poem “Non omnis moriar” was later used as evidence against her betrayer in a postwar collaborationism trial in Poland.