She'erit Ha-Pleita in Suczawa [Romania] - collection of photographs

She'erit Ha-Pleita in Suczawa [Romania] - collection of photographs

27 photographs of survivors in Suceava - Romania. The well-known Moskowitz family and others. Rumania, 1945-1948.

Various photographs of the Moskowitz family (probably descendants of Rabbi Shalom Moskowitz - Admor of Shoch at the beginning of the 20th century), group photographs, portraits, and friends who remained in Sochava or returned to it after the Holocaust, excluding of three earlier photographs of Jewish family members in the city from the 1930s. Most of the photographs are handwritten and dated at the back [One of the photographs reads in Hebrew: 'בטח בד' ועל בינתך אל תשען לזכרון נצח מרים מוסקוביץ, סוצבה ד' חשון תש"ח'. The rest are described in the back in Romanian].

The city of Sochaba - the center of Torah and Hasidut. From the beginning of the 20th century many miracles were known in the city. Rabbi Yakov Moskowitz, the great-grandson of Rabbi Meir of Permishlan who was one of the great masterpieces of Hasidism, ran a large beit midrash in which many Torah scholars studied and were full of prayers. His grandmother Miriam-Haya, daughter of R. Meir of Permishlan who inherited the walking stick from her father, lived in the city and was known as a masterpiece in her own right. She asked that after her death, her father's stick be placed in the grave for the protection of the city, and in World War I all the surrounding towns were burned except for Sochaba remaining intact. She passed away on December 3, 1903, and a magnificent tent was erected above her grave in the old cemetery that was still active at that time. The city was won and on Adar 7 1887, Rabbi Meir Shapira, the head of the Lublin Yeshiva, and the founder of the daily page Born in it. as well as Rabbi Meshulam Rateh, and Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Halevi Tirnouar served as rabbis of the city, as well as the Admorim of the Hasidic of Schutz-Vizhnitz: Rabbi Moshe Hager and his son R. Chaim who led the Hassidut after him, when the center of activity was in the Gemilut Hassadim synagogue .

After the Holocaust, the number of Jewish residents in the city reached 6,000 following the return of Jews to the city and the arrival of others who lived elsewhere before the war, such as the north of Bukovina and Czernowitz. The government was then communist but until 1949 the communists did not persecute religion and Zionism. This allowed the Joint to help renovate the Great Synagogue in addition to renovating the cemetery and helping with food and clothing, and so Zionist activity could be held and many immigrated to Israel. After the establishment of the state, Romania's gates were opened and most of the city's Jews applied for immigration to Israel, except for some of the supporters of the new communist regime.

photos Size: 9x6 cm. or 7x5 cm. some smaller. Very good condition.