The History of the Organization

Until the beginning of the 1930’s (the period of the Fifth Aliyah of the Zionist movement), no attempts were made to organize the community of Siedlce Jews in Eretz Israel. With the worsening economic situation of Jews in Eastern Europe, due to a severe economic crisis all over the world at that time, efforts were made to help the Jews of Siedlce who had immigrated to Israel. For this purpose, the registration of the survivors living in Israel was done, and on March 2, 1933, the “Siedlce Jews Organization in Eretz Israel” was established. The first tasks of the organization were to maintain contact with Zionist institutions in our city, to open a members’ club for meeting new immigrants with veteran Israelis, to contact all the Siedlce’s Jewish Diaspora, and to register the quantity and location of veteran immigrants from Siedlce in Israel. As for the Soviet Union, the organization’s committee managed

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