Niedźwiedź, Roźa, d 1974 (Friend of Irene Jessie Young)

Scope and Contents

This is a letter sent from Irene J. Young and Reginald Brown ("M & D") to Iain Gordon Brown ("Piglet") on 13 May 1974. The letters describes Irene's visit to Roźa Niedźwiedź during her period of illness, discussing updates on Roźa's health including her physical deterioration, her experience of pain and her experience in the nursing home.

Scope and Contents

This is a black-and-white photograph of Roźa Niedźwiedź with Irene J. Young

Scope and Contents Sixty-five letters sent from Roźa Niedźwiedź to Irene J. Young and occasionally addressed to Iain Gordon Brown. The first letter expresses her happiness to learn of Irene's relationship with Reginald Brown and states that she wants to meet Irene in the summer and updates her on her career.In the following letters, Roźa discusses her plans to go to Paris, and provides updates about her trip to Paris, asks Irene about life in South Africa, and frequently writes to Irene simply to...

Scope and Contents

This is a page of notes on life in Warsaw ghetto, perhaps in connection with Roźa Niedźwiedź. The notes have been written on to a page of lined paper with the header "Department of Agriculture For Scotland".

Scope and Contents This folder contains the letters of Roźa Niedźwiedź, a Polish exile whom Irene had tutored in English towards the end of the war, who became one of Irene's closest friends. In the folder, a note from Iain Gordon Brown explains that Roźa was Jewish and lost members of her family in concentration camps. She took a second degree at Edinburgh. Roźa's post-war career was varied. Ultimately she became assistant to the economic adviser to Rio Tinto Zinc. Roźa became a naturalized British subject as...

Scope and Contents

These are two letters sent from Irene J. Young to Roźa Niedźwiedź on 1 November 1974 and 2 November 1974, reflecting on their thirty years of friendship and offering her thoughts in the context of Roźa's declining health.