Itzhak Katzenelson

Itzhak Katzenelson

. [cite web
title = Katzenelson, Itzhak (1886 - 1944)
publisher = Simon Wiesenthal Center
year = 1990
url = http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x31/xm3174.html
accessdate = 2008-01-07
]

Soon after his birth Katzenelson's family moved to Łódź, Poland, where he grew up. He worked as a teacher, founding a school, and as a dramatist in both Yiddish and Hebrew, starting a theatre group which toured Poland and Lithuania. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he and his family fled to Warsaw, where they got trapped in the Ghetto. There he ran an underground school for Jewish children. His wife and two of his sons were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp and murdered there.

Katzenelson participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising starting on April 18, 1943. To save his life, friends supplied him with forged Honduran passports. He managed to leave the ghetto but later surrendered to the Hotel Polski. He was deported to a detention camp in Vittel, France, where the Nazis held American and British citizens and nationals of other Allied and neutral countries, for possible later prisoner exchange.

In Vittel, Katzenelson wrote "Dos lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn folk" (Yiddish: "Song of the Murdered Jewish People"). He put the manuscript in bottles and buried them under a tree, from where it was recovered after the war. A copy was sewn into the handle of a suitcase and later taken to Israel.

In late April 1944, Itzhak Katzenelson and his son Zvi were sent on a transport to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where they were murdered on May 1 1944.

The Ghetto Fighters' House Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum in Israel, is named in his memory. "The Song of the Murdered Jewish People" has been translated into numerous languages and published as an individual volume.

Bibliography in English

* "Vittel Diary (22.v.43 – 16.9.43)", Israel: Ghetto Fighters' House, 1964. Translated from the Hebrew by Dr. Myer Cohen; includes biographical notes and appendix of terms and place names.

References

External links

* [http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/holocaust/holocaust_remembrance_2004_-_culture___the_holocaust/holocaust_remembrance_2004_-_music/the_song_of_the_murdered_jewish_people.htm Song of the Murdered Jewish People]
* [http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/exhib/ghetto2/dream.html I had a dream] poem
* [http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/presentations/features/details/2004-07-09/shw_poem.php?content=job For not lost is the hope] poem
* [http://www.katzenelson.de]
* [http://www.buber.de/cj/verstumme_nicht.html]

Persondata
NAME=Katzenelson, Yitzhak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= _he. יצחק קצנלסון, _yi. יצחק קאַצענעלסאָן
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist
DATE OF BIRTH=1886
PLACE OF BIRTH=Karelits near Minsk, and was murdered
DATE OF DEATH=May 1, 1944
PLACE OF DEATH=Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland


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