SHMUEL GINZBURG (1901-1941)
He was born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland, into a rabbinical
family. He studied in religious
elementary school, later with his grandfather, Khayim Ginzburg, the rabbi of
Shedlets. With the rise of the movement
of Agudas Yisroel (lit. Union of Israel, the orthodox political party) in
Poland, he became the leader of Orthodox youth in Shedlets. He was a cofounder of the Shedlets Orthodox
weekly Unzer veg (Our way). He
was in the Shedlets ghetto and was murdered by the Nazis.
Sources:
Information from R. Meyer Shvartsman, Winnipeg, Canada; Yitsḥak Kaspi, in Sefer yizkor lekehilat shedlets (Remembrance volume for the community of
Shedlets) (Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, 1956).
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