While there's life... : poems from the Mittelsteine labor camp, 1944-1945 / Ruth Minsky Sender ; translated from the Yiddish by Rebecca Wolpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sender, Ruth Minsky, author.

Contributor:

Wolpe, Rebecca, translator.

Trinh, Miriam, writer of introduction.

International Institute for Holocaust Research, issuing body.

Class of 1953 Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Mittelsteine (Concentration camp).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

120 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm

Other Title:

While there is life

Place of Publication:

Jerusalem, Israel : Yad Vashem, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, [2018]

Language Note:

English translation of Yiddish.

Notes:

"Surviving one more day in the camps was spiritual resistance. The poems in this collection were written by Riva Minska (Ruth Minsky Sender) during her incarceration as prisoner #55082 in the Nazi slave labor camp in Mittelsteine, Germany. She wrote them in little notebooks while hiding in her bunk. Every Sunday, she would read these moving verses aloud to the 50 other women in the room. They were her critical and faithful audience. She endeavored to depict scenes from their lives -- their anguish, their pain and their longings -- to give everyone a little courage and the will to continue. As her mother, Nacha Minska, used to say: 'While there's life, there's hope.' This was how they spent their Sundays, and anyone who had a bit of talent did their best to bring a little happiness into their tragic lives"--Back cover.

Introduction by Miriam Trinh.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9789653085633

9653085638

OCLC:

1099854794

Publisher Number:

026800009722 danacode