Sunday, 12 April 2015

AVROML BROKHES

AVROML BROKHES (d. 1943)
He was the son of a well-known Vilna photographer.  He was active in Communist Youth League circles in Vilna.  He began journalistic work with Byalistoker shtern (Bialystok star), 1940-1941, and he published articles in Emes (Truth) in Kovno.  He was evacuated from Bialystok to Soviet Russia where he continued his work as a journalist.  He volunteered to fight in the Red Army, and he fell in the Battle of Leningrad early in 1943.

Sources: Sh. Katsherginski, Khurbn vilne (The Holocaust in Vilna) (New York, 1947); “Yizker leksikon” (Remembrance handbook), Dos naye lebn 30 (Warsaw).


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