AVROM REYGRADSKI

AVROM REYGRADSKI (b. August 14, 1913)

            He was born in Bialystok.  He attended religious elementary school and a Polish-Jewish high school.  In 1932 he emigrated to Paris.  Over the years 1940-1944, he was active in the resistance movement.  From 1934 he co-edited Naye prese (New press) in Paris, for which he wrote mostly political articles.  He was editor of Dos vort fun vidershtand un zig (The word of resistance and victory) (Paris, 1949), 266 pp.—in which he wrote most of the articles.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 509.