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Photo title: Moshek Firer
Place of residence: LOMZA
Date of photograph: 1908
Holocaust:
Moshek Firer (pictured,
left), born in Radom in 1883, was the son of Jakob Icek Firer and
Fajga Brandla Austeryan. The Yizkor book "Sefer Zikaron Le-Kehilat
Lomza" ("Lomza: In Memory of the Jewish Community") tells us that Moshe
Firer was considered one of the "movers and shakers" in the Poaley-Zion
movement in Lomza, Poland in the 1930s. As one of its leaders, he
was accused of being a Communist and was arrested, spending many
months in the Lomza prison.
In 1935, a special counsel was formed in Lomza that oversaw the
distribution of donations for the poor. Moshe was one of the
three people who ran the council. The council invited every
beggar and offered them a monthly payment of support if they would
promise to stop begging on the street, which disgraced the city of
Lomza.
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