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Death of Gershon Leizerovich

By a record that probably names him, he probably died in the Holocaust, in 1942.

A record that probably names him, from the Pruzhany memorial book (Pinkes fun finf fartilikte kehiles: Pruzshene, Bereze, Maltsh, Shershev, Selts (1958)), says:

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וואָס זענען דערשאָסן געוואָרן אין חודש יולי 1942 ... 19) גרשון לייזעראָוויטש מיט זיין פרוי און צוויי קינדער. די עלטערע טאָכטער פייגל איז געווען אין פּרוזשענער געטאָ און נאָכדעם געוואָרן טראַנספּאָרטירט קיין אוישוויץ. זי איז געבליבן לעבן

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who were shot in the month of July 1942 ... 19) Gershon Leizerovich with his wife and two children. The elder daughter Feigl was in the Pruzhany ghetto and was afterwards transported to Auschwitz. She survived

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