Lidia Zamenhof 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 she became a member of the Bahá'í Faith. In late 1937 she went to the United States to teach that religion as well as Esperanto. In December 1938 she returned to Poland, where she continued to teach
Ludwik Kalkstein October 1994, in Munich, Germany. Ludwik Kalkstein Ludwik "Hanka" Kalkstein, also known as Ludwik Kalkstein-Stoliński, (13 March 1920, Warsaw – 26 October 1994, Munich); was one of the better known German Gestapo agents during the Warsaw Uprising as well as a Stalinist informant following the Soviet takeover of Poland. Along with his wife (Blanka Kaczorowska "Sroka"), they became traitors to the Armia Krajowa under not just one but two consecutive totalitarian regimes. Kalkstein was responsible for the arrest and execution by the Nazis of at least fourteen Polish underground officers, including the General Stefan Rowecki. Arrested by the Gestapo in