1900-1944
עמנואל רינגעלבלום
געשיכטע בין יידן אין ווארשע
מקורים צו דער געשיכטע פון יידן אין פויקלן און מזרח אייראפע
נאטיצן פֿון וואַרשעווער געטאָ

Emanuel Ringelblum
History of Jews in Warsaw
Sources for the History of Jews in Poland and Eastern Europe
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto


1923-2011
חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב
באָטשאני
די באַלאַדע פֿון נעכטיקן וואלד
דער מיים פֿון לעבן

Chava Rosenfarb
Bociany
The Ballad of Yesterday’s Forest
The Tree of Life

In memory of her parents, Charles & Sarah Dashevsky, and brother, Maury Dasbevsky, by Muriel D. Schwartz


1921-1998
מרדכי שטריגלער
אין אַ פֿרעמרן דור
שמועסן מיט דער צײַט
געארעמנן מיטן ווינט

Mordecai Strigler
In a Strange Generation
Talking with Time
Arm-in-Arm with the Wind

In memory of Mordecai Strigler by the staff of the Yiddish Book Center


1903-1976
רחל אויערבאך
אויף די פֿילדער פֿון טרעבלינקע
וואַרשעווער צוואות
ביים לעצטן וויין

Rachel Auerbach
On the Fields of Treblinka
Warsaw Testaments
The Final Journey


1908-1954
שמערקע קאַטשערגינסקי
ביינאכט איז געפֿאַלן אַ שנוי
לידער פון די געטאָס און לאַגערן
איך בין גווען אַ פּאַרטיזאַן

Szmerke Kaczerginski
Snow Fell by Night
Songs from the Ghettos and Camps
I Was a Partisan


1922-1944
הירש גליק
זאָג ניט קיינמאָל!
לידער און פּאָעמעס

Hirsh Glick
Never Say!
Songs and Poems

אין ליבנויקן אָנדענק פֿון עזריאל גערשטין
In memory of Israel Gerstein, by Mark Gerstein & Betty Mitchell

Hirsh Glück
from Never Say!

[The Yiddish text cannot be deciphered]

[The text is close to the English text, but several words are indecipherable]
This song was written our blood and not with lead
It’s not a song that birds sing over
It was a people among toppling walls
That sang outs with pistolsin and grenades

So never say that you’re going your last way
Although the clouds filled with lead cover blue days
Our promised hour will soon come
Our marching steps ring out: ’We are here’!



1928-2018
אליעזר וויזעל
און די וועלט האָט געשוויגן
פַרטאָג

Elie Wiesel
...And the World Kept Silent (Night)
Down

A sign in the Yiddish Writers’ Garden, a garden located in the center of Yiddish books in the city, an institution established in 1980 with the aim of preserving literature written in Yiddish Click for sign's details

Emanuel Ringelblum (1944-1900), was born in Buchach, Ukraine. Historian, social worker and politician. He documented the life of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto where he was, and was finally murdered there.
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Chava Rosenfarb (1923-2011), born in Lodz, Poland. Poet and writer. She stayed in several Nazi extermination and concentration camps and survived them. In 1950 she immigrated to Canada where she lived until the day of her death.
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Mordecai Strigler (1921-1998), born in Zamość, Poland. Poet, writer and journalist. He was in concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust. After World War II he moved to Paris, and in 1953 to the United States where he was the editor of the newspaper "The Forward".
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Rachel Auerbach (1903-1976), born in Lanivtsi, Ukraine. Writer, journalist and historian. She was in the Warsaw ghetto, after which she concentrated on documenting the Holocaust. In 1950 she immigrated to Israel where she continued documenting the Holocaust.
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Szmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Writer, poet and journalist. Was a partisan after escaping from the Vilnius ghetto to the nearby forest. In 1950 he moved to Argentina. He wrote and documented the events of the Holocaust.
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Hirsch Glick (1922-1944), born in Vilnius, Lithuania. poet. Known for the "partisan song" (please don’t say this is my last way...). He was a partisan himself, and fell in the battles against the Germans.
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Elie Wiesel (1928-2018), born in Sighetu Marmației, Romania. Writer and journalist. After being in concentration and extermination camps and being rescued, he dedicated his life to commemorating the Holocaust. Emigrated to the United States in 1956. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1986) for his activities to commemorate the Holocaust and dozens of other awards.
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