SORE (SARAH) SAPIR

SORE (SARAH) SAPIR

            She was a partisan in Bilak’s brigade in the woods around Deretshin (Derechin, Dziarechyn), near Slonim, Byelorussia.  Shmerke Katsherginski’s Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) includes three songs of hers: “Shtey oyf” (Rise up!), “Afn postn” (In position), and “Der kemfender shvester” (The fighting sister), reported by Yitskhok Tsukerman.  Further information is unknown.

Source: Shmerke Katsherginski, Lider fun di getos un lagern (Songs from the ghettos and camps) (New York, 1948), pp. 312, 336-37.

Yankev Kahan