Wanda Jakubowska
Wanda Jakubovska ( born October 10, 1907 in Warsaw, † February 24, 1998 ibid ) was a Polish film director.
Life
Wanda Jakubovska grew up in middle-class family in Warsaw between the wars. She graduated from a high school in 1927 at a Catholic girls' high school of the Order of Ursulines, and began to study art history and philosophy. In the early 1930s they came to film. Her first directorial work were documentaries. Wanda Jakubowskas cinematic concern was marked by their commitment to the Polish Communist Party. She worked on her first feature film in 1939 when Poland was invaded by Germany and the Second World War broke out. She was active in the Polish underground and was arrested in 1942 by the Nazis. Until the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 she was interned there, and was then transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation she held first in Berlin and then went back to Poland. In 1946 she was one of the first Polish film-makers who started to work again. In 1948, her most famous film, the processed their experiences in Auschwitz. The last stage is still regarded as one of the outstanding films about the suffering of the people in fascist concentration camps and has won numerous international awards. Above all, the documentary style Jakubowskas makes the movie seem almost like a historical document. The study of fascism was also the further work of the director often the focus.
From 1949 to 1964 she taught at the Film School in Łódź.