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

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Biography

Roźa Niedźwiedź was a Polish exile whom Irene Jessie Young had tutored towards the endof the Second World War, and who became one of her closest friends. She was Jewish and lost all of her family in concentraion camps. After the war, Roźa worked in administrative capacities in department store chains in Birmingham and Liverpool, and ultimately became assistant to the economic adviser to Rio Tinto Zinc. She was active in the affairs of the University of Edinburgh Club of London. She became a naturalised British subject as Rosalie Needson.

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Two letters from Irene J. Young to Roźa Niedźwiedź, 1-2 November 1974

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Identifier: Coll-1657/6/5/4
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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.

Dates: 1-2 November 1974
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Other correspondence / Roźa Niedźwiedź