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Chava Rosenfarb

Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011) is the author of the novels The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto, Bociany, and Of Lodz and Love, and the short story collection Survivors. She was a frequent contributor to the Yiddish literary journal Di goldene keyt.

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    A Reader in the Ghetto

    Teaching I.L. Peretz’s story ‘Miracles on the Sea’ to children who are sentenced to die

    byChava Rosenfarb
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    In the Boxcar

    Seventy people, speeding into the unknown

    byChava Rosenfarb
  • A group of women at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
    A group of women at the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
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    Bergen-Belsen Diary, 1945

    The great Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb records the first days after her liberation, in a stunning document of survival

    byChava Rosenfarb
  • Chava's first passport, from Belgium.
    Chava's first passport, from Belgium.
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    Holocaust Poetry, Saved Again

    New translations of three astonishing poems, which evoke the horror of the Lodz ghetto and its aftermath

    byChava Rosenfarb
  • Lodz Ghetto Bridge(Yad Vashem)
    Lodz Ghetto Bridge(Yad Vashem)
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    Scroll Verse

    There On The Other Side… by Chava Rosenfarb

    byChava Rosenfarb
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    The Last Poet of Lodz

    The untold story of the great epic poem of the Holocaust—and the generous, tragic hero who wrote it

    byChava Rosenfarb
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