Anna Weronika Bielicka was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 singer and actress known by the name Hanna and its affectionate diminutive Hanka.

Career

Bielicka was born in Konovka near Poltava

Poltava

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 (then part of the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, now Ukraine

Ukraine

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) and began acting in films in the 1940s. She appeared in Polish movies and television programs from the 1940s onwards, and was regarded with great affection by Polish audiences.

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