In Russian. Short description: G. Smolyar. Ghetto avengers. Moscow 1947. Hirsh Smolyar immediately after the war wrote in fact one of the first books about the Jewish resistance in the Minsk ghetto. Minsk Ghetto (July 20 1941 - October 21 1943) - a Jewish ghetto a place of forced resettlement of the Jews of Minsk in the process of persecution and extermination of Jews during the occupation of the territory of Belarus by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The ghetto was one of the largest in Europe and in the occupied territory of the USSR it ranked second in terms of the number of prisoners after Lvov. More than 100 000 Jews passed through the Minsk ghetto. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS002091
"In Yiddish. Short description: Smolyar B. Sorceress (Di kishefmahern). One-act play for young children. [In Yiddish]. Warsaw; New York: Detsky Mir Publishing House 1922. 16 p. Ber (Boris) Smolyar (1897-1986) - teacher and journalist writer publicist. Born in Rivne on the territory of the Russian Empire. He worked as a journalist in Warsaw Rovno Odessa Kazan. Member of the Bund. From 1920 he lived in the United States. From 1924 editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (ITA). Contributed to the New York World newspaper. He worked as a correspondent for ITA in Moscow (1930) wrote about the life of Jews in the USSR. In 1936 - in Berlin; in 1937 he was expelled from Germany. He was a staff member of the Forverts newspaper. He wrote a lot about the social political and cultural life of Jews in the United States. Collaborated with several Jewish periodicals in the United States; wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS001973"