Halina Birenbaum
Israeli writer
Intro | Israeli writer | |
Places | Israel Poland | |
is | Writer Translator Poet | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Birth | 15 September 1929, Warsaw | |
Age | 95 years |
Halina Birenbaum (Warsaw, 15 September 1929) is a Holocaust survivor, writer, poet, translator and activist.
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 emigrated 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.