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Shimkha Tzfat arrives in America
Shimkha Tzfat is described as the first Bialystok Jew to arrive in America in 1942.
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... שמחה צפת -- דער ערשטער בּיאַליסטאָקער איד ONT איז געקומען אין
אַמעריקע אין יאָר 1942. ...Connected nodes