Półtawska, Wanda

LC control no.	n 87893990
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Półtawska, Wanda *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wojtasik, Wanda, 1921-2023
Other standard no.	0000 0001 2018 1433 59761390 Q535621
Associated country	Poland
Associated place	Vatican City Rome (Italy)
Birth date	1921-11-02
Death date	2023-10-24
Place of birth	Lublin (Poland)
Place of death	Kraków (Poland)
Affiliation	Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Profession or occupation	Psychiatrists Writers University and college faculty members
Found in	Her And I am afraid of my dreams, 1987: t.p. (Wanda Półtawska) LC in RLIN, 9-14-87 (hdg.: Połtawska, Wanda) Biblioteka Narodowa database, Apr. 19, 2019: (hdg.: Półtawska, Wanda (1921- )) New York times, 31 Oct. 2023: in an obituary on page B10 (Wanda Poltawska; born Wanda Wiktoria Wojtasik on Nov. 2, 1921 in Lublin, Poland, died Oct. 24 [2023] in Krakow [Poland], aged 101; a Polish psychiatrist and author who after World War II sought spiritual help to cope with the horrors she had experienced in a Nazi concentration camp and became a lifelong friend of her counselor, a priest who would one day be Pope John Paul II; contact in a confessional originally brought them together. There, Dr. Półtawska told Father Wojtyla [later John Paul II] of the burdens she had borne for years as a victim of gruesome medical experiments performed on her and other women in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, Germany)
Associated language	pol