YERUKHEM BAKHRAKH (YERUCHAM BACHRACH)

YERUKHEM BAKHRAKH (YERUCHAM BACHRACH) (d. 1943)

The date of his birth is unknown; the place was Orle, Poland.  He was the son of a ritual slaughterer, and he studied in religious elementary school and high school.  He was a teacher, a Zionist leader, a Joint official in Bialystok, and an inspector of “Joint” schools in Poland.  He was the author of Demografye fun der yidisher bafelkerung in byalistok far di yorn 1919-1935 (Demography of the Jewish population in Bialystok, 1919-1935) (Bialystok, 1937) with twenty-two tables, 53 pp.  His accounts, written in the Bialystok ghetto, are now lost.  He was killed during the first liquidation (February 1943).

Source: Der oyfshtand in byalistoker geto (The uprising in the Bialystok ghetto) (Warsaw, 1950).