She died on 4 August 2003, aged over 100 years. Jurgielewiczowa was married to the painter Mieczysław Jurgielewicz. Her books were translated to numerous languages including Bulgarian, Czech, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Ukrainian. She lectured at the pedagogy department of the Warsaw University (1947–1950) and she was a literature director of the National Theatre of New Warsaw (Państwowy Teatr Nowej Warszawy). During the war she wrote her first book for children, Historia o czterech pstroczkach.Īfter the war, Jurgielewiczowa settled in Warsaw. She joined the Armia Krajowa resistance, took part in the Warsaw Uprising, and from 1944 until the end of the war she was a prisoner of war in Germany. During World War II in occupied Poland she was a teacher in the underground education. After her return she was a lecturer at Wolna Wszechnica Polska. She worked as a teacher in Warsaw beginning in 1928. She studied Polish philology at the Warsaw University, obtaining a doctoral degree in 1928, and pedagogy at the Wolna Wszechnica Polska (Free Polish University). Irena Jurgielewiczowa was born on 13 January 1903 in Działoszyn, Poland.
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