While there's life...
Subtitle: poems from the Mittelsteine labor camp, 1944-1945
By: Ruth Minsky Sender ; translated from the Yiddish by Rebecca Wolpe
Contributors: Wolpe, Rebecca, translator; Trinh, Miriam, writer of introduction; International Institute for Holocaust Research
Publisher: Yad Vashem, The International Institute for Holocaust Research
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Jerusalem, Israel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9789653085633
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Poetry; Mittelsteine (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst00958866
Other titles: While there is life
Work titles: Poems
Description: Poems from the Mittelstein Labor Comp, 1044-1945
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.

English translation of Yiddish.