Anna Zahorska de domo Elzenberg (1878 or 1882 in Vitebsk

Vitebsk

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 – 1942 in Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

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), pseudonym Savitri, was a Polish

Poland

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 poet

Poet

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, prosaist

Prose

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, dramatist. Graduate of Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....

 and Russian philology

Philology

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 at the University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw

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. Activist of Polish Socialist Party

Polish Socialist Party

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. In the interwar period related with Catholic

Catholic

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movement.

Zahorska was an author of lyric poetry, patriotic and social-revolutionary poems Pieśni walki (1908), Poezje (1908), Dniom zmartwychwstania (1914), novels Utopia, Trucizny (1928), dramas Pani słoneczna (1912), Bezrobocie (1927), collection of stories Księga milczenia (1927), hagiographic works.