Leopold Lewin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leopold Lewin

Polish writer

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1910

Place of Birth: Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-Dec-1995

Profession: poet

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Leopold Lewin (28 July 1910 in Piotrków Trybunalski – 7 December 1995 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, journalist and translator.
He graduated the Warsaw University in 1931.
In the years 1939-1944 on emigration in USSR.
Arrested by NKVD in June 1942, he later became a Polish communist, joining the Union of Polish Patriots there, and was an author of many socrealistic poems (like 'Song of United Parties' - 'Piesn Partii Zjednoczonych').
After the war he was an editor of several Polish newspapers and the Secretary General of the Polish Literary Society.