GEDALYE MIKHMAN

GEDALYE MIKHMAN (b. January 3, 1916)

            He was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia.  He studied in religious elementary school, later in the Hebrew high school “Magen David” (Shield of David).  In 1937 he immigrated to France, where he participated in the resistance movement during the Nazi occupation.  He published in the daily newspaper Unzer vort (Our word) in Paris.  In book form: Mayn fraynd mendl man (My friend Mendl Mann) (Paris, 1978), 80 pp.; and Mayne ayndrukn fun draysikstn tsienistishn kongres (My impressions from the thirtieth Zionist congress) (Paris, 1982), 22 pp. in typescript.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 373.