Ruth Baum

Ruth Baum (; 26 December 1922 – 22 February 2022) was a Jewish Polish-Israeli writer and journalist.

Biography

She was born on 26 December 1922, in Warsaw, Poland, to the Becker family.

In 1937, she started publishing stories in the children's newspaper "Mały Przegląd", a supplement of Nasz Przeglad edited by Janusz Korczak

During the Second World War she escaped to the USSR, where she worked in the mines as well as a translator in a German prison camp near Orsk. In addition, she started to publish short stories, translated to Russian, about her school experiences.

Baum felt conflicted staying in Poland after the war and decided to emigrate to Israel in 1957. She was a member of the Association of Polish Authors in Israel,

Her stories also appear in "Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology"