SIMKHE-BUNEM GLIKSMAN

SIMKHE-BUNEM GLIKSMAN (1903-1943)

            He was born in Lodz, into a Hassidic family linked to the Aleksander rebbe.  He studied in yeshivas and with private tutors.  As a youth he stood with the left Labor Zionists and became a worker in a publishing house.  He was in Lodz until 1932, later living for two years in Germany.  After being expelled with other Polish Jews, he returned to Lodz.  In 1935 he left for Sosnovtse (Sosnowiec).  He was the owner of a Yiddish publishing house.  In 1926 he debuted in print in Lodzher folksblat (Lodz people’s newspaper).  He contributed to Nayer folksblat (New people’s newspaper), Lodzher arbeter (Lodz worker), Arbeter tsaytung (Workers’ newspaper), and Yugnt-fon (Banner of youth) in Warsaw—in which he published poems, stories, reportage pieces, criticism, and articles.  He used the pseudonym: Aleksander Simkhovitsh.  Among his books: Untern haknkrayz (Under the swastika) (Warsaw, 1934), 96 pp., a work of reportage in which he recounted Hitler’s atrocities against the Jews in Berlin and other German cities.  Together with Ben Dov Tsekhanovski, he edited Di epokhe (The epoch) in Lodz (1931-1932), and the weekly Zaglembyer-shlezish-folksblat (Zaglembie-Silesian people’s newspaper) (Sosnowiec-Katowice) over the years 1935-1939.  He was in the Sosnowiec ghetto and later in various concentration camps.  He died in one of the camps.

Source: Kh. L. Fuks, in Fun noentn over 3 (New York, 1957).