Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts

Biography

Born Halina Kolowicz in Warsaw, Poland in 1918, Halina spent most of her childhood in Cannes at a Catholic convent. After the Second World War, she met her husband, Tony Rosenthal, in a sculpture class he was teaching at an Army school in St. Jean-de-Luz near Biarritz, France1.

• 1. Grace Glueck. "Halina Rosenthal, 73, a Leader In Efforts to Save Landmarks, Dies," The New York Times, April 1, 1991