Given name: Elchonon Family name: Cajtlin

  • YES
  • Male
  • Elchonon
  • Cajtlin
  • 1942
  • at the end of the year
  • Rohaczew

  • Born in Rohaczew in Belarus. A journalist, writer, Hilel Cajtlin's youngest son. Active on the field of culture and in the Jewish Self-help during the war. Died of typhus at the end of 1942. His son Dawid, a young poet, was murdered by Germans before he managed to publish his first poems.

  • Intelligentsia

  • 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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