FEYGE GRINSHPAN-MILSHTEYN

FEYGE GRINSHPAN-MILSHTEYN (b. December 23, 1910)

            She was born in the village of Pyetshalovke, Volhynia.  She studied at a Russian school.  In 1932 she settled in Kostopol, Volhynia.  She survived WWII in a hide-out.  From 1948 she was in Israel.  Her books include: A lebn af rates, oytentishe shilderungen fun der shoe tkufe (A life in installments, authentic depictions of the Holocaust era) (Tel Aviv: Nay lebn, 1966), 287 pp., with a Hebrew translation by A. Z. Verthaim entitled Benetive hagoral (The routes of destiny) (Ramat-Gan, 1975), 265 pp.

Sources: A. Bataban, in Yidishe tsaytung (Tel Aviv) (November 11, 1966); Y. Emyot, in Forverts (New York) (April 14, 1968); M. Hampel, in Yidishe tsaytung (January 16, 1976).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 181-82.

Ruvn Goldberg