Buky, Herbert, 1901-

Herbert Buky was born in 1901 in Beuthen, Germany, (now Bythom, Poland).

He received his initial education in Beuthon before attending universities in Breslau, Heidelberg, Jena and Leipzig, studying economics and journalism.

Herbert Buky worked for a number of newspapers including Allgemeine Lokalanzeiger, Beuthen, Israelitisches Familienblatt, J uedische Rundschau, CV Zeitung, Juedische Allgemeine Zeitung, Berlin, and Juedische Zeitung Breslau .

In 1936 he founded a communal paper- Juedisches Gemeindeblatt fuer Oberschlesien (Gleiwitz, Beuthen, Hindenburg) and served as its editor and publisher until it was shut down in 1939.

In 1939 Herbert Buky was imprisoned in Buchenwald. Upon his release the same year, he and his wife Herta left for Shanghai.

In Shanghai he was involved in the Jewish cultural life and became a singer.

In 1947 Herbert Buky and his wife immigrated to the United States and settled in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania where he worked as a laboratory assistant at the Western Pennsylvania hospital..

Herbert Buky died in 1990.

From the guide to the Herbert Buky Collection, 1864-1990, bulk 1930s-1970s, (Leo Baeck Institute)