Halina Birenbaum
Halina Birenbaum (born 1929) is a Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator. Born in Warsaw, Birenbaum spent her childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto and later on in Nazi concentration camps: Majdanek, Auschwitz (Oświęcim), Ravensbrück and Neustadt-Glewe, from which she was liberated in 1945. In 1947 she moved to Israel, where she started a family.
In March 2001 she was awarded a title of Person of Unity 2001 by Polish Rada Chrzescijan i Żydów.
Bibliography
Books
- Hope is the last to die (Nadzieja umiera ostatnia), 1967. Translated into English, German, French, Japanese, and Hebrew
- Return to ancestors' land (Powrót do ziemi praojców), 1991
- Scream for remembrance (Wołanie o pamięć)
Poems
- Even when I laugh (Nawet gdy się śmieję)
- Not about flowers (Nie o Kwiatach)
- How in words (Jak można w słowach)
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