GEDALYE FRENKEL (1902-January 31, 1943)
He was
born in Lodz, Poland. He studied in
religious elementary school and secular high school. He went on to become a laborer. At the start of 1925, he emigrated to
Belgium, and from there to Paris. From
1930 until WWII, he lived in Amsterdam.
He published sketches and stories of workers’ lives in: Belgishe bleter (Belgian sheets) and Yidishe prese (Jewish press) in Antwerp;
and Parizer haynt (Paris today), Di naye prese (The new press), and Parizer bleter (Parisian sheets), among
others, in Paris. He brought out a
volume entitled Shriftn (Writings)
(Amsterdam, 1932), 58 pp. In September
1942 he was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz, and there he was murdered.
Sources: Literarishe
bleter (Warsaw) (January 6, 1933); information from Dr. L. Fuks in
Amsterdam.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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