J. Shmulewitz

... supporters, who responded generously to the appeal of our Board of Governors for financial assistance. We wish to credit the following individuals, whose participation in the project was indispensable: Max Ratner of Cleveland, our distinguished Bialystoker landsman and leading activist in the American Jewish community, who was the driving force behind this book; /zaak Rybal-RybalowskKi, General Secretary of the Bialystoker Center, Home and Infirmary for the Aged, who invested much time and energy in _ the preparation of the volume; J. Shmulewitz, the well-known Yiddish journalist and specialist on Holocaust themes, who edited the Yiddish manuscript of the volume; Rabbi Lowell S. Kronick, who rendered the English translation, making the book accessible to the children and grandchildren of survivors; Hirsh Gansbourg of Empire Press, whose expertise as a printer guaranteed the quality of the production; Louis Evans, a master Yiddish proofreader, whose attention to detail assured the accuracy of the Yiddish manuscript; and ...