Stories from the Warsaw Ghetto/Stories from the Warsaw Ghetto (1998)(Montparnasse)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/data/person/epxx/epxx.dxr/00057_Text_EP72FIC.txt

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Born in Warsaw, Wladyslaw  Szlengel was a poet of Polish-Jewish origin. After graduating from business school, he began writing poetry at a very early age. He participated in the September campaign and at the end of 1939, was the narrator and literary director of the « Polish Pocket Theater » in Bialystok. He returned to Warsaw in 1940 and there wrote a whole series of musical and poetical sketches for the « Sztuka » Café on Lezno Street. It was in the Brushmakers’ sector, where he lived, that he wrote the poem « Counterattack ». A man very close to the Oneg Shabbat movement, Wladyslaw Szlengel is considered as one of the poets of the Warsaw Ghetto who best described with utmost simplicity the tragedies lived by its inmates. He died during the April 1943 Uprising, inside the Szymon Kac bunker.