Thursday, 4 August 2016

YEKHIEL ZAKS

YEKHIEL ZAKS (b. May 5, 1916)
            He was born in Shavel (Šiauliai), Lithuania.  He studied in religious primary school and secular subjects privately.  He departed for South Africa, later returning to Lithuania where he survived the Nazi occupation.  After WWII he contributed to Revisionist party organs, later to Unzer veg (Our way), organ of Holocaust survivors in Munich.  In 1946 he served on the editorial board of this same re-organized organ and was a member of the Jewish writers’ union in Munich.  He later returned to South Africa again and was living in Johannesburg.

Source: Y. Gar, in Fun noentn over (New York) 3 (1957), pp. 151-53.
Yankev Kahan


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