Thursday, 27 October 2016

MIRYEM TENENBOYM

MIRYEM TENENBOYM (1896-1944)
            She was born in Stashev (Staszów), Poland, and later she lived in Bendin (Będzin), Warsaw, and Vilna.  She studied pedagogy at Warsaw University and worked as a teacher in a Yavne High School.  She published articles and translations from Polish, Hebrew, and Russian in Zaglembyer tsaytung (Zagłębie newspaper) in Będzin, Di tsayt (The times) in Vilna, and elsewhere.  She was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz in 1944.

Sources: Y. Peysekhzon, in Zaglembyer tsaytung (Będzin) 27 (1938); D., in Pinkes bendin (Records of Będzin) (Tel Aviv, 1959), p. 337.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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