Moshe Ha-Elion
Concentration camps survivor, memoirist and poet in Ladino · Greece · On the map · Writers · Lived 1925 to 2022 · aged 97
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.
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Moshe Ha-Elion at his home in Bat Yam, Israel. January 2016.
Registration of the Jews of Thessaloniki, July 1942, Eleftherias Square. Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-168-0894-21A
Photo of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, taken by a United States Army Air Force plane, 25 August 1944
"Arbeit macht frei" sign, main gate of the Auschwitz I concentration camp, Poland, 2005
Survivors of the Ebensee concentration camp, after the liberation, 1945
Flowers on the rails of Auschwitz-Birkenau
En los Kampos de la Muerte written and signed by Moshe Ha-ElionAbout this person
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.
