Poppaea Sabina object of desire of Claudius, Nero, and Otho, each of whom served for a time as Roman Emperor, whose rivalries Agrippina attempts to leverage to her advantage. Once Poppaea sees through Agrippina's deceit, she responds in kind, but only in order to be united with Otho, portrayed as her one true love. Poppaea appears as a character in the several cinema and TV versions of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel "Quo Vadis". In the 1951 film version - in which she is played by Patricia Laffan in a widely-praised performance - she is strangled to death by Nero, who blames her for
Sabina Wolanski Sabina Wolanski Sabina Wolanski, married Sabina van der Linden-Wolanski (1927 – 23 June 2011) was a Holocaust survivor and author. Her book "Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered" is a memoir of her account of her experience of the Holocaust. Wolanski, born in Borysław, Poland (today Ukraine), was 12 years old when her home town in Poland was invaded by the Nazis. In her diary she recorded what happened, including the humiliations and terrors, the murder of her family and her survival. In Borysław, she met the industrialist Berthold Beitz, who had helped shelter Jews in Poland.