Niza Ganor

Niza Ganor (* as Anna Fränkel on June 29, 1925 in Lemberg , then Poland) is a Jewish contemporary witness of the Holocaust and a former teacher in Israel.

Life

After the attack by the German Wehrmacht on the Soviet Union in July 1941, her mother tried to save her then 16-year-old daughter Anna from the persecution and pogroms of the National Socialists by giving her a new identity: As a Christian girl named "Anuschka", provided with papers that identify her as a Ukrainian foreign worker, Anna Fränkel was supposed to try to survive the war and persecution.

The Germans sent “Anuschka” to work in Austria, where she was assigned as a housemaid to the family of SS-Sturmbannführer of the Reserve Karl Eberhardt. The latter denounced her as Jewish in the spring of 1944, whereupon she was subjected to brutal interrogation and in October 1944 was deported from Vienna to Auschwitz and later to Ravensbrück . She survived and was freed from the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp in the spring of 1945, seriously ill and close to death . She later emigrated to Israel, where she worked as a teacher in Jerusalem until her retirement in 1982.

She wrote the book Wer bist du, Anuschka (1996) about the fate of her persecution , which was awarded the special prize of the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize in 1998.

Fonts

• Who are you, Anuschka? The survival story of a Jewish girl . Translated from the Hebrew by Wolfgang Jeremias. CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40526-6 (paperback edition: Goldmann, 1999, ISBN 3-442-72384-1 )

Web links

• Literature by and about Niza Ganor in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb (Ed.): Nazi forced labor: The Linz location of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring AG Berlin, 1938–1945, Volume 1. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2001, page 393.
2. ↑ The children's and youth book award. Federal Chancellery, accessed on February 4, 2015 .