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Judith Herzberg
Judith Frieda Lina Herzberg (born 4 November 1934) is a Dutch poet and writer.
Life and work.
Judith Herzberg is the daughter of lawyer and writer Abel Herzberg, and lives alternately in the Netherlands and Israel. She mainly writes poems and plays, and also works on films. Herzberg debuted in 1961 as a poet in the weekly "Vrij Nederland". Two years later, she published her first poetry collection, "Zeepost". She also wrote the plays "Leedvermaak" and "
they were treated for typhoid. Against the odds both survived, and after two months were repatriated, arriving in Amsterdam on 30 June. Their three children, including poet Judith Herzberg, likewise survived the Holocaust.
His daughter Judith later said that they were lucky to be reunited, but that her father spoke of nothing but the war, Palestine, and Zionism; for him, the question was how to cope with how humanity had become so debased, and how to continue to live meaningfully after mankind proved how deep it