Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp. [LCID: 81640]
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Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp

Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp. Because he possessed a Honduran passport, Katzenelson and his son were sent to the Vittel internment camp in France. They remained there for a year, during which time Katzenelson continued to write. In April 1944, however, both were deported to their death in Auschwitz. Vittel, France, 1943-1944.

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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anne Wolfe

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