Esther Shakine

Esther Shakine (born in 1932 in Szeged, Hungary) survived the Holocaust as a child. She emigrated to Israel after the war on the refugee ship Exodus and grew up in a kibbutz. After studying art in Tel Aviv, Shakine worked as a painter, designer and illustrator. Among her children’s books, which she created as author and illustrator, EXODUS was selected by the Israeli Ministry of Education for the project “Meet the author”.