The Benjamin Tenenbaum (Tene) collection: testimonies of child survivors of the Holocaust

The Benjamin Tenenbaum (Tene) collection: testimonies of child survivors of the Holocaust 

Benjamin Tenenbaum (Tene) was born in 1914 in Warsaw, Poland. He joined the HaShomer HaTzair Zionist movement as a teenager, and began writing poetry for the movement's publications. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1937, and was a founding member of Kibbutz Eilon, where he lived for a decade. After the war, Tenenbaum travelled to Poland, where he spent over a year collecting testimonies from Holocaust survivor children. He included some of those testimonies in a book titled"One of a City and Two of a Famil", published (in Hebrew) in 1947. This trip to Poland was also the inspiration for his poem"Temolim al ha-Sa" (1947). He was the editor of a children's magazine and wrote stories for children and adolescents, often inspired by his own childhood in prewar Poland. He was a prolific translator, mostly from Polish and Yiddish, as well as a poet whose poems have been translated into several languages. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1999. 

The Benjamin Tenenbaum (Tene) collection: testimonies of child survivors of the Holocaust