Mendel Rosenbusch : Tales for Jewish Children

Ilse (Herlinger) Weber was born in 1903 in Austria-Hungary. She attended German schools, and was also fluent in Czech and Polish. As a young woman she pursued an overriding goal: to bring together the three cultures she held in high esteem: Jewish, Czech, and German. A prolific playwright, radio producer, children’s author, and poet, she published three books in Czech. At age thirty-nine she and her family were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she spent the most difficult, and creative, two years of her life, composing poetry and performing her songs for children and the elderly. She perished at age forty-one at Auschwitz in 1945 along with her son Tommy and other inmates from the Theresienstadt Children’s Home.Weber, Ilse is the author of 'Mendel Rosenbusch : Tales for Jewish Children', published 2006 under ISBN 9781933480046 and ISBN 1933480041.