Sara Zyskind

Sara Zyskind
BornSara Rachela Plager
(or Sara Rachela Plagier)
(1927-03-26)26 March 1927
Warsaw
Died1 January 1995(1995-01-01) (aged 67)
Tel-Aviv
Pen nameSala Plagier (childhood name)
Sara Plager-Zyskind
Sara Plagier-Zyskind
OccupationWriter on the Holocaust
NationalityPolish and Israeli
PeriodPost-War period
GenreMemoirs
SpouseEliezer (Elazar) Zyskind
(b. 22 June 1925 in Brzeziny;
husband from 1948)[1]

Sara Zyskind, also Sara Plager-Zyskind (Hebrew: שרה פלגר-זיסקינד) (b. 26 March 1927 in Łódź; d. 1 January 1995 in Tel-Aviv), was a prominent Polish–Israeli writer on the Holocaust. She was a survivor of the Łódź Ghetto, and of the Auschwitz, the Mittelsteine concentration camp, and the Grafenort Nazi concentration camps. Her style as a writer on the Holocaust has been praised for its effective literary technique that allows the reader to identify with the reality of the period.[2] Her writings constitute valuable primary sources in Holocaust historiography.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ Karl Liedke, "Destruction Through Work: Lodz Jews in the Büssing Truck Factory in Braunschweig, 1944–1945", Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 30, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, 2002, p. 187. ISSN 0084-3296.
  2. ^ Paul Wieser, "That We Do No Less"; in: Working to Make a Difference: The Personal and Pedagogical Stories of Holocaust Educators across the Globe, ed. S. Totten, Westport (Connecticut), Praeger Publishers, 2002, p. 229. ISBN 0897897099.
  3. ^ Thomas Taterka, Dante Deutsch: Studien zur Lagerliteratur, Berlin, Erich Schmidt, 1999, p. 203. ISBN 3503049118.
  4. ^ Cf., e.g., Die Chronik des Gettos Lodz / Litzmannstadt, ed. S. Feuchert, et al., 5 vols., Göttingen, Wallstein-Verlag, 2007, passim. ISBN 9783892448341, ISBN 3892448345.
  5. ^ Andrea Löw, "Arbeit, Lohn, Essen: Überlebensbedingungen im Ghetto"; in: Ghettorenten: Entschädigungspolitik, Rechtsprechung und historische Forschung, ed. J. Zarusky, Munich, Oldenbourg, 2010, pp. 71–72. ISBN 9783486589412.