Eliyahu Yones
Eliyahu Yones ( Hebrew אליהו יונס; * December 25, 1915 in Vilnius ; † January 2011 ) was an Israeli editor, journalist and writer. He became known as the author of the book The Road to Lemberg .
Life
Yones experienced the occupation of his homeland in 1941 by German troops. He was sent to the Kurowice forced labor camp and had to work here mainly for the construction of a planned road from Berlin to Lemberg on a 60 km long section in eastern Galicia , called the southern runway . He managed to escape in August 1943 and joined the resistance as a partisan and later the Red Army .
When, after the war, he got into confrontations with the Russian secret service, which accused him of collaboration , he moved to Israel in 1950. From time to time he appears in Germany as a witness in war crimes trials. Yones wrote his story of the resistance in Israel in Hebrew in 1954 and consented to the publication of the Hebrew edition in 1960.
Works
In addition to numerous journalistic reports and reports, he wrote the book:
- The road to Lviv. Forced Labor and Resistance in Eastern Galicia 1941-1944 . Edited by Susanne Heim , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999 (series of images of life. Jewish memories and testimonies )
- English title: Smoke In The Sand: The Jews Of Lvov In The War Years 1939-1944: The Jews of Lvov 1939-1944 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eliyahu Yones in the catalog of the German National Library
- Contents overview of the work ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Tu-Berlin newsletter (PDF; 156 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://eng.thepartisan.org/document/68521,0,261.aspx
- ↑ Cecile Esther Kuznitz: YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture , p. 261
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yones, Eliyahu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli editor, journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius , Lithuania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2011 |