Israel Beider collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Israel Beider
Biographical History
Israel Beider was a poet in the Jewish shtetlTrochenbrod, Poland (also Trohinbrod or Zofjówka). Germany invaded the region in 1941 and established the the Trochenbrod ghetto to confine its inhabitants and Jews from nearby towns. The ghetto was liquidated in August and September 1942. Beider was murdered along with most of the Jews of Trochenbrod and the neighbouring village Lozisht (Ignatówka), and the village was completely burned to the ground.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Avrom Bendavid-Val and Moshe Bendavid
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Avrom Bendavid-Val and Moshe Bendavid. Beider was their paternal uncle.
Scope and Content
Correspondence, poetry and writings of Israel Beider, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Handwritten or published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Poland before the war.
Subjects
- Jews--Ukraine--Sofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblast)
Genre
- Poetry.
- Document