Iza Norska

Biography

Violinist and actress, starred in two films: "9.25 The Adventure of One Night" 1929 and "Carousel of Life" 1930, according to the novel by Irena Zarzycka "The Niceest Adventure of Jacek Trent". She was born in a family of Lódz factory owners and philanthropists. She studied in Berlin at the music conservatory, together with her sister Paulina. After graduation, she returned to Poland. In 1939, she and her son emigrated to Iraq, where her sister lived and married to Pasha Max Makowski. Later she lived in Cairo and Alexandria. She was born on April 8, 1899 in Lódz. Her first husband was Henryk Kronman, director of the "Glos Poranny" publishing house, who died suddenly of a heart attack on October 27, 1937 in Paris. The couple had a son Andrzej Michal Kronman (born on February 15, 1932 in Lódz, died on August 13, 2005 in Petersfield, Hampshire). After the war, Norska married Ronald Arnold for the second time and her son changed his name to Arnold from his first marriage. As Andrew Michael Arnold published a book about his experiences (and his mother's) in 2004 entitled "A Game with Dice". Norska died at the age of 85 in Great Britain.