YERUKHEM BAKHRAKH (YERUCHAM BACHRACH) (d. 1943)
The date of his birth is unknown; the place was Orle,
Poland. He was the son of a ritual
slaughterer, and he studied in religious elementary school and high
school. He was a teacher, a Zionist leader,
a Joint official in Bialystok, and an inspector of “Joint” schools in
Poland. He was the author of Demografye
fun der yidisher bafelkerung in byalistok far di yorn 1919-1935 (Demography
of the Jewish population in Bialystok, 1919-1935) (Bialystok, 1937) with
twenty-two tables, 53 pp. His accounts, written
in the Bialystok ghetto, are now lost.
He was killed during the first liquidation (February 1943).
Source:
Der oyfshtand in byalistoker geto (The uprising in the Bialystok ghetto)
(Warsaw, 1950).
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