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Biography. She was born Janina Wanda Ewa Kozłowska in Kupowo, the daughter of Michał and Jadwiga (née Bielska). She attended gimnazjum in Nowa Wilejka and Wołkowysk until she left home in 1929 for Białystok. She married Franciszek Wójcicki in Bielsko Podlaskie in 1931, taking the name Janina Wójcicka.
family members. Janina and her two sons escaped while her husband remained in Poland to seek another opportunity to emigrate. Two weeks later, he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison for participating in anti
Her paternal grandmother, Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library of Congress and was responsible for building the largest collection of Polish material in the U.S. She has two sisters: Janet, a doctor of anthropology and epidemiology, and Anne, an entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe.
Nov 29, 2011 · In this article the author provides a glimpse of the life and work of Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, an influential Slavic librarian, who worked at the Library of Congress (LC) from 1951 to 1989. She emigrated from Poland during World War II.
- Wojciech Zalewski
- 2011
After a year, the war broke, the University Professors were arrested and detained in the Nazi-German Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Janina’s brother was held in Russian-Soviet Kozielsk Camp (and soon executed) and her husband, Franciszek Wójcicki emigrated.
Janina Wójcicka Hoskins (ur. 19 lutego 1912 w Kupowie, zm. 19 października 1996 w Menlo Park) – amerykańska bibliotekarka polskiego pochodzenia, dzięki jej pracy Biblioteka Kongresu w Waszyngtonie uzyskała największy zbiór polskich dzieł w całych Stanach Zjednoczonych. Życiorys
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Jan 1, 1998 · David H. Kraus pays tribute to Dr. Janina Wojcicka Hoskins in the foreword of her last book, Visual Arts in Poland [20]. Dr. Hoskins discussed various Polish artists, among them Anna Bilinska (1857–1893) whose portrait, “George Grey Barnard,” is in the collection of the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Dr.
