KHAYIM
BABITS (b. October 10, 1908)
He was born in Warsaw, Poland,
descended from a poor Hassidic home. In
1914 his family moved to Novidvor (Nowy Dwór), where he learned the art of
carpentry. He was active in the
Bund. He was arrested in 1940 by the
Soviet authorities and exiled to the Gulag for fourteen years. He described his experiences in a volume
entitled Fun krokhmalne biz kolima
(From Krochmalne [Street] to Kolyma) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1985), 245 pp. He was living in Israel in 1956.
Source:
A. Thorn, in Unzer tsayt (New York)
(November 1985).
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), cols. 48, 539.
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