Hana Greenfield

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Hana Greenfield was born in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. Hana is the author of Fragments of Memory published by Gefen Publishing House (1998, c1998, revised edition 2006). Her book is a memoir with a collection of articles written over a period of a few years, as the incidents flashed back into her memory. Many of her accounts have appeared in publications in various languages: Hebrew, Polish, French, Yiddish, English, German and Czech. Her original research paper on the fate of Bialystok children was first published in England, at the 1988 Oxford University conference “Remembering for the Future.” The author is a member of the board of the Terezin Ghetto Museum where her program for teaching Czech children tolerance, and educating them about the Holocaust, serves thousands of youth annually and is considered a landmark project. She is Hana Greenfield, along with her husband, Murray Greenfield are the founders of Gefen Publishing House. Mrs. Greendield is also the founder of the Hana Greenfield Fund Following her liberation from Bergen-Belsen on the 15th of April 1945, Hana moved to London and soon after decided to make Aliyah to Israel and has resided in Israel with her family ever since.