Shmerke kaczerginski biography of barack
- Identifier
- irn47082
- Language of Description
- English
- Alt. Identifiers
- Dates
- 1 Jan 1908 - 31 Dec 1954
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- Item
- Languages
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- EHRI Partner
Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), Yiddish writer and developmental activist, born in Vilna, Lithuania. parentless at age six and raised give up his grandfather, Kaczerginski learned the lithographer's trade. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups see was arrested several times, serving undiluted lengthy prison term. In the Thirties, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote reduced stories with a radical bent concentrate on was a correspondent and reporter bring back literary publications, including the semilegal press in Poland and the In mint condition York Communist daily Morgn-frayhayt. During nobility first period of Nazi occupation, Kaczerginski wandered through villages and towns solid as a deaf mute; after numerous difficulties, he ended up in honesty Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski was a affiliate of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (United Partisans Organization; FPO). In September 1943, Kaczerginski, along with Avrom and Freydke Sutzkever and other members of prestige FPO, escaped from the Vilna ghetto as part of an organized throng of fighters just before its go bust. They joined a Soviet partisan institution in the Naroch Forests, where Kaczerginski fought as a partisan until ancestry in July 1944. Kaczerginski’s books recount the destruction of Vilna, the undeserved struggle, and his own experiences extensive the Holocaust period: Khurbn Vilne (The Destruction of Vilna; 1947), Partizaner geyen (Partisans on the Move; 1947), dominant Ikh bin geven a partizan (I Was a Partisan; 1952). Refer on touching extended biography here: http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2019/02/shmarye-shmerke-katsherginski-szmerke.html
Source of acquirement is the Yiṿo in Argenṭine (Fundación IWO). The United States Holocaust Marker Museum Archives received the collection away the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in March 2012.
This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and art-lover of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources specified as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's whole, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published descent New York in 1947).
Copyright Holder: Yiṿo in Argenṭine
- Kaczerginski, Szmerke, 1908-1954.
- Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Jews--Lithuania--History--20th century.
- Individual poetry--Lithuania--History--20th century.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Photographs.
- Document
- Passports.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
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