Schoschana Rabinovici (1932–2019)
Autore di Thanks to My Mother
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Weksler, Suzanne
Rabinovici, Shoshana - Data di nascita
- 1932-11-14
- Data di morte
- 2019-08-02
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- France (birth)
Lithuania
Israel - Luogo di nascita
- Paris, France
- Luogo di morte
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Luogo di residenza
- Paris, France
Lodz, Poland
Vilna, Lithuania
Tel Aviv, Israel
Vienna, Austria - Attività lavorative
- physiotherapist
Holocaust survivor
memoirist - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award (1999)
- Breve biografia
- Schoschana Rabinovici was born Suzanne-Lucienne Weksler -- known as Susie -- to Jewish parents studying in Paris, Isaukus and Raja Weksler. As a small child, she moved with her parents to their hometown of Vilnius (Vilna), Lithuania, where the family owned a clothing store. The city was occupied by the Russians and then invaded by Nazi Germany in World War II. Her father was arrested in July 1941 and killed soon afterwards along with 5,000 other Jews. The rest of the family was forced into the Vilnius Ghetto. The Ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis in 1943. Susie, age 11, and her mother were sent to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga and then to the Stutthof concentration camp in Danzig. Her mother helped her to survive by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding extra food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. In February 1945, mother and daughter were taken on an 11-day death march to the Tauentzien camp, but survived to be liberated by the Red Army a month later. They recovered slowly and emigrated to Israel in 1950. Susie married David Rabinovici, a fellow survivor from Romania, with whom she had two sons, and took the Hebrew name Schoschana. She worked as a physiotherapist. In 1964, the family moved to Vienna, Austria. Her memoir was published in German as Dank meiner Mutter in 1994, and translated into English and published in 1998 as Thanks to My Mother. In 2013, she participated in the Holocaust eyewitness production The Last Witness at the Vienna Burgtheater, produced by her son Doron Rabinovici.
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 230
- Popolarità
- #97,994
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 10
- Lingue
- 2
The narrative is matter-of-fact with no pretense at poetry or anything "literary" and direct without being graphic, and I think it would be good for middle school through adult readers. It's a pretty typical example of the Holocaust memoir genre, excepting that Susie and Raja were in some lesser-known camps, Kaiserwald and Stutthof. Recommended.… (altro)