Dorota Simonides

Dorota Elżbieta Simonides - Polish folklorist and politician. Professor emerita of the Faculty of Philology, Opole University.
During the People's Republic of Poland period she joined a small non-Marxist 'satellite party', the Alliance of [Democrats (Poland)|Democratic Party], and was a member of parliament of the Sejm of People's Republic of Poland in 1980–1985. She was one of only a few MPs who did not vote in favour of Martial [law in Poland|martial law] in 1981 and the criminalisation of Solidarity in 1984.
She lost her library during the 1997 [Central European flood].