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Józef Szajna

Polish sculptor (1922–2008)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ570170 ↗
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Józef Szajna (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjuzɛf ˈʂajna]; 13 March 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland – 24 June 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish set designer, director, playwright, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.

During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

See also

Centre of Polish Sculpture

Further reading

Archives and art collection at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

Bodek, Andrzej, ed. Reminiszenzen: ein Environment von Prof. Jósef Szajna: zum 50. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frankfurt am Main, 1995.

Archives and art collection at the Buchenwald Memorial Museum, Weimar.

Madeyski, Jerzy and Andrzej Zurowski.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q570170. VIAF identifies the subject as 64015038. The Library of Congress control number is n97869134. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922, 2008 and 1995.

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