AVROM
VAYSHOF (1895-September 1941)
He was born in Pyetrikov (Pyotrków),
Poland, into a merchant family. He
studied in religious primary school, public school, and later graduated from a
commercial school. He was a cofounder of
Hazemir (The nightingale), later becoming active in the Bund and in Jewish
cultural life. For many years he was a
Bund councilor in the city council and for time a “Lavnik” (municipal advisor)
to city hall. He was a member of the
editorial board of the Bundist weekly newspaper Pyetrikover veker (Pyotrków alarm) (1923-1939), in which he published
articles on community political and cultural themes. During Nazi rule in WWII, he took a major
role in relief work and in underground activities in the ghetto. On September 13, 1941, after the failure of an
underground group that had come to Pyotrków at the call of the Bund, he was
arrested by the Gestapo and together with this group sent to Auschwitz. There he was killed.
Sources:
Doyres bundistin (Generations of
Bundists) (New York, 1956), p. 271 (under biography of Zalmen Tenenberg);
Khayim Leyb Fuks, in Fun noentn over
(New York) 3 (1957), p. 259.
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