KHAYKE POZNANSKI

KHAYKE POZNANSKI (b. ca. 1928)

            She came from Vilna.  She was in the Koshedar (Kaišiadorys) concentration camp.  Her poem “A mame” (A mother), which she would have written after the Germans murdered her mother, appears in Shmerke Katsherginski’s Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948).  She was killed by the Nazis.

Source: Shmerke Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948), p. 255,

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