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    Gordonovitsh, Golde

    She was in the Vilna ghetto and in Nazi concentration camps, among them: Rusoshin (near Danzig). She was the author of such Holocaust poems as: “Lager Rusoshin” (Camp Rusoshin) and “mayn Folk” (My People).

    Further biographical information and her fate remain unknown.

     

    Source: Sh. Katsherginski, ed., Lider fun di Getos un Lagern (Poems from the Ghettos and Camps) (New York, 1948), pp. 266-68, 318-19.

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