Polish Literature: Yitzhak Katzenelson (1886 - 1944) was a poet and dramatist in Hebrew and in Yiddish. Born on July 1, 1886, in Korelichi, near Novogrudok, in Russia, he received his early education from his father, the Hebrew writer Jacob Benjamin Katzenelson. He later lived in Łódź, Poland, where he opened a Hebrew secular school of which he was principal until the outbreak of World War II. During the early years of the war he was in the Warsaw ghetto where he witnessed the methodic annihilation of the Jewish community of Warsaw, including his wife and two of his sons, and where he joined the Jewish partisan organization Deror. In possession of a Honduran passport, he was transferred to the Vittel concentration camp in France, in May 1943. In April 1944, however, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he and his surviving son perished on May 3, 1944.
