Larissa Cain
Larissa Cain (* as Larissa Sztorchein, October 8, 1932 in Sosnowiec , Poland ) is a Polish-French dentist and Holocaust survivor.
Life
Larissa Sztorchein was imprisoned with her parents in the Warsaw ghetto during the German occupation of Poland . She escaped from the ghetto in 1942 and survived the persecution in Warsaw , while her parents and most of her relatives were murdered by the Germans.
In 1946 she emigrated to France . Larissa Cain worked there as an oral surgeon after completing a corresponding training . Since the 1970s she was an active member of the Fils et filles de déportés juifs de France (FFDJF) and at the beginning of 1980 she joined the trip organized by Serge Klarsfeld to the trial dates of the Cologne Lischka Trial .
After the end of her active professional life, she began to work as an author and contemporary witness.
Fonts (selection)
- Helena retrouvée: récits polonais . Harmattan, Paris 2013.
- Irena Adamowicz: une juste des nations en Pologne . Cerf, Paris 2009.
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L'Odyssée d¹Oleg Lerner: Varsovie 1940-1945 . Editions Syros Jeunesse, Paris 2007.
- New edition under the title: L'errance d'Oleg Lerner, Pologne 1940-1945 .
- Ghettos en révolte . Pologne 1943, Éditions Autrement, Paris 2003.
- J¹étais enfant à Varsovie . Editions Syros Jeunesse, Paris 2003.
- Une enfance au Ghetto de Varsovie . Editions l¹Harmattan, Paris 1997.
Web links
- Literature by and about Larissa Cain in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Larissa Cain in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Larissa Cain , interview at TV5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Larissa Cain, short biography with: Anne Klein (Ed.): The Lischka trial: a Jewish-French-German memory story. A picture reading book . Berlin: Metropol 2013, p. 272
- ↑ Larissa Cain: Une enfance au Ghetto de Varsovie . Editions l¹Harmattan, Paris 1997, passim
- ↑ Larissa Cain: Cologne. Thirty years later , in: Anne Klein (Ed.): The Lischka trial: a Jewish-French-German memory story. A picture reading book . Berlin: Metropol 2013, pp. 255–256
- ↑ On the resistance fighter Irena Adamowicz, see Polish Wikipedia pl: Irena Adamowicz
- ↑ L'Odyssée d¹Oleg Lerner: Varsovie 1940-1945 , table of contents, at Éditions du Ricochet
- ↑ J¹étais enfant à Varsovie , table of contents, at Éditions du Ricochet
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SURNAME | Cain, Larissa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sztorchein, Larissa (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1932 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sosnowiec , Poland |