Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (February 5, 1924 – December 16, 1942) was a Romanian-born German-language poet. A Jew, she was a victim of the Holocaust and died at the age of 18 in a labor camp in Ukraine.

Meerbaum-Eisinger was the daughter of her father, the shopkeeper Max Meerbaum in Cernăuţi (Czernowitz), a town in the Northern Bukovina region of the Romanian Kingdom (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Eisinger was the surname of her stepfather. At an early age she began to study literature. Her work shows a heavy influence from those she studied: Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Klabund, Paul Verlaine and Rabindranath Tagore. In 1939 she began to write poetry, and was already a skilled translator, being able to translate between French, Romanian, Yiddish and her native German. After German troops invaded in July 1941, and the region where she lived was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940, the family was forced to relocate to the city's ghetto. In 1942 the family was deported to the Mikhailovka labor camp in Transnistria, where Selma soon died of typhus.

Meerbaum-Eisinger's work comprises 57 poems, which were written in pencil and hand-bound into a volume named "Blütenlese" (English: "Blossom Vintage/The Reaping of Blossoms"). Fifty-two poems were her own and the rest were translations from French (Paul Verlaine), Yiddish (Itzik Manger, H. Leivick), and Romanian (Discipol Mihnea). The volume was dedicated to her love and best friend, Lejser Fichman, a year her senior. It was planned that Fichman would give the book of poems to another friend of Meerbaum-Eisinger's, who would have the book published upon its arrival in Mandatory Palestine. However, Fichman died en route and was unable to transmit the book. Her poems were rediscovered and published by Tel Aviv University in 1979, edited by Adolf Rauchwerger. In 1980 they were then published in Germany, through the efforts of journalist and researcher Jürgen Serke. The lost volume was published in its entirety under the title "Ich bin in Sehnsucht eingehüllt" (English: "I am engulfed in longing"). An audiobook of the poems was produced in November 2005.
Q188
German-language
Concept
Q696662
Jew
UNK
Q2763
the Holocaust
EVE
Q628505
labor camp
Concept
Q105206
Northern Bukovina
MEDIA
Q157725
Chernivtsi
LOC
Q44403
Heinrich Heine
PER
Q76483
Rainer Maria Rilke
PER
Q61263
Klabund
PER
Q755
Paul Verlaine
PER
Q7241
Rabindranath Tagore
PER
Q150
French
Concept
Q7913
Romanian
Concept
Q8641
Yiddish
Concept
Q362
invaded
EVE
Q15180
Soviet Union
LOC
Q152018
ghetto
Concept
Q4297488
Mikhailovka
LOC
Q907112
Transnistria
LOC
Q1290616
typhus
Concept
Q14674
pencil
Concept
Q755
Paul Verlaine
PER
Q113310
Itzik Manger
PER
Q972092
H. Leivick
PER
Discipol Mihnea
UNK
Q193714
Mandatory Palestine
LOC
Q319239
Tel Aviv University
LOC
Q183
Germany
LOC
Q106833
audiobook
Concept
Q274763
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
PER
1924-02-05T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
February 5, 1924
DATE
1942-12-16T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
December 16, 1942
DATE
1939-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1939
DATE
1941-07-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
July 1941
DATE
1940-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1940
DATE
1942-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1942
DATE
1979-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1979
DATE
1980-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1980
DATE
2005-11-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
November 2005
DATE
+18^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
18
NUMBER
+57^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
57
NUMBER
languages spoken, written or signed
date of birth
date of death
place of birth
place of death
significant event