Inedita z Yad Vashem i Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego. Twórczość poetycka Niny Gitler
Inedita from Yad Vashem and the Jewish Historical Institute. Nina Gitler’s poetic works

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a biography and excerpts from selected poetic works by Nina Gitler, a former Bergen-Belsen prisoner. Gitler, along with her family, lived through the beginning of the war in Warsaw. In 1940 or 1941 she found herself in the ghetto, where she stayed until the end of April 1943. She left it, together with her parents and grandmother, thanks to an unusual coincidence. Subsequently, the family received so-called “Palestinian certificates” through the Hotel Polski and, together with other Jews, were transported to Bergen-Belsen. She spent almost two years in the camp, but did not see its liberation, as almost at the last minute some of the prisoners were sent to another camp. However, the train did not reach its destination. The prisoners regained their freedom. A few months later, Gitler died in tragic circumstances, at the age of just 19. Despite her death at a young age, she left a substantial literary output, not only poems, also texts written in prose. Working on this article, a query was made at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem in 2019 and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw in 2020.

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