name: Igor Newerly
birth_date: 1903-03-24 00:00:00
death_date: 1987-10-19 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.04
ratings_count: 259
about: Igor Newerly or Igor Abramow-Newerly (24 March 1903, Zwierzyniec near Białowieża – 19 October 1987, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish novelist and educator. He was born into a Russian-Polish family. His son is Polish novelist Jarosław Abramow-Newerly. His grandfather Józef Newerly, was a Czech national, who held a title of Łowczy ("Master of Hunt") to the court of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.Igor Newerly 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 renown educator Janusz Korczak, and in 1926 became his secretary. From 1932 to 1939 Newerly worked for Igor Newerly or Igor Abramow-Newerly (24 March 1903, Zwierzyniec near Białowieża – 19 October 1987, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish novelist and educator. He was born into a Russian-Polish family. His son is Polish novelist Jarosław Abramow-Newerly. His grandfather Józef Newerly, was a Czech national, who held a title of Łowczy ("Master of Hunt") to the court of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia.Igor Newerly 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 renown educator Janusz Korczak, and in 1926 became his secretary. From 1932 to 1939 Newerly worked for Mały Przegląd (Little Review). He married Barbara Jarecka.Under the Nazi German occupation Newerly was a member of the Polish resistance during WWII, and was arrested in 1943 by the German Gestapo. Until the end of the war he was a prisoner of Nazi concentration camps (Majdanek, Auschwitz, Oranienburg and Bergen Belsen).After the war in 1945 he resumed a pedagogical career. Based on Newerly's novel Pamiątka z Celulozy, the Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz made a film Celuloza. ...more