Nina Polakówna(1910-2003)

Actress and prompter. She made her debut in 1927 at the Municipal Theater in Lódz, then she studied at the Ballet School at the Grand Theater in Warsaw and for several years she performed in variety programs of Warsaw theaters, e.g. in the summer theater in the Swiss Valley, "Momus", "Mignon" (1927- 29), the cinema-revue "Hollywood" (1929-30), in "Kometa" (1931) and touring bands, mainly in a character duet with Stanislaw Wolinski (1931-36), then alone in programs where she recited and played sketches ( 1936-39). During the German occupation, she performed in public theaters in Warsaw: "Niebieski Motyl", "Bohema", "Komedia", and after the war, in the 1945/46 season, occasionally in the variety theater in Wlochy near Warsaw. In the 1946/47 season, she participated in a tour of Poland by the News and Satire Theaters, and after returning to Warsaw, she performed at the Prague Revue Theater. Moreover, in 1948, she completed a two-year course for non-professional theater instructors at the Warsaw State Theater School based in Lódz. From 1949 she was associated with the Polish Army Home, Estrada Warszawska, and in 1957-65 with the PPIE Traveling Theater. In 1965-70 she was an actress of the Masovian Land Theater in Warsaw, and in 1970-75 she was a prompter there. In 1943, she married actor Zygmunt Mieczyslaw Garbacki, nickname "Actor", an actor of the Kometa Theater in Warsaw and a corporal of the Home Army. In January 1944, their daughter Halina was born, and after Zygmunt's death, in March 1945, two boys were born: Marek and Zygmunt. Garbacki died in August 1944 at Zagloba Street during the capture of "Jajczarnia" at the corner of Górczewska Street, during the Warsaw Uprising. Their son, also Zygmunt, was sentenced to death in 1971, after the murder of his fiancée's father, a popular writer and member of parliament - Jan Gerhard. The sentence was carried out.