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G. was born in 1892 in Shavel, Lithuania.
Most of the time he lived in
Lodz.
He acted on the Yiddish
stage, but more as alts-opgegeben with the stage
parts.
He was known under the name
of "Bombe."
According to the actor
Kaleshnikov, in 1939 G. came with a wife to Bialystok
and participated in the organization of a Yiddish
theatre, because Bialystok was the center that used to
organize the Yiddish theatres.
When in Vilna the Soviet
became assigned to Lithuania, and G. went away to there with
his wife and children.
When the Nazis seized Vilna,
he as well as all the Jews, were deported into the
ghetto. There he built a provisional stage for the
famous Yiddish real gymnasium, which was in the shth
of the ghetto, where on 16 January 1942 the first Yiddish concert
took place there. G. was deported later to Estonia and
died there from typhus.
M. E. from
Yehoshua Baradov and Zalmen Kaleshnikov.
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