Chava Rosenfarb, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Chava Rosenfarb

Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1923

Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 30-Jan-2011

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Chava Rosenfarb (9 February 1923 – 30 January 2011) (Yiddish: ??? ?????????????) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature.
Rosenfarb began writing poetry at the age of eight. After surviving the Lódz Ghetto during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, Rosenfarb was deported to Auschwitz, and then sent with other women to a work camp at Sasel (subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp), where she built houses for the bombed out Germans of Hamburg.
Towards the end of war she was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she fell ill with nearly-fatal typhus fever in April 1945.
After the end of the war, while still in Europe, Rosenfarb married the future nationally-famous Canadian abortion activist Dr.
Henry Morgentaler (the two divorced in 1975).
In 1950, she and Morgentaler emigrated to Canada.
Morgentaler and Rosenfarb, pregnant with Goldie, their daughter, emigrated from Europe to Canada, landing in Montreal in the winter of 1950, to a reception of Yiddish writers at Windsor Station.