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I Am Here to Bear Witness
At 6:00 p.m. on July 15 and 19, there will be meetings at the Center for Dialogue with Halina Birenbaum, former Auschwitz prisoner, who has been traveling around the world for years, bearing witness to her tragic experiences during the period when Europe was conquered and ruled by the Nazis.
Born in Warsaw, Halina Birenbaum has lived in Israel since 1947. She is a writer, poet, and translator. She was ten years old when the war broke out. She lived through the Warsaw ghetto and the Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Neustadt-Glewe concentration camps before being liberated at the last-named camp in 1945. From among her immediate family, only her brother Marek survived.
She began writing her memoirs in Polish, in the form of both poetry and prose, under the influence of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Her recollections are shocking, authentic, and sincere. They have been published so far in Poland, Israel, Germany, the United States, and France.
