Felicija Schächter (married Karay) – “... between grenades and poems.”

After the occupation of Cracow, Felicja Schächter and her family had to leave the city. The Jewish family found temporary shelter on a farm. The fifteen-year-old fled for fear of deportation. Finding no place to hide, she returned to the Cracow ghetto. In March 1943, the SS took her to the Płaszów concentration camp and later to the Skarz’ysko-Kamienna forced labour camp. In August 1944 she was transported from there to the Leipzig subcamp, where she worked manufacturing grenades. She wrote poems in her spare time. She survived and in 1950 emigrated to Israel with her husband. There she worked as a teacher and told the story of her persecution in two books.