User talk:Adpynacker

Hi there Adpynacker. Are you sure you have the same Paula Szalit/Schalit? All the sources give her date of death as 1920. What is your source? - kosboot (talk) 17:42, 31 August 2016 (UTC).

Hi Kosboot. It is not correct that "all the sources give her death as 1920": 1/ the definitive work on Polish pianists, S. Dybowski, Słownik: Pianistów Polskich, 2003, p. 620 gives her date of death as "po 1920" (i.e. after 1920) and this is taken from 2/ Słownik muzyków polskich, vol II, 1967, which has the same information. If you look on the entry on the Yadvashem website you will bee that her date of birth and birth location (i.e. Brody) are correct. In the 1980s I met on several occasions Dr Zygmunt Herschdoerfer, who as a teenager had had private piano lessons with Paula Szalit at Drohobycz around 1932. His family and the Szalits were close friends. He told me about her psychosis - and that he was her only pupil and the lessons were arranged as a sort of therapy for her. However, her condition deteriorated and she had to go back to a mental hospital. The Kulparkow Asylum was a big institution. It is thought that the Germans allowed its remaining patients to starve to death during the 1942 occupation of Lwow. Adpynacker (talk) 08:00, 1 September 2016 (UTC)Adpynacker.
 * I didn't not find Schalit/Szalit on the Yad Vashem site. If you want to use that as a source, you should include a footnote citing the exact page in a way where users can go back and check the source themselves.  Similarly with the book Pianistów Polskich - if you want to use that book, you need to cite the book and page in a footnote. - kosboot (talk) 19:22, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, she is on the Yad Vashem website - under the name Paulina Schalit; see also Michael Schalit (compiler), "Heinrich Schalit, the Man and his Music", Livermore, California, 1979, pp. 16, 63, the latter which confirms she was born in Brody, near Lwów and that "after an unfortunate love affair she suffered a psychological breakdown and was committed to a mental asylum, where she died, presumably in the early 1920s" (Heinrich Schalit was her first cousin); see also the article on her in the Leschetizky Association Bulletin, 2012-13, pp. 12-14,by James Methuen-Campbell, "Paula Szalit";