Yechiel Lerer (1910–1943) was a

Yiddish Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

poet. Lerer lived in the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (, officially , ; ) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the Nazi Germany, German authorities within the new General Government territory of Occupat ...

and participated in the ghetto literary activity. He was involved in the periodical '' Hamadrikh'' (Hebrew: "The Guide"). Yechiel was murdered in the

Treblinka extermination camp Treblinka () was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Mas ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lerer, Yechiel 1910 births 1943 deaths Yiddish-language poets Warsaw Ghetto inmates Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp People from Mińsk County Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust