YITSKHOK (ISAAC) ARON (b. March 25, 1918)
He was born in Myory (Mior), Vilna district. He studied at a religious elementary school
and a Polish public school. He graduated
from a Tachkemoni teachers’ seminary in Bialystok. He experienced life in a ghetto and the
partisans. He was in Plashov
Concentration Camp, and later—as a partisan—in the Cracow woods. In 1950 he emigrated to the United States. He published poems and stories, the majority concerned
with life as a partisan, in Tog-morgn zhurnal
(Day-morning journal), Amerikaner
(American), Forverts (Forward), and Algemeyne zhurnal (General
journal). He wrote popular songs full of
courage. He was known for the song, “Der
partisan moyshe” (The partisan Moyshe), written in November 1943. Among his books: Tsu a nayem morgn, lider (Toward a new tomorrow, poetry) (New York,
1982), 80 pp., published with an English translation entitled To Live Again, Poems (New York: Shengold
Publishers, 1982), 62 pp.; Fallen Leaves:
Stories of the Holocaust and the Partisans (New York: Shengold Publishers,
1981), 187 pp., rendered into Yiddish by various translators. He was last living in Brooklyn.
Source:
Ber Mark, Umgekumene
shrayber fun di getos un lagern (Murdered writers from the ghettos and
camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 197.
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