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Reizia Cohen Klingberg

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Reizia Cohen Klingberg · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

Reizia Cohen Klingberg began her career as a teacher, but when she began hearing reports of deportations and disappearances, she returned to occupied Krakow in 1942 and joined the ghetto’s underground movement.

When

8 August 1920

Biography

Reizia Cohen Klingberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Reizia Cohen Klingberg began her career as a teacher, but when she began hearing reports of deportations and disappearances, she returned to occupied Krakow in 1942 and joined the ghetto’s underground movement.

How & why

Reizia Cohen Klingberg began her career as a teacher, but when she began hearing reports of deportations and disappearances, she returned to occupied Krakow in 1942 and joined the ghetto’s underground movement. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Yael Margolin Peled, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Yael Margolin Peled

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Reizia Cohen Klingberg began her career as a teacher, but when she began hearing reports of deportations and disappearances, she returned to occupied Krakow in 1942 and joined the ghetto’s underground movement.

1920

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Yael Margolin Peled