Israel Lichtenstein

Born in Radzyn, Poland, Israel Lichtenstein was a teacher, activist, and Yiddish-language journalist in interwar Poland. Trained at the Vilna Yiddish Teachers Seminary, he settled in 1932 in Warsaw, where he became active in the Left Po‘ale Tsiyon party organization, wrote for several major Yiddish journals, and directed the city’s Borochov school. In 1938, he married Warsaw native Gele Sekstein (Seckstein), a teacher at the same institution and a budding artist. Both active in the Oyneg Shabes archive in the Warsaw ghetto, they left behind a last testament.