ELI
(ELIYAHU) DOMERATSKI (1894-1943)
He was born in Rajgród, Poland. He studied in religious elementary schools, graduating in 1913 from the Vilkovishk (Vilkaviskis)
high school with distinction. At age
thirteen he was drawn into the labor movement.
He settled in Bialystok and became the manager of a secular Jewish public
school. In 1921 he was secretary of the
commission for the support of orphans, later administrator of the lead bureau
of the Bialystok society for the support of orphans, TOZ (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia [Society for the protection of
health]). He was at the same time a member
of the management of ORT (Association
for the Promotion of Skilled Trades). From
1925 he was vice-president of Yisho (Jewish School Organization). In 1926 he edited the journal of the Bialystok
orphan center Farn yidishn kind (For
the Jewish child). His co-editors were
Rashel Rabinovitsh and Volf Hefner. He
contribiuted to Byalistoker almanakh
(Bialystok almanac) (1931). He died in
the Bialystok ghetto.
Sources: Byalistoker
yorbikher fun yivo (Bialystok yearbooks from YIVO), vol. 1 (1926), p. 327; Byalistoker leksikon (Bialystok
handbook) (1935).
YITSKHOK KHARLASH
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