Tsizler, Hertsl
1908–1942
He was born in Gline (Glina), Lemberg district, eastern Galicia. He studied in religious elementary school and later was a pupil of Rabbi Meir Shapiro in the Lublin Yeshiva. Until WWII he was active in the Orthodox youth movement. He served as secretary of Tseire Agudat Yisrael (Agudat Yisrael Youth) for eastern Galicia.
He published stories of traditional Jewish life in Galicia as well as articles, and the like, in the Orthodox Yugnt Bleter (Youth Newspaper) and Dos Yudishe Togblat (The Jewish Daily Newspaper), as well as in Hebrew in Yavne, Deglanu (Our Banner), Darkhenu (Our Pathway), and the like, in Warsaw; Beys-Yankev-Zhurnal (Beys Yankev Journal) in Lodz; and in Sefer hayovel likhvod harav meir shapiro (Jubilee Volume in Honor of Rabbi Meir Shapiro) (Lublin).
He also published memoirs of life in the yeshiva. He was murdered during the Holocaust in Poland. Some of his stories were published in Hebrew in Udim (Firebrands) 1 (Jerusalem, 1960), pp. 359-64.
Sources: Udim (Firebrands) 1 (Jerusalem) (1960), p. 359; Kh. H. Halpern, Megiles Gline, Glinyane, Zikhroynes un Iberlebungen fun Khorev Gevorener Kehile (The Story of Gline-Glinyani, Memoirs and Experiences from a Destroyed Community) (New York, 1950).