SHMUEL
EPELBOYM (b. April 27, 1910)
He was born in Drohitshin (Drohiczyn),
Polesia. He studied in religious
elementary school, with private tutors, and later in the Hebrew teachers’
seminary in Vilna. For many years he was
a teacher in various towns in Poland.
Over the years 1941-1944, he was confined in the Drohiczyn ghetto, later
fighting with the partisans and then with the Soviet army. From 1945 he was living in a refugee camp in
Munich. He was a contributor and co-editor
of the Munich newspaper Dos vort (The
word) and the Hebrew-language journal Nitsots
(Spark). He also contributed a piece of
work entitled “Khurbn drohitshin” (The destruction of Drohiczyn) to the volume Drohytshin, finf hundert yor yidish-lebn
(Drohiczyn, 500 years of Jewish life) (Chicago, 1948), pp. 287-303. From 1948 he was living in the state of
Israel.
Source:
Drohytshin finf hundert yor yidish-lebn (Drohiczyn, 500 years of Jewish life) (Chicago,
1948), p. 194.
Benyomen Elis
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