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501:(Imagination: Blessed Be, Cursed Be: Reminiscences from There). Dagan wrote these poems after the war to describe her experiences as a female teenage prisoner in Auschwitz; she also includes works written by other prisoners during their time in Birkenau, which she had memorized. The collection was first published in Hebrew in 1997 and has also been translated into English. Dagan also wrote children's songs on Holocaust themes.
406:. She formulated psychological and pedagogical methods to teach the Holocaust to children and young adults. She also taught at her alma mater, the Shein Teachers Seminary, and lectured on the Holocaust in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union. In Israel she became active in Holocaust remembrance, speaking at
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which she said she had hidden in her straw bedding in
Auschwitz the entire time she was incarcerated there. The charm, a pair of leather shoes measuring about 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in length, was crafted by a female German Jewish inmate, who gave it to Batszewa with the words, "Let them carry
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The poems I learned in
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for classroom discussion. Dagan said in an interview that in writing about the
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and tattooed with the number 45554. In the camp she met up with her cousin, who worked as a nurse in the prison infirmary and found her a job there. When
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Izabella (Batszewa) Rubinsztajn was born on 8 September 1925, in
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School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
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1060:Friedman, Jonathan C., ed. (2010).
855:Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature
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1121:21st-century Israeli women writers
1106:20th-century Israeli women writers
882:Kloza, Anna Janina (30 May 2012).
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1136:Health professionals from Łódź
385:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
223:and later obtained degrees in
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319:Auschwitz concentration camp
307:Treblinka extermination camp
302:and bring it back to Radom.
109:Orator, psychologist, writer
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926:Katz, Adi (21 March 2012).
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1101:20th-century Israeli Jews
481:Gdyby gwiazdy mogły mówić
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928:"נעים מאוד: בת שבע דגן"
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260:emigrated to Palestine
225:educational counseling
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381:Ministry of Education
1166:Jewish women writers
300:Mordechai Anielewicz
258:One of her brothers
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851:"בת שבע דגן (1925)"
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397:Columbia University
383:and studied at the
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697:The Jerusalem Post
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368:and had two sons.
190:Holocaust survivor
1181:Writers from Łódź
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186:בת-שבע דגן
163:Paul Dagan
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61:1925-09-08
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210:Auschwitz
206:Treblinka
142:Holocaust
114:Education
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377:Tel Aviv
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336:to the
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