MOYSHE
(MAURYCY) PAPIER (1884-March 9, 1949)
He was born in Nowy Targ, western
Galicia. In his youth he worked as a
painter and joined the socialist movement.
After May 1, 1905, when the Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia
was proclaimed, he was one of its leaders in Cracow. He was also editor of Sotsyal demokrat (Social democrat) in Cracow. He also contributed work to Nowe życie (New life), a Bundist
publication in Polish. He was a builder
of the trade union movement of Jewish workers and of workers’ cooperatives in
Galicia. At the time of the last
uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto (1944), he was wounded. After the liberation of Poland he departed
for Sweden. He died in London.
Sources:
Avrom Reyzen, Epizodn fun mayn lebn
(Episodes from my life), vol. 3 (Vilna, 1935), pp. 10-14; A. Krokover, in Unzer shtime (Paris) (March 23, 1949);
M. Aleksandrovitsh, in Unzer tsayt
(New York) (April-May 1949); Dr. Z. Nusbrekher, in Unzer shtime (March 28, 1948); Doyres
bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 1 (New York, 1956), p. 190.
Leyb Vaserman
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