AVROM OREZ (1897-February 1, 1943)
Born in the town of Mazilyev, Byelorussia, to “enlightened”
parents. He received a Jewish and
general education. After WWI, he moved
to Pruzhane (Prużana), Poland, and worked as a teacher in the
Tarbut school there. He was a Zionist worker,
speaker, and lecturer. From 1926 to 1930
he was in Brisk (Brześć),
Lithuania, later back in Pruzhane. From
1931 until the war broke out in 1939, he was editor of the weekly Pruzhaner
shtime (Voice of Pruzhane) and simultaneously a teacher in the Hebrew high
school there. On January 30, 1942,
together with 2000 Jews in Pruzhane, he was sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz. He died with his wife and his two children as
martyrs.
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