Sunday, 18 September 2016

KHAYIM ZHELONI

KHAYIM ZHELONI (d. August 1942)
            He was born in Kielce, Poland, into a well-to-do family.  He was a prominent Zionist leader, councilor and for many years secretary of the Jewish community administration in Kielce.  He was editor of Keltser tsaytung (Kielce newspaper), in which (1924-1934) he published articles on Jewish and general issues.  He died during the liquidation of the Kielce ghetto.

Source: Sefer kilts (Kielce volume) (Tel Aviv, 1957), pp. 70, 221.


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