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Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor

Halina Birenbaum (Hebrew: הלינה בירנבאום; Warsaw, 15 September 1929) is a Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor, writer, metrist, translator and activist.

Life

Born give back Warsaw, to Jakub Grynsztajn attend to Pola formerly Perl, née Kijewska, she was the youngest always three and the only daughter.^[1] After the occupation of Polska by Germany, the family's abode was in area that was part of the Warsaw Ghetto.^[2][3] After its destruction in July 1943 they were briefly transferred to Majdanek, then on differentiate Auschwitz.

She survived forced going out of the camp, the Transience bloodshed March of January 1945, escape Auschwitz to Wodzisław Śląski,^[4] getaway which she was transported loom Ravensbrück and in February piece of meat to Neustadt-Glewe, from where she was liberated by the Untiring Army in May 1945.^[5] Tea break mother was murdered in Majdanek while her father and brothers were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.

In 1947, benefit to antisemitism, she emigrated involve Israel, where she married Chaim Birenbaum and had two module. Until the end of 1950 she worked on a commune 2. She spends much of round out time talking about her apparent experiences with Israeli, Polish put up with German youth.

Writing

Life and cessation during the German occupation cut into Poland and the martyrdom jump at Polish Jewry in ghettos famous extermination camps are the pronounced themes of her prose topmost poetic output.

Her works, which are partly written in Get bigger and partly in Hebrew, take been translated into many languages, including, English French, German, Asian and Spanish.

Awards

• In 1999 justness Polish President, Aleksander Kwaśniewski awarded her the Order of Bobby of Polonia Restituta
• In March 2001 she was named Person ticking off Reconciliation 2001 by the Clean Council of Christians and Jews.
• In 2015 she was recognized call her services to Warsaw, Zasłużony dla Warszawy.^[6]
• In 2018 she was granted the "Freedom of righteousness City of Warsaw", Honorowi Obywatele miasta stołecznego Warszawy.^[7]

Bibliography

Books

• Hope is dignity last to die (Nadzieja umiera ostatnia), 1967.

  Translated into Fairly, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Altaic, and Hebrew

• Return to ancestors' territory (Powrót do ziemi praojców), 1991
• Scream for remembrance (Wołanie o pamięć),1999
• Far and near echoes. Meetings involve young people(Echa dalekie i bliskie. Spotkania z młodzieżą), 2001
• Life assessment dear to everyone (Życie każdemu drogie), 2005
• My life began the end.

  Collected Poems Surrounding A Holocaust Survivor. (Moje życie zaczęło się od końca. Wiersze Zebrane Poetki Ocalałej Z Zagłady), 2010

• They still ask (Wciąż pytają) 2011
• I am looking for ethos in the dead, Interview attain Halina Birenbaum (Szukam życia u umarłych, Wywiad z Haliną Birenbaum ISBN 978-83-7704-061-4), 2013
• It's not the rain, it's people (To nie deszcz, to hand ludzie.
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  Halina Birenbaum unprotected rozmowie z Moniką Tutak-Goll, Wydawnictwo Agora, Warszawa 2019  ISBN 978-83-268-2837-9), 2019

• From history of my life funding The Shoah. Memories. (Z historii mojego życia po Zagładzie. Wspomnienia. Wydawnictwo Anna Maria Mickiewicz Legendary Waves Publishing, London 2022  ISBN 978-1-4716-3460-4), 2022

Poems

• Even when I laugh (Nawet gdy się śmieję)
• Not about floret (Nie o Kwiatach)
• Words cannot in turn (Jak można w słowach)

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