- First name
- Jakir
- Last Name
- Warszawski
- Maiden name
- Date of birth
- 1885
- Place of birth
- Mława
- Gender
- male
- Mother's first name
- Mother's maiden name
- Father's first name
- Age
- 57/58
- In the family
- husband
- Marital status
- married
- Spouse's first name
- Helena
- Occupation
- journalist, writer
- Country
- Poland
- City
- Warsaw
- Street
- Świętojerska
- City during the war
- Warsaw
- Street during the war
- ghetto
- Notes
- Yakir was a professor at the Tarbut School, a novelist and journalist, writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, and a Zionist activist. Born into a Hasidic family, he was the son of a small merchant. He received a traditional religious education, then became interested in modern languages and Hebrew. At first he worked as a Hebrew teacher in Gostynin, then as a bookkeeper in Mława, and finally again as a teacher in Plock. He traveled extensively in Poland, Europe and the Middle East, and visited Palestine. He published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press. A Zionist, he was a committed activist in the youth movement. During the occupation he was employed by the Labor Department of the Warsaw Judenrat. He died murdered in Treblinka.
- Place of death
- Treblinka
- Date of death
- Source
PSJPolish Dictionary of Jewish Culture created by the Jewish Historical Institute, available on website www.jhi.pl/psj.; YVPYad Vashem Archive – Page of Testimony. Information on Holocaust victims are collected in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names in the form of answers to a survey. Apart from the abbreviation (YVP) we usually provide the relationship of the person filling in the survey the victim. Eva Yerushalmi Rozenbaum (cousin); www.getto.plOnline database about the Warsaw ghetto - www.getto.pl; www.sztetl.org.plVirtual Shtetl – a website created by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, available on website www.sztetl.org.pl.
- Record ID
- 3080
- Date of inclusion in the database
- 31.07.2017
- Date of modification
- 01.03.2023
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- Source of photo (text)
- Family
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