Borekh Olitzki (1907-1941) born in Turzysk (Trisk / Turiis’k), Volhynia, the middle brother in a literary family. Borekh was educated in a kheder (religious school). He lost his father during the First World War, and moved to Ratno (Ratne) where he lived with an uncle. He taught throughout Volhynia, and later in Łódź and Warsaw where he was beloved by his students and regarded as a one of the more talented poets of the new generation of Jewish writers.
Due to passport difficulties he was forced to live in Lachowicze (Lekhovitsh / Lyakhovichi) where he was killed when the Nazis occupied the town on 24 June 1941.
A single collection of his poems was published after his death at the initiative of his brother Leyb, titled Mayn blut is oysgemisht (My Blood Is Mixed, 1951)
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