Polish women

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FAMOUS POLISH WOMEN

Maria Skłodowska -Curie (1867-1934)a scientist, a winner The Nobel Prize 1903, 1911

Pola Negri(1897-1987)an acrtess

Halina Konopacka(1900 - 1989)an athlete, the first Polish Olympic champion 1928

Helena Modrzejewska(1840-1909)an actress

Irena Sendlerowa (1910 - 2008), a nurse, social activist, during World War II she saved about 2,500 Jewish children

Wisława Szymborska(1923 - 2012),a poet, the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

Halina Poświatowska(1935-1967),a poet and writer,born in Częstochowa

Anita Włodarczyk (born 1985), anathlete, the Olimpic champion

Wanda Błeńska (1911-2014), a doctor, a leprosy expert

Urszula Ledóchowska(1865-1939), a nun, the foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.

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