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Itzhak Katzenelson
Poet
For the mathematician, see Yitzhak Katznelson.
Itzhak Katzenelson (Yiddish: (יצחק קאַצ(ע)נעלסאָן(זון; also transcribed as Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson, Jizchak Katzenelson; Yitzhok Katznelson) (1 July 1886 – 1 May 1944) was a Polish Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist.
Yitzhak katzenelson biography of mahatma gandhi
He was born in 1886 in Karelichy near Minsk, and was murdered on 1 May 1944 in Auschwitz.[1]
Biography
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 Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, he and his family fled to Warsaw, where they were trapped in the Warsaw 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 Uprisi