
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.