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Abraham (Avrom) Sutzkever

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אברהם סוצקבר

Region: Smorgon ; Vilna (Lituanie/Biélorussie) ; Tel-Aviv (Israël)

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Considered one of the greatest Yiddish poets of the twentieth century and "the great poet of the Shoah". Member of the Yung-Vilne group, he was confined to the Vilna ghetto (1941–1945) where he wrote and participated in rescuing manuscripts and books threatened by the Nazis. A survivor, he founded and directed in Israel the literary journal Di Goldene Keyt.

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