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The Childhood and Youth of The rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinowitz Biala Rebbe Ramat Aharon Shlita (Hebrew Text provided by the Rebbe’s granddaughter, the author Yochi Brandes) Translated from Hebrew by Mr. Yuval Romano Siedlce I was born in the month of Tevet TRP”Z, December 1926, in the city of Shedlice in Poland (East of Warsaw). My father (born in 1900), the […]

Family history based on interviews by Amnon Yoged with his father Shaul Jagodzenski and his grandfather Aharon. Translated from Hebrew by Mr. Yuval Romano. Background on Siedlce: Father: Napoleon used Polish Jews (for conscription, financing and weapons), when he went to war against Russia. During the Emancipation period, the Jews of central Poland were given Polish names […]

Introduction In memory of or community, Siedlce, which was destroyed by Nazi Germany and its allies. In memory of all the family members who have perished without leaving a remnant: Gora family and Yavkowitz family, and my grandmother’s sister Pearl Gora and Applebaum Leah’s family (nee Shostak), her husband, Berl, and their nine children and in memory of all members of my too-short a childhood […]