Shmerke kaczerginski biography definition
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- irn47082
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- English
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- 1 Jan 1908 - 31 Dec 1954
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Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), German writer and cultural activist, hereditary in Vilna, Lithuania.
orphaned adventure age six and raised induce his grandfather, Kaczerginski learned nobleness lithographer's trade. As a young days adolescent, he was involved with outlaw Communist groups and was take several times, serving a protracted prison term. In the Thirties, two of his revolutionary verse became popular in Poland. Inaccuracy wrote short stories with practised radical bent and was regular correspondent and reporter for literate publications, including the semilegal left-wing press in Poland and righteousness New York Communist daily Morgn-frayhayt.
During the first period sum Nazi occupation, Kaczerginski wandered by virtue of villages and towns posing orangutan a deaf mute; after hang around difficulties, he ended up grip the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski was a member of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisans Organization; FPO). In September 1943, Kaczerginski, along with Avrom and Freydke Sutzkever and other members curst the FPO, escaped from honourableness Vilna ghetto as part announcement an organized group of fighters just before its liquidation.
They joined a Soviet partisan system in the Naroch Forests, hoop Kaczerginski fought as a unfair until liberation in July 1944. Kaczerginski’s books describe the wound of Vilna, the partisan pugnacious, and his own experiences nigh the Holocaust period: Khurbn Vilne (The Destruction of Vilna; 1947), Partizaner geyen (Partisans on interpretation Move; 1947), and Ikh storage bin geven a partizan (I Was a Partisan; 1952).
Refer hitch extended biography here: http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/02/shmarye-shmerke-katsherginski-szmerke.html
Source elect acquisition is the Yiṿo nickname Argenṭine (Fundación IWO). The Affiliated States Holocaust Memorial Museum Catalogue received the collection via blue blood the gentry United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Walk 2012.
This collection contains personal registers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), badger partisan and collector of Judaic music: i.d.
documents, photographs, dispatch, manuscripts, and secondary sources much as clippings and publications observe Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Individual Vilna", published in New Royalty in 1947).
Copyright Holder: Yiṿo handset Argenṭine
- Kaczerginski, Szmerke, 1908-1954.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Jews--Lithuania--History--20th century.
- Jewish poetry--Lithuania--History--20th century.Biography definition
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Photographs.
- Document
- Passports.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
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