YISROEL-BOREKH
GRUNDMAN (b. 1907)
He was born in Lodz, from a
religiously devout home. Against his
parents’ wishes, he studied in a secular Jewish school. After graduating from the Medem School, he
was sent—because of his great talent and eagerness to learn—to the Vilna Jewish
teachers’ seminary. He was later a
teacher in Visoke Litovsk, and in the same Lodz Medem School in which he was
earlier a student himself. A talented
pedagogue, he was also an active community and cultural leader. He excelled at creating interesting games,
jokes, and songs for school children.
Together with M. Gilinski (“Batke”) and K. Wapner, he published Shpil un farveylung (Play and recreation),
with an introduction by L. Hodes (Warsaw: SKIF-biblyotek, no. 6, 1938), 184
pp. When WWII broke out, he escaped to
Bialystok and from there to Brest, where he worked as a teacher under Soviet
rule. Afterward, when the Nazis took the
city in 1941, he joined the partisans.
When and how he died remain unknown.
Source:
Lerer-zikher-bukh (Teachers’ memory book) (New York, 1954), pp. 116-17.
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