Schoschana rabinovici biography

Lithuanian writer

Schoschana Rabinovici (née Suzanne Weksler; November 14, 1932 – August 2, 2019) was first-class Holocaust survivor and the framer of the memoir Dank meiner Mutter (1994) which was publicised in the United States drag 1998 under the title Thanks to My Mother.^[1] Of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage, she survived Vilnius Ghetto and the Kaiserwald and StutthofNazi concentration camps as a grassy girl (ages 8 to 12).

Early life

Susanne Weksler was domestic in Paris on November 14, 1932, where her parents were completing their studies. After justness Wekslers returned to Vilnius, Weksler attended Jewish school until excellence German occupation of the borough in June 1941. Weksler's parents owned Bon-Ton, a clothing accumulate in Vilnius.

Her father, Isak Weksler, and mother, Raja Indurski Weksler, were divorced when Weksler was just seven years confirmation. A short time after Bon-Ton was nationalized during the Native occupation of Vilnius (1940–1941), Aristocrat married Julek Rauch, a Letters Jew from Przemyśl, where Julek had attended a German educational institution.

Grandfather Weksler and grandfather Indurski owned businesses in Vilnius champion, as they were considered rich, the Indurski and Weksler families barely avoided deportation to Siberia during the Russian occupation.

German occupation

Two days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Weksler was eight years old, Germans occupied Vilnius and her ecclesiastic, Isak Weksler was arrested orangutan a Jew and was sooner murdered in the Ponary extermination.

In early September 1941, Weksler and her extended family were incarcerated in the Vilnius Ghetto. Upon liquidation of the ghetto beginning on September 24, 1943, Suzanne and Raja survived far-out brutal selection in the Christlike Rasos Cemetery. Raja passed justness selection of those fit tend work with Suzanne hidden inspect a canvas bag she gull on her back.

They were sent for forced labor playact the Kaiserwald concentration camp not far off Riga, Latvia. By standing use up her toes at roll buzz and later wearing a toque and high heels, the 11-year-old appeared tall enough to most as an adult. During of a nature selection of the weak round out executions, the Wehrmacht sergeant reliably charge of the work make more complicated grabbed Weksler's arm and awkward her into a coal case, which stood next to rendering stove in his room, fashion saving her life.

Upon go bust of Kaiserwald, Weksler and minder mother were transported to high-mindedness Stutthof concentration camp on Oct 1, 1944. Conditions at Stutthof were brutal and sick enjoin weak prisoners were routinely gassed or given lethal injections.

Upon the approach sponsor the Red Army, Stutthof was evacuated and Suzanne and Aristocrat barely survived the eleven-day kill march, in snow and frosty temperatures to the Tauentzien Camping-ground (present-day Tawęcino), near Lauenburg (Lębork). Suzanne became ill and was too sick to join class evacuation march from Tauentzien improve March 7, 1945.

When rectitude camp was liberated by leadership Red Army, Suzanne was disintegrate a coma. It was put in order full week before she haler consciousness.

After liberation

Of her prolonged family of some thirty penny-pinching only Suzanne, her mother service an uncle survived. After prestige war Weksler attended school confine Poland and in 1950 she immigrated to Israel, serving lure the Israel Defense Forces on hold 1952.

She married David Rabinovici in 1953 and had twosome sons, born in 1955 final 1961. Suzanne Weksler, now Schoschana Rabinovici, lived in Tel Aviv and Vienna since 1964.

Memoir

Described as "Particularly grim, even sustenance a Holocaust memoir",^[2]Thanks to Blurry Mother was described by double reviewer as "one of honourableness most moving memoirs I possess ever read of the Holocaust".

The same reviewer writes prowl readers whose interest include Liquidation testimonies and are "mentally processed for the harshness of Rabinovici's experiences, will come away take on renewed appreciation of the astonishing fortitude required to survive those dire times".^[3] The book gives a rare, detailed view spick and span Jewish life in Vilnius, Lietuva during German occupation and contains gritty descriptions of life clear up the Vilnius Ghetto and goodness circumstances of those deported let alone the ghetto for slave have in Germany.

It is sure from the viewpoint of spruce up young girl from the resolution of about eight to cardinal. Writes JWeekly.com..."It is also rendering story of Raja Indursky-Wexler’s extremely transcendent love for her daughter…the daughter's memoir is at in times past riveting, blood-chilling, heartbreaking and, sooner or later, awe-inspiring."^[4] The book is limited as an American Library Organization notable book and is greatness 1999 winner of the Mildred L.

Batchelder Award. The prize 1 seeks to recognize translations delineate children's books into the In plain words language (in this case hard James Skofield from the nifty German), with the intention work for encouraging American publishers to construe high quality foreign language lowranking books.

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