Tuesday 1 January 2019

GEDALYE FRENKEL


GEDALYE FRENKEL (1902-January 31, 1943)
            He was born in Lodz, Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school and secular high school.  He went on to become a laborer.  At the start of 1925, he emigrated to Belgium, and from there to Paris.  From 1930 until WWII, he lived in Amsterdam.  He published sketches and stories of workers’ lives in: Belgishe bleter (Belgian sheets) and Yidishe prese (Jewish press) in Antwerp; and Parizer haynt (Paris today), Di naye prese (The new press), and Parizer bleter (Parisian sheets), among others, in Paris.  He brought out a volume entitled Shriftn (Writings) (Amsterdam, 1932), 58 pp.  In September 1942 he was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz, and there he was murdered.

Sources: Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (January 6, 1933); information from Dr. L. Fuks in Amsterdam.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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