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This essay considers two Yiddish writers from Poland who settled in Argentina and whose work deals with the Holocaust. Simja Sneh (1908–1999), who arrived in his new country in 1947, describes the general movement of wartime Polish Jewish refugees through the Soviet Union and beyond, emphasizing the collective fate of Jews facing the Nazi and the Soviet régimes, as victims but also as valiant soldiers in the Red Army, Polish forces and the Jewish Brigade. Israel Aszendorf (1909–1956) also spent the war in the Soviet Union, but unlike Sneh, he returned to live in Poland in 1945, before settling in Paris in 1948 and then Buenos Aires in 1953. Aszendorf’s fiction focuses on individuals caught in strange post-Holocaust situations.
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Astro, A. (2020). The Holocaust in Works by Two Yiddish Writers in Argentina: Simja Sneh and Israel Aszendorf. In: Aarons, V., Lassner, P. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33428-4_11
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