Szulamit

... I arrived in Bialystok in September 1928, after leaving my position as an instructor in the Tarbut Hebrew Gymnasium in Pinsk. My wife, Roza, and daughter Miriam came to Bialystok several weeks later. In 1929, my second daughter, Szulamit, was born, a native of Bialystok. For several years, Roza was a crafts instruc- tor at the Hebrew Gymnasium, while Miriam and Szu- lamit were students until it was destroyed. Who would have thought that I would write this article decades later as the only survivor of this four-member family, or that I would eulogize Jewish Bialystok and my school, where I served from 1928 until 1941? ...