Rywka Lipszyc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish concentration teenage camp survivor
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Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
About Rywka Lipszyc
- Rywka Bajla Lipszyc (?ivka lip?itz) (September 15, 1929 – 1945?) was a Polish-Jewish teenage girl who wrote a personal diary while in the Lódz Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland.
- She survived deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp followed by a transfer to Gross-Rosen and forced labor at its subcamp in Christianstadt.
- She also survived a death march to Bergen-Belsen, and lived to see her liberation there in April 1945.
- Too ill to be evacuated, she was transferred to a hospital at Niendorf, where the record of her life ended.Her diary, composed of 112 pages, was written between 3 October 1943 and 12 April 1944 in the Polish language.
- Translated to English by Malgorzata Markoff and annotated by Ewa Wiatr, it was published for the first time in the United States in early 2014, some 70 years after it was written.
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