HENRIK ERLIKH UN VIKTOR ALTER : GEDENKBUKH.

Buenos Aires : Di Bundishe Grupe. 1943. Item #20810

8vo. 205 pages. In Yiddish. Illustrated. Memorial book to the two murdered Bundist leaders, published 2 years after their deaths. Alter (1890–1941) , was a “leader of the Bund in Poland. Alter was born in Mlawa, Poland, into a wealthy hasidic family. He graduated as an engineer in 1910, in Liège, Belgium. In 1912 he became active in the Bund in Warsaw. Exiled to Siberia for his political activities, he later escaped. During World War I, Alter found employment in England, as a laborer and then as an engineer. He returned to Poland after the February Revolution in 1917 and became a member of the central committee of the Bund. Between 1919 and 1939 Alter was one of the prominent leaders of the Bund and Jewish trade unions in Poland. He was a Warsaw city councilor for almost 20 years, and after 1936 a member of the board of the Jewish community. After the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, Alter escaped to the Russian-occupied zone. However, he was soon arrested with his associate, Henryk Erlich. They were both executed on December 4, 1941, in Kuibyshev” (Ezekiel Lifschutz in EJ, 2007) . SUBJECT(S) : Jewish socialists – Poland – biography; Political prisoners – Soviet Union – biography; Erlich, Henryk, 1882-1941; Alter, Victor, 1890-1941. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Patterned endpapers, spots of wear on cloth of front cover, some pages creased in upper corners, good condition. (HOLO2-7-27).

Price: $100.00