Igor Newerly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Igor Newerly

Polish writer

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1903

Place of Birth: Zwierzyniec, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1987

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Igor Newerly

  • Igor Newerly or Igor Abramow-Newerly (24 March 1903, Bialowieza – 19 October 1987, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish novelist and educator.
  • He was born into a Czech-Russian family.
  • His son is Polish novelist Jaroslaw Abramow-Newerly.
  • His grandfather Józef Newerly, was a Czech national, who held a title of Lovtchiy (Russian: ??????, Polish: Lowczy: "Master of the Hunt") to the court of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Igor Newerly lost one leg as a child.
  • He studied law at Kiev University but he was relegated for political reasons, arrested and sent to Odessa.
  • In 1924 he emigrated illegally to the newly independent Poland and was active in the field of pedagogy in Warsaw.
  • He worked together with the renowned educator Janusz Korczak, and in 1926 became his secretary.
  • From 1932 to 1939 Newerly worked for Maly Przeglad (Little Review).
  • He married Barbara Jarecka. Under the Nazi German occupation of Poland Newerly was a member of the Polish resistance.
  • He helped Janusz Korczak at his Orphanage and saved his diary of martyrdom.
  • He also hid from Nazi persecution several of his Jewish colleagues from Nasz Przeglad daily – among them Kuba Hersztein – and transported Lejzor Czarnobroda to Warsaw after he escaped from the train to Treblinka and broke his leg.
  • Newerly was arrested at the beginning of 1943 by the German Gestapo and imprisoned at Pawiak in Warsaw.
  • Until the end of the war he was an inmate of Nazi concentration camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz, Oranienburg and Bergen Belsen where he was liberated.After the war in 1945, he resumed a pedagogical career.
  • Based on Newerly's novel Pamiatka z Celulozy (A Souvenir from the Cellulose Mill), the Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz made two films: Celuloza (Cellulose Mill) and Pod gwiazda frygijska (Under the Phrygian Star). His son is Jaroslaw Abramow-Newerly, a writer.

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