YISROEL (SROLKE) KOT (b. 1916)
He was
born in Bialystok. He studied in
religious elementary school and public school.
In 1941 he was confined in the Bialystok ghetto. He later joined the local partisans. In 1947 he settled in Argentina. He described his war experiences in Khurbn byalistok (The Holocaust in
Bialystok) (Buenos Aires, 1947), 148 pp.
He was last living in Argentina.
Sources: V. Shulman, in Tsukunft (New York) (May 1948); Sime Kaplan, in Yivo-bleter (New York) (1950); Yeshurin
archive, YIVO (New York).
Yoysef Horn
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