TUVYE
MEYEROVITS (1908-late June 1941)
He was born in Oshmene (Oszmiana),
near Vilna. He attended religious
elementary school and yeshivas, and received rabbinical ordination. He lived in Lithuania until the German
occupation. He published poetry and
essays in the religious newspapers: Dos
vort (The word) in Vilna; Dos yudishe
togblat (The Jewish daily newspaper) in Warsaw; Beys yankev-zhurnal (Beys Yankev journal) in Lodz; Haneeman (The faithful) in Telz; and Dos idishe lebn (The Jewish life) in Kovno; among others. Among his books: Sefer mikolot hademama (The sounds of silence) (Alytus, 1938),
80 pp.; Lider in bloye roymen (Poems
in blue spaces) (Kėdainiai, 1940), 85 pp.
On June 25, 1941, the Nazis drove several hundred Jews from Alite
(Alytus), including Rabbi Meyerovits, into the municipal school and burned them
all alive.
Source:
Rabbi A. Oshri, Khurbn lite (The
Holocaust in Lithuania) (Montreal, 1951), p. 198.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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