Sunday 29 July 2018

HERSHL PERLMUTER


HERSHL PERLMUTER (b. March 6, 1909)
            He was born in Stertsev (Stercew), Poland.  In his youth he moved to Sosnowiec.  He survived the ghetto and Auschwitz.  After WWII he was in Holocaust survivor camps in Germany.  From there he left for Paris.  In book form, he published: Mayn stertsev (My Stercew) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1967), 181 pp.; An aktyor in oyshvits (An actor in Auschwitz) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1971), 227 pp.; Bine-maskes bay katsetler, yidish teater nokhn khurbn (Stage masks for concentration camp survivors, Yiddish theater after the Holocaust) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1974), 227 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 433.
Ruvn Goldberg


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