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In Memorium

1. The late Gitel Bichonski (née Galperin), immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust, passed away on 30^th of Av 5719, September 1959.
2. The late Tzipa Kolodani, immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust.
3. The late Raizel Kushnir, immigrated to Israel in 1935.
4. The late Yankel Gutman, immigrated to Israel with the outbreak of the Polish - German war in 1939.
5. The late Nuniya Hochman, may god avenge him, the son of Rabbi Herschel the shochet, immigrated to Israel with the outbreak of the Polish - German war in 1939. He served in the Hebrew Brigade, fought against the Nazi Germans on Italian soil, and fell in the line of duty there.
6. The late Rachel Jacobs (née Waldman), immigrated to Israel in 1936.
7. The late Gonik Yitzchak, the son of Rabbi Ben-Zion the melamed, immigrated to Israel in 1934, passed away on 18^th of Kislev 5728, 1968.
8. Tanchum Bebchuk and his wife, from Yablinke, a village near Stepan. They immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust.
9. The late Tanchum Sheinboim, immigrated to Israel in 1935, passed away in 1936.
10. The late Berta Krokober, immigrated to Israel in 1934, was a member of kibbutz Negba, passed away in 1935.

11. The late Yitzhak Weismann, immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust, passed away in October 1972.
12. The late Yechiel (Chilke) Bastos, immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust, passed away in July, 1973.
13. The late Moshe Bebchuk, from Yablinke, a village near Stepan, immigrated to Israel in the thirties of the twentieth century.
14. The late Moshe Avraham Zilberman, immigrated to Israel in the thirties of the twentieth century.
15. The late Adina (Idel) Perlmutter (née Bebchuk) late, immigrated to Israel after the Holocaust, passed away in 1972.
16. The late Yeshayahu, the son of Yaakov Priskolnik, immigrated to Israel in 1930, passed away in 1935.
17. The late Chasiya Gorinstein, the daughter of the dayan Rabbi Pinchas Gorinstein of blessed memory, immigrated to Israel from Canada after the Holocaust and passed away in Netanya in 1974.

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Yitzhak was one of the young men who, during his youth in Stepan, worked and activated the Zionist youth in the town.

At first, he was a member of Hashomer Hatzair and later moved to the ranks of Beitar and became one of the prominent Beitar commanders in the town.

Yitzhak was active, together with his friends, in introducing the Hebrew language and the Zionist consciousness into the hearts of the youth in the town.

Yitzchak grew up in a special family, a family of hardworking people, who were devoted to each other. The special thing about this family was that several uncles and aunts, along with their families, lived together in the same house, worked and placed their income in a common fund, in order to ensure dignified lives of all the members of the house - and all this peacefully and without quarrels and disputes.

His vigorous Zionist activity stopped when the Soviets entered the town in 1939. With the outbreak of the Russian-German war, in 1941, Yitzhak was recruited into the Red Army and sent to the depths of Russia. In Russia, he married Dvora, the cousin of Dr. Gorin, the famous dentist from Stepan. Even when he was in the depth of Russia, under difficult living conditions, Yitzchak did his best to help his acquaintances and the people of his town whom he met in Russia. The incident that is well remembered is when one of the townspeople, the late Chaim Salvotski, passed away, and Yitzchak sold his pair of shoes in order to burry Chaim in a Jewish funeral.

At the end of the war, it was only natural that Yitzchak and his wife would immigrate to Israel. And indeed, they immigrated to Israel in 1949. After their preliminary difficulties with the absorption as well financial difficulties, he managed to be accepted for a role in the Executive Committee of the Histadrut. Here he stood out for his talent and dedication to work and was well liked and accepted by his co-workers.

Yitzchak and his wife Dvora raised and educated their son Yeshayahu, the late. Yeshayahu graduated the Technion with a degree in structural engineering. He fell in defense of the homeland next to the Suez Canal, in the War of Attrition in 5730.

Their daughter, may she live a long life, is a lawyer by profession, started a family.

The fall of the talented and beloved son took a heavy toll on Yitzchak and after an illness he passed away from sorrow and great grief.

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Yitzchak was among those who encouraged and supported the idea of publishing Stepan's book. He described with great talent several characters of the town's Jews and made a considerable contribution to this book.

Yeshayahu (Shai) Weismann, may God avenge him		The late Yitzchak Weismann

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