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Portrait of Itzhak Katzenelson

The Schwadron Collection of the National Library of Israel · Public domain

Itzhak Katzenelson

Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist

1886 – 1944aged 57

A Polish-Jewish teacher, poet, and dramatist who wrote through the Warsaw Ghetto's destruction, documenting the catastrophe unfolding around him in verse. He was murdered at Auschwitz on May 1, 1944, leaving behind a body of poetry that stands as one of the most direct literary testimonies of the Holocaust written from inside it.

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