Maja Berezowska (13 April 1893 or 1898, in Baranowicze – 31 May 1978, in Warsaw) was a Polish painter.

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Maja Berezowska
Born	(1893-04-13)13 April 1893 Baranowicze, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	31 May 1978(1978-05-31) (aged 85) Warsaw, Poland
Resting place	Powązki Cemetery
Nationality	Polish
Known for	Painting

Berezowska was born in Baranowicze, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), to Polish parents Edmund Berezowski, who was an engineer and general, and Janina Berezowska née Przecławska. She studied in Saint Petersburg, Kraków and Munich.

From 1933 to 1936 she lived in Paris and worked with magazines such as "Le Figaro", "Le Rire" and "Ici Paris". She made a few caricature cartoons of Adolf Hitler which resulted in the official protest of the German Embassy in Paris, which sued Berezowska. She appeared in court but escaped having to pay any fine. However, Nazi Germans remembered her "outrage". After her return to Poland and the outbreak of World War II she was imprisoned at Pawiak, and later - with the death sentence - sent and imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation of the Ravensbrück camp by the Soviet forces she left, with a group of other Polish women, first for Stockholm and a year later, in 1946, returned to her native Poland and settled in Warsaw.

External links

• Caricature Museum, Warsaw
• Maja Berezowska 1956

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[de] Maja Berezowska

[fr] Maja Berezowska

[ru] Березовская, Майя