Rebbe Avigdor Shapiro
אביגדור ב"ר שלום
Chensechover RebbeDate of Death:
Sun. February 20, 1927 -
Adar I 18 5687
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Directions to Kever: Washington Floral Park Cemetery, also know as Deans Cemetery located Monmouth Junction, New Jersey maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Ohel on South First Street and Rothenberg Lane in the Satmar Section
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Chensechover Rebbe, Credit: MCA
Bio Information:
The Rebbe who was originally interred in Chensechov was moved to New Jersey in 1971 by his daughter the late Satmar Rebbetzin, Alta Fiega Teitelbaum.
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Why was he moved?
According to the matzeiva (tombstone) the cemetery was suffering from neglect and was in danger of being uprooted. Apparently, he had a large ohel in Chensechov as well.
Where is Chensechov?
Poland
Do you know if there is a picture of the Rebbe?
Someone in Czenstochov found the Ohel of the Rebbe, and we thought that the Rebbe is still buried there. The Ohel is broken down, the enterence with the front wall is still standing there. But I see now that the Rebbe is not there anymore. The Siftzei Tzaddik is bureid there though! You are welcome to come to Cznstochov any time! Yaakov.
by the satmar rov yahrzeit seudah in miami spoke a rav shapiro who is a nephew of the satmar rebbzin does anybody know how this nephew is related to the above zadik
The Rebbetzin was a daughter so that would make him an einikel.
* ר’ אביגדור שפירא מטשענסטחוב י”ח אדר תרפ”ז
http://www.ivelt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=7201
The Rebbetzin had a elder brother named Rabbi Yakov Yitzchok, who was Rebbe in Tchenstochov after their father. He had a son named Chaim Sholom Yechiel, from his first wife, who cames to E. Israel before the WWII with his mother, and lived in Flatbush (picture of his Matzeivo, see http://www.ivelt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=7201). Rabbi Yakov Aharon Shapiro from Far Rockaway is a son of Chaim Sholom Yechiel.
[The Jewish Morning Journal – דער מארגען זשורנאל] 18 אוקטובר 1920
http://www.jpress.nli.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=HMFmCSHLifcCiNQ%2F2YCFPdgYmq3ShXK7zIJYSlDaoGXY2n3c4cHVGfdCzRGkIvc3Yw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=TJM%2F1920%2F10%2F19&page=2&rtl=true
He had a big Ohel in the Czestochowa Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery is indeed neglected in the absence of an active Jewish community but in recent years efforts have been made to rehabilitate and clean it. The OHEL did not exist like was and the time-lapse touched it. http://www.gidonim.com/he/tombstones/czestochowa/5491