A. BLOKH
The poet Rivka Basman recounts: “While I was in the women’s [concentration]
camp in Riga, by chance I was able to communicate with a Jewish writer from a second
camp by the name of A. Blokh…. Until
this day, I have heard nothing further from him. Our entire communication was expressed in covert
letters in the form of poems. In those horrific
times, his poem-letters enabled me to breathe with hope, faith, and much
consolation. Our literary contact was
abruptly cut off, and the unknown author has remained for me until today a sad
and warm remembrance.”
Source:
From a letter address to us by R. Basman referring to the years 1942-1943.
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