FISZL FAJNFELD known Bialystoker artist, Benn, donated one of his paintings, which the committee sold for a large sum to THE FRENCH COMMITTEE advance our humanitarian activities. Chairman Youchnovetzky, at a committee meeting | held March 31, 1947, announced that a traditional Pas- AFTER THE WAR sover seder would be conducted for all surviving Bialy- stokers as well as for /andsleit living in Paris. On Friday, April 4, the seder was held. All the guests The postwar Bialystoker committee in Paris began its wished each other a happy holiday. work under difficult circumstances. Receiving no aid Approximately one hundred sat at beautifully dec- from abroad, it used its own resources to give each Bia- orated tables. Szymon Amiel led the seder. Mr. Babicz’s lystoker Jew passing through Paris money and other son asked the ‘four questions.” assistance to obtain temporary visas and to emigrate Dr. Youchnovetzky welcomed the guests with further. warm holiday greetings. Fiszl Fajnfeld suggested that A group of Jandsleit who arrived in Paris directly everyone rise in tribute to the martyrs of Bialystok. He from Bialystok was warmly received by the committee, expressed warm wishes for the Bialystoker Center in which offered all necessary aid. New York, as well as for Bialystokers all over the Many thanks to Izaak Rybal-Rybalowski, who world. Special greetings were sent to the /Jandsleit in found temporary quarters for transient Bialystokers. Australia who had obtained visas for hundreds of 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. A Group of Bialystoker Delegates to the Culture Congress in New York in 1948. Seated, right to left: B. Zalewitz (Tel-Aviv), J. Pat, David Sohn, Z. Segalowitz, Jacob Waks (Melbourne), Meyer Brown (President of the Jewish National Workers’ Alliance), Louis Cohn. Standing Harry Kaplan and Bernard Morgenstern. The Bialystoker Memorial Book 201