Monday, 11 April 2016

LEYE VATSHARZH-SHTSHERANSKI

LEYE VATSHARZH-SHTSHERANSKI (1907-1942)
            She was born in Zgerzh (Zgierz), near Lodz, Poland, into a Hassidic family.  She graduated from the Beys-Yankev teachers’ seminary in Cracow, where she later became a teacher herself.  A specialist in educational issues, over the course of many years she published articles on education in: Beys yankev zhurnal (Beys Yankev journal) in Lodz.  She also published poems there, as well as translations from Polish into Yiddish.  Until the summer of 1942 she was confined in the Cracow ghetto and was later deported to the Plashov (Płaszów) concentration camp where she died.

Source: Information from R. Avrom Zembo in New York.


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