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Rebecca Judith Ish-Kishor (25 March 1892 – 1971) was an American writer of Jewish children's historical fiction. [1] She was born in Boston in 1892, the daughter of Zionist leader Ephraim Ish-Kishor . She was raised in London before returning to the U.S. to study at Hunter College in New York.
Her older sister, Judith Ish-Kishor, was a pioneering writer of Jewish children's literature in English. [2] Sulamith began writing at age 5 and had several of her poems printed in British publications by the time she was 10. [1] When Sulamith was 13, her family moved to New York City (like the family in her novel Our Eddie). [1]
The prison was built as part of a system of similar prisons in the region in the 1930s during the Soviet era. [2] [5] University of Oxford scholar Judith Pallot described the prison as being "stuck in time for 50 years." [2] Inmates are housed dormitory-style with 100 bunk beds in a large room. [2] Personal belongings are not permitted. [2]
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS. [1] It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka).
The rabbi devoted his life to helping others: lepers in the Lepers' Hospital in Jerusalem, Jewish criminals, and underground prisoners with whom the rabbi established a special bond. For 25 years, the rabbi came to the prison every Shabbat and holiday, in every kind of weather, without any reward or salary.
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Acre Prison today. Acre Prison, also known as Akko Prison, is a former prison and current museum in Acre, Israel. The citadel in the old city was built during the Ottoman period over the ruins of a 12th-century Crusader fortress. The Ottomans used it at various times as a government building, prison, army barracks, and arms warehouse. [1]
The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps: Terrence Des Pres: 1979 Deliverance Day: The Last Hours at Dachau: Michael Selzer: 1980 Less Than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation: Benjamin B. Ferencz: 1981 The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary: Randolph L. Braham: 1982 Vichy France and the Jews ...