Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
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1924 – 1942
Who was Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger?
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was a Romanian-born German-language poet. A Jew, she was a victim of the Holocaust and died at the age of 18 in a labor camp in Ukraine.
Meerbaum-Eisinger was the daughter of the shopkeeper Max Meerbaum in Cernăuţi, a town in the Northern Bukovina region of the Romanian Kingdom. Eisinger was the surname of her stepfather. At an early age she began to study literature. Her work shows a heavy influence from those she studied: Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Klabund, Paul Verlaine and Rabindranath Tagore. In 1939 she began to write poetry, and was already a skilled translator, being able to translate between French, Romanian, Yiddish and her native German. After German troops invaded in July 1941, and the region where she lived was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940, the family was forced to relocate to the city's ghetto. In 1942 the family was deported to the Mikhailovska labor camp in rural Ukraine, where Selma soon died of typhus.
Meerbaum-Eisinger's work comprises 57 poems, which were written in pencil and hand-bound into a volume named Blütenlese. Fifty-two poems were her own and the rest were translations from French, Yiddish, and Romanian.
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- Born
- Feb 5, 1924
Chernivtsi - Nationality
- Romania
- Profession
- Died
- Dec 16, 1942
Ukraine
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on July 23, 2013
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