I Speak to You Openly, My Child

Raised in Warsaw, Yosef Kirman was a laborer, poet, and political activist. His Yiddish poems and stories were published in journals and in the collection Ringen (1919). Some of his most memorable works were written in the Warsaw ghetto, where they were circulated in the underground press, and several were preserved in the Oyneg Shabes archive. Kirman died when the Poniatów labor camp was liquidated in 1943.