MOYSHE
MUNSHAYN (1913-summer 1943)
He was born in Sosnovits
(Sosnowiec), Zagłębie region, Poland, into a working class
family. He attended religious elementary
school, public school, and later became a laborer. He lived in Bendin (Będzin),
Katowice, and Lodz. He was a member of
the young writers’ group involved with the collection Yung
zaglembye (Young Zagłębie) in Sosnowiec (1936), which brought out four volumes;
in it he debuted in print with several poems.
He later contributed poetry and sketches to: Zaglembyer tsaytung (Zagłębie newspaper), Bendiner vokhnblat (Będzin weekly
newspaper), and Zaglembyer-shlezish-folksblat
(Zagłębie-Silesian people’s newspaper) in Katowice (1935-1939),
and in Der nayer folksblat (The new
people’s newspaper) in Lodz. He was
confined in the Sosnowiec ghetto. In the
summer of 1943 the Nazis deported him to Auschwitz, and he was murdered there.
Sources:
Yung
zaglembye (Sosnovits) 1
(1936); information from his cousin, Sh. Mondshayn in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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