HADASE
PRIVES (HADASA PRYWES)
She came from Sosnovits (Sosnowiec),
Poland. She was the author of the book, In roykh fun bzhezhinki (In the smoke of
Birkenau) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1966), 264 pp. The writer was at the time of the war’s
outbreak (September 1939) an ordinary, pious Jewish woman and the mother of two
children; she describes in her book her personal experiences and the agony of
the destruction of Sosnowiec Jewry, from September 1, 1939 until May 1945, in
the Środula ghetto [a neighborhood in Sosnowiec] and in the
death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. She
was last living in the state of Israel.
Source:
Mortkhe Hampel, in Idishe tsaytung
(Tel Aviv) (September 30, 1966).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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