birth_date: 1938-11-13 00:00:00
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name: Roma Ligocka
about: A Polish costume designer, writer, and painter and the cousin of Roman Polański.She was born in a Jewish family in Cracow a few years before the WWII. During the German occupation of Poland her family was persecuted by the Nazis - her father was incarcerated, first in the Płaszów and then Auschwitz concentration camps. In 1940 she was taken with her mother to the Kraków Ghetto but before the end of the ghetto in 1943 they fled and hid with a Polish family.In 1965 she and her husband Jan Biczycki left the Communist Poland and moved to Munich, Germany where she continued with her set design assignments.The traumatic war experiences are reflected in her personal life. For some time in her life she was addicted to various drugs but she recovere A Polish costume designer, writer, and painter and the cousin of Roman Polański.She was born in a Jewish family in Cracow a few years before the WWII. During the German occupation of Poland her family was persecuted by the Nazis - her father was incarcerated, first in the Płaszów and then Auschwitz concentration camps. In 1940 she was taken with her mother to the Kraków Ghetto but before the end of the ghetto in 1943 they fled and hid with a Polish family.In 1965 she and her husband Jan Biczycki left the Communist Poland and moved to Munich, Germany where she continued with her set design assignments.The traumatic war experiences are reflected in her personal life. For some time in her life she was addicted to various drugs but she recovered. ...more