AVROM SLUKHOVSKI (ABRASHA SLUCHOWSKI)

AVROM SLUKHOVSKI (ABRASHA SLUCHOWSKI) (b. May 5, 1907)

            He was born in Loshits (Losice), Shedlets (Siedlce) region, Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school.  He left for Warsaw and became a knitter.  In late 1939 he escaped to Minsk.  In 1943 he fled from the Minsk ghetto to join the partisans.  In 1946 he came to Paris.  In book form: Fun geto in di velder (From the ghetto to the woods) (Paris: Oyfsnay, 1975), 217 pp., which also appeared in French in 1979.

Source: B. Grin, in Morgn-frayhayt (New York) (February 29, 1979).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 406.