YANKEV-YITSKHOK FES(E)L (b. November 26, 1928)
He was
born in Kortshin (Korczyn), Reyshe (Rzeszów) region, Galicia. He studied in religious primary school and
yeshiva. During the years of WWII, he
was confined in the Rzeszów ghetto, and later in the concentration camps
of Plashov (Płaszów), Sachsenhausen, and Bergen-Belsen. From 1945 he was living in Sweden, and there
he graduated from middle school and learned the trade of bookkeeping. He published stories and correspondence
pieces on Jewish life in Sweden in: Unzer
veg (Our way) in Paris; Hatsofe
(The spectator) in Tel Aviv; and Yidishe
tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Munich.
He also contributed to the Swedish Jewish newspaper Judisk krönika (Jewish chronicle) in Stockholm. From 1956 he was a regular correspondent for
YIVNA (Jewish world news agency) in London.
He was last living in Stockholm.
Source: Tog-morgn-zhurnal (New York) (December
12, 1965).
Yankev Kahan
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