# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/moshe-ha-elion
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:32:09.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/moshe-ha-elion"
name: "Moshe Ha-Elion"
slug: "moshe-ha-elion"
description: "Moshe Ha-Elion, also written Moshe Haelion, Moshe 'Ha-Elion, Moshé Ha-Elion, Moshé 'Ha-Elion, Moshé Haelyon, was a Holocaust survivor and writer. He survived Auschwitz, the death march, Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee. He is the author of a memoir, מיצרי שאול, originally written in Hebrew and translated into English as The Straits of Hell: The chronicle of a Salonikan Jew in the Nazi extermination camps Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee. He wrote three poems in Ladino based on his experience in the concentration camps and the death march: \"La djovenika al lager\", \"Komo komian el pan\", and \"En marcha de la muerte\", published in Ladino and Hebrew under the title En los Kampos de la Muerte. Moshe Ha-Elion translated Homer's Odyssey into Ladino. He lived in Israel. He had two children, six grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren."
tagline: "Concentration camps survivor, memoirist and poet in Ladino"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Moshe_Ha-Elion%2C_January_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-02-26"
deathDate: "2022-11-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.140641333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "משה העליון"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump