PAUL
(PINKHES) TREPMAN (October 20, 1916-1987)
He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied in the Tachkemoni rabbinical
seminary in Warsaw and later at Vilna University. During WWII he lived for a time on the “Aryan
side,” later in a concentration camp. He
was liberated after the war. He was a
member of the central committee of liberated Jews in the British zone in
Germany. From 1948 he was living in
Montreal, Canada. He was teacher in a
Jewish public school. He was director of
“Undzer kemp” (Our camp) in Préfontaine.
He began writing in 1945 in the weekly newspaper Undzer shtime (Our voice) in Bergen-Belsen, later publishing articles
in Vokhnblat (Weekly newspaper) also
in Bergen-Belsen, Undzer veg (Our
way) in Munich, Dos vort (The word)
in Paris, Keneder odler (Canadian
eagle) in Montreal, and Di prese (The
press) in Buenos Aires. In book form: A gesl in varshe (An alley in Warsaw)
(Montreal, 1949), 132 pp.; Among Men and
Beast (South Brunswick, 1978), 229 pp.
He also published under such pen names as Pinkhes Batlen and P. Tsharnes.
Sources:
Meylekh Ravitsh, in Keneder odler
(Montreal) (May 8, 1950); G. Aronson, in Tsukunft
(New York) (March 1951); Y. Rabinovitsh, in Keneder
odler (November 6, 1959).
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