Seweryna Szmaglewska

Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska (Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska-Wiśniewska) (11 February 1916 – 7 July 1992) was a Polish writer, known for both books for children and adults alike, and an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Her novels '''' (''Black Feet'') and ''Dymy nad Birkenau'' (''Smoke over Birkenau'') are compulsory reading in Polish schools. Provided by Wikipedia