Halina Birenbaum

Halina Birenbaum (born 1929) is a Holocaust survivor, writer, poet and translator. Born in Warsaw, Birenbaum spent her childhood in a 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)"

External links

*http://www.zchor.org/birenbaum/halina.htm
*http://www.dialog.org/dialog/hbirenbaum.htm