AVROM
VAYSBROD (November 21, 1907-September 1980)
He was born in Skalat, Tarnopol
district, eastern Galicia. He studied in
religious elementary school and in public school. He lived in Skalat until 1931 and he was
active there in Hitaḥdut
(the
“union” of young Zionists). From the
beginning of WWI until June 1941, he was in Lemberg. He was deported by the Nazis from that ghetto
to the Yanov (Janów Podlaski) concentration camp, and he was
also in other camps, before being liberated in 1945. He lived in Lodz until 1946 and then
Munich. From 1948 he was in the United States. He authored the book: Es shtarbt a shtetl, megiles skalat (A town dies, chronicle of
Skalat) (Munich, 1948), 184 pp., with a foreword by Yisroel Kaplan.[1] This book was the first publication of the
central historical commission with the central committee of the liberated Jews
in the American zone in Germany. Chapters
of his book were published earlier in the anthology, Fun letstn khurbn (From the last destruction) (Munich, 1947-1948), Al hamishmar (On guard) (Tel Aviv), and
other Yiddish and Hebrew newspaper. He
died in Lakewood, New Jersey.
Sources:
Y. Goldkorn, in Bafrayung (Munich)
(September 17, 1948); Y. Freylikh, in Unzer
veg (New York) (October 1, 1949); Libe Sh. Davidovitsh, in Tsukunft (New York) (March 1950).
[1] There is an
English translation by Lusia
Milch and Joseph Kofler, The Death of a
Shtetl (1995), and a Hebrew translation by Shimʻon Gelbets from the English, Skalat, mota shel ayara (Tel Aviv, 2002)—JAF.
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