SHIMSHEN BAR-UZI

SHIMSHEN BAR-UZI (Nissan 1 [=March 17), 1904-February 10, 1990)

            This was the pen name of Shimshen Liverant, born in Radzymin, Poland.  In 1923 he departed for Soviet Russia.  There he studied in a high school and specialized as a zoo technician.  In 1937 he was arrested and exiled to a camp [in the Gulag].  He came to Israel in 1971.  His memoirs from prison and camp were written up in Mayn yesurim-veg (My painful path) (Tel Aviv: Nay lebn, 1983), 300 pp.  The second part of his memoirs appeared in print in 1986.  A chapter from the second part was published in Yerusholaimer almanakh (Jerusalem almanac) 16 (1985).  He was last living in Jerusalem.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 114, 540.