Yitzhak katzenelson biography definition

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.

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.

BIOGRAPHY OF THE POET.

Katzenelson takes his readers down into the deepest chasms of history, showing them the reality of the Holocaust and its true meaning.

Nationality: Polish.

Before World War II, Katzenelson was a gifted teacher, part of his family Hebrew education system in Łódź, a prolific writer, poet, and dramatist.

Katzenelson was a gifted teacher, a prolific writer, poet, and dramatist – and an active member of the Zionist movement: he wrote in both Hebrew and Yid- dish.

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