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246 East Broadway
246 East Broadway
Cellar where the relief committee was housed after World War I.
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... This relief committee grew out of the old Bikur
Cholim that helped /andsleit in need. The committee
was housed after World War I in a cellar at 246 East
Broadway. In addition to relief work, it conducted var-
ious activities for the /andsleit and other Jews in New
York. Indeed, the Bialystoker Center, which grew into a
major Jewish organization in the United States, evolved
from the Bialystoker Relief Committee. ...Connected nodes