Melania Fogelbaum

Melania Fogelbaum (1911–1944) was a Polish poet, sculptor and painter who died in the Holocaust.[1][2] She was born in Łódź, Poland, to Cyla Fogelbaum (1874–1942).

Melania Fogelbaum
Born(1911-06-11)June 11, 1911
Łódź, Poland
DiedAugust 1, 1944(1944-08-01) (aged 33)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Known forpoetry and artwork created in the Łódź Ghetto

Łódź Ghetto

Fogelbaum lived with her mother Cyla on Marynarska Street in the Łódź Ghetto as of 1940.[3] Cyla died on February 25, 1942.[4] Melania worked in the ghetto's Scientific Department.[2] She caught tuberculosis and was unable to meet the work targets enforced by the Nazis.[5] In this dire situation, fellow ghetto prisoners shared their own limited rations with Fogelbaum. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on August 1, 1944, and killed soon after arrival.[6]

Art and influence

A manuscript of Fogelbaum's writings, written in Polish using pencil, was discovered in the rubble of the depopulated Łódź ghetto.[7] Nachman Zonabend, working in the prisoner commando that was clearing the former ghetto, discovered two notebooks containing poems, notes and two photographs by Melania Fogelbaum. Helena Zymler, one of Fogelbaum's friends, included several poems by Melania in a post-war anthology and she donated the notebooks and photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 1998.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Melania Fogelbaum". literarybibliography.eu.
  2. 1 2 O’Sullivan, Rachel (2026-04-03). "Institutions of difference and disappearance: reinterpreting the Łódź Ghetto's planned Jewish religious and cultural exhibition in global comparative perspective". Holocaust Studies. 32 (2): 121–147. doi:10.1080/17504902.2025.2604438. ISSN 1750-4902.
  3. ↑ "Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names". Yad Vashem. Retrieved June 29, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Lodz". encyclopedia.ushmm.org.
  5. 1 2 Andrzej Strzelecki, The Deportation of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to KL Auschwitz and Their Extermination, Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka, 2006 (ISBN 9788360210185), p. 125
  6. ↑ "Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org.
  7. ↑ Fogelbaum, Melania. "Zwoje (The Scrolls) 3 (40), 2004". www.zwoje-scrolls.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2026-06-29.


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