Israel Beider collection

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. 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.