TSVI-HIRSH
MATS (1899-June 21, 1941)
He was born in Vilna, the son of the
well-known publisher Yude-Leyb Mats and brother of Aleksander Mats. He was a prominent community leader and one
of the founders of Vilna’s TOZ (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia [Society for the
protection of health]), and he assisted the Brijus Sanatorium for Tuberculosis
in Otvosk (Otwock). He was active as
well in the Vilna Yiddish Theater Association.
After the death of Dr. Cemach
Szabad, he became editor of Folks-gezunt
(People’s health) and Zay gezunt (Be
well) in Vilna. In book form: Kurerter un turistik in poyln (Health
resorts and tourism in Poland) (Warsaw: TOZ, 1935), 336 pp.; Dr. tsemekh shabad,
der visnshaftler un publitsist (Dr. Cemach Szabad, the scientist and publicist) (Warsaw,
May 1937), 80 pp. In the initial days of
the Nazi occupation of Vilna, he was denounced as a Communist and shot.
Sources:
Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (August
2, 1935); A. Mark, in Literarishe bleter
(July 23, 1937); Sh. Katsherginski, Khurbn
vilne (The Holocaust in Vilna) (New York, 1947), p. 181.
Yankev Kahan
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