Monday, 31 August 2015

MEYER GLIOT

MEYER GLIOT
            He was born in Vilna, where he received a Jewish and a general education.  He graduated from the Vilna Jewish teachers’ seminary.  Later he worked as a teacher and a devoted leader of the Tsisho (Central Jewish School Organization) schools in various Polish cities.  He published articles on children’s psychology in Shul-vegn (School ways) in Warsaw (1934-1936).  During WWII, he departed for Russia and for a time was a soldier in the Red Army at the Stalingrad front.  He returned from there and then disappeared without a trace.  According to information from M. Ayznbud of Melbourne, he died later.


Source: M. Ayznbud, Lerer-yizker-bukh (Teachers memorial volume) (New York, 1952-1954).

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