Hirsh Lekert

Hirsh Lekert (born 1880 in Onuškis, in the Troksky Uyezd of Vilna Governorate died June 10, 1902, in Vilnius ) was a Jewish socialist activist and member of the Bund.

Biography Lekert was an illiterate shoemaker who was active in the Bund since his youth. On May 24, 1900, he led a group of people in an attack on a police station in Vilnius and released three arrested workers. He was caught and exiled to Yekaterinoslav. He escaped in 1902 and came to Vilnius. When von Wahl, who had previously been a mayor of St. Petersburg, was made governor of the city, the Bund had organized demonstrations against him. Because of the practices of his administration, plots for his assassination began to be formed soon after his arrival. Lekert, together with several other Bund members began watching von Wahl's movements, bought weapons and trained in forests outside of Vilna. to some in the workers' movement.