{"id":8789,"date":"2017-01-25T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=8789"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:39:52","slug":"zofia-kossack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-war-years\/zofia-kossack\/","title":{"rendered":"Zofia Kossack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8790\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8790 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Zofia-Kossack-258x300.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Zofia-Kossack-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Zofia-Kossack-768x893.jpg 768w, https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Zofia-Kossack.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Zofia Kossack<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Post &amp; News, 26 January, 1967:<\/em>\u00a0 North Petherwin News.\u00a0 Returning to Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Noted Authoress Who Lived at North Petherwin.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving this week for their native Poland were Mrs <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka\" target=\"_blank\">Zygmunt Szatkowski<\/a>, of Troswell, North Petherwin.<\/p>\n<p>Better known as Zofia Kossack, one of Poland\u2019s most eminent writers and an authoress famed not only on the Continent, but in this country and in America as well, Mrs Szatkowski, who was 66, fled from Poland and has been living at Troswell for some ten years.<\/p>\n<p>When the Germans invaded Poland, she played a prominent part in the resistance movement.\u00a0 With the recent changes in Poland, she and her husband have decided to return to their native country, and she is reported as saying: \u201cI think at last there is a little freedom in Poland, and it may be safe to go back.\u00a0 I feel it is my duty to do so, even if there is some risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During her stay in this district, she has been a member of the Roman Catholic congregation at Launceston, and on Sunday last, the parish priest, Dom. Willfred Wharton, bade her and her husband farewell, and extended to them the good wishes of the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>However, she didn&#8217;t live long enough to to test this freedom, passing away on the 9th of April, 1968 at <a title=\"Bielsko-Bia\u0142a\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bielsko-Bia%C5%82a\" target=\"_blank\">Bielsko-Bia\u0142a<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"People's Republic of Poland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/People%27s_Republic_of_Poland\">Poland.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visits: 109<\/p><!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-8789\" data-postid=\"8789\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-8789 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post &amp; News, 26 January, 1967:\u00a0 North Petherwin News.\u00a0 Returning to Poland. Noted Authoress Who Lived at North Petherwin. Leaving this week for their native Poland were Mrs Zygmunt Szatkowski, of Troswell, North Petherwin. Better known as Zofia Kossack, one of Poland\u2019s most eminent writers and an authoress famed not only on the Continent, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8789\/revisions\/8792"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}