Moshe Ze'ev nimble
Moshe Ze'ev Flinker (Maurice Wolf Flinker; born October 9, 1926 in The Hague , † 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a Dutch youth and diary author who became a victim of the Holocaust .
Life
Moshe fliker was the son of Poland Noah Eliezer Zippy, who after Holland had emigrated there and become a successful businessman. After the occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, the family fled from The Hague to Belgium in 1942 to escape the Nazis and the persecution of the Jews by the Gestapo . The Flinkers stayed in Brussels until they were arrested and deported in 1944. Flinker and his parents came to Auschwitz and were murdered there.
diary
Flinker began to write his diary in 1942. The book was saved by his siblings and published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem in 1958 . An English translation was published by Yad Vashem in 1965 under the title Young Moshe's Diary , subtitled The spiritual torment of a Jewish boy in Nazi Europe . A second edition followed in 1971. A Yiddish translation was published in 1965 by Perets , Tel Aviv , under the title Dos yingl Moyshe; Dos togbukh fun Moyshe Flinker published. A German translation was published in 2008 by Berlin University Press under the title Even if I hope: Das Tagebuch des Mosche Flinker .
output
- Moshe Flinker: Even if I hope. The diary of the Moshe Flinker . With a foreword by Saul Friedländer . From the Dutch by Birgit Erdmann. Berlin University Press, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940432-16-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Moshe Ze'ev Flinker in the catalog of the German National Library
- “Even if I hope” - The diary of Moshe Flinker
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quicker, Moshe Ze'ev |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Flinker, Maurice Wolf; Nimble, mosque; Quicker, Moses |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch diary author, victim of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz |