Zvi Borodo was born Hirsz Borodowski in Wilno, Lithuania
in 1930. He escaped from the ghetto in Wilno with his mother in June of 1942
after his father, Avraham Borodowski, and brother, Arie, were murdered at the Ponary
murder site near Wilno (today Vilnius, Lithuania), his mother, Genia-Szeina (née
Lurie), fled the Wilno ghetto for the surrounding villages in order to seek
safety. A Polish acquaintance in one of the villages sent them to the priest
Jan Sielewicz in the town of Worniany (Vilnius-Troki County, Wilno District),
telling them that he was helping Jews and would also assist them. The priest
Sielewicz indeed took them under his protection and sent them to farm families
in the surrounding towns and villages ho needed working hands in exchange for
food and lodging. Their employers did not know that they were Jews. However,
when they were asked to register at the local police [as they were required to
do], both returned to Father Sielewicz for a temporary hiding place until he
could find them work and secure lodging elsewhere. In 1943, while a new hiding
place was being sought for Genia and her son Hirsz, they learned that the
priest had died. The mother and her small son returned to wandering through
villages and towns until the liberation by the Red Army in the summer of 1944.
When he grew up, Hirsz Borodowski became a well-known opera singer in Isarel,
under the name of Zvi Borodo.
Borodo became a musician (guitar) and folk singer. He was
a member of the Israeli folk singing group ‘Trio Aravah’ with Arik Lavi and
Shimon Israeli. Later he had a solo career as a singer, musician, composer and
actor.
Borodo composed the score for Euro-western “Duel at
Sundown” (1965) starring Peter van Eyck and Mario Girotti (aka Terence Hill).
BORODOV, Zvi (aka
Z. Borodo, Tzvi Borodov, Zvi Borodovsky) (Hirsz
Borodowski) [1930, Wilmo, Lithuania
- ] – actor, composer, singer,
musician (guitar), member of the singing group ‘Trio Aravah’.
Duel at Sundown – 1965
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