The Maggid of Kaluszyn - Rabbi Yisroel Asher Felner

02/01/2025

Look what I found

A monument in Kaluszyn, Poland highlights atrocities of WWII for Jewish residents.

20/12/2021

Oh my

20/04/2021

15/04/2021

An amazing find via our cousin Eve Edelman Russ! This appears to be a picture of the Syrek family in Warsaw -- R' Yisroel Asher Felner, the grandfather, sitting front and center!
http://www.dawnyrembertow.pl/index.php/16-rodziny/617-rodzina-syrek.html?fbclid=IwAR1gacf-RiVqEkQfwcwyo7Nw9sKlGqPglL_7T8gyfhUEbWr3PPnlEV3QS0c

From the link (translated):

The Syrek family around 1928

In the first row from the left Boruch, his mother Chaja Ita, grandfather Aszer Felner, father Szmerel, Stoją
Juda Leibel and Perla (before 1939 they left for Canada), Moszek and Lea (died in Treblinka)
Szalom and Matylda (before 1939 they left for Palestine )

02/03/2020

I came upon this page posted by Brian Gocial, one of the Maggid's great-great grandchildren, about Henekh Russ, one of the Maggid's martyred grandchildren

https://briangocial.wordpress.com/blog/biography/

You can also look here: https://briangocial.wordpress.com/

Doyres Bundistan, Hertz (ed), Vol II (1956)written by M. Kligsberg(Translated by Dr. Mark Russ) Picture of Henekh Russ marching in anti-fascist Bund demonstration, Warsaw, 1930s (POLIN) Henekh Russ…

08/05/2017

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kaluszyn/kalf480.html

C'était aussi un bon officiant et, quand il montait à la tribune, le jour de Kippour, dans l'oratoire des Kozenitzer, à coté des boîtes de sable aux grandes bougies en cire, il faisait trembler le pupitre. Ses « chantres » étaient : son fils Avrohom, Itzhok Pasklinski, Pessah Kaptsan, Itshe Milgrom,...

29/07/2014

http://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/id_102670/info/back_1:0__Felner.html

22/01/2013

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kaluszyn/kaluszyn.html

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06/12/2012

A paroches (a curtain on the ark where the Torah scroll is kept) memorialzing the Maggid of Kaluszyn in one of the shuls in Passaic

23/11/2012

http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/thanksgiving-bleg/