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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 – 1 May ) was a Polish Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist.

He was born in in Karelichy near Minsk, and was murdered on 1 May 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 , he and his family fled to Warsaw, where they were trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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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 19 Apri