Jadwiga Maurer, scholar, writer, and Holocaust survivor, died October 16, 2012 at the Champaign County Nursing home. Jadwiga was born in Kielce, Poland on September 24, 1930 to Baruch and Hanna Graubard. Arriving in Germany with her immediate family as displaced persons after the war, Jadwiga received her Ph.D. from the University of Munich with highest honors. In 1956, she married American Warren R. Maurer in Fulde, Germany. Warren and Jadwiga moved to the United States, where she subsequently held faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Indiana (Bloomington), and the University of Kansas, where she was a professor in the Slavic Department for three decades. In addition to her scholarship, which included a groundbreaking biography of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's greatest poet, she won international recognition for her short stories, which were anthologized in several collections. Jadwiga moved to Urbana, Illinois in 2011 to live near family. She is survived by her husband, Warren (of Urbana, Illinois), her children Stephen Maurer (of Berkeley, California) and Elizabeth Powers, her son-in-law Nicholas Powers, and her grandchildren William and Katherine Powers (all of Urbana).