Irene Frisch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Irene Frisch

American writer

Date of Birth: 03-May-1931

Place of Birth: Drohobych, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Irene Frisch (born 3 May 1931) has written many articles and stories about her childhood in Poland, surviving the Holocaust, living in Israel and then in the United States.
Her stories are printed in the book Give Me The Children, co-written with her sister Pola Arbiser.
Her stories have been printed in newspapers and magazines including The New York Post, and the book Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul. Irene Frisch was born Irene Bienstock in Drohobycz, Poland (now Ukraine) and survived the Holocaust in hiding.
She is the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Bienstock.
She, her sister Pola and mother were hidden for 2 and a half years in the apartment of Frania Swobodka, a woman who was the girls' nanny before the war.
Irene's story "My Christmas Story" is about the night Miss Swobodka rescued her from the Drohobycz Ghetto in 1941. After liberation, Irene lived in Poland, Germany, Israel and since 1960 the New York metropolitan area.
She attended high school in Poland and college at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
She also obtained a master's degree in Library Science from Columbia University (New York).
She was married for 50 years to the late Eugene Frisch and has two children and four grandchildren.