12 Facts About Chaim Yellin

Chaim Yellin was a Jewish partisan leader of the resistance movement in the Kovno Ghetto during the German occupation of Lithuania during World War II.

Chaim Yellin was born in the town of Vilkija to a Jewish family.

Chaim Yellin was educated and grew up reading a lot, which led to him being known as "The Book" by his friends.

Chaim Yellin moved from writing on these subjects gradually to reports and descriptions of street life and the market, town and village, and especially the difficult condition of the workers.

Chaim Yellin was one of the most active members of the left-wing young writers group, and was active in organizing literary and cultural evenings in the fields of literature, theater, music and poetry.

Chaim Yellin was the commander of one of them, which dealt mainly with collecting information on the fronts, providing relief to veterans of the movement, and caring for the children of missing fighters.

In September 1943 Chaim Yellin went to Vilnius, following a letter he had received in the ghetto, in order to contact the parachutist, Gesia Glazer.

At the base, Chaim Yellin spent two weeks in which he underwent rapid training.

Since Chaim Yellin was out of ammunition, he tried to commit suicide before he could be captured.

Chaim Yellin was eventually executed after weeks of torture and refusing to give the Germans any information.

Chaim Yellin's brother, Meir Yellin was a writer and engineer by profession.

Chaim Yellin published stories and articles in Lithuania, and later in the Soviet Jewish press about the Holocaust in Lithuania.