The Poet

I’m Avraham Sutzkever, a Yiddish poet.  In 1939, I married Freydke.  After the Germans invaded in 1941, we were herded like cattle into the Vilna ghetto.  I was a member of the sorting team.  We risked our lives to smuggle out and hide manuscripts looted by the Nazis who murdered my mother and my newborn son.  In 1943, Freydke, a fellow Yiddish poet and I escaped.

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Portrait of Avraham and Freydke Sutzkever with their daughter Rina. Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Sutkever Family

This was written for the Weekend Writing Prompt by Sammi Cox. For instructions, click Here.

Sources: Wikipedia; Yivo Encyclopedia; The University of Chicago Press