Given name: Hilel Family name: Cajtlin

  • YES
  • Male
  • Hilel
  • Cajtlin
  • 1872-00-00
  • 1942
  • during the Great Action
  • Korma
  • Warszawa

  • Born in Korm near Mohylew in Russia. A writer, a thinker. One of the most eminent persons of Polish Jewry. Aron's (a poet) and Elchonon's (a prosaist) father. I. Ch. Brener's close friend. One of Icchak Sade's teachers. Was friends with Icchak Kacenelson in the Warsaw ghetto. Lived in poverty. During the Great Action was transported to the Umschlagplatz covered with a tallith.

  • Intelligentsia, artists/writers

  • Zivia (Cywia) Lubetkin's memoirs. Record of the testimony from the occupation period of one of the most outstanding figures of Jewish resistance movement and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After coming to Palestine after the war, she wanted to preserve the memory of the events she took part in; she told people in kibbutzim how the Holocaust looked like, what people from her circle did, with no chance to succeed, to prevent it. The description of the Uprising is the main and the most shocking part of the memoirs. They are generally considered one of the most important sources of the uprising's history.

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