Zilberman, Khayim
1900–December 1942
He was born in Svislotsh (Swislocz), Volkovisk (Wołkowysk) district, Russian Poland. In 1928 he graduated from the medical department of Vilna University and until WWII practiced as a doctor in Swislocz.
He published articles on literary topics and on cultural and school-related matters in Volkovisker lebn (Wołkowysk life) (1925-1938) and in Frimorgn (Morning) in Riga, among others.
During the Nazi occupation, he was interned in the Wołkowysk camp. During Hanukkah 1942, together with a great number of Wołkowysk Jews, he was deported to Treblinka and there murdered.
Sources: Volkovisker Yizker-Bukh (Wołkowysk Memory Book), 2 vols. (New York, 1949), p. 738.
