YEKHIEL-PINKHES GRINBERG

YEKHIEL-PINKHES GRINBERG (1897-1943)

            He was born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school and yeshiva.  From 1919 he was serving in the Polish military, and during the Polish-Russian war of 1920, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets.  He later returned home and worked as a sign painter in Shedlets.  His first stories and poems in prose were published in Weissenberg’s Yudishe zamlbikher (Jewish anthologies) (1918).  He was a major contributor to local periodicals, such as: Shedletser shtime (Voice of Shedlets) and Shedletser vokhnblat (Shedlets weekly newspaper), among others.  In book form: Blumen, legendn (Flowers, legends) (Shedlets, 1923), 20 pp.; Fun blutigen feld, detseylungen fun a zelner (From a bloody field, stories of a soldier) (Shedlets, 1927), 47 pp.  In January 1927, together with Y. Kh. Ayzenberg and Y. Tenenboym, he brought a bimonthly magazine, Vortslen (Roots); only two issues appeared.  He was in the Shedlets ghetto, from which in 1943 he was deported to Treblinka and there murdered.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Yitskhok Kaspi, in Yivo-bleter (New York) 36 (1952), pp. 361-62; E. Faynzilber, Af di khurves fun mayn heym, khurbn shedlets (On the destruction of my home, the Holocaust in Shedlets) (Tel Aviv, 1952); Y. Kaspi, in Sefer yizkor lekehilat shedlets (Remembrance volume for the community of Shedlets) (Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, 1956), pp. 266-67.