Else Keren

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Else Keren (nee Schächter ; * 1924 in Chernivtsi / Bukowina , Greater Romania ( now Ukraine ); † May 29, 1995 in Ramat-Gan , Israel ) was a German-speaking writer of the Jewish faith. She survived the Holocaust in Chernivtsi.

Life

Else Keren was born as Else Schächter into a family of Jewish faith . She attended secondary school in Chernivtsi, but had to leave it after the German Wehrmacht invaded . She was friends with Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger and belonged to the youth association Haschomer Hazair . After the establishment of the ghetto in Chernivtsi, she was forced to study on her own. She survived the ghetto years in Chernivtsi. In 1945 she left Chernivtsi and went to Bucharest. In 1947 she managed to emigrate to Paris. There she began studying English and Romance languages. She started drawing and painting. She was friends with Paul Celan , who was also from Czernowitz .

In 1949 she settled in her dream home, Israel. Since 1949 she published regularly literary contributions and poems both in Israel and abroad. She also dealt with the Holocaust in the poems. A poem “They drove my sister” is dedicated to her former friend Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger. In 1942, shortly before her deportation from the Czernowitz ghetto, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger handed over her poems to Else Schächter. Else Keren succeeded in publishing these poems in Israel many years later.

Else Keren never returned to Czernowitz.

Publications

  • Haiku
  • Then I went over the Pont des Arts , Ramat Gan 1983
  • In the sand of your thoughts , Alecto Klagenfurt 1997 digitized

literature

  • Blum-Barth (née Shchyhlevska ), Natalia: German-speaking authors from Bukowina, Mainz Dissertation 2004, Verlag Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main 2004, vol. 55 of " Studies on German and European Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries "
  • Siglinde Bolbecher and Konstantin Kaiser : " Lexicon of Austrian Exile Literature ", Vienna 2000, 370 f./Drafted by Armin Eidherr , Salzburg, summarized in Austrian writers in exile since 1933 on the website of the University of Salzburg, accessed on May 12, 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weser-Kurier: Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger,, with photo by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger and Else Schächter, source: Rose Ausländer Stiftung ; accessed on May 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ In the Sand of Your Thoughts on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum page , accessed May 12, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Keren, Else
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schächter, Else (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi , Bukovina
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1995
Place of death Ramat Gan , Israel