Katriel Broydo

Katriel Broydo , alternative spelling Broido (born 1907 in Vilnius , Russian Empire , today Vilnius , Lithuania ; died probably at the beginning of 1945 in the Baltic Sea ) was a Jewish-Lithuanian author , composer and theater director .

Life

Very little is known about Broydo's origins and life prior to World War II. Apparently he was also artistically active in the Soviet Union (1941 to 1944) before the German occupation. As a result of the establishment of a Jewish ghetto in his hometown of Vilnius (Vilnius) by the Nazi military administration, the Jew Broydo was also imprisoned there. He quickly tried, together with fellow sufferers like the musician Misha Veksler and the lyricist Leyb Rozental , to create something like an artistic life in the ghetto. Broydo organized and staged revues and concerts and also directed the ghetto theater. Broydo is also considered a poignant contemporary witness of those years under the Nazi terror. "His lyrics often described the immeasurable suffering of the inhabitants of the ghetto and camp inmates and took direct reference to mass shootings and other Nazi atrocities." Like Kay Less wrote of 2008. After the Vilna Ghetto was dissolved, Broydo was deported to a concentration camp in Latvia or Estonia. Shortly before the end of the war, Nazi henchmen drowned him and Rozental in the Baltic Sea.

literature

• Kay Less: Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 384
• Joseph Wulf: Yiddish poems from the ghettos 1939–1945. Berlin 1964

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . P. 384

Web links

• Katriel Broido on ushmm.org
• Katriel Broido in: To Live With Hope, to Die With Dignity. By Joseph Rudavsky, Jerusalem 1997.
• "Tsi May Azoy Zayn? - Does it have to be so? " . Ghetto song with a text by Katriel Broydo.