Chava rosenfarb biography of william shakespeare

20th and early 21st century Yiddish writer and Holocaust survivor

Chava Rosenfarb (9 February 1923 – 30 January 2011) (Yiddish: חוה ראָזענפֿאַרב, khave rozenfarb) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature.

Early life

Rosenfarb began writing poetry at the age of eight.

Chava rosenfarb biography of william shakespeare

After surviving the Łódź Ghetto during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, Rosenfarb was deported to Auschwitz, and then sent with other women to a work camp at Sasel (subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp), where she built houses for the bombed-out Germans of Hamburg.

Towards the end of the war she was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she fell ill with nearly-fatal typhus fever in April 1945. After the end of the war, while still in Europe, Rosenfarb married the future nationally famous Canadian abortion activist Dr.

Henry Morgentaler (the two divorced in 1975). In 1950, she and Morgent