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Eliach, Yaffa

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Personal name headingEliach, Yaffa
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Variant(s)Eliʼakh, Yafah
Sonenson, Yaffa
אליאך, יפה
Birth date1937-05-31
Death date2016-11-08
Place of birthEišiškės (Lithuania)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
AffiliationBrooklyn College
Center for Holocaust Studies (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationHolocaust survivors Historians College teachers
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inHer Eshet ha-dayag, 1964.
New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 10, 2016 (in obituary published Nov. 9: Yaffa Eliach; b. Yaffa Sonenson, May 31, 1937, Eishyshok, Lithuania; immigrated to the U.S., 1954; m. David Eliach; d. Tuesday [Nov. 8, 2016], Manhattan, aged 79; as a 4-year-old, survived the Nazi massacres of Jews in her Lithuanian town; went on to document their daily life in a kaleidoscopic book and a haunting, three-story canyon of photographs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington)
Associated languageeng heb