California
These companies and/or individuals recently filed for liquidation (Chapter 7) or reorganization (Chapter 11 or 13) in federal Bankruptcy Court in Santa Ana.
June 21, 2000
Books
HANNAH ARENDT/MARTIN HEIDEGGER by Elzbieta Ettinger. (Yale University Press: $18.50; 139 pp.)
Aug. 27, 1995
World & Nation
A member of a Polish women’s handball team, who disappeared July 3 during an international tournament in Italy, has asked for political asylum, police said Saturday.
July 20, 1986
The reader could not be presented with two more different women or two more different approaches to them.
April 26, 1987
Movies
Elzbieta Czyzewska, the Polish film and stage star who provided the inspiration for Oscar-nominated Sally Kirkland’s title role in “Anna” a few years back, has a leading role herself in Louis Yansen’s “Misplaced” (Monica 4-Plex), a warm and incisive independent production of modest budget and impressive impact.
Sept. 21, 1990
Poland’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution honoring Irena Sendler, who saved nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by organizing a ring of 20 people to smuggle them out of the Warsaw Ghetto in baskets and ambulances.
March 15, 2007
When classes started in September at Duracza High School in Warsaw, Elzbieta Domanska and Agnieszka Rostkowska, both 16, were among many of the 800 students at the school stunned over a new feature of the curriculum: religious instruction, one hour weekly, taught by a Roman Catholic priest.
Oct. 22, 1990
The leader of an immigration fraud ring who posed as a retired federal judge and staged phony citizenship ceremonies for her victims was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years and a month in prison.
April 7, 2004
Grzegorz Maleszewski is 22 years old, tall and thin as the rough-sawed pine planks cut from the forests on his land.
Aug. 18, 1992
Obituaries
Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, known for his monumental orchestral and choral compositions, died in Krakow at 86.
March 29, 2020