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WARSAW, POLAND (AP) — Polish WWII-era resistance activist, Auschwitz and Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor, and later journalist and novelist Sophia Possmith is at 98 died at age
The Auschwitz-Birkenau National Memorial Museum said Possmith died Monday at a hospice in Świecim, a town in southern Poland where Auschwitz was located during the Nazi German occupation of Poland.
In her two weeks she would have turned 99.
Posmysz was born in Krakow on August 23, 1923 in Krakow, Roman her Catholic Poles.
She was 18 when she was arrested in 1942 for being involved in the Polish resistance movement in Krakow. After spending more than two years in the Auschwitz death camp, she was deported to Ravensbruck, then to Neustadt, where she was deported to Grewe and released at the end of the war in 1945, said the Auschwitz Memorial. said.
She returned to Poland after the war, where she worked as a journalist for Polish radio and elsewhere, and she wrote several novels. Her most famous work is a novel titled 'The Passenger', a novel she first wrote as a radio show titled 'The Passenger in Cabin 45'. It is the story of a survivor of Auschwitz who meets a former concentration camp guard on a boat trip, which has become the basis for a film and an opera.
In 2006, she was one of the former prisoners who welcomed German-born Pope Benedict XVI to the former Auschwitz concentration camp.
