YITZHAK KATZENELSON
IN VITTEL AND HIS LAMENT FOR THE YIDDISHLAND
YITZHAK KATZENELSON
IN VITTEL AND HIS LAMENT FOR THE YIDDISHLAND
Author(s): Andrzej PawelecSubject(s): Polish Literature, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Yitzhak Katzenelson; The Song of the Murdered Jewish People; Vittel Camp; Hotel Polski; Yiddishland;
Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on Yitzhak Katzenelson – a pedagogue, playwright and poet from Łódź – and his work on the epic poem The Song of the Murdered Jewish People written in Vittel and published in Paris in 1945. The Vittel internment camp for foreigners served as the first destination for Polish Jews with travel documents from Latin American countries, obtained primarily in the Warsaw ghetto in the so-called ‘Hotel Polski Affair’. Their final destination was Auschwitz, where they perished on arrival in May 1944.
Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 23/2023
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 423 - 429
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
