YOYSEF
LEYZEROVITSH (1915-May 1954)
He was born in Brisk (Brest), son of
Moyshe Leyzerovitsh. He wrote articles
for Haynt (Today) and the newspaper
of the Irgun Di tat (The action) in
Warsaw. When the Germans occupied Warsaw
in 1939, he fled to Vilna, and from there with a group of Irgun comrades he
traveled through Japan and India, before making aliya in Israel. He was among the activists in the Irgun in Jerusalem,
and thus was arrested in 1944 by the British secret police. After the 1948 war of independence for the
state of Israel, he moved to South Africa, where he worked in Johannesburg on
the editorial board of the Revisionist newspaper Jewish Herald. He died in
Johannesburg. He was brought to Israel
and buried in the Mount of Quietudes cemetery in Jerusalem.
Source:
Brisk delita (Brisk/Brest, Lithuania)
anthology (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv, 1955), p. 300.
Yankev Kahan
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