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World conference of Bialystok organizations
David Sohn convened a world conference in New York in 1949.
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... Later on, we built a community in Israel, Kiryat
Bialystok, which carried the name of our beloved
hometown destroyed by Hitler. For this reason, the late
David Sohn convened a world conference in 1949 in
New York, attended by representatives of Bialystoker
organizations throughout the world. The delegate from
Israel was Zvi Klementynowski. At the convention, the
Kiryat Bialystok Foundation was formed, headed by
the late Ralph Wein. Simultaneously in Israel, a Kiryat
Bialystok committee was organized, whose members
included the following leaders of our Center: Zalman
Yerushalmi, Zvi Klementynowski, the late Mordechaj
Krugliak and others. ...Connected nodes