This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #general
Bruce Drake <BDrake@...>
"The Cheerful Baker," >from the Yizkor book of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland is
really two stories. The first part recounts Reb Itzhak Leib Rusak' work as the
town's baker, using his oven to cook the cholent brought to him by the
townspeople for the Sabbath, to baking the matzoh for Passover, and all the
elaborate preparations that required. But he was also a deeply devout and
learned man who would habitually say, "A person does not live just to bake
bread."
The part of the chapter you will read here shows his strength and courage as
the Nazis closed in on the Jews of the town.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1892993260722820?__tn__=K-R
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
really two stories. The first part recounts Reb Itzhak Leib Rusak' work as the
town's baker, using his oven to cook the cholent brought to him by the
townspeople for the Sabbath, to baking the matzoh for Passover, and all the
elaborate preparations that required. But he was also a deeply devout and
learned man who would habitually say, "A person does not live just to bake
bread."
The part of the chapter you will read here shows his strength and courage as
the Nazis closed in on the Jews of the town.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1892993260722820?__tn__=K-R
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel