Cwi Wider

... At the moment it was learned the Judenrat had already selected the 12,000 and was ready to give their names to the Nazis, a well-known Partisan and Judenrat member, Cwi Wider, decided to end his life. After leav- ing notes for the council and his wife, he hanged him- self in his own home. His heroic deed was talked about for a long time thereafter with awe and reverence, Wider from then on was considered a martyr of the ghetto. ...

... ed them to form a Judenrat (a Jewish council), through which the local Nazi authorities could issue all kinds of ordinances and regulations affecting the Jews. Rabbi Rosenman and Engineer Barasz conveyed the new edict to other leading Jewish figures. Soon afterward, a Judenrat was appointed containing twenty-four Jews, including two women. They included: Rabbi Rozen- man, Efrajim Barasz, Dowid Subotnik, Mr. Liman, Jakow Goldberg (these five constituted the executive committee); Mend! Kaplan, Dr. M. Kacenelson, H. Glikson, Pejsach Kaplan, Mordechaj Chmelnik, Szmuel Punianski, Rabbi Boruch Eli Halpern, Rabbi Pinje Ajzensztat, Jakow Lifszic, Aba Furman, Mojsze Szwif, Izak Markus; Awrom Tyktin, Cwi Wider, Pejsach Chmelnicki and Szmuel Polonski. ...

... subject was the bleak, declining Lithuanian-Polish shtetl; J.G. Sztejnsapir — humorist and founder of a weekly Yiddish publication; Oszer Czanowicz and Josef Rubinlicht — The former originally wrote for the War- saw Express. The latter was a folk humorist; Jakow Waks and Cwi Wider — Freelance writers on labor issues for Unzer Leben; Mordechaj Zabludowski and Dr. Cwi Lukaczewski — specialists on engineering and medicine, respectively, whose articles appeared in the Friday Unzer Leben; Nojach Zabludowski — known for his meticulous use of language; A.S. Herszberg — his- torian of Jewish life in Bialystok; Awrom Tyktin — scientist, publicist and philosopher. Many of the above ...