SALO FISHGRUND (FISCHGRUND) (September 7, 1893-March 4,
1971)
He was
born in Sulkovitse (Sułkowice), near Cracow,
Galicia. From 1908 he was active in the
Bund. In 1939 he left for the
Soviet-occupied zone. He was arrested
there. He returned to Poland in the
autumn of 1941, and he remained in Warsaw until liberation. He was a member of the underground central
committee of the Bund and took part in the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto. During the “unification” of the socialist
parties in Poland (1948), he switched to join the Communists. He was a member of the leadership of the “Jewish
Cultural Association” of Poland. He
began writing for Sotsyal-demokrat
(Social democrat) in Cracow in 1908.
Over the years 1922-1939, he was the Cracow correspondent for Naye folkstsaytung (New people’s
newspaper) in Warsaw. He contributed to
the Bundist underground press in Poland.
From 1945 he was publishing articles in: Dos naye lebn (The new life), Folkstsaytung
(People’s newspaper), Yidishe shriftn
(Yiddish writings), and Folks-shtime
(Voice of the people), among others, in Warsaw.
In 1970 he moved to Israel.
Sources: Materials from the Bundist archives, New York;
Pinkhes Shvarts, Yidishe prese in varshe
(The Yiddish press in Warsaw) (New York, 1956), p. 437.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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