Abraham Cykiert (26 April 1926 – 6 March 2009)[1] was an Australian Holocaust survivor and Melburnian playwright and Zionist activist of the 1970s.[2]

Abraham Cykiert was born 26 April 1926 in Łódź, Second Polish Republic. As a child, he was forced to live in Łódź Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland and then was forcibly moved first to Auschwitz death camp, from which he escaped, and then to Buchenwald. The translation of his diaries from Yiddish language was published after the war in The Manchester Guardian.[3]

Cykiert died in Melbourne.

Bibliography edit

  • Cykiert, Avraham (January–February 1996). "Pilgrimage to self". First Person. Quadrant. 40 (1–2): 24–27.

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database -- Search for Names Results".
  2. ^ "Writer and survivor, Abraham Cykiert dies at 83". Australian Jewish News. Vol. 75, no. 23. Melbourne. 13 March 2009. p. 3.
  3. ^ Guardian Staff (27 January 2015). "From the Ghetto to Auschwitz - the story of a Jewish boy: Guardian archive, 14 May 1945". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

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