Moshe Ha-Elion, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Moshe Ha-Elion

concentration camps survivor, memoirist and poet in Ladino

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1925

Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

Profession: writer, Odyssey's translator

Nationality: Greece, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Moshe Ha-Elion (also written Moshe Haelion, Moshe 'Ha-Elion, Moshé Ha-Elion, Moshé 'Ha-Elion, Moshé Haelyon) is a Holocaust survivor and writer.
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, on February 26, 1925.
He survived Auschwitz, the death march, Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee.
He is the author of a memoir, ????? ???? (Meizarey Sheol), 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 has translated Homer's Odyssey into Ladino.
He lives in Israel.
He has two children, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.