Born in 1904 in Baltremantz (Butrimantz?), Lithuania.
He received a secular
education. He studied in Kovno's university and was
active in the unionist movement. Until 1941 he lived in
Kovno, later in the Vilna ghetto, where he was a civil
servant in the Jewish management. In the twentieth year
-- he was a worker at the Kovno "Folksblat", then in the
"Yiddish newspaper". In the Vilna ghetto he published in
a weekly newspaper bulletin "Geto idius (Ghetto
Information)" (Vilna, 1942-43). At the end of 1943 he
was sent away to the [ulinurmen] camp, to Derpt (Tartu),
Estonia, and there he perished from hunger and scabies.
In the ghetto B. was (the
source) of the information about the Lithuanian society
for Herman Kruk, who wrote a diary. In one of the
notices in the diary he was speaking about "a matter of
Binder", according to whom it here a hint, that people
had B. was subject, that he hasn't a close relationship
with the Germans, but it did it to [oysgevizn]. So it
was a mess.
B. had translated for the ghetto theatre the European
plays "Der mentsh untern brik", which was performed in
the ghetto.
His wife and his two small
children had endured in Kovno, magically in the ghetto.
In 1943 they were caught and killed in the ninth fort.
-
"Lexicon of the New
Yiddish Literature", New York, 1956, Vol. I,
pp. 195-196.
-
Sh. Katsherginski --
"The Destruction of Vilna", New York, 1947, p. 182.
-
H. Kruk -- "Togbukh
fun vilner geto (Diary from the Vilna Ghetto), New
York, 1961, pp. 403-4, 479, 535-36.
|