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Shlomo Shafir (1924-2013) was an Israeli journalist and historian. His work included the underground Hebrew-language publication Nitzotz, circulated in the Kovno Ghetto and Dachau concentration camp; the Israeli Labor Party newspaper, Davar; and other Hebrew, German, and English language writings. Shafir was born in Germany as Selimar Frenkel. During the Second World War, he was a prisoner in the Kovno Ghetto and was subsequently transferred first to Stutthof and then to Dachau concentration camp. After World War II he emigrated to Israel. In the 1960s he was stationed in Washington D.C. as the US correspondent for the newspaper Davar. In later years he served as the foreign affairs editor of Davar and the editor of the journal of the World Jewish Congress, Gesher.〔 == Youth == Shlomo Shafir was born in 1924 as Selimar Frenkel in Berlin, in the district of Schöneberg. His family's principal residence was in Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia (now Chernyshevskoye), where Frenkel grew up. He was educated by his father and his grandmother because his mother, Esther Frenkel, née Berkmann, was seriously ill with encephalitis. His father, Hermann Frenkel, was co-owner of a shipping company. Later, Selimar Frenkel moved to Kovno (Kaunas), then the capital of independent Lithuania. Beginning in 1936, he attended the Schwabe Gymnasium, a renowned Hebrew-language school, where he was a highly gifted student. The Hebrew language, which he had begun to learn at the age of seven, would become central to his conception of Zionism. Beginning in 1940, due to the Hitler - Stalin Pact and the Soviet re-occupation of Lithuania, Kovno was subject to Soviet law, which prohibited Hebrew-language education in the Jewish schools. As a result, Frenkel had to take his final examinations at a public school, in Yiddish, in June 1941. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shlomo Shafir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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