(born the 20th of May 1935 in Warsaw) – Polish writer and journalist of Jewish descent. She was miraculously saved during transport to ghetto. The holocaust and the fate of the Polish Jews with the passing of time became the focal point of her writings. After the war she stayed at orphanage in Otwock. She graduated at the University of Warsaw, where she obtained degree in journalism. World fame brought her an original in form interview with Marek Edelman, “Get there in time before God”. Her texts were used as groundwork for scripts of Krzysztof Kieślowski and Jan Jakub Kolski movies.

(selected excerpts from interview)

WHO IS SHE?

„ A reporter.

– And as a human being?

a reporter”.

Sometimes it matters more wat should not be done

I am listening inside of myself, into my body. It tells me, what am I to do, and what I should not do. At times, the latter is even more important.

Consequence

One has got to know, what one must do in life and do it to the end. (…) I think that it is a great sin, when a man who is gifted with talent, does not try to use it.

Live carefully

Often people live not paying attention. And one must know, at times, what is going on around. One should see the other people. See and listen to the world. If there is Providence, then it gives us something to understand, and it is not done through some great phenomena, which nonetheless we cannot interpret, but through just small details. These, in turn, are easy to oversee. Unfortunately, the skill of living carefully usually comes too late. When everything has been overlooked and nothing has been understood…

Commandment

Do not let be seduced just by anyone.