Helena Dunicz-Niwińska

1915 – 2018

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Helena Dunicz-Niwińska (28 July 1915 – 12 June 2018) was a Polish violinist, translator and author. Born in Vienna, she grew up in Lwów, where she lived with her parents and brothers until 1943. She started playing the violin at the age of ten in the Lwów conservatory of the Polish Musical Society and continued with pedagogical studies undertaken in the years 1934–1939. After the outbreak of World War II, she remained in Lwów and was arrested there along with her mother in 1943 and spent 9 months in prison. In October of the same year she was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration ca