Meir Bosak (; 21 May 1912 – 20 November 1992) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and writer. Bosak was born in

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

, Poland, in 1912. As a youth, he studied in

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. From 1929, Bosak began publishing articles in Polish and in Hebrew on the history of Polish Jewry. He also wrote essays on Hebrew literature as well as stories and poems. During World War II, Bosak first lived in the

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and subsequently was sent to the

Płaszów concentration camp Płaszów is a suburb of Kraków, Poland, now part of Podgórze district. Formerly a separate village, it became a part of the Greater Kraków in 1911 under the Austrian Partition of Poland as the 21st cadastral district of the city. During World ...

. Bosak survived the war due to the efforts of

Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler (; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and amm ...

. Following the war, Bosak emigrated to Israel settling in

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.Ḥanani, Y. ''She-Ḥazah mi-Besaro'' (1989).

Published works

Bosak's published works include: * ''Be-Nogah ha-Seneh'' (1933) * ''Ve-Attah Eini Ra'atekha'' (1957) * ''Ba-Rikkud ke-Neged ha-Levanah'' (1960) * ''Aḥar Esrim Shanah'' (1963) * ''Mul Ḥalal u-Demamah'' (1966) * ''Sulam ve-Rosho'' (1978) * ''Ẓamarot bi-Tefillah'' (1984) * ''Rak Demamah po Titpalal'' (1990) * ''Mul Sha'ar ha-Raḥamim'' (1995) * ''Shorashim ve-Ẓamarot'' (1990)

References

External links

Interview at the International Institute of Holocaust Studies

Bosak Family website
includes archival photos of Meir Bosak as well as manuscripts of poems written during the Holocaust {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosak, Meir 1912 births 1992 deaths Writers from Kraków Polish emigrants to Israel Polish Jews in Israel Polish Holocaust survivors Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors Kraków Ghetto inmates Hebrew-language writers Israeli male non-fiction writers Israeli male poets Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Schindlerjuden Jewish Israeli non-fiction writers Jewish Israeli poets 20th-century Israeli male writers 20th-century Israeli poets 20th-century Israeli historians 20th-century Israeli Jews 20th-century Polish Jews