AVROM
PSHEPYURKA (A. PECHEPIORKA) (1893-January 1943)
He was born in Vengrov (Węgrów),
Poland, and received a traditional Jewish education. From his early years, he was active in the
Labor Zionist movement. For a time he
was a member of the central committee of the right Labor Zionists, and as a
representative of the party, he also worked in the Warsaw’s office of the Land
of Israel. He was a regular contributor
to the newspaper Dos vort (The word)
in Warsaw. In book form: Harbst-shotns (Autumn shadows), sketches
(Warsaw: Di tsayt, 1922), 31 pp. During
the Nazi occupation, he was confined in the Warsaw Ghetto and was involved in
relief work. He was also active in the
undercover ghetto group preparing and organizing the ghetto uprising. He was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Sources:
Yidishe shriftn (Lodz) (1946); M.
Nayshtat, Khurbn un oyfshtand fun di yidn in varshe (Holocaust and
uprising of the Jews in Warsaw) (Tel Aviv, 1948), p. 572; B. Mark, Umgekumene shrayber fun di getos un
lagern (Murdered writers from the ghettos and camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 68;
B. Kutsher, Geven amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955), see index; Dr. E. Ringelblum, Ksovim fun geto (Writings from the ghetto), vol. 2 (Vilna, 1963),
p. 198.
Benyomen Elis
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