Gebirtig Mordechai

  • Gʿebiyrṭiyg, Mordekay, 1877-1942
  • Guebirtig, Mordje, 1877-1942
  • Gebirtig, Mordechaj, 1877-1942
  • געבירטיג, מרדכי, 1877־1942
  • Gebirtig, Mordechai, 1877-1942
  • ...
Identifier
000136
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

1877

June 1942

History

Yiddish poet and songwriter, wrote what became the anthem of Cracow's Jewish underground resistance: Undzer shtetl brent (Our town is burning), shot and killed by German soldiers.

Places

  • Kraków, Poland

Sources

  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - Vol. 2, p. 546-547