Stanislaw Wygodzki

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Stanislaw Wygodzki

Stanisław Wygodzki (born January 13, 1907 in Będzin , Russian Empire , † May 9, 1992 in Tel Aviv ) was a Polish-Jewish writer and translator.

The son of a Zionist activist appeared in his youth as a member of a Jewish drama group and was a member of the Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair . In the 1920s he was imprisoned for communist activities. He published articles in literary journals and translated works by Shalom Asch , Efraim Kaganowski , Scholem Alechems , the brothers Isaac Bashevis and Israel Joschua Singer , Egon Erwin Kisch and Erich Kästner . In 1933 his first volume of poetry, Apel, was published in Moscow.

In 1942 he was sent to the Będzin ghetto and in 1943 deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. As the only survivor of his family, he was later transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and finally to a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp . Here he was liberated in 1945 and wrote the volume of poems Diary of Love in the Gauting hospital . He returned to Poland and worked as a writer for the socialist state. Because of the anti-Semitic campaign in Poland, he emigrated to Israel in 1968, whereupon his work in Poland was hushed up and largely forgotten. Only a few months before his death did Polish television make a documentary about Vygodzki.

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SURNAME Wygodzki, Stanislaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Jewish writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Będzin
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1992
Place of death Tel Aviv