Vinter, Yankev
1902–
He was born in Lodz, Poland, graduated from the Lodz Hebrew high school, and studied journalism at Warsaw and Lemberg Universities. He lived in Paris and for a time in Spain, 1935-1938, before returning to Poland.
At the time of the German invasion of Poland, in 1939, he escaped to Lemberg where he was arrested by the Bolsheviks and sent to a camp in the distant northern regions of Russia. With the amnesty for Polish citizens in 1941, he was freed.
For a time he was a representative of the London Polish government for the Fergana and Samarkand districts and worked on behalf of Jewish war refugees.
He was again arrested in 1943 and sent to a camp. He began his writing activities in the Polish press in Lodz and Warsaw. In 1930 he switched to Yiddish. He placed pieces in: Lodzer Tageblat (Lodz Daily Newspaper) and Nayer Folksblat (New People’S Newspaper) in Lodz.
During the civil war in Spain, he was a special correspondent for Nayer Folks-Tsaytung (New People’S Newspaper) in Warsaw, in which—aside from letters from the war front—he published reportage pieces, interviews, short impressions, and articles of a general character.
There has been no information about him since 1943.
Source: P. Shvarts, in Fun Noentn Over (New York) 2 (1956), p. 432.