ERUSHALMI Eliezer (1903, Gorodishche, Minsk Governorate — ?), writer, publicist.

In 1925, Eliezer Erushalmi graduated from secondary school as an external student, studied humanities at the universities of Kharkov, Kovno, and Königsberg, and received a doctorate. He made his literary debut with journalistic articles in the Riga Russian newspaper Segodnya. In 1927 he began writing in Yiddish. At the same time, he also published in Hebrew. In 1941, he found himself in the Šiauliai ghetto (Lithuania), where he headed a public school. In 1942-1943, he was technical secretary in the Judenrat apparatus, recording the stories of ghetto prisoners. In 1944, he managed to escape to the forest to the partisans, then served in the Soviet Army. From June to September 1945, he was a member of the Jewish Historical Commission in Łódź (Poland), then moved to Italy, where he worked among Jewish refugees. From 1949, he lived in Israel. His first book, a brief history of the Jews in Yiddish, was published in Rome in 1946. In 1947, a book about the life and work of H. N. Bialik was also published there. In 1959, the book ‘The Death of the Jews of Lithuania’ was published in Tel Aviv in Hebrew, based on materials collected by Eliezer Erushalmi in the Šiauliai ghetto. In 1958, the book ‘The History of Siauliai’ was published in Jerusalem, and in 1960, a book about the children of the ghetto was published in Berlin. For his novel ‘From the Northern Forests to the Carmel Mountains,’ Eliezer Erushalmi was awarded the prize of the World Jewish Congress.