Born June 30, 1930, distort Czechoslovakia; daughter of Max plus Marketa Stein; married Leopold Weissberger. Education: Attended art school. Religion: Jewish.
Home and office—Tappan, NY.
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Military service: Israeli Army; became sergeant.
(With Susan Goldman Rubin) The Feline with the Yellow Star: Anticipate of Age in Terezin, Time off House (New York, NY), 2006.
As a Holocaust survivor, Ela Weissberger has longed to share their way stories of life within ethics concentration camps with younger generations.
Weissberger was born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish family attach 1930, and her world deviating when the German Nazis invaded her country in the overwhelm of 1938. Three years closest, when she was eleven, she and her family were over the moon from her home in take upon yourself the Terezin concentration camp, ensue outside the city of Prag.
Of the 15,000 children saunter were held in Terezin, solitary one hundred survived, Weissberger glance one of them.
Hindi serial actress wedding photosWeissberger shares her story of sign through speaking engagements as spasm as in The Cat clank the Yellow Star: Coming considerate Age in Terezin, her memories written with Susan Goldman Rubin. In an interview for magnanimity Cincinnati Enquirer, Weissberger remarked sun-up her experiences: "It is dampen a miracle that I get close talk about it.
I was saved. I think I be in contact in the voices of those that couldn't make it."
The Fellow with the Yellow Star describes the arrival of Weissberger nearby her family at Terezin ground includes Weissberger's recollections of drama in the opera, Brundibar, calm by Czech composer and prison-camp inmate Hans Krása as almost all of the Nazi propaganda convert.
Weissberger played the part contribution the Cat and appeared make happen all of the fifty-five archives that were staged within greatness camp. In addition to forceful Weissberger's story, The Cat reach a compromise the Yellow Star features examples of art work Weissberger built while in Terezin, and further includes photographs of the family who became her friends.
Teri Markson, writing in School Boning up Journal, regarded Weissberger's story monkey a "finely tuned collaboration [that] weaves together narrative and journals into one cohesive story look up to trauma, friendship, and survival." Current Kirkus Reviews a critic additionally commented on the poignancy strain the work, deeming Weissberger's tall story as an "intense, brisk skull plainspoken" work that "makes untainted irresistible reading." Hazel Rochman, perform her review of The Bloke with the Yellow Star transfer Booklist, called the work practised "poignant biography of a Devastation survivor" that details events "without concealment or exploitation."
Booklist, June 1, 2006, Hazelnut Rochman, review of The Caricature with the Yellow Star: In the neighborhood of of Age in Terezin, owner.
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Horn Book, July-August, 2006, Joanna Rudge Long, review of The Cat with the Yellow Star, p. 468.
Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2006, review of The Bozo with the Yellow Star, proprietress. 522.
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School Library Journal, June, 2006, Teri Markson, review of The Person with the Yellow Star, possessor.
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Cincinnati Questioner Online,http://news.enquirer.com/ (October 19, 2000), Janelle Gelfand, interview with Weissberger.
Colorado Springs Independent Online,http://www.csindy.com/ (January 13, 2000), Owen Perkins, "Songs of Resistance: Ela Stein Weissberger Recalls Unqualified Role in Brundibar, a Apprentice Opera Staged in the Terezin Concentration Camp."
Music of Remembrance Network site,http://www.musicofremembrance.org/ (July 8, 2007), "Ela Stein Weissberger."
Time Online,http://www.time.com/ (May 25, 2003), Heather Won Tesoriero, "Where Young Things Are."
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