Matylda Weinfeld / Miriam Akavia (F / Poland, 1927-2015), Holocaust survivor
Matylda Weinfeld / Miriam Akavia (F / Poland, 1927-2015), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Krakow Ghetto> <Plaszow> <Auschwitz> <Bergen-Belsen> <Liberation of Bergen-Belsen> -- <Israel>
- MEMOIRS An End to Childhood (1995) -- My Own Vineyard (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006).
Biography
Miriam Akavia was born in 1927 in Krakow as Matylda Weinfeld. During World War II she was interned in the Krakow Ghetto, and then an inmate of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz concentration camp and finally the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, she moved to Israel and became a writer.
An End to Childhood (1995)
- An End to Childhood (Essex: Vallentine Mitchell, 1995)
- KEYWORDS: <Lvov Ghetto>
"This memoir, written as fiction, but based on fact, describes the fear-filled efforts of a pair of Polish adolescents, brother and sister, to survive in secrecy and constant anxiety in Lvov at a time when Jews were being rounded up and sent to the Ghetto - or worse. They have only their false identity papers, their few trusted contacts and their own wits to help them conceal their Jewish background and keep one step ahead of the German authorities. Miriam Akavia, who experienced at first hand similar terrors and anxieties, skillfully conveys the fluctuations in mood from the natural optimism and high spirits of youth to the painfully learned caution and dissembling forced upon them by their situation."--Publisher description.