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This was my great-aunt's name. She was born in Poland, although her parents had already emigrated to the United States a few years before her birth (they were in Poland to visit family when she was born). I am not sure what her U.S. identity papers said, but she always went by Jessie in America.
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Czesława Kwoka (15 August 1928 – 12 March 1943) was a Polish Catholic girl who died at the age of 14 in Auschwitz. One of the thousands of minor child and teen victims of German World War II war crimes against ethnic Poles in German-occupied Poland, she is among those memorialized in an Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibit, "Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners".
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Czesława Pilarska (born 2 December 1966), née Grochot, is a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1991 and an economist FIDE Woman International Master (1993). In 1998 Czesława Pilarska ceased active playing in chess tournaments and devoting herself to scientific work. In October 2002 she received Doctoral degree in Economics. Currently Czesława Pilarska working in Microeconomics department in Cracow University of Economics.
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Czesława Gospodarek (née Cieślak; 10 June 1938 – 5 December 2011), known by her stage name Violetta Villas, was a Polish and international cabaret star, singer, actress, composer and songwriter. Her voice was characterized as coloratura soprano, which spanned over four octaves. Villas was the first star of the Casino de Paris at Dunes Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (1966–1970).
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My Granny's name. Very beautiful Slavic name. I'm from Poland ofc.
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It's fine, but the pronunciation would be a bitch in the United States.
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Very nice.
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