Oldest holocaust survivor
Vera Albreht
Slovenian poet, writer, publicist and translator
Vera Albreht (12 February – 25 May ) was a Slovenian poet, writer, publicist and translator.[1]
Life
She was born as Vera Kessler in Krško into the well-to-do family.
Her mother was Marija Kessler, née Trenz, an ethnic Germansocialite, while her father Rudolph Kessler was a Slovene.
Famous holocaust survivors jews Survivors at Dachau Concentration Camp. Read More about Elie Wiesel. Killed at camp entrance when he protested against the inhumane procedure that was implemented against the members of his community. Jerzy Bielecki.Her parents' home in Ljubljana was a well known meeting point of the Slovenian literary scene at the time, frequented among others also by Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič, who married Vera's sister Ana Kessler. She studied at the University of Vienna, but never completed her studies due to the outbreak of World War I. In she married the poet and critic Fran Albreht.
During World War II, she and her husband actively participated with the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. They were both imprisoned by the Italian fascist authorities on a number of occasions between and In , she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp by the Germans. After the war she moved with her husband to Ljubljana where she worked as a publicist and at the Slovene center of International PEN.
She died in Ljubljana.
Works
PROSE
- – Lupinica (youth prose)
- – Nekoč pod Gorjanci (Once Upon a Time under the Gorjanci) (youth prose)
- – Babica in trije vnučki (Granny and Three Grandchildren) (youth prose)
POETRY
- – Mi gradimo (We build) (youth poetry)
- – Orehi (Wallnuts) (youth poetry)
- – Vesela abeceda (Happy Alphabet) (youth poetry)
- – Živali pri delu in jelu (Animals at Work) (youth poetry)
- – Pustov god (Pust's celebration) (youth poetry)
- – Jutro (Morning) (youth poetry)
- – Pri igri (At Games) (youth poetry)
- – Večer (Evening) (youth poetry)
- – ABC (youth poetry)
- – Mornar (The Sailor) (youth poetry)
- – Slikarka (The Painter) (youth poetry)
- – Ravensbriške pesmi (Ravensbrück poems)(poetry)
- – Dobro jutro (Good Morning) (youth poetry)