One of a City and Two of a Family

Binyamin Tenenbaum

1947

The book being presented to the reader represents a selection of a thousand autobiographies composed by Jewish children, survivors of the conflagration, tender children who lived for months and even for years, in the ghettos, in extermination camps, in villages and cities, among the ranks of partisans. The autobiographies do not constitute formal…

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Binyamin Tenenbaum

1914–1999

Binyamin Tenenbaum (later Tene) was an author and Polish-to-Hebrew translator who emigrated from Warsaw to Palestine in 1937. He helped establish Kibbutz Eilon in the Western Galilee. In 1946, Tenenbaum returned to Poland with the help of poet Wladyslaw Broniewski to collect testimonies of Jewish child survivors of the Holocaust, which Tenenbaum translated into Hebrew.

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