Peretz Opoczynski

Peretz Opoczynski was born in Lutomiersk, near Łódź, was given a yeshiva education far away from home, which precipitated a break with his Hasidic upbringing. A shoemaker by profession, he also worked as a Yiddish journalist, first in Łódź and then, as of 1935, in Warsaw, specializing in reportage of urban poverty. Confined during the war in the Warsaw ghetto, Opoczynski worked by day as a mailman and by night continued to write reportorial fiction about all aspects of ghetto life for the Oyneg Shabes archive. He was most likely rounded up in the deportation of January 1943.