About Zenia Larsson
Lived 1922 – 2007 (aged 85). Zenia Larsson was a Swedish writer and sculptor.
Zenia Szajna Larsson, née Marcinkowska (1922–2007) was a Polish-Swedish writer and sculptor of Jewish descent. Larsson was a Holocaust survivor who was among the first in Sweden to describe their war experience.
Early life She was born on 2 April 1922 in Łódź, as Zenia Marcinkowska. She grew up in a working-class neighbourhood In the years 1940–1944 she was confined in the Łódź Ghetto.
Career In Sweden, she first started studying at Konstfack, then moved on to the Royal Institute of Art,
Zenia Larsson died on 4 September 2007 in Stockholm.
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Who was Zenia Larsson?
Swedish writer (1922-2007)
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Zenia Larsson was born on 2 April 1922 in Łódź, Sweden.
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Zenia Larsson died on 4 September 2007 in Stockholm.
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Zenia Larsson was a writer and sculptor.
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Zenia Larsson was Swedish.
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