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Isaiah Spiegel
1904–1990
- Nationality
- Poland
- Occupation
- writer
Isaiah Spiegel (Hebrew: ×שע××× ×©×¤×××, Polish: Jeszajahu Szpigel; January 14, 1906 â July 14, 1990) was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor (Åódź Ghetto and Auschwitz II-Birkenau). Before deportation from the Åódź Ghetto he hid some writing.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
Biography
Isaiah Spiegel (Hebrew: ×שע××× ×©×¤×××, Polish: Jeszajahu Szpigel; January 14, 1906 â July 14, 1990) was Polish and Israeli poet, writer and essayist writing in Yiddish, a Holocaust survivor (Åódź Ghetto and Auschwitz II-Birkenau). Before deportation from the Åódź Ghetto he hid some writing. After the war he found the manuscripts with 16 stories, recalled more of them, and published. After World War II he worked as a teacher in Åódź and wrote short stories in Yiddish. In 1951 he emigrated to Israel, where he worked as a clerk and continued writing in Yiddish. He was one of the portrayed in the 1948 documentary Mir Lebngeblibene ("We, Who Survivied", Yiddish: ××ר ××¢×× ××¢×××××¢× ×¢) by Natan Gross, the last documentary in Poland shot completely in Yiddish.
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