Polcz, Alaine (1921–)
Polcz, Alaine (1921–)
Hungarian psychologist and novelist. Born Oct 7, 1921, in Kolozs, Hungary; m. Miklós Mészöly.
Psychologist and founder of the hospice movement in Hungary, wrote autobiographical novel about her life during WWII, Asszony a Fronton (1991), trans. by Albert Tezla as One Woman in the War: Hungary 1944–1945 (2002).
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