Poetry
MY MUSELMAN STATUE | FIREFLY | THE WALLS OF TEREZIN | TEDDY BEAR UNDER AN EIDERDOWN | RETURN TO THERESIENSTADT | SPRING IN BERLIN | PRESENTATION | AN UNOPENED LETTER

Vera Meisels, poet and sculptor.

Click here to read Vera Meisels' story Domino and her biography.

Vera Meisels, studied sculpture in the Avni Institute. Her statue "Muselman" is in the Yad Vashem Art Museum. Her poems were first published in Iton 77 Literary Journal, later in the art section of the Israeli Ma'ariv newspaper, and in the anthology Ravkol.

Slovakian translations of her poems appeared in Bratislava - Romboid (1991, 1993). The collection of poems, Searching for Relatives, was published by Gevanim-Israel, 1997, and her poem Documentary film: 81st Blow appeared in the Journal of Genocide Research in New York.

Her book Terezin's Firefly was published both, in English and in Czech, by G & G, Prague, 2001. The English translation from Hebrew, by Riva Rubin and the Czech translation from English, by poet Lubomir Feldek.

Copyright Vera Meisels, Israel, 2001.
Published here with the permission of Vera Meisels.