Kehilot/BiałystokA living הַנְצָחָה — preserving the memory of destroyed Jewish communities through their Yizkor books.

Place · city

Cleveland, Ohio

Location associated with Max Ratner’s signature.

Page scan 619HIGH confidence

Learn more with AI

Read more about Cleveland, Ohio than the memorial book alone records. The assistant works from this record's own source passages and searches trusted archives — Yad Vashem, USHMM, YIVO, Virtual Shtetl, JewishGen and Wikipedia — and shows you what it found, with its sources.

Learn more about “Cleveland, Ohio”

Source passages

Each passage remains attached to its exact scan and opens in the standalone evidence reader.

Primary source passage

Source OCR · scan 619

Open exact passage

... Max Ratner Cleveland, Ohio

Source passage 2

Source OCR · scan 624

Open exact passage

... 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 ...

Connected nodes