Ordonka biography samples

Real name Maria Anna (Marianna) Tyszkiewicz, née Pietruszyńska, also known by the pseudonym Weronika Hort, born on 4 August 1902 in Warsaw, died on 8 September 1950 in Beirut (Lebanon).

Hanka Ordonówna was a Polish singer, actress, dancer, poet and lyricist, one of the most famous stars of Polish cabaret in the interwar period.

Her best known stage names were Ordonka, Kniaginiuszka or Kobieta Wamp [the Vamp Woman]. Yet, for the Polish orphans evacuated from the Soviet Union for whom she organised an orphanage, and about whom she wrote a book entitled Tułacze dzieci [Exiled Children] published in 1948 in Beirut under the pseudonym of Weronika Hort, she was simply a good lady who sang.

She was born in Warsaw at 68 Żelazna Street, into the poor family of Warsaw labourer Władysław Pietruszyński and