Alicja Kapuścińska Has Died

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Alicja Kapuścińska has died. She was a paediatrician and the wife of the world’s most celebrated Polish reporter. “For the past few hours she is already once more at the side of her beloved Ryszard,” said Marian Sewerski, president of the Czytelnik publishing house, in his farewell.

Alicja Kapuścińska was born on 4 March 1933. On the same day, a year earlier, her future husband Ryszard Kapuściński was born.

They met as history students at the University of Warsaw. Though Alicja Kapuścińska had wanted to study medicine after her school-leaving exams, those times were not conducive to individual choices. She was assigned to teacher training, from which she chose history. She moved fairly quickly from there to medicine at the Warsaw Medical Academy, where her speciality was paediatrics. She worked at the Medical Academy’s Children’s Clinic on Działowska Street, where she also completed her doctorate and worked until retirement.

Alicja-Kapuscinska on kapuscinski.info

Alicja Kapuścińska Has Died