[Cz-L]Short bio of Cantor Gedalya Gurman from the Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre

This comes from the fifth volume of the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre".
This fifth volume is the memorial book to those who were once somehow
involved with the Yiddish theatre who were killed by or at the behest of the
Nazis:

Gedalya Gurman

Born in 1883 in Uman, Ukraine.

In 1924 he began to work as a singer of Yiddish folksongs while at the same
time as a chazzan (cantor) and concertist with liturgical programs. He went
to Bucharest and Czernowitz, and after crossed over the very old and new
Romania.

In 1920 he searched for a brother in Africa and there recorded on a
gramophone plate several numbers from his repertoire. Returning to Romania,
he again recorded himself per his profession as a chazzan, until the summer
of 1941 when the Nazis had captured Czernowitz.

Soon after they entered, the Gestapo came for him in his apartment, carried
him away to the Czernowitzer Culture Palace, and from there to the Prut,
where he was killed.

Ilya Ehrenburg in his "shvarz buch (Black Book)", published also in Romania
in 1946, mentioned his tragic end.

G.'s wife Mindl (Manya) in 1942 was deported and was killed in Shargorod,
Transylvania. Their daughter Sonia and her husband Shmuel Fischler were
actors in the Bucharest Yiddish State Theatre.

[The testimony was given by a Julian Schwartz, though I can't say who this
is.]

Regards,
Steven Lasky
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com
steve_at_museumoffamilyhistory.com

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