Corinna

Corinna was born in 1935 in Tecuci

Corinna was born Corinna Bercu in Tecuci, Romania, to Eliezer and Dvora Bercu. Her childhood and primary school years fell during the Holocaust. In July 1948 she came to Israel with her parents, after 6 months in British detention camps in Cyprus.

As a teenager she belonged to the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement and studied 2 years in high school. She then worked at the Sifriat Poalim publishing house alongside Avraham Shlonsky. After finishing her matriculation, she studied Hebrew and English literature at Tel Aviv University from 1965 to 1968.

She served in the IDF in the Nahal at Kibbutz Karmia. She moved to Kibbutz Shoval in 1957 and returned to Tel Aviv in 1960. After her studies she taught briefly at a high school in Acre, until heart surgery ended that work.

In 1975 she organized meetings between young people from Shlomi and Tamra and Jewish and Arab artists. In 1984 she founded the Israeli Center for the Creative Arts, an international artists' colony in the Galilee and the Negev that ran for 11 years. In 2002 she founded the Hodna publishing house and began a multilingual blog.

Her books include the children's book Who Saw Miki, first published in 1962, and the novel In an Unknown Land from 2007. She was active online for Holocaust survivors, human dignity and the environment. She had 3 children and died on November 30, 2022.