From Days Gone By: Reb Benche Shemtov Welcomed to Land of the Free, 1951

A group of Lubavitcher Chassidim gathers in 770 to welcome Reb Benche Shemtov, OBM, to America, following his escape from the Stalin’s Soviet Union four years earlier in 1947. Can you identify anyone else in the photo?

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  • Anonymous

    Second from left R’ Mottel Sharfstein a’h
    Second from right bottom row R’ Yisroel Gordon

  • to comment 1

    from the right – Rabbi Yisroel Gordon and Reb Dovid Raskin

    standing higher- Reb Moshe Levertov

    from left
    Reb Motel Sharstein –
    Rabbi Kazarnowsky

  • Mottel SHarfstein second from left

    Reb Mottel Sharfstein who just passed away second from left

  • I think

    The Bachur bending down from on top to see/hear Shemtov (on the right) is Motel Dubinsky.

  • R-L

    Top: SB Alperowitz, Moshe Levertov, Motel Dubinsky, Chaim Yisroel Sperlin, Yankel Holtzman, Itche Pevzner.

    Bottom: SB Vishedsky, Yisroel Gordon, Dovid Raskin, Berl Chaskind, Leibel Groner, Benche Shemtov, Berl Junik, ?, Shlomo Ahron Kazarnovsky, Mote Sharfstein, Mendel shemtov

  • Extreme Left

    Is Sholom Ber Gurary of SA, father of Avremi G.
    The picture is from 1951

    • Yitzchok

      I thought that it was Nosson Gurary A”H from Crown Heights, I guess they looked similar.