Chana Gitla Kowalska

Chana (Anna) Kowalska Winogora (1899–c.1942) was a Polish Jewish painter and journalist whose artworks reflect her rural origins. While in Paris during the German occupation, she was active in Jewish Communist organizations and wrote about art in local journals. Active in the French Resistance, she was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz in July 1942.

Biography Born in Włocławek on 4 November 1899, Chana Kowalska was the daughter of (1862–1925), a Zionist rabbi and politician. After turning to drawing when she was 16, from 1922 she studied painting in Berlin. It was there she met her future husband, the writer Baruch Winogóra.

After being arrested by the Gestapo for her involvement in communist activities, Kowalska was first interned at the internment camp. She was deported on 19 July 1942 to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was murdered by the Nazis.