Person

Tsipor, Y. B.

1888–1942

Born in Fălești, Bessarabia. At age four he moved with his parents to Paris. He studied there in a French school, graduated from university, and received his Ph.D. degree. In 1912 he moved to Warsaw and until WWI worked as a teacher. He later settled in Vlotslavek (Włocławek), and from there in 1928 he left for Paris, later still for Belgium. He published poems, stories, children’s plays, dramas, articles on literature and art, and translations. When the Nazis invaded Belgium in WWII, Tsipor left Brussels and lived in villages where he lived doing business; later, he lived for a time in Antwerp, from whence he was deported to the concentration camp at Malyn. He was subsequently transported to Auschwitz where he was murdered.