Not All of Me Will Die

Zuzanna Ginczanka was born in 1917 in Kyiv, in the middle of the Russian Revolutions. Soon after, the city had just turned into the capital of Soviet Ukraine. She grew up in the young independent Polish Republic, in a region which is now part of Ukraine, before settling in Warsaw to fulfill her literary career. The Second World forced her to go and hide in Lviv, invaded by Soviet Russia and then taken by the Nazis in 1941. Three years later, she was murdered in jail in Krakow, aged 27. Zuzanna Ginczanka belongs to the first generation of the Polish-educated Jewish intelligentsia, in a geography which no longer exists and is today stained with blood.