DR. LAZAR EPSHTEYN

DR. LAZAR EPSHTEYN (d. 1944)

            He came from Kovno, was an active member in Lithuania at the headquarters of the Lithuanian Social-Democratic Party, published a book in Lithuanian on school hygiene, and also wrote in Yiddish.  He was one of the medical colleagues in the Vilna ghetto, at the head of the sanitary epidemiological division.  He offered much relief at the school-medical center in the ghetto, giving speeches on medical topics and writing articles for Folksgezunt (People’s health), a vital newspaper in the Vilna ghetto.  He also wrote a highly precise diary with statistics concerning sanitary work in the ghetto, and he composed a poem about ghetto life.  He died in the ghetto.

Leyb Vaserman