Vider, Tsvi-Hersh
-1943
He was born in Bialystok, Russian Poland. He joined the Bundist movement
when he was young, and later was the director of the bakers’ trade union. From 1915
until his death in the Bialystok ghetto, he owned his own bakery.
He debuted in print in
1913 with a correspondence piece from Bialystok to the Bundist weekly Di Tsayt (The
Time) in St. Petersburg. He published a series of articles on the Bialystok pogrom. He
also contributed to Dos Naye Lebn (The New Life) and der Handverker (The Artisan) in
Bialystok and Moment (Moment) in Warsaw. Together with Moyshe Visotski, he co-
edited the jubilee issue of Der Handverker, and he wrote as well for artisan publications
in Warsaw.
He was a member of Bialystok literary and journalistic circles. Later, as the
Jewish Council in the Bialystok ghetto provided the Nazi occupiers with the names of
12,000 Jews, Vider was one of them, and he hanged himself in his home.
Sources: Jubilee issue of Dos Naye Lebn (Bialystok) (1929); Byalistoker Almanakh
(Bialystok Almanac) (Bialystok, 1931); Byalistoker Leksikon (Bialystok Lexicon)
(Bialystok, 1935); Unzer Lebn (Bialystok) (May 13, 1938); A. Sh. Hershberg, in Pinkes
Byalistok (Records of Bialystok), Vol. 1 (New York, 1949); R. Rayzner, Der Umkum fun
Byalistoker Yidntum, 1939-1945 (The Destruction of Judaism in Bialystok, 1939-1945)
(Melbourne, 1949), p. 119.