Monday, 7 November 2016

FAYVL TRUPYANSKI

FAYVL TRUPYANSKI (January 24, 1904-November 29, 1944)
            He was born in Vilna.  He was secretary for the Jewish teachers’ seminary and representative of Tomor Publishers.  He published articles in: Vilner tog (Vilna day); Fraye shriftn (Free writings), edited by Dr. Y. N. Shteynberg; and elsewhere.  He was the author of Arbets-heftn tsu hilf der yidisher shul (Work notebooks to help the Jewish school) 1 (Nature) (Vilna, 1928), 16 pp.  He was confined in the Vilna ghetto, later in camps in Latvia, lastly in a camp in Schömberg, Germany where he perished.  His younger brother, YANKL TRUPYANSKI (b. May 15, 1909 in Vilna; d. November 21, 1944), was a musician and author (with Motl Gilinski) of children’s operas for the Jewish school, and he too died in the same camp.

Sources: Shloyme Mendelson, Sloyme mendelson, zayn lebn un shafn (Shloyme Mendelson, his life and work) (New York, 1949), pp. 381-82; Lerer-yizker-bukh (Remembrance volume for teachers) (New York, 1954), p. 453; H. Abramovitsh, Farshvundene geshtaltn (Disappeared figures) (Buenos Aires, 1958), p. 31.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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