Lidia Zamenhof Washington, D.C. The meeting called attention to Esperantists' efforts to save persecuted Jews during World War II. The documentary drama "Ni vivos!" ("We will live!") by Julian Modest depicts the Zamenhof family's fate in the Warsaw Ghetto. Lidia Zamenhof Lidia Zamenhof (; 29 January 1904–1942) was a Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. She was born on 29 January 1904 in Warsaw, then in partitioned Poland. She was an active promoter of Esperanto as well as of Homaranismo, a form of religious humanism first defined by her father. Around 1925
Jan Ludwik Popławski Jan Ludwik Popławski Jan Ludwik Popławski (17 January 1854 in Bystrzejowice Pierwsze – 12 March 1908 in Warsaw) was a Polish journalist, author, politician and one of the first chief activists and ideologues of the right-wing National Democracy political camp. Popławski entered the University of Warsaw in 1874. As a student he belonged to patriotic political organization Confederation of Polish Nation (Konfederacja Narodu Polskiego). In 1878 he was arrested by Russian authorities. Released in 1882, Popławski returned to Warsaw and began to write in the newspaper "Prawda" ("Truth") under the pen name "Wiat". From 1886, he worked for the weekly