Comments for the name Zofia

Žofia is also the Czech and Slovak form. [noted -ed]
Pronounced as "Zhaw-fee-a" (short -ee-).
Žofia´s nickname: Žofka, Žofie, Žofa.
Name Days: 15th May (in the Czech Republic and the Slovakia).

Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa was a Polish artist, painter and engraver tied to the Lviv circle of artists, and for many years the president of Polish Artists Union (Zwiazek Artystów Polskich). Born as Zofia Albinowska, she signed her paintings this way.

Zofia Kulik is a Polish artist. Her domain is performance and photography.

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, a Polish author and resistance fighter, is best known for her wartime efforts to help the Polish Jews. She was a founder of the wartime Polish organization ¯egota, set up to assist Polish Jews in escaping the Holocaust. In 1943 she was arrested by the Germans and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, but survived the war.

Zofia - "Zosia" - is the young heroine of Adam Mickiewicz's poem Pan Tadeusz.