YISROEL KRAVETS

YISROEL KRAVETS (b. March 17, 1898)

            He was born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland.  He worked as a tailor and was active in the Bund.  He lived in Warsaw and from 1958 was in Israel.  In book form: Der gehenem baym lebn, 5 yor untern natsizm (Hell in life, five years under Nazism) (Tel Aviv, 1968), 356 pp., in Hebrew translation by Yaakov Gurali as: Hagehinom baḥayim, ḥamesh shanim taḥat shilton hanatsim bair shedlets (Hell in life, five years under Nazi rule in the city of Siedlce) (Tel Aviv, 1971), 248 pp.; Oyfbli un fargey (Revival and moving on) (Tel Aviv, 1973), 112 pp.  At Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, one may find Kravets’s two typewritten manuscripts: a monograph about Siedlce (234 pp.); and an autobiography (229 pp.).

Ruvn Goldberg