Sender Lipfeld poems
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Sender Lipfeld
Biographical History
Sender Lipfeld was a survivor of the Holocaust who suffered in several Russian prisons. He lost several relatives in both Auschwitz and Treblinka.
Archival History
Mr. Sender Lipfeld
Acquisition
The poems were written by Sender Lipfeld sometime before 1972 and have been published in the Jewish Federation newspaper and the Journal of the Pursuit of Justice. Copies of the Yiddish poems and their English translations were donated to the United States Holocaust Museum Archives in Aug. 1991 via Michael Berenbaum.
Scope and Content
Consists of copies of six poems written in Yiddish by Sender Lipfeld. The poems concern the remembrance of the six million Jews who perished during the Holocaust, support for Soviet Jews, the establishment of the state of Israel, and remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The poems were written by Sender Lipfeld sometime before 1972 and have been published in the Jewish Federation newspaper and the Journal of the Pursuit of Justice.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Lipfeld, Sender.
- Sender Lipfeld
Subjects
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Soviet Union.
- Jews--Russia.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry.
- Israel.
- Memorialization.
Genre
- Poetry.
- Document