Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kika Szaszkiewiczowa

Cabaret performer

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1917

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Aug-2014

Profession: artist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Irena "Kika" Szaszkiewiczowa (née Jarochowska; 4 March 1917 – 11 August 2014) was a Polish artist, writer and blogger.She was a performer of the Piwnica pod Baranami.
Her fictional adventures were described in the comics called Szaszkiewiczowa, czyli Ksylolit w jej zyciu, which was being published in Przekrój since 1958.During World War II, she was a member of Armia Krajowa.
In 1969–2007 she lived in Norway.
In 2011, she published her memoir titled Podwójne zycie Szaszkiewiczowej (The Double Life of Szaszkiewiczowa).
In 2013, at the age of 96, she started to run a blog Moje pierwsze 100 lat (My First 100 Years).
She was at the time the oldest blogger in Poland. On 9 August 2014, two days before her death, she was awarded with Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta by the president of Poland.
She received the order from Lesser Poland voivode Jerzy Miller during a ceremony at her apartment in Cracow.