Ebba Sörbom
1927-2001.
Author.
Ebba Ruzsica Sörbom was born Ruzsica Schreiber to a Jewish family in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia. As a child she spoke German, Hungarian and Serbian.
In 1944, Sörbom was taken to a concentration camp where his mother and younger brother were gassed. Despite everything, Sörbom survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and came to Sweden in 1945.
She studied drama at Uppsala University, worked with drama therapy at Ulleråker Hospital and provided information about the Holocaust in schools.
In 1994, Sörbom received a cultural scholarship from Uppsala Municipality and in 1997 a scholarship from the Swedish Writers' Fund to study at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Vienna.
Her debut book Bortom minnet, bortom glömskan was published in 1988. Through her poetry, Ebba Sörbom has reflected personal memories of the concentration camps and given voice to the survivors.
Burial site: 0104-0266
Image description: Ebba Sörbom's gravestone. Photo: Henrik Zetterberg. [No photo of Ebba Sörbom was found when this page was made]