Event · Admission
Admission of the first Home residents
The first fifty residents were admitted shortly after the Home opened in September 1931.
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... The first fifty residents of the Home were admitted
shortly after it opened in September 1931. The Rosh
Hashanah issue of the Bialystoker Stimme of that year
stated, “Several hundred men and women came to wor-
ship in our new synagogue on both days of Rosh
Hashanah. Our cantors uplifted them with their inspir-
ing services. On Yom Kippur, a memorial service was
held in our shul for deceased members and Jandsleit.’’ ...Connected nodes