Duvid Tsudek Zakalik

Duvid Zakalik (born Tsudek Zakalik in 1900) was an author, journalist, and literary critic based in Warsaw. In late 1939 he fled Nazi-occupied Warsaw for Soviet-occupied Białystok, surviving the war in the USSR. Returning to liberated Lublin in 1944, he co-founded the Historishe Komisye, precursor to the Central Jewish Historical Commission, and collected testimonials from Holocaust survivors. He later headed a Jewish Writers’ Union in Italy under the name David Kupferberg; he also worked for the YIVO Institute collecting materials from Displaced Persons camps in Italy. He eventually emigrated to Israel, living in Tel Aviv near his brother, fellow Yiddish author Menakhem Zakalik. He died in 1980.