- Stanislaw Wygodzki
Stanisław Wygodzki (1907, Poland - 1991, Israel) was a
Polish writer ofJewish origin. He published his first volume of poetry in 1933 before theNazi occupation ofPoland , during which Wygodzki was first interred in theBedzin ghetto and later in theconcentration camp s ofAuschwitz , Dachau,Oranienburg and Sachsenhausen. His health impacted by his experiences, Wygodzki did not resume publishing until 1947, following which he became a successful writer, publishingpoetry , short stories and onenovel . Wygodzki, who lost his wife, daughter and parents in Auschwitz, was one of four winners of the 1969 "Remembrance Award", awarded annually by the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations for "excellence in literature on the Nazi atrocities against European Jewry". [Staff (February 25 1969 ) "Holocaust Books receive honors; 4 who wrote on atrocities by Nazis win awards". "The New York Times ". P. 40.] Acommunist in his youth who was briefly imprisoned in Poland as an adult for his communist activities, Wygodzki resettled inIsrael in 1968 in response toantisemitism in theCommunist Party in Poland.ee also
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Socialist realism in Poland Notes
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*cite encyclopedia |last=Adamczyk-Garbowska |first= Monica |editor= S. Lillian Kremer |encyclopedia= Holocaust literature: an encyclopedia of writers and their work |title= Stanisław Wygodzk |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=BAQ2VtfH3awC&pg=PA1341&lpg=PA1341&dq=Stanislaw+Wygodzki&source=web&ots=-McRqYVxP6&sig=B6rZMNmfCMdt8Y8l8zmuLo5PveI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result |accessdate=2008-08-16 |year= 2003 |publisher= Taylor & Francis |isbn= 0415929849|doi= |pages= 1341-1343 |quote=
External links
* [http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bedzin/bed373.html English]
* [http://www.unrast-verlag.de/unrast,5,1,203.html German]
* [http://www.ck.lublin.pl/index.php?id=1730 Polish]
* [http://www.eleven.co.il/article/10988 Russian] .
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