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א אַ אָ ב בּ בֿ ג ד ה ו װ ױ ז ח ט י יִ ײ ײַ כ כּ ך ל מ ם נ ן ס ע פּ פֿ פ ף צ ץ ק ר ש שׂ תּ ת ־
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Excerpts from Sh. Katsherginski’s Lider fun di Getos un Lagern (Songs from the Ghettos and Camps) (New York, 1948), some of her poems may be found: “Dinaverker Yidn” (Jews in Dinaverk) and “Ven s’Kumt der Friling” (When Spring Arrives) (pp. 262-63).

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    Sarabski, Rokhl

    - two days before liberation

    The sister of Benyomen Sarabski, she was a teacher in the Vilna ghetto schools; she was later deported to Lithuanian concentration camps.

    She was the author of poems. In Sh. Katsherginski’s Lider fun di Getos un Lagern (Songs from the Ghettos and Camps) (New York, 1948), some of her poems (co-written) may be found: “Dinaverker Yidn” (Jews in Dinaverk) and “Ven s’Kumt der Friling” (When Spring Arrives) (pp. 262-63).

    She was shot two days before liberation when she attempted to escape from the camp. Her mother and another sister Khyene were murdered in 1941 in Ponar.

    Source: The entry in this lexicon for Benyomen Sarabski.

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    סאַראַבסקי, רחל

     – אַ פּאָר טעג פֿאַר דער באַפֿרײַונג

    שװעסטער פֿון בנימין סאַראַבסקי, איז זי געװען אַ לערערין אין די װילנער געטאָ־שולן, פֿאַרשיקט דערנאָך אין די לעטישע קאָנצענטראַציע־לאַגערן.

    האָט געשריבן לידער. אין ש. קאַטשערגינסקי לידער פון די געטאָס און לאַגערן זײַנען פֿאַרעפֿנטלעכט אירע לידער (מיטגעשריבן):„דינאַװערקער ײדן“ און „װען ס׳קומט דער פֿרילינג“, זז׳ 262–263.

    זי איז דערשאָסן געװאָרן אַ פּאָר טעג פֿאַר דער באַפֿרײַונג בײַ אַ פּרוּװ צו אַנטלױפֿן פֿון לאַגער. די מאַמע מיט אַ שװעסטער, כיענע, זײַנען אומגעבראַכט געװאָרן אין 1941 אױף פּאָנאַר.

    םקור: די פּאָזיציע אין דעם לעקסיקאָן פֿון בנימין סאַראַבסקי.

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