Given name: Herszełe Family name: Danielewicz

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  • Male
  • Herszełe
  • Danielewicz
  • 1882-00-00
  • 1941
  • Warszawa

  • A Jewish folk writer known under the name Herszele. Died of starvation in the Warsaw ghetto in 1941. After his death his wife brought his archive and many of his poems written in the ghetto to Dzielna Street No. 34 and gave them to a folklorist Natan Guberman. Danielewicz's literary legacy is missing, except 2 poems published in the underground magazine 'Dror', issue 7-8.

  • artists/writers

  • Zivia (Cywia) Lubetkin's memoirs. Record of the testimony from the occupation period of one of the most outstanding figures of Jewish resistance movement and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After coming to Palestine after the war, she wanted to preserve the memory of the events she took part in; she told people in kibbutzim how the Holocaust looked like, what people from her circle did, with no chance to succeed, to prevent it. The description of the Uprising is the main and the most shocking part of the memoirs. They are generally considered one of the most important sources of the uprising's history.

  • 45, 166-167