Jakow Tobias

... eit who arrived in Paris directly everyone rise in tribute to the martyrs of Bialystok. He from Bialystok was warmly received by the committee, expressed warm wishes for the Bialystoker Center in which offered all necessary aid. New York, as well as for Bialystokers all over the Many thanks to Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski, who world. Special greetings were sent to the /Jandsleit in found temporary quarters for transient Bialystokers. Australia who had obtained visas for hundreds of Bia- Furthermore, the committee resettled the fifty Bualy- lystokers, saving them from the Nazi clutches. stoker children who arrived in Paris from the Soviet The seder ended with all the guests expressing their Union, led by their teacher, Jakow Tobias. We set upa appreciation to the committee for sponsoring this mov- colony for them in the Rothschilds’ summer home, ing traditional Passover seder, which gave landsleit in forty kilometers outside Paris. Several members of the Paris the opportunity to celebrate the holiday together. executive and other Bialystokers visited them quite The Bialystoker Committee in Paris, assisted by often. Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski, a printer, decided to issue an Wolf Babicz and David Podliaschouk were instru- album containing Bialystok ghetto songs with musical mental in providing care for these orphans. The well- notes. ...

... Our teacher, Jakow Tobias, fought for his life as we did for ours. His compassion for us was great and he did everything to assist and calm us. He saw in us, ...

... Bialystok was one of the few cities in Poland where a large number of Jewish children were saved miracu- lously from annihilation by the Nazis. Jakow Tobias, the well-known teacher, saved more than eighty. ...