On the Saint Katherine’s Day
אין טאָג פון דער הייליקע קאַטערינע
1965
1. About Lily Berger December 30, 1916 Białystok - Paris on November 27, 1996
Education: Hebrew School, Polish Gymnasium, Study in Brussels,
Emigration: From 1936-1949 in Paris •She married Louis Gronowski (Lulke Grojnowski), a leader of the Jewish Communists in charge of the Jewish section of the MOI (Main-d’oeuvre immigrée), a network created to mobilize immigrant workers. During the war, they both assumed key roles in the French Resistance in German-occupied Paris. •Lili Berger was active in rescuing Jewish children from deportation •1949 Berger and her husband returned to Warsaw. •In Poland Lily Berger began publishing articles and stories in both Yiddish and Polish •1968 she leaves Poland during the great exodus which she bitterly refers to in her writing as the trikener pogrom, the bloodless pogrom Writings: •Fun haynt un nekhtn (Today and yesterday). Warsaw: Yidish bukh, 1965 •Esseyn un skitsn (Essays and sketches). Warsaw: Yidish bukh, 1965. •Ekhos fun a vaytn nekhtn (Echoes of distant times). Tel Aviv: Yisroel bukh, 1986. •Berger, Lili. Nisht farendikte bletlekh. Yisroel-Bukh, Tel Aviv, 1982 |
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3. Bibliography: Lily Berger and the post-war history of Jewish children
•Yiddish Lexicon: http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/01/lili-berger.html
•JWA: Felsen, Vivian. "Lili Berger." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 31 December 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on November 30, 2022) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/berger-lili>.
•YIVO Encyclopedia: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Berger_Lili
•Magdalena Ruta, Bez Żydów. Literatura Judysz o Zagładzie, Polsce i komunizmie(Austeria 2012)
•Anna Bikont, Cena: W poszukiwaniu żydowskich dzieci po wojnie (Wołowiec Czarne 2022)
•Joanna Michlic, Piętno Zagłady,
•Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen
•Zofia Nałkowska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_qkEXrxKs
•On Ester Frumkin: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/155631/1/SuzanneFaigan_Thesis%202019.pdf
•JWA: Felsen, Vivian. "Lili Berger." Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. 31 December 1999. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on November 30, 2022) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/berger-lili>.
•YIVO Encyclopedia: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Berger_Lili
•Magdalena Ruta, Bez Żydów. Literatura Judysz o Zagładzie, Polsce i komunizmie(Austeria 2012)
•Anna Bikont, Cena: W poszukiwaniu żydowskich dzieci po wojnie (Wołowiec Czarne 2022)
•Joanna Michlic, Piętno Zagłady,
•Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen
•Zofia Nałkowska: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_qkEXrxKs
•On Ester Frumkin: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/155631/1/SuzanneFaigan_Thesis%202019.pdf
4. Under Kinder (1946)
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5. Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski (2013)
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