Ayznvarg, Shmuel
1920-1943
approx. 22 - 23 years
He was a poet, born in Berdichev, Ukraine, into a family of craftsmen. In 1937 he graduated from a Jewish middle school, and that same year entered Moscow Pedagogical Institute. He placed his poetry in a number of Yiddish publications.
After graduating from the Institute, he was drafted into the military. He served on a submarine, and in 1943 died in the North Sea.
His work includes:
“Osher Shvartsman” (Osher Shvartsman), in the anthology, Osher Shvartsman (Moscow: Emes, 1940); and
“Aza Min Goyrl iz Mayn Lebnstroym” (Such a Fate Is My Life’s Dream), thirty poems in the collection, Di Lire, Lider-Krants (The Lyre, Garland of Poetry) (Moscow: Sovetski Pisatel, 1985).