Wednesday 15 August 2018

HADASE PRIVES (HADASA PRYWES)


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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