Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
Institution established and directed by David Sohn.
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... because he worked endlessly to establish the Bialystoker
Center and Home for the Aged. ...... Last year, 1981, Bialystoker /andsleit in New York, all
over America and throughout the world celebrated a
most important event: the fiftieth anniversary of the
Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged. During this
half century, our Home has developed into one of the
finest geriatric facilities in the country, a model of mod-
ern, compassionate care for the elderly. Moreover, our
Center is the international headquarters of Bialystokers
in many lands, among them survivors of the Nazi Holo-
caust that annihilated one of the great centers of East-
ern European Jewry. ...... Yet business is not Mr. Solasz’s only interest. An
extremely charitable and hard-working individual for
Jewish communal causes, he serves as the President of
the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged. Before
that he held several other important leadership posi-
tions within this institution. ...he serves as the President of the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
Predicate direction is schema-limited; the text states Sam Solasz leads the institution.
he serves as the President of the Bialystoker Center and Home for the Aged
Bialystoker activists planned the nursing home and landsmanschaft headquarters in June 1926; the passage does not establish that the institution was founded then.
The contract to build the Home was signed on September 16, 1929.
The Home’s cornerstone was laid one week after the construction contract was signed.
The Bialystoker Home officially opened in May 1931.