Wednesday 9 January 2019

BER TSUKERMAN (CUKIERMAN)


BER TSUKERMAN (CUKIERMAN)
            He was from Vilna, Lithuania.  He graduated from the University of Vilna in agricultural engineering.  Until 1935 he was a teacher in the Jewish technical school, later settling in Warsaw.  He was an active leader of ORT (Association for the Promotion of Skilled Trades) and of the pioneer farm in Grokhov.  He authored pamphlets concerned with farming and agriculture, among them: Hiner-zukht (Chicken breeding) (Warsaw, 1937), 31 pp.; and Sistemen fun meloratsye (Systems of melioration) (Warsaw, 1938), 32 pp.  Since the Nazi invasion of Poland, there has been no further information about him.

Sources: Yivo-bleter (Vilna) 10 (1936); Yidisher gezelshaftlekhe leksikon (Jewish social handbook) (Warsaw, 1939).
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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