Nationality Polish-Ukrainian Occupation Actress, singer | Name Irena Anders Role Actress | |
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Full Name Irena Jarosiewicz Died November 29, 2010, London, United Kingdom People also search for Wladyslaw Anders, Guido Lorraine | ||
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Irena Anders (12 May 1920 – 29 November 2010) was a Polish stage actress and singer. During World War II she worked in the troupe of Henryk Wars and later in the "Polish Parade" band ("Polska Parada"), giving performances for the Polish Armed Forces in the West (commanded by General Władysław Anders, her future husband). She was one of the first singers to sing the Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino.
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- Life and career
- Family
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Irena anders usmiech wilna
Life and career
She was born as Iryna Yarosevych into a Ukrainian family in Bruntál (present-day Czech Republic), where her father Mykola Yarosevych was a chaplain for Greek-catholic soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army. Her mother Olena Yarosevych (née Nyzhankivska) was from a Ukrainian noble family. Right before the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the proclamation of West Ukrainian People's Republic, the family returned home where her father became chaplain of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and later was a priest in the villages Sapohiv and Bryn. In 1926 the family moved to Lviv, where Iryna went to a Greek Catholic gymnasium and Ukrainian trading school. From 1929 to 1939 she also studied in the Lysenko Lviv Musical Institute, in her cousin Nestor Nyzhankivsky's fortepiano class, and later in the vocal class of Mariya Sokil and Lidiya Ulukhanova.
She used the stage name Renata Bogdańska. After World War II, she remained in the United Kingdom. In 1948, she married General Władysław Anders.
She starred in several movies. In 2003, a documentary film was made about her. On 12 May 2007, the Polish president, Lech Kaczyński awarded Anders the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, "for outstanding contribution to the independence of the Polish Republic, for Polish community and social activities" .
She died at age 90 from a heart attack on 29 November 2010, in London.
Family
Her parents were the Greek Catholic priest Mykola Yarosevych and his wife Olena Yarosevych (née Nyzhankivska). Her father before World War I had Russophile views, for which, after the war broke out, the Austrian government sent him to Talerhof Concentration Camp. After the war he became Ukrainophile. On her mother's side she came from a family of Ukrainian nobles of patriotic and musical traditions. Her mother's brothers were Ukrainian composer, singer and politician Ostap Nyzhankivsky, and Ukrainian composer and opera singer Oleksandr Nyzhankivsky. Her cousins were Ukrainian composer and pianist Nestor Nizhankivsky, and Ukrainian composer and music author of March of Ukrainian Nationalists Omelian Nyzhankivsky. In her youth she participated in Ukrainian Scouts Organisation, as did her brother Anatol, who was in the same group as Roman Shukhevych.