Chaim Aron Kaplan

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Chaim Aron Kaplan (born September 19, 1880 in Horodyszcze , near Baranawitschy , Russian Empire ; died 1942 or 1943 in the Treblinka extermination camp ) was a Polish educator and victim of the Holocaust.

Life

Chaim Aron Kaplan attended the Yeshiva in Mir and the Pedagogical University in Vilnius . In 1902 he moved to Warsaw and founded a private Hebrew elementary school there in 1905. He headed this school until the German conquest of Poland in World War II in 1939. He wrote Hebrew school books and children's books and a grammar, which he also published himself.

Kaplan visited the United States in 1921 and traveled to Palestine in 1936 . His two children emigrated to Palestine.

Kaplan was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto by the German occupiers . He kept a diary that he was able to hide from his deportation. In August 1942 he and his wife were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp , where they were murdered in 1942 or 1943.

A Polish emigrant brought some of the diaries to the USA in 1962 , where they were acquired by the University of New York . In 1965 Abraham Katsh (1908–1998) published a partial edition, and in 1972 a full edition, each in English translation.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hebrew grammar. 1924
  • Ilustrowana Hagada na Pesach . Translation from Hebrew to Polish. Warsaw: Limud, 1928
  • Pezurai . Essays. 1937 (he)
  • Megilat yisurin . 1947, 1966 (he)
    • Book of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan . Edited by Abraham I. Katsh. Translation from the American Harry Maòr . Frankfurt a. M.: Insel Verlag, 1967

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personal data
SURNAME Chaplain, Chaim Aron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaplain, Chaim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish educator and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Horodyszcze
DATE OF DEATH 1942
Place of death Treblinka extermination camp