Tuesday, 9 April 2019

DOVID KLEMENTINOVSKI


DOVID KLEMENTINOVSKI (October 25, 1888-January 23, 1961)
            He was born in Bialystok.  He attended religious elementary school.  In 1910 he received his engineering degree in Berlin.  For many years he was engaged in management work for ORT (Association for the Promotion of Skilled Trades) in Germany and France.  In 1946 he made his way to the United States.  He wrote articles for: Parizer haynt (Paris today), Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Brussels, and mainly Byalistoker shtime (Voice of Bialystok), among others.  In book form: Lebn un umkum in byalistoker geto (Life and death in the Bialystok ghetto) (New York, 1946), 96 pp.; D”r yoysef khazanovitsh, der idealist, natsyonalist un folksmentsh (Dr. Joseph Khazanovitsh, the idealist, nationalist, and man of the people) (New York: Bialystok Historical Society, 1956), 140 pp.  He died in New York.

Source: B. Shlevin, in Byalistoker shtime (New York) (January-February 1949).
Sh. Apter


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