Poppaea Sabina that it is not a drama that promotes the triumph of virtue. Poppaea is portrayed as cynically plotting to become empress of Rome by manipulating the emperor Nero into marrying her, and her machinations include the execution of Seneca the Younger, who opposes her plans, which are successful at the end of the drama. Poppaea is a principal character also in Handel's opera "Agrippina" of 1709, but as a victim, not a perpetrator, of deceit and manipulation. Here the schemer is Agrippina, Nero's mother, intent on promoting her son's claim to the throne. Poppaea, the ingenue, is portrayed as the
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.