Ruth Baum

Ruth Baum was born in 1922 in Warsaw

Ruth Baum was born in Warsaw on 26 December 1922 to the Becker family. In 1937 she began publishing stories in Mały Przegląd, a children's supplement edited by Janusz Korczak.

During the Second World War she fled to the USSR. She worked in mines and as a translator in a German prison camp near Orsk. There she also began publishing stories about her school years, translated into Russian.

After the war she settled in Wrocław and studied literature and philosophy at the University of Wrocław. She worked with Polish Radio in Wrocław and wrote for the weekly Fołks Sztyme.

She moved to Israel in 1957. She found it hard to write in Hebrew and kept working in Polish, writing for Nowiny-Kurier and the magazine Kontury. She was a member of the Association of Polish Authors in Israel, and her stories also appeared in Hebrew newspapers.

She died in Haifa on 22 February 2022. A typewriter is shown on her gravestone.