Schoschana Rabinovici / Suzanne Weksler (F / Lithuania, 1932-2019), Holocaust survivor
Schoschana Rabinovici / Suzanne Weksler (F / Lithuania, 1932-2019), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Vilna Ghetto> <Kaiserwald> <Stutthof>
- MEMOIRS : Thanks to My Mother / Dank meiner Mutter (1998). Originally published in German in 1994.
Biography
Susanne Weksler was born in Paris on November 14, 1932 where her parents were completing their studies. After the Wekslers returned to Vilnius, Weksler attended Jewish school until the German occupation of the city in June 1941. She survived Vilnius Ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof Nazi concentration camps as a young girl (ages 8 to 12).
After the war Weksler attended school in Poland and in 1950 she immigrated to Israel. She married David Rabinovici in 1953. Suzanne Weksler, now Schoschana Rabinovici, lived in Tel Aviv and Vienna since 1964, until her death in 2019.
Book : Thanks to My Mother (1998)
- Dank meiner Mutter <German> (Frankfurt am Main : Alibaba, 1994). English trans. Thanks to My Mother (New York, NY: Puffin, 1998).
"Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, she endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive--by disguising her as an adult to fool the camp guards, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing memoir portrays the best and worst of humanity in heartbreaking scenes you will never forget."--Publisher description.