il-002798-p 16
location of originals: YV archives
has creator: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-cb/001544
scope and content: he Rachel Auerbach Collection contains: Personal documentation; biography; rough drafts of her letters from before the war; versions of her works in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish; articles published in Israel and abroad; articles on general subjects written in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish; correspondence; documentation regarding the book"Treblink" by Jean François Schreiber; research articles about Rachel Auerbach; radio broadcasts; scripts; documentation regarding the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem; documentation regarding Rachel Auerbach and Yad Vashem; documentation related to the Eichmann Trial.
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biographical history: Rachel Auerbach was born on 18 December 1903 in the village of Lanowce in the Borszczow district of eastern Galicia. She completed her elementary school studies in 1913 , and her high school studies in 1920 in Lwow. Afterwards she studied philosophy and history. In 1925, Rachel Auerbach began to publish articles in the Polish-Jewish newspaper"Chwil" in Lwow. Two years later she was accepted onto the Editorial Board of the"Der Nayer Morga" newspaper, and she edited journals such as the"Tsushtaye". In 1932 Rachel Auerbach moved to Warsaw. There she supported herself on a grant awarded to her by the Committee of Jewish Journalists while writing an essay about the psychology of typographical errors. From 1932-1939 she worked for the Jewish-Polish newspaper"Nowe Slow" (the Polish edition of the"Momen" newspaper), and published articles on literary, scientific and social topics in the"Hayn","Momen", "Naye Folkstsaytun","Nasz Przeglą","Chwil" and"Literarishe Blete" newspapers. At the same time, she translated books written by Moyshe Stavsky, the book"Krimer Nekh" by Z. Segalowitch,"Di Gildene Pav" (the Golden Peacock) by Yoshue Perle, and novellas by Y. Y. Singer, David Bergelson and others. Rachel Auerbach also translated"Letters from a Journe" by Melekh Ravitsh. During the Holocaust period Rachel Auerbach served as manager of the public kitchen at 40 Leszno Street. She wrote a monograph about hunger, essays on ghetto life for the Oyneg Shabes archive and documented several of the escapees from Treblinka who returned to the ghetto. After her escape to the Aryan side in early February 1943, she wrote in Polish about the destruction of Jewish life in Poland and the Jewish culture annihilated by the Holocaust. Between 1945 and 1950 she took part in the work of the Central [Jewish] Historical Commission in Poland under the leadership of Dr. Philip Filip Friedman, edited the history and literary supplements to the"Das Naye Lebe" newspaper in Lodz and published books about the …
title: Collection of Rachel Auerbach, author and founder of the Oral Testimonies Department at Yad Vashem archives
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has or had some members with language: yid
record resource extent: 110 files
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had script: Hebr
has or had script: Latn
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had some members with language: pol
identifier: P.16
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-pers/000547