Translated and published in a Hebrew Edition
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp was translated and published in a Hebrew Edition.
Written by Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel and elegantly translated into Hebrew by Avri Fischer, this is the first book in Hebrew on the subject of Jewish Women in Ravensbrück.
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp by was published by Beyahad Publishers, the publishing division of Lohamei Hagetaot, The Ghetto Fighters’ House and Museum, Israel, and distributed by Yad Vashem, the official Holocaust memorial and museum of Israel, in Jerusalem. Professor Dalia Ofer, the Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and Eastern Europe Studies, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wrote the foreword for the new Hebrew edition. October 31, 2007 marked the official date for the publication of the Hebrew edition of the book.
The book launch, co-sponsored by Remember the Women Institute, was a feature of the conference, Women and the Holocaust: Childhood and Youth under the Third Reich – A Gender Perspective, held October 29 -31, 2007 in Israel. The October 31 morning session inaugurating the book took place at the Ghetto Fighters’ House and Museum, north of Haifa.
The publication of the book was made possible by generous grants to Lohamei Hagetaot by Lili Haber, Naomi Asai, the Crakowian Association in Israel and Moshe Borger; and to Remember the Women Institute by the Five Millers Family Foundation, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, and the S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family Foundation. Read more about the English edition of the book here.
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, at Hebrew edition book launch with Dr. Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Dr. Miriam Sivan.
Photo by Dr. Nancy Ordway.Dr. Batya Brutin, a professor at Beit Berl Academic College and member of the Advisory Board of Remember the Women Institute, chairs the October conference on women and the Holocaust in Israel.
Photo by Dr. Sonja M. Hedgepeth.Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel signs a copy of her new Hebrew edition of The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp on October 31 at Beit Lohamei Hagetaot.
