MORTKHE
(MORDCHAI) SARNA (b. 1917)
He was born in Sandomierz,
Kielce district,
Poland. Until WWII he was active in
Zionist youth organizations. Over the
years 1940-1945, he survived various Nazi death camps and ghettos, such as the “24th”
extermination camp in Lemberg. He later
lived in Cracow, Warsaw, Rovno, and Paris.
He was the author of: In di orems
fun toyt (In the arms of death), stories and poems of Jewish resistance
against the Nazis in the ghettos of Poland and in the woods (Paris, 1946), 225
pp., with a preface by the author and illustrations by A. Vayts—included in
this book were the songs, “Nekome” (Revenge), “Partizaner-lid” (Partisan song),
“Ikh zukh a tikn” (I’m looking for redress), and “Vu zayt ir geven?” (Where
were you?), which were sung in the ghettos and camps of Poland; Shturem-geviksn (Storm plants) (Tel
Aviv, 1958), 485 pp.—“This book,” noted Dr. B. Orenshteyn, “contains a great number
of dramatic episodes of physical and spiritual struggle, which WWII brought
about.”
Sources:
Di tsukunft (New York) (December
1946); Dr. B. Orenshteyn, in Keneder
odler (Montreal) (June 30, 1952; September 1, 1958); Biblyografye fun yidishe bikher vegn khurbn un gvure (Bibliography
of Yiddish books concerning the Holocaust and heroism) (New York, 1962), p.
164.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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