MOYSHE
SOLOVEY
He was born in Vilna. In 1914 he graduated from the Vilna teachers’
institute. During WWI he was a teacher
in the Vilna schools, and later he turned his attention entirely to
gymnastics. He worked for Vilna “Maccabee”
and, with H. Glyot, published a textbook for gymnastics. He was a quiet, genteel man, much loved and
highly regarded. During the Nazi
occupation, he worked in the labor camp Reshe
(Riešė, Rzesza), near Vilna. He was later deported to Estonia and killed
there.
Source:
Lerer yizker-bukh (Remembrance volume
for teachers) (New York, 1954), pp. 267-68.
Yankev Kahan
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