Monday, 6 April 2015

LEYB BERKENVALD

LEYB BERKENVALD (1898-1944)

He was born in Lodz to Hassidic parents.  As a youth, he joined the anarchist movement and was a leader in propaganda circles.  He was arrested on several occasions and spent time in the Lodz prison.  He worked as a laborer and a night-watchman, among other jobs.  Until the war began in 1939, he was living in Lodz.  In 1940 he was sent from Bialystok to a Soviet labor camp.  Among his writings: Memuarn fun leybn (Memoirs of Leyb [life]) (Lodz, 1929), 40 pp.  In early 1944 he died in a camp near Syktyvkar.
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3 comments:

  1. Baassty2 January 2018 at 17:05

    Thank you for this entry. Could you please add any informations about your source(s)?

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  2. Joshua Fogel3 January 2018 at 12:34

    I'm afraid that the entry translated here gave no sources--nor even the name of entry's author.

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  3. Baassty3 January 2018 at 13:38

    Thank you for this. I think the author must have been Chaim Leib Fox, who probably had known LB, as attested in the Ringelblum Archive ("איבער אַ גרענעץ. עפיזאָד — ביאַליסטאָק"), ARG 693 (Ring. I/1046), http://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/744982/107/

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