13 Facts About Hanna Krall

Hanna Krall was born on 1935 and is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

Hanna Krall was born in Warsaw, Poland, but her date of birth is contested between 20 May 1935 and 20 May 1937.

Hanna Krall was four years old, living in Lublin, when World War II began with the Nazi German invasion of Poland.

Hanna Krall lost most of her close relatives in the Holocaust, including her mother and father, who were murdered in Majdanek.

Hanna Krall survived deportations to death camps only because she was hidden from the Germans by the Polish rescuers.

Hanna Krall is married to reporter Jerzy Szperkowicz and together have one daughter, Katarzyna.

Hanna Krall debuted her first article In 1966, she left the paper and began to write for the well known magazine Polityka.

In 1981, Wojciech Jaruzelski, then Prime Minister of the former People's Republic of Poland, declared martial law, Hanna Krall was forced to leave Polityka.

Hanna Krall describes the relations between Jews, Poles and Germans during the Holocaust and the years thereafter.

Apart from the central Holocaust theme, Hanna Krall's writings reflect her search for her own identity, as can be seen very clearly in Dowody na istnienie.

Hanna Krall was a friend of Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, and inspired Decalogue Number 8 in the series of films made by these two men.

Hanna Krall's works have been translated into many languages and have received the most recognition in Germany and Sweden.

Hanna Krall was a member of the Polish Writer's Union from 1978 to 1983 and the Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich from 1989 to 2020.