Missing Poets' Unnatural Biographies

Killed on 'Bloody Thursday' (April 4) on the way to rail cars destined for Belzec;

Died in Auschwitz; some works saved in Ringelblum's archive;

Arrested in 1952, died in the GULAG;

Deported from the Lodz Ghetto, died in Auschitwz;

Arrested in 1949, died in 1952;

Died in the Ghetto either in 1942 or 1943;

Arrested in 1949, shot August 12, 1952;

Deported to the GULAG in 1937, died in 1940;

Killed in Krzemieniec in the spring of 1942;

Deported from the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Poniatowa camp;

Killed in the 1937 purge;

Killed in an Aktion in Lwow with her husband, small son and old mother;

On the way to a gas chamber with other Belgian Jews, threw a brick at an SS guard and was shot on the spot;

After the children in his orphanage were murdered, attempted to hide with a peasant family but was tracked down and shot;

Murdered by the Nazis in Lwow;

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, sentenced to death based on false testimony;

Died in the Warsaw Ghetto; date unknown;

Arrested in Bialystok by the Nazis and taken in an unknown direction;

...Moved to Otwock where he was murdered in 1942;

Killed in Lachowicze in 1941;

Murdered by the Nazis in Pomerania;

Murdered by the Nazis in Ponary;

Died in his native town in a Nazi pogrom with five brothers and sisters.




(From an anthology of Yiddish poetry)