Debora Vogel (1900-1942) was born in Bursztyn (Burshtyn / Burštýn / Бурштин), then part of the Austiran Empire, now in Ukraine. During the First World War her family fled to Vienna (Wien) and then to Lwów (Lemberg / Lviv), where she spent most of her life. She studied philosophy and Polish literature and received a Ph.D in Philosophy in Kraków, and later taught and lectured on topics including psychology and Yiddish literature. She wrote poetry in German, Yiddish, and Polish. She had strong ties with the avant-garde artistic community, which strongly influenced her own work, which has been said be analogous to cubism and geometrical abstraction.
She was murdered in Lwów with her husband and young son in the Great Action of August 1942.
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