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The Rav who came here from Russia lived at 661 Hemlock Street in Brooklyn.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Menachem and Rebbetzin Bloom, Credit: MCA

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Congregation Anshi S’fard is an Orthodox synagogue located in Atlanta, in the Morningside and Virginia Highlands neighborhoods. Anshi S’fard was founded in 1911 to provide a home for Hasidic worship and fellowship for Jews from Poland, Galicia and the Ukraine who had settled in Atlanta – it’s the oldest Orthodox synagogue in Atlanta.

Photo Caption: Kozhnitzer Rebbe, Credit: Yitz Twersky, KGH

Photo Caption: Kozhnitzer Rebbe, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Kozhnitzer Rebbe, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Hirsh Olshwang at a wartime rally, along with Mayor Edward J. Kelly at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, May 1, 1944, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and history (IFJCAH)

Photo Credit: Chicago Rabbis

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Born in Luknik, Lithuania, Rav Olshwang, studied under Rav Eliezer Gordon and his (future) brother-in-law Rav Shimon Shkop at Telshe. He was later ordained by the Rogotchover Goan, Rav Yosef Rosen, and would go on to rabbinate on three continents. First in Vitebsk, Belarus, and upon arrival on these shores at Congregation Mishna U’Gmoro in Chicago and thereafter as Mashgiach Ruchani, Telsher Yeshiva in Cleveland. He eventually settled in Bnei Brak. Sadly, he left no descendants.

Source: The Jewish Post and Opinion 

Photo Caption: Bob Daly, Oak Woods Cemetery worker inspects the damage after 180 tombstones were knocked over and shattered, d. April 3, 1947, Credit: IFJCAH

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Source: The Morning Journal

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Photo Caption: Rabbi Baruch Avroham Wolinski, Source:  The Mourning Journal, July 10, 1917, page: 5

Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: At a wedding: 1. Rav Yitzchok Hutner, 2. Chosson, 3. Rav Eliezer Silver, 4. Needed, 5. Needed, 6. Needed, Credit: Needed

Photo Credit: Rav Hunter along with his Rebbitzin, Credit: Needed
Of Note: The picture of the Alter Rebbe of Liadi hanging on the wall. 

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At the very minimum, 152,000 people were murdered at Chelmno, HY”D, which would make it the fifth most deadly extermination camp, after Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, and Auschwitz. The Red Army captured the town of Chełmno on January 17, 1945. By then, the Germans Y”S had already destroyed evidence of the camp’s existence, leaving no prisoners behind. One of the camp survivors, who was fifteen years old at the time, testified that only three Jewish males had escaped successfully.
How the remains arrived in Monsey, New York is unclear. Recently a new marker was erected in honor of those buried there.

Photo Caption: What remained of the Chelmno Extermination Camp, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Yitzchok Geiger, Vienna c.1927, Credit: Judith Goldsmith

Photo Caption: Rav Geiger accompanying the Tzvi LaTzaddik, Credit: MCA

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Rav Geiger was the personal assistant of Rebbe Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Bluzhov (d. 1924), also known by the eponym, Tzvi LaTzaddik. Upon his arrival on these shores, he rabbinated at Agudas Anshei Mamud u’ Bais Vaad Lachachomim located at 156 Henry Street  on the Lower East Side.

Source: Chachmei Yisroel of New England

Photo Caption: Rabbi Zalman Moshe Friederman, Credit: Needed

Source: Orthodox Judaism in America, Moshe D. Sherman

Photo Caption: Rav Moshe Feinstein, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Kever of the Chofetz Chaim, Radin, Belarus, Credit: DZ

Photo Caption: Recently discovered (video) picture of the Chofetz Chaim in Vienna, Credit: University of South Carolina

Photo Caption: “Muga” stamp attributed to the Chofetz Chaim, Credit, IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Gartel of the Chofetz Chaim (identified by its unique rust/orange color stains), the Gartel is now owned by his grandson Rabbi Yisroel Meir Zacks of Brooklyn, Credit: IFJCAH


Photo Caption: Rebbitzine Miriam Fraida Kagen, second wife of the Chofetz Chaim, Credit: Eliyahu Zaks, Lakewood, NJ 

Photo Caption: Rabbi Naftali Riff, Credit: Needed 

Photo Caption: Rabbi Avroham Yoffen, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Rabbi Avroham Yoffen, Credit: posted on photo

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Rav Yoffen was a son-in-law of Rav Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok and served as the director of the Novardok Yeshiva network across Eastern Europe. He fled to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II and opened a yeshiva in Borough Park. In 1962 he moved to and founded a Kollel in Yerushalayim.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Chaim Hyamson, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Congregation Orach Chaim located at 1459 Lexington Ave, New York (d. 2019), Credit: Google

Photo Caption: Congregation Orach Chaim located at 1459 Lexington Ave, New York (d. 2019), Credit: Google

Photo Caption: Rabbi Berel Brennglass, Credit: Chris Brock (NNY-360)

Photo Caption: Massena, New York (c. 1930), Credit: Edward Berenson

Photo Caption: Rabbi Berel Brennglass, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Brennglass family, 1931, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rabbi Eliezer Brennglass, Credit: MCA

Of Note:
In September of 1928, just two days before Yom Kippur,  a blood libel was launched against the Jews of Massena. After only being missing for less than a day, the small Jewish community was accused of killing Babara Griffiths, a local four-year-old. It’s was claimed that they needed her blood for the upcoming Yom Kippur service. Rabbi Brennglass did everything in his power to protect his congregants as well as fight off the accusations. Griffiths was later found wandering lost in woods.

Mount Carmel Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location:  VEREIN CHOROSTKOWER, Section: 1, Block: D, Map: 32, Line: 4, Grave: 1

Photo Caption: Congregation Anshe Torath Chesed v’Zichro Torath Moshe located at 374-380 Vermont Street, Brownsville c. 1940, Credit: NYC

Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Mon, 2/28/1921

Source: Yiddish Daily

Source: Morning Journal

Photo Credit: MCA

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Rabbi Yosef Zundel Weingarten who arrived here from Austria was the proprietor of the S. Weingarten Hand Matzoh Co. located at 74 Ridge Street and later relocated  34 Norfolk Street on the Lower East Side. Rabbi Weingarten a Sadigerer Chossid attracted the business of many Chassidim living in New York City at the time. After his passing, the bakery was managed by his wife Sarah.

Photo Caption: Preparing the dough at the Horowitz Margareten Matzah Bakery, March 13, 1937, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH) 
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Photo Caption: Inspecting the finished product, March 13, 1937, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Photo Caption: 1944, preparing food packages to be sent DP Camps in Europe, (on the right with his finger on the box is Alter Perl, next to him is Benny Ulman, Heshy Leiser, and Shlomo Ort), Credit: Needed

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The Matzoh Bakery was founded in 1884 by Jacob Horowitz, a son of Isaac Horowitz, together with his sons; his daughter, Regina Horowitz Margareten; and her husband Ignatz Margareten, shortly after their immigration to New York from Hungary.

Rebbe Yosef Leifer, Pittsburger Rebbe, Credit: Assigned to IFJCAH

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The Pittsburger Admorim, a scion of the Nadvorna line of Chassidic dynasties trace their lineage to Rebbe Meir’l of Premishlan (d. 1773), a student of the Baal Shem Tov.