Roma Ligocka

Roma Ligocka ( born November 13, 1938 in Krakow as Roma favorite ) is a Polish costume designer, writer and painter.

Life

Originally from a Jewish family Ligocka is one of the survivors of the Holocaust. From 1940 brought in the Krakow Ghetto, she survived after fleeing from 1943 with the help of her mother and a Polish family in a room in their apartment under the name Roma Ligocka.

Her father was first deported to the Plaszow concentration camp and then to Auschwitz and returned after the liberation of Krakow. In May of 1945 followed his arrest, while he was accused of brutality as a kapo in a concentration camp Plaszów. Although it was a political process in Stalinist Poland, has been demonstrated his innocence during service in a resistance group, and he was acquitted. But he died in November 1946 of a stroke.

After the war Ligocka studied at the Art Academy in Cracow painting and stage. On the depression through the experiences of her childhood two failed marriages. In 1965 she fled with her second husband in January Biczycki from Poland to Germany, where he works as a costume designer. During this time she was addicted to pills.

After separating from her husband - she never divorced - she began, inspired by the movie Schindler's List, in which it recognizes itself as the kid with the red coat, with the literary work- her childhood. Her novels bear autobiographical.

Ligocka now living as a painter in Munich and Krakow. She is a cousin of director Roman Polanski.

Works

• The girl in the red coat, 2000
• A smile, a Rose, 2003
• The handwriting of my father, 2005