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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.
On January 3, 1931, she married lawyer Franciszek W6jcicki in Bielsko Podlaskie and subsequently had two sons: Andrzej (Andrew, born 1935) and Stanislaw (Stanley, born 1937). From 1934 to 1938, she studied Polish history at Warsaw University. Then in 1938 she moved to Cracow with her husband, who became a judge at the Court of Appeals and presided
Anne Wojcicki. Anne E. Wojcicki ( / wuːˈtʃɪtski / woo-CHITS-kee; [2] born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe. She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza. She is a co-founder and board member of the Breakthrough Prize .
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
Oct 19, 1996 · Polish: Janina Wójcicka (Kozłow), Hoskins. Birthdate: March 03, 1912. Birthplace: Daugavpils, Daugavpils pilsēta, Daugavpils, Latvia. Death: October 19, 1996 (84) Immediate Family: Daughter of Michał Kozłowski and Jadwiga Kozłowska.
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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
