YANKEV-ZALMEN
PROST (1908-1939)
He was born in Sluptse (Słupca),
Lomzhe district, Poland. He received a
religious education. From 1928 until
WWII, he lived in Lodz. He was active in
“Torah veavoda” (Torah and labor). He
published articles on youth-related issues, Zionism, and cultural matters in: Unzer shtime (Our voice) and Hamizraḥi (The
Mizrachi) in Warsaw; and the weekly newspaper Banayung (Renewal) in Lodz (1934-1938), for which he was also
editor. On the night of September 7,
1939, when the Nazis were approaching Lodz, he fled from the city and reached
somewhere near Warsaw at the time of the German bombardment.
Source:
Khayim Leyb Fuks, in Fun noentn over
(New York) 3 (1957), p. 254.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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