Yatkunski, Mortkhe
1895–June 25, 1941
He was born in Slobodka, near Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. He was a member of the Jewish national assembly in Lithuania (1923) and in charge of the Jewish National Fund in Kovno.
In 1919 he was a member of the editorial collective of Di Idishe Shtime (The Jewish Voice) in Kovno, and until 1934 he served as an internal contributor to the newspaper. Over the years 1934-1940, he contributed as well to Dos Vort (The Word) in Kovno.
He was killed during the German pogrom of Slobodka Jews.
Sources: Y. Mark, in Zamlbukh Lekoved dem Tsveyhundert un Fuftsikstn Yoyvl fun der Yidisher Prese, 1686-1936 (Anthology in Honor of the 250Th Jubilee of the Yiddish Press, 1686-1936), ed. Dr. Y. Shatski (New York, 1937), p. 252; Yoysef Gar, Umkum fun der Yidisher Kovne (Destruction of Jewish Kovno) (Munich, 1948), p. 37; R. Froim Oshri (Ephraim Oshri), in Khurbn Lite (The Holocaust in Lithuania) (New York-Montreal: Bukh-Komitet, 1951), p. 254.