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It's written here very poorly as this was the house of the Jewish People's Theater
Karpinovitsh's father, the theater's leader was here.
He was born in 1881 and killed at Ponar in 1941.
He was the leader, the material leader
I don't know how important it is but Avrum said that these trees overlooked his father('s office).
When we put up the marker-board Karpinovitsh made an appearance.
You've probably read his father's work.
He said that his father saw these trees. I don't know, could be.
Now I want to show you from afar, to the right,
This was the editorial office of the "Vilner tog" (Vilna day) newspaper
This is a famous newspaper which in its day changed it's name a few times because it would be banned and confiscated.
Zalmen Reyzen was the newspaper's editor.
Zalmen Reyzen was a brother of (the famous writer) Avrum Reyzen and a Sore Reyzen who was a poet.
Reyzen was killed. He was arrested before the war by the Soviets and killed.
By the way, the apartment where professor Dovid Katz lives at 17 Populanki was Zalmen Reyzen's apartment.
I'll show you from afar as we go by.
There was a writing hanging up from a "message book" by us (in the Yiddish institute perhaps) and
Dovid is very proud to live in the apartment where Zalmen Reyzen lived.
A distributor came to us early every morning and brought the newspaper. He collected money
once a week on fridays. When asked who had come he'd say "the culture deliveryman"
He thought himself a "culture carrier", that man who delivered the paper. He considered
himself not a simple newspaper deliveryman because the Vilner Tog was at a high cultural level
for a newspaper. Unlike the "folks tsaytung" they didn't print any "shund romanen" (literary trash novels)