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Born on 31 December 1893 in the shtetl Pyasikatko,
Yekaterinoslav Gubernia, Ukraine. His father was a expeditor for
the rail lines. He completed in Kremenchug the local
commercial school, then in 1921, a commercial institute
in Kharkov. 1922 – settled until 1932 in his wife’s
(born Rubinstein) birth city – Shavel, where he worked
as a procurer in a commercial bank, and at the same time
founded and directed bookkeeping courses.
In 1932 he and his family settled in Kovno, where he
received
in 1934 a proposal from the Soviet firm
“Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga,” and quickly e hbecame quite a
representative for all the Baltic countries, France,
Czechoslovakia, Finland and the United States of
America.
In 1940, when the Soviets took over Lithuania, he became
appointed as the manager of the department of foreign
books. In 1941, when the Nazis settled into Lithuania,
he became evacuated into the Kovno ghetto. In 1942, he,
with his wife, was sent over in a katset to Riga.
While he was a student in a commercial school, he was
socially active; he used to arrange children’s clubs,
participating in the school newspaper and issued a book
of collections dedicated to the ondenk of Count
Leo Tolstoy. Later he participated in spectacles that
were organized in the commercial school and organized
theatrical courses under the direction of the famous
regisseur Vakhtangov. In several schools he staged
theatrical productions and singing evenings. |
