ARN
PERTSIKOVITSH (AHARON PERETS) (b. 1909)
He was born in Butrimonys,
Kovno district, Lithuania. He completed
his medical degree at Kovno University. Until WWII he was a practicing gynecologist in
Kovno, and in the years of the Nazi occupation during WWII, he was confined in
ghettos and concentration camps. In
April 1945 he was liberated from Dachau and until 1946 lived in Germany. He later made aliya to the state of
Israel. On several occasions he visited
the United States, Europe, and South Africa.
He was among the few who published in Yiddish his observations of
specifically Jewish medical issues in the ghettos and camps and gave lectures
on the same topic in the Kovno ghetto.
His writings appeared in: Lite
(Lithuania), vol. 1 (New York, 1951), pp. 1719-36; Yidishe kultur (Jewish culture) in New York; Dorem-afrike (South Africa) in Johannesburg; and Letste nayes (Latest news), among other
venues, in Tel Aviv. In book form: Dem goyrl antkegn, reshimes fun a doktor
(Up against fate, a doctor’s lists) (Johannesburg, 1952), 171 pp., a rare
volume in Holocaust literature. He was
last living in Eilat as a practicing physician.
Sources:
Dr. Sh. Grinhoyz, in Lite (Lithuania),
vol. 1 (New York, 1951), p. 1753; Dr. E. Pat, Briv keyn medines-yisroel (Letters to the state of Israel), vol. 3
(Tel Aviv, 1955), p. 93; Meylekh Ravitsh, Mayn
leksikon (My lexicon), vol. 3 (Montreal, 1958), pp. 329-30; Biblyografye fun yidishe bikher vegn khurbn
un gvure (Bibliography of Yiddish books concerning the Holocaust and
heroism) (New York: Yad Vashem and YIVO, 1962), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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