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?
Can't be 1947.
Dovid Raskin is in the picture, and he only came to America in 1950.
Anonymous
says he escaped in 1947 – not that he arrived in the USA then.
Anonymous
Second from left R’ Mottel Sharfstein a’h
Second from right bottom row R’ Yisroel Gordon
cnl
Rabbi’s Sharfstein, Junik, Gorden, Groner, Levertov, Kazarnovsky, Dubinsky?
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.
5710-11
He came in 5710 or 5711 corospondinng to 1950/51
stsanding from left- top
Rabbi Itche Pewzner (brother of Rabbi Hillel-France)
Yitzchok
To the left of Mottel Sharfstein may be Nosson Gurary
i see
Yitzchok Shlomo Pevzner O”H on the left top
i see
Rabbi Moshe Levertov O”H the second to the right on top
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.
3rd Left
3rd left is Mayer Zajac – Ziantz of Brazil
Mike
Yisroel Shemtov must be there , somewhere.