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Anna Różycka

Patriot, conspirator, daughter of Samuel Różycki – general of division during the November Uprising, grew up in Krakow with her maternal grandmother Anna Szasterowa. During the Spring of Nations, she collected contributions for national purposes, distributed Giuseppe Mazzini’s appeals, forbidden books, national poetry and other illegal prints. She appropriated the peasants on her estate in Żurawniki. Marian Tyrowicz recalls her activities in “Sketches from the history of Krakow”. In 1852, she was arrested by the Austrians, imprisoned for some time in Vienna, then sent to the fortress in Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic for four years, where she died under cruel conditions. Her monument is located in the Franciscan Church in Krakow.

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