Uri Orlev
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Uri Orlev (Hebrew: ???? ?????‎; born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski in 1931) is an award-winning Israeli children's author and translator of Polish-Jewish origin. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he survived the war years in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (where he and a younger brother were sent after theirs mother was shot by the Nazis). They were freed two years later and immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1945, to Kibbutz Ganigar.
His father was captured by the Russians ( he was an officer in the Polish army) and saw his sons again only in 1954 in Israel. Uri began writing children's literature in 1976 and has since published over 30 books, which are often biographical. His books have been translated from Hebrew into 25 languages, while he himself has also translated Polish literature into Hebrew. One of his most famous books, which was also adapted as a play and as a film, is the semi-autobiographical The Island on Bird Street. http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=192

In 1996 Orlev received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature. The jury's statement was:

"Uri Orlev's experience as a Jewish boy in war-torn Poland is the background of this outstanding writer for children. Whether his stories are set in the Warsaw ghetto or his new country Israel, he never loses the perspective of the child he was. He writes at a high literary level, with integrity and humor, in a way which is never sentimental, exhibiting the skill to say much in few words. Uri Orlev shows how children can survive without bitterness in harsh and terrible times."

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* Biography & Bibliography from the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature

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Orlowski Zofia Zelda

Zelda Orlowski nee Rozencwajg was born in Czestochowa in 1895 to Natan and Dora. She was a chemist and married to Mordekhai Maxmilian. Prior to WWII she lived in Warszawa, Poland. During the war she was in Warszawa, Poland. Zelda perished in 1943 in a Warszawa ghetto hospital- she was shot at the head at the age of 48. This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by her son Uri Orlev
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