Yisker zhurnal gevidmet diumgekumene fun Visoka un Voltshin (Vysokaye, Belarus)

Entertainment and Ball Given by the
United Wisoko-Litowsker and Woltchiner Relief

(Vysokaye, Belarus)
52°22' / 23°22'

(Volchin, Belarus)
52°17' / 23°19'

Translation of
Yisker zhurnal gevidmet diumgekumene
fun Visoka un Voltshin

Editors: Samuel Levine, Morris Gevirtz, NY, 1948

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This is a translation from: Yisker zhurnal gevidmet diumgekumene fun Visoka un Voltshin
Entertainment and ball given by the United Wisoko-Litowsker and Woltchiner Relief
Ed. Samuel Levine, Morris Gevirtz, NY: United Wisoko-Litowsker and Woltchiner Relief, 1948

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T'SH” CH IN MEMORY! 1948

Dedicated to the Holy

Memory of the Martyrs of

Visoke-Litovsk and Volchin

I weep for those mishaps, my eyes are dripping with tears,

for the destructions.

Visoke Volchin

Saturday evening Beethoven Hall

1948 1948

February 7th 210 East 5th Street

Entertainment and Ball
Given by the
United Wisoko-Litowsker and
Woltchiner Relief
on
February 7th, 1948

at
Beethoven Hall
210-214 East 5th Street, New York City

[not found in original document]

Article	Author	Page
Hebrew Cover		1
Title Page; Journal Committee Members List		3
Yizkor!	Morris Gevirtz	4
Woe to Those Who Have Been Lost	Rabbi Abba Seltzer	5
Photo: Arrangement Committee		6
Summer in My Small Town Visoke	Faigl Shatsky-Yudin	7
Photo: Passaic Branch of the United Relief		9
Open Letter to Our Landsleit		10
From Darkness to Light	Rabbi Reb Abraham Shmuel Samuels	12
Photo: Journal Committee		14
God Is Crying…	Morris Gevirtz	15
Visoke-Litovsk and Volchin Survivors		19
Hyman Gevirtz, Our President	Samuel Levine	20
Two Letters From the Other World	David Wolf	22
The Terrible Catastrophe in the Small Town of Volchin	Mendl Refkovske	25
Photo: Surviving Landsleit after Liberation		26
Get Acquainted with … the United … Relief	Louis Weiner	27
A Yom Kippur Night in Volchin	Morris Gevirtz	29
About some of our Active Relief Workers	Samuel Levine	32
Dedications: Kravitz, et al.		33
Dedications: Khazanovitch, et al.		34
Wysoko-Litovsker Bruderlikher Untershtitzungsfareyn	Gevirtz et al.	35
Dedications: Rubin		36
Dedications: Wisoko Aid Society of Chicago		37
Dedications: Gold		38
Dedications: Katz, et al.		39
Dedication, Zeydl, et al.		40
Dedications: Faynberg, et al.		41
Dedications: Yudin, et al.		42
Dedications: Kaplans, et al.		43
Dedications: Hecht, et al.		44
Dedications: Manishewiz, et al.		45
Dedications: Steinman, et al.		46
Dedications: Kreizelman, et al.		47
Dedications: Lichter, et al.		48
Dedications: Windsor House, et al.		49
Dedications: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rosen		50
Dedications: Siegel, et al.		51
Dedications: Witzel, et al.		52
Dedications: Weyner, at al.		53
Dedications: Blumberg, et al.		54
Dedications: Manishewitz, et al.		55
Dedications: Stein, et al.		56
Dedications: Pressner, et al.		57
Dedications: Gervirtz, et al.		58
Dedications: Pinchuc, et al.		59
Dedications: Rabin, et al.		60
Dedications: Shmith, et al.		61
Dedications: Farber, et al.		62
Dedications: Dostis, et al.		63
Dedications: Cohen, et al.		64
Dedications: Cohen, et al.		65
Dedications: Gottfried, et al.		66
Dedications: Gutterman, et al.		67
Dedications: Cohen, et al.		68
Dedications: Sall, et al.		69
Dedications: Goodman, et al.		70
Dedications: Tenenboim, et al.		71
Dedications: Cantor; photo		72
Dedications: Witzel, et al.		73
Dedications: Kravetz, et al.		74
Dedications: Steiner, et al.		75
Dedications: Bayer, et al.		76
Dedications: Witchel, et al.		77
Dedications: Wolf		78
Dedications: Schaenman, et al.		79
Dedications: Tenenboim, et al.		80
Dedications: Shuster, et al.		81
Dedications: Levine; photo		82
Compliments of our Landsleit and Supporters of Our Relief (list)		83
Dedications: Bernstein		84
Dedications: Rosen		85
Dedications: Myers		86
Dedications: Ripley		87
Dedications: Katz		88
Dedications: Grossman		89
Dedications: Lafer		90
Dedications: Darvick		91
Dedications: Seideman		92
Dedications: Goodman		93
Dedications: Bokras; photo		94
Dedications: Born		95
Financial Report… and a Little History of How the Relief Was Organized		96
United … Relief Officers and Executive Committee (lists)		97
English Title Page		98
English Cover		100
Names Index

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T'SH” CH	IN MEMORY!		1948

*Dedicated to the Holy*
*Memory of the Martyrs of*
*Visoke-Litovsk and Volchin*
*I weep for those mishaps, my eyes are dripping with tears,*
*for the destructions.*

*Visoke*		*Volchin*
*Saturday evening*		*Beethoven Hall*
*1948*		*1948*
*February 7th*		*210 East 5th Street*