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Meir Motil

Records on this page tell what became of him

מאיר מאטיל

Also spelled Matil

Printed in 5 issues of the paper, from September 13, 1935 to February 17, 1939.

Life events

  • Person who died

    Death of Meir Motil

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

In the paper

1935

  1. ט״ו אֱלוּל תרצ״הSeptember 13, 1935 געגנבעט א ראווער A bicycle stolen Article Subjects: Community affairs named

1936

  1. כ״ב טֵבֵת תרצ״וJanuary 17, 1936 דין וחשבון פון דער זעלבסטהילף אקציע פאר צעקאבע" אין פרוזשאנע Report of the self-help campaign for 'CEKABE' in Pruzhany Article Subjects: Community affairs donor

1937

  1. ט׳ תַּמּוּז תרצ״זJune 18, 1937 יידן ווילן מער ניט פארקויפן אנטיסעמיטישע צייטונגען Jews no longer want to sell antisemitic newspapers Article Subjects: Community affairs named

1938

  1. כ״ד אֲדָר א׳ תרצ״חFebruary 25, 1938 קאמוניקאט Communiqué Article Subjects: Community affairs donor

1939

  1. כ״ח שְׁבָט תרצ״טFebruary 17, 1939 מעלדונג Announcement: National Defence Fund collection (earlier reading) Article Subjects: Community affairs named
Records that may be about this person

These records concern someone with this name and town. Whether they refer to this person is uncertain.

  • Record about someone with this name: Received one of the two Jewish tobacco-trading concessions recorded in March 1938 (probable)

    • Pinkas Pruzhany (1958), p. 313

  • Record about someone with this name: Kiosk owner, granted a tobacco-trading concession

    • Pruzhaner Shtime, 1937-06-18
      די היגע צייטונגס קיאסקן פון ה' גארבאטי און מאטיל

    • Pinkas Pruzhany (1958), p. 313

  • Record about someone with this name: Among the 22 of the 24 Pruzhany ghetto leaders who died at Auschwitz; the only named survivors were Zavel Segal and Avraham Bresky (probable)

    • Pinkas Pruzhany (1958), p. 700

  • Record about someone with this name: Meir Motil’s kiosk stood on Pacewicza Street

  • Record about someone with this name: Meir Motil and Lipe Zakheim headed the Jewish ghetto police; the author praises their concern for the whole ghetto (probable)

    • Pinkas Pruzhany (1958), p. 700

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What became of him

By the records on this page, which probably name him, he probably perished in the Holocaust.

  • A record that probably names him, from Pinkas Pruzhany (1958), says:

    די יידישע פאליציי איז געווארן אנגעפירט דורך צוויי שטאלצע יידן. דאס זענען געווען מאיר מאטיל און ליפע זאקהיים. […] דאס זענען די 24 פירער פון פרוזשענער געטא. 22 זענען טויט, אומגעקומען אין די פייערן פון אוישוויץ.

    P. 700 Consulted Where we read it

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