Names V , W and Z
Fredéric Vaysse-Knitter
is a pianist born April 4, 1975 in Albi whose mother is of Polish origin.
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Elisabeth Wadecki,
born in 1963 in Zurich, of a Polish father and a French mother, has lived and worked for almost 30 years in the Nantes region. During her training at the National School of Fine Arts in Nancy, her vocation as a costume designer and textile designer emerged, a profession exercised for 25 years. Since 2007, only his artistic activity remains.
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Marie Walewska (originally Maria Walewska Maria Łączyńska
Mistress of Napoleon I with whom she has an adulterous son: Alexandre, Count Walewski . She was born on December 7, 1786 in Kiernozia in the center of present-day Poland and died on December 11, 1817 in Paris. Grandmother of Michel d'Ornano . it is also referred to as Napoleon's "Polish woman".
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Édouard Wawrzeniak , known as “ Waggi ”
footballer, the first French international of Polish origin with Ignace Kowalczyki , he played left winger and was selected only once in 1935, he was born in Germany on September 28, 1912 and died on April 17, 1991.
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Henri weber
born June 23, 1944 in Léninabad (Tajikistan, USSR) and died April 26, 2020 in Avignon (Vaucluse), is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS), Senator of Seine-maritime and then European Deputy. Henri Weber's parents, Jewish watchmakers, lived in 1938 in Chrzanów in Poland, a few kilometers from Oświęcim where the Auschwitz extermination camp would later be built.
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Annette Wieviorka
born January 10, 1948, is a French historian, specialist in the Shoah and the history of the Jews in the twentieth century since the publication in 1992 of her thesis, Deportation and genocide: between memory and oblivion, defended in 1991 at Paris-Nanterre University.
Michel Wieviorka
born August 23, 1946 in Paris is a French sociologist. Director since July 2009 of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Foundation. He was president of the International Sociological Association from 2006 to 2010.
Olivier Wieviorka
born in 1960, is a French historian specializing in the history of the Second World War. He is a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Cachan.
Sylvie Wieviorka
born February 3, 1950 in Paris1, is a psychiatrist Specializing in drug addiction care, academic and elected local in Paris.
Their paternal grandparents, Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during the war and died in Auschwitz. Their father, who took refuge in Switzerland, and their mother, the daughter of a Parisian tailor, who took refuge in Grenoble, survived the war.
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Maryan wisnieski
was born on February 1, 1937 in Calonne, near Lens where he made his debut before playing in Sochaux, Grenoble and in Italy, at the Sampdoria in Genoa. Professional at seventeen, international at eighteen, he has thirty-three selections and was the right winger of the French football team which distinguished itself in 1958 in Sweden. He is the great-uncle of rugby player Jonathan Wisniewski .
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Robert witchitz
born in Abscon, in the North, on August 5, 1924, of a merchant father of Polish origin and a French mother. Volunteer soldier of the French Liberation Army, shot at Fort du Mont Valérien on February 21, 1944.
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Georges wolinski
cartoonist for the press, comic book illustrator, born June 28, 1934 in Tunis, son of Ziegfried of Polish origin, arrived at the age of 13 in Tunisia, ironworker assassinated in 1936 by one of his employees and Lola Bembaron, Franco-Italian. Georges Wolinski , himself, was cowardly murdered on January 7, 2015 by Islamists in the attack on the newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" which killed 12 people including his comrades: Cabu, Charb, Honoré and Tignous.
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Bruno Wolkowitch
actor, born May 10, 1961 in Paris.
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Louis François Michel Raymond Wolowski (in Polish Ludwik Franciszek Michal Reymond Wolowski )
French jurist, economist and politician of Polish origin, born in Warsaw (Poland) on August 31, 1810 and died in Gisors on August 15, 1876.
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Julien wzorek
is a French journalist and radio host born in 1955. His father, Julien Wzorek was an internee and resistant, miner, in the mines of Silesia and the North of France. His mother, Christine Szydlowski , seamstress. Julien Wzorek (son) will be in charge of communication for private and territorial structures after having held several positions in education and business management. He was one of the first to create shows on employment on France 3 and Radio France.
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Romain Zaleski
born February 7, 1933 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a senior French official, then a businessman, for a time among the first fortunes of France. He is also champion of France and Italy of bridge.
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Stanisław Zamoyski
Born November 18, 1853 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, died on October 3, 1924 in Kórnik is a Polish nobleman. Son of General Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski and Jadwiga Działyńska , he was born in Paris where he studied at the Lycée Charlemagne. Bachelor in 1871, he tried to integrate into the École Polytechnique, which was unsuccessful despite four requests (1874, 1876, 1877 and 1878). He served in the French army with the rank of second lieutenant. For the Universal Exhibition of 1879, in Sydney, he was a member of the French government commission, and made a trip through Australia and Oceania. He inherited from his uncle (Jan Kanty Działyński) in 1881, the property of Kórnik, that is to say the library, the castle, the park and the arboretum. He then returned to Poland, to Kórnik until his expulsion by the Prussians in 1885 (for his French citizenship).
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Edmond Zienowicz
figurative painter, among others of the Dunkirk carnival,
2009 silver medal from the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris, born March 13, 1947 in Somain in the Northern department of Polish parents.
http://www.edmondzienowicz.com/
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Greg Szlapczynski , aka Greg Zlap
is a Franco-Polish harmonica player-singer, born in Warsaw on January 6, 1971.
https://www.facebook.com/gregzlap.official/
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Albert Zylberstein ( Alik Zylberstein )
Born November 12, 1938 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Haut de Seine. Physicist, Researcher at CNRS (1968-1972), Secretary of State for Research of Raymond Barre.
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Elsa Zylberstein
actress, daughter of physicist Albert Zylberstein , born October 16, 1969 in Boulogne-Billancourt.
http://www.elsa-zylberstein.com/
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There are said to be 1,050,000 people from Polish immigration.
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