Uri Orlev
Uri Orlev · Arts & Literature
Israeli children's author and Holocaust survivor.
1931, Warsaw, Poland — 2022, Jerusalem, Israel
Poland · Israel
Uri Orlev is recognized among Israeli contributors to Arts & Literature — Israeli children's author and Holocaust survivor.
Uri Orlev was an Israeli children's author and translator and a Holocaust survivor who spent part of his childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Bergen-Belsen. Writing in Hebrew, he drew on those experiences in acclaimed novels such as The Island on Bird Street, and in 1996 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international honor in children's literature. Born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski to a Jewish family in Warsaw, he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1945.
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Israeli children's author and Holocaust survivor.
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