Organization · reconstruction committee
Reconstruction Committee
Reconstruction Committee
The Reconstruction Committee organized commemorative activities and dedicated the Kaplan library.
Page scan 499HIGH confidence
Learn more with AI
Read more about Reconstruction Committee 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.
Source passages
Each passage remains attached to its exact scan and opens in the standalone evidence reader.
Primary source passage
Source OCR · scan 499
... That evening, people assembled to remember Bia-
lystok’s resistance fighters with eulogies, dramatic reci-
tations and ghetto songs. The week of mourning
concluded with the reconstruction committee dedicating
the new Kaplan library, which contained about 2,000
books in August 1944 — most donated by J/andsleit in
the United States and Argentina. A Pole in Bialystok
contributed two hundred books he received from ghetto
victims who entrusted them to him before they
perished. ...Connected nodes
Event
Dedication of the new Kaplan library
Participated In · Organizer
Community
Bialystok Jewish community
Appears in same passage
Place
Białystok Ghetto Cemetery
Appears in same passage
Institution
Great Synagogue
Appears in same passage
Person
Malmed
Appears in same passage
Place
Mass grave
Appears in same passage
Person
Pejsach Kaplan
Appears in same passage
Institution
Kaplan library
Appears in same passage
Associated events