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    Pola Nirenska (28 July 1910 — 25 July 1992), born Pola Nirensztajn, was a Polish performer of modern dance. She had a critically acclaimed if brief career...
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    Cemetery in Washington, next to the graves of his wife, Pola Nirenska, and brother Marian. He and Pola had no children. On 2 June 1982, Yad Vashem recognised...
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    Justin was married three times, first to dancer and choreographer Pola Nirenska. His second marriage, to actress Barbara Murray, lasted from 1952 to...
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    Jeremiah J. Murphy (1858–1932), U.S. Army soldier during the Indian Wars Pola Nirenska (1910–1992), Polish-American modern dancer and wife of Jan Karski John...
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    Cross of Merit (Poland). In 2007, she was awarded the Jan Karski & Pola Nirenska prize from the YIVO institute. Curriculum vitae, http://pan-pl.academia...
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  • also involved in founding the Capital Area Modern Dance Council, with Pola Nirenska, Erika Thimey, and other Washington-based dancers. In 1979, she gave...
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    ballerina Ruth Abramovitsch Sorel and member of Wigman's dance company Pola Nirenska, whom Wigman had organized to perform at a school audition in 1935 and...
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    Fulbrights in dance and won seven Metro D.C. Dance Awards as well as the Pola Nirenska Award. He has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution and was a...
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    2004 she received the scientific award, named after Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska, for studies on Yiddish literature. "Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska | Fulbright...
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  • (Jewish History Quarterly). In 2008 he was awarded the Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for his achievements...
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  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. and some correspondence in the Pola Nirenska collection at the Library of Congress. The Erika Thimey Dance and Theatre...
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  • filmmaker, heart attack. Alfred Drake, 77, American actor, cancer. Pola Nireńska, 81, Polish modern dancer, suicide. Vittorio Sanipoli, 76, Italian actor...
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  • Nationality Polish Awards Łukasz Hirszowicz Award (2008), Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Prize (2011), National Jewish Book Award (2018) (for the Historical...
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  • 1999 George Washington University, Columbian Professorship Award 2001 Pola Nirenska Award for Exceptional Creative Contribution, Washington Performing Arts...
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    Award awarded by the President of Kraków (2006) The Jan Karski and Pola Nireńska Award (2009) Jubilee Medal of the 60th anniversary of Medicine Teaching...
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    with works by Hanna Berger, Gertrud Bodenwieser, Andrei Jerschik, and Pola Nirenska. Hanna Berger: Retouchings. Scenic Project with works by Nikolaus Adler...
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