Y[ITSKHOK] ANTOKOLETS (d. August 1944)
Pen name: Yan. He was
born in Vilna, practiced medicine, and was a leader of the Bund and its correspondent
for its Warsaw organ, Folks-tsaytung (People’s newspaper). He wrote satirical poems in the ghetto and
gave lectures on popular health. He was
sent to Estonia together with a group of other Jews, and he escaped into the
woods. In August 1944 he was murdered by
the Germans.
Sources:
Dr. M. Dvorzhetski (Mark Dvorzetsky), Yerusholayim delite in kamf un umkum
(The Jerusalem of Lithuania in struggle and death) (Paris, 1948), pp. 214, 215,
220; Sh. Katsherginski, Khurbm vilne (Holocaust in Vilna) (New York,
1947).
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