Rokhl Auerbakh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rokhl Auerbakh

Yiddish and Polish author, historian and essayist

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1903

Place of Birth: Lanivtsi, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 31-May-1976

Profession: writer, historian, journalist

Nationality: Poland, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Rokhl Auerbakh (Hebrew: ??? ??????, also spelled Rokhl Oyerbakh and Rachel Auerbach) (18 December 1903 – 31 May 1976) was an Israeli writer, essayist, historian, Holocaust scholar, and Holocaust survivor.
She wrote prolifically in both Polish and Yiddish, focusing on prewar Jewish cultural life and postwar Holocaust documentation and witness testimonies.
She was one of the three surviving members of the covert Oyneg Shabes group led by Emanuel Ringelblum that chronicled daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and she initiated the excavation of the group's buried manuscripts after the war.
In Israel, she directed the Department for the Collection of Witness Testimony at Yad Vashem from 1954 to 1968.