DORKE (DORKA) GOLDKORN (1922-June 17, 1947)
She was born in Warsaw, into a poor
Hassidic family. She graduated from
public school and later studied in a secular high school. From 1941 she was active in the leftwing
labor movement. She participated in the
Warsaw Ghetto uprising. She escaped with
a number of fighters who went over to the Aryan side through the underground
sewer system. She was later deported to
the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Bergen-Belsen. In 1945 she returned to Warsaw and again took
up an active role in community activities.
She was murdered by Polish hooligans during the election campaign
(January 1947) to the Polish Sejm. After
her death Wspomnienia uczestniczki
powstania w getcie warszawskim
[Memoirs of a participant in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising] appeared in
print. It had been published earlier in Folksshtime
(Voice of the people) in Lodz. It
carried a foreword by B. Mark (Warsaw, 1948), 27 pp.
Source:
Berel Mark, in Folksshtime (Lodz) (January 1947).
Is there an English version of her memoirs available ?
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