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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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Notes on life in Warsaw ghetto, undated

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1657/6/5/6
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".

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Irene J. Young / Other correspondence / Roźa Niedźwiedź