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Rachmil Bryks
1912–1974
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- poet
Rachmil Leib Bryks (April 18, 1912 - October 2, 1974) (Yiddish and Hebrew: ×ר××××× ×ר×קס) was a Yiddish author and poet known for his writings based on his own experiences as a young Jewish man under the Nazis during World War II.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
Biography
Rachmil Leib Bryks (April 18, 1912 - October 2, 1974) (Yiddish and Hebrew: ×ר××××× ×ר×קס) was a Yiddish author and poet known for his writings based on his own experiences as a young Jewish man under the Nazis during World War II. He wrote five books about the Holocaust period, in Sweden and in the United States after his liberation from the Åódź Ghetto and the Nazi camps, including Auschwitz. Throughout his four years in the Åódź Ghetto (May 1940 â August 1944), he had sat in the evenings after a hard day's work and had written by hand many pages of poetry and prose, describing the hunger, pain, and anguish that the Jewish people were enduring. He was a member of an underground group of Yiddish Writers which met at Miriam Ulinover's home in the Lodz Ghetto, each reading to her his poetry and awaiting her comments. Realizing their historic importance, Bryks had buried his papers underground within the ghetto borders before he was deported to Auschwitz on August 24, 1944. Bryks's best known works include A Cat in the Ghetto (Yiddish: ×Ö· ק×Ö·×¥ ××× ××¢××Ö¸; Hebrew: ×ת×× ××××) which was translated to English and Hebrew, and Ghetto Factory 76 (Chemical waste conversion) (Yiddish: ××¢××ָ־פֿ×Ö·×ר×ק 76 (×´××¢××שע ×ָפּפֿ×Ö·×־פֿערװער××× ××´)) which was dramatized as Resort 76 by Shimon Wincelberg.
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