For the mathematician, see Yitzhak Katznelson.

Itzhak Katzenelson (Hebrew: יצחק קצנלסון, Yiddish: (יצחק קאַצ(ע)נעלסאָן(זון; also transcribed as Icchak-Lejb Kacenelson, *chak 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 May 1, 1944 in Auschwitz.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Legacy
• 3 Published works
• 4 References
• 5 External links

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 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 19, 1943. To save his life, friends supplied him and his surviving son with forged Honduran p*ports. They managed to leave the ghetto but later ended up in Germans hands as part of the Hotel Polski affair. He was deported to a detention camp in Vittel, France, where the National Socialist German Workers' Partys 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 ("Song of the Murdered Jewish People"). He put the m*cript 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 concentration camp, where they were murdered on May 1, 1944.

Legacy

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.

Published works

• 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.
• Le Chant du peuple juif **iné, France: Bibliothèque Medem, 2005. Yiddish-French edition, French translation by Batia Baum, introduction by Rachel Ertel:.

References

External links

• Nine poems by Yitzkhok Katznelson in Yiddish and English at Poetry in Hell
• Itzhak Katzenelson genealogy Geni Family Tree
• excerpt from The Song of the Murdered Jewish People
• I had a dream poem
• (in Yiddish) Dos lid funem oysgehargetn Yidishn folk Pdf
• (in Yiddish) Yitshak Katsenelson zayn lebn un shafn Biography by his sister Pdf
• (in German) Katzenelson.de. Website of translator Helmut Homfeld
• (in German) Schmidt, Andreas (1997). "Verstumme nicht!: Die Anstiftung zum Dialog in *chak Katzenelsons 'Großem Gesang vom ausgerotteten jüdischen Volk'". www.buber.de
• (in Yiddish) Yitskhok Katzenelson at Maison de la culture yiddish-Bibliothèque Medem
• Free version in Yiddish (with Hebrew letters) of Dos lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn folk

M* shootings

• Bloody Sunday
• Bronna Góra
• Bydgoszcz
• Dynów
• Erntefest
• Kielce cemetery
• Aktion Krakau
• Palmiry
• Sonderaktion Krakau

Pogroms

• Kielce (1946)
• Jedwabne
• Lviv
• Szczuczyn
• Tykocin
• Wąsosz

Ghettos

• Będzin
• Białystok
• Brest
• Częstochowa
• Grodno
• Kielce
• Kraków
• Lwów (Lviv pogroms (1941))
• Łódź
• Lubartów
• Lublin
• Międzyrzec Podlaski
• Mizocz
• Nowy Sącz
• Pińsk
• Radom
• Siedlce
• Sambor
• Słonim
• Sosnowiec
• Stanisławów
• Tarnopol
• Wilno
• Warsaw

Other atrocities

• Action T4
• Grossaktion Warsaw
• Human medical experiments

PersonnelOrganizations

• Einsatzgruppen (SS)
• Order Police battalions (Ordnungspolizei)
• WVHA
• RKFDV
• VoMi
• General Government
• Hotel Polski

Collaboration

• Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian Auxiliary Police, Estonian Auxiliary Police / 36th Estonian Police Battalion, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Arajs Kommando, Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions, Ypatingasis būrys, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police / Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118)
• Trawniki men

Do*entationTechnical and logistics

• Identification in camps
• Gas chamber
• Gas van
• Holocaust train
• Human medical experimentation
• Zyklon B

Memorials

• Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
• Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
• Majdanek State Museum
• Sobibór Museum
• International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz
• March of the Living

Righteous Among the Nations

• Polish Righteous Among the Nations (List)
• Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust
• Garden of the Righteous