Tanya Fuchs ( Yiddish טאַניאַ פֿוקס ; 1896 , Briceni , Khotyn County , Bessarabian Province - December 4, 1950 , Buenos Aires ) is a Jewish journalist, writer, public figure in Romania , Poland and Argentina [1] . I wrote in Yiddish .
Biography
Since 1921, she studied in Chernivtsi and Bucharest , where she became involved in literary life and began to publish as a journalist in local periodicals [2] . Her book reviews were published in the Chernivtsi magazine Literarishe Blater ( literary leaflets ). After marriage, she settled in Lodz .
Her book "אַ װאַנדערונג איבער אָקופּירטע געביטן" ( wandering in the occupied territories ) was published in Yiddish by the Central Council of Polish Jews in Argentina in 1947 [3] and translated into Spanish in 1951. This book, based on time-based diary entries, describes in detail the author’s walks through the German-occupied territories of Poland from Lodz , where she was caught by World War II (1939) through Przemysl , and finally into Soviet Lviv . Here she became involved in literary life, met with Soviet Jewish writers and took part in organizing the new literary journal Der Reuter Stern ( Red Star ), the first issue of which was published on June 1, 1941 [4] . On June 10, 1941, she went through Chernivtsi to visit her family in Briceni. After Germany attacked the Soviet Union, she and her family made an attempt to evacuate, but ended up in Chernivtsi captured by Germans and were deported to the ghetto. In the same 1941, part of the Chernivtsi ghetto prisoners, including the Tanya Fuchs family, were deported on foot to Transnistria ; the weak and sick were shot on the road by Romanian soldiers.
After being released from the ghetto as a citizen of a foreign power, she received permission to leave the USSR and settled in Argentina in 1946. Compiled a collection of documentary materials on the crimes of the German occupiers (with co-authors, 1948).
Her husband is a journalist Lazar Fuchs ( February 5, 1892 , Lukovo Matseev - January 30, 1935 , Lodz ), editor of the newspaper Nyer Folksblat.
Publications
- אַ װאַנדערונג איבער אָקופּירטע געביטן ( and Vanderung Iber Occupirt Gebitn - wandering in the occupied territories ). Buenos Aires: Central Farband Funds Idl in Argentina - Union Central Israelita Polaca en la Argentina, 1947 .-- 288 p.
- דאָקומענטן פֿון פֿאַרברעכענס און מאַרטירערשאַפֿט ( document fun farbrens un martirerschaft - documents of crimes and victims , with Nella Rost, Michl Borwicz and Joseph Wolf). Montevideo : Federation of Pohlische idn in Uruguay, 1948. - 260 p.
- Tania Fuks . Peregrinacion Por Territorios Ocupados. Traducción directa del idisch por Elías Singer. Buenos Aires, 1951. - 173 p.