AVROM AKSELROD

AVROM AKSELROD (d. 1944)

     Dates of his birth and death are unknown.  During the German occupation, he lived as a refugee from Warsaw in the Kovno ghetto.  He wrote songs there, the majority of them parodies.  His works can be found in: Sh. Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos and lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps)—his song is titled “In slobodker yeshive” (In the Slobodka yeshiva)—and in Yoysef Gar, Umkum fun der yidisher kovne (The destruction of Jewish Kovno)—his poems, “Yidishe brigades” (Jewish brigades), “Baym geto-toyerl” (At the ghetto’s gate), and “Yayles” (Wailing).  He suffocated in a hideout when the Nazis set fire to the Kovno ghetto.

Sources: Sh. Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos and lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948); Yoysef Gar, Umkum fun der yidisher kovne (The destruction of Jewish Kovno) (Munich, 1948).