YIKHEZKL
DILYON (July 27, 1909-December 18, 1942)
He was a popular Zionist leader in
Kovno, born in St. Petersburg. He was
head of the Revisionists and founder of Betar in Lithuania. For many years he was a contributor to Idishe shtime (Jewish voice) in
Kovno. When the Soviet-German war
erupted, he was evacuated to Russia, and he died in Siberia.
Source:
Obituary in Drayshprakhikn yorbukh
(Trilingual yearbook) (New York, 1943), p. 77.
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 197.]
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