Ralph Wein

... Later on, we built a community in Israel, Kiryat Bialystok, which carried the name of our beloved hometown destroyed by Hitler. For this reason, the late David Sohn convened a world conference in 1949 in New York, attended by representatives of Bialystoker organizations throughout the world. The delegate from Israel was Zvi Klementynowski. At the convention, the Kiryat Bialystok Foundation was formed, headed by the late Ralph Wein. Simultaneously in Israel, a Kiryat Bialystok committee was organized, whose members included the following leaders of our Center: Zalman Yerushalmi, Zvi Klementynowski, the late Mordechaj Krugliak and others. ...