In Rabbi Schwei’s Files, Surfaces An Unexpected Treasure
Sometimes in unexpected places you find treasure troves.
In the files of Rabbi Yaakov Schwei, ע”ה, a longtime member of the Crown Heights Beis Din, were a group of photos from the 1940’s and early 1950’s. The portraits from chassidim in the DP Camp in Pocking, Germany, Paris, France and Montreal, Quebec, were seemingly given as mementos from their time together during a difficult era.
Most of them just 3″ x 2″, while others were just 1″ x 1″, are a testament to the love between the chassidim.
Some of them were marked with the names, while most were not. If you know who any of them are, please let us know in the comments.
01) R. Yisroel Nevler and Shmuel Moshe (Der Alter).
02) Sholom Ber Lieberov.
03) R. Pinchus Korf.
7) R. Yaakov Schwei.
16) R. Baruch Shalom Schwei.
18) R. Zalman Serebryanski.
19) R. Moshe Yitzchok Gurkov.
20) R. Zalman Butman.
23) R. Peretz Feigenson.
With special appreciation to the Schwei family for permitting us to scan the photos.
To assist in future scanning projects to document Chabad history, please do so here: https://cash.app/$HasidicArchives
From the Comments:
4) Zalmen Marasow
5) Yaakov Yeshie Laufer
6) Yisroel Shemtov
8) Berl Dubravski
9) Heishke Dubrowsky
10) R. Yaakov Boruch Gansbourg
11) Kopel Bacher
12) R. Efraim Schmukler
15) Shalom Ber Nemanov
16) R. Boruch Sholom Schwei
13) R. Yaakov Schwei
17) Shemtov
19) Gurkov
20 ) Zalman Butman
21) R. Heshka Gansbourg
22) Chaim Yisroel Sperlin
25) Zalmen Marasow
