Marija Rolnikaitė
Macha Rolnikas, also Maria Rolnikaite and Masha Rolnik (21 July 1927, in Vilnius - 7 April 2016, in Saint Petersburg) was a Lithuanian writer and Holocaust survivor. Rolnikas' family were Jewish and prominent in the local community, and when the Wehrmacht took control of Lithuania in 1941, her father joined the underground resistance. Rolnikas and the remainder of her family were sent to the Vilna Ghetto, and subsequently moved to Stutthof concentration camp for employment as an undertaker.
Also recorded as Macha Rolnikas
Marija Rolnikaitė
- Born
- 1927 · Klaipėda.
- Died
- 2016 · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Lithuania · Soviet Union · Russia
- Occupation
- writer
- Fields
- non-fiction
- Education
- Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
- Honours
- prix Mémoire de la Shoah
- Languages
- Yiddish · Lithuanian
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Macha Rolnikas, also Maria Rolnikaite and Masha Rolnik (21 July 1927, in Vilnius - 7 April 2016, in Saint Petersburg) was a Lithuanian writer and Holocaust survivor. Rolnikas' family were Jewish and prominent in the local community, and when the Wehrmacht took control of Lithuania in 1941, her father joined the underground resistance. Rolnikas and the remainder of her family were sent to the Vilna Ghetto, and subsequently moved to Stutthof concentration camp for employment as an undertaker.
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Born at Klaipėda in 1927, died in Saint Petersburg in 2016.
Marija Rolnikaitė studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. The recorded working language is Yiddish and Lithuanian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are non-fiction. Distinctions recorded are prix Mémoire de la Shoah.
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