Sara Zyskind
Sara Zyskind | |
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| Native name | שרה זיסקינד |
| Born | Sara Rachela Plager (or Sara Rachela Plagier) 26 March 1927 Warsaw |
| Died | 1 January 1995 (aged 67) Tel-Aviv |
| Pen name | Sala Plagier (childhood name) Sara Plager-Zyskind Sara Plagier-Zyskind |
| Occupation | Writer on the Holocaust |
| Nationality | Polish and Israeli |
| Period | Post-War period |
| Genre | Memoirs |
| Spouse | Eliezer (Elazar) Zyskind (b. 22 June 1925 in Brzeziny; husband from 1948) |
Sara Zyskind, also Sara Plager-Zyskind (Hebrew: שרה פלגר-זיסקינד) (b. 26 March 1927 in Łódź; d. 1 January 1995 in Tel-Aviv), was a prominent Polish–Israeli writer on the Holocaust. She was a survivor of the Łódź Ghetto, and of the Auschwitz, the Mittelsteine concentration camp, and the Grafenort Nazi concentration camps. Her style as a writer on the Holocaust has been praised for its effective literary technique that allows the reader to identify with the reality of the period. Her writings constitute valuable primary sources in Holocaust historiography.