Wolf Babicz

... Bia- Furthermore, the committee resettled the fifty Bualy- lystokers, saving them from the Nazi clutches. stoker children who arrived in Paris from the Soviet The seder ended with all the guests expressing their Union, led by their teacher, Jakow Tobias. We set upa appreciation to the committee for sponsoring this mov- colony for them in the Rothschilds’ summer home, ing traditional Passover seder, which gave landsleit in forty kilometers outside Paris. Several members of the Paris the opportunity to celebrate the holiday together. executive and other Bialystokers visited them quite The Bialystoker Committee in Paris, assisted by often. Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski, a printer, decided to issue an Wolf Babicz and David Podliaschouk were instru- album containing Bialystok ghetto songs with musical mental in providing care for these orphans. The well- notes. ...

... Following the war, Dr. Youchnovetzky served as chairman of a committee consisting of Bialystoker landsleit. The committee included the following: Dr. Youchnovetszky, chairman; Wolf Babicz, treasurer; David Podliachouk, secretary; Benn, H. Barenbojm, members. Mrs. Youchnovetzky and Miss M. Hofenbach rendered valuable assistance. At the beginning, this committee was very popular among Bialystokers living in Paris, since Youchnovetzky was an encyclopedic source of information about the fate, suffering and liq- uidation of Jews in the Bialystok ghetto. When the full magnitude of the tragedy became clear, the committee continued to receive the full support of local Bialystok- ers for its activities in helping other surviving Jandsleit on their way to the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries, most of whom passed through Paris. These transients provided answers about what happened to particular Bialystokers — whether they perished in the ghetto or in the concentration camps, whether they survived or were exiled to Siberia. ...