Alicja Poznańska (1930 - 1990)

Born 25 Jul 1930 in Łuniniec, Poland

Ancestors

Wife of Jacques Parizeau — married 2 Apr 1956 (to 30 Sep 1990) in Outremont, St-Raphaël, Montréal, Québec Canada

Died 30 Sep 1990 at age 60 in Outremont, Quebec, Canada

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Biography

Alicja (Alice) was born in 1930. She was the daughter of Stanislaw Poznański and Rebeka Kestenberg. She was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.

Liaison officer during World War II, she became one of the prisoners of war imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (Germany) after the Warsaw Uprising. At the end of the conflict, she received the Croix de Guerre for proof of courage in the face of the enemy. Sent to Paris by her family, she finished her studies there and successively obtained a French baccalaureate, a license in law, and a diploma in political science.

In 1955, she went to Quebec for the holidays and, faced with the offer to be in charge of a library, gave up returning to France.

In 1956 she married Jacques Parizeau who later became the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994, to January 29, 1996. Together they had two children (Bernard and Isabell).

After her marriage, she became a rehabilitation officer for the City of Montreal, then a journalist, notably for the review Cité libre and the newspaper La Presse. She was then a researcher at Radio-Canada, then a research fellow in criminology at the University of Montreal.

In literature, she published novels from the 1960s, including Rue Sherbrooke Ouest (1967), but success only came to her with the publication in 1981 of Les lilas fleurissent à Varsovie, which in 1982 won the first European Prize for Association of French-speaking writers.

She passed away on September 30, 1990 (aged 60) in Outremont.

Sources

See also:

• Wikipedia:Alice Parizeau
• Ewa Grzelak, The Poznanski family : Jewish entrepreneurs from Lodz, Lodz, 2010, ISBN 9788392886730 (Poznanski Genealogy and Family Tree)
• https://www.nosorigines.qc.ca/GenealogieQuebec.aspx?genealogie=Poznanska_Alice&pid=30552

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