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This document
was written on 4/23/45 in Bialystok Poland. It pertains to the
sale of the religious property of the Bilsk Street Beit Ha Midrash
(prayer house) in Zabludow Poland. The Rabbi's house was located
nearby, and may have also been included in the sale. These where
among the few properties that survived the initial burning of
the town by the Germans in June of 1941. The document has the
seal of the Jewish Council of Bialystok. The authorized person
for signing the document was Turek Mendel of the Jewish Council
of Bialystok, on the conditions of the deed of sale of the 26th
of March, 1945. The sale was for the price of 130,00 Zloty.
The document
is signed by Simon Datner. Before the war he was a beloved teacher
at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Bialystok where several students from
Zabludow attended his classes including Mina Bar-On Gelerstein,
now living in Israel. During the war Datner fought with the Partisans
in the forrest, and was one of a few from Bialsytok who survived.
After the war he became Director of the Jewish Historical Institute
in Warsaw, and was active in the Polish commission to investigate
Nazi war crimes. In 1968 he was dismissed due to his refusal
to sign or make statements that were anti-Israel, and critical
of international Jewish organizations. He was later rehabilitated.
I believe he died in the early 1980's. Today his daughter Helena
Datner Spiewak is also a well known Jewish Historian and Sociologist
in Warsaw. She is currently head of the Jewish Pedigogical Institute
in Warsaw.
Bellow is a exact
translation of the document:
Document written on April 2, 1945. Stamp says:
Provincial Association of
the Jewish Communities
in Bialystok.
Authorization.
Board of the Provincial
Association of the Jewish Communities in Bialystok have decided
during the meeting on February 1, 1945 to sell property on Bielska
street in Zabludow. This property, owned by the Jewish community
in Zabludow consists of the land with buildings used for the
religious purposes. Selling price:130,000 Zlotych.
Mgr. Mendel
Turek, member of the Board of the Provincial Association of the
Jewish
Communities
in Bialystok is authorized by the Board to prepare a legal (notary)
document
based on the
"sell-buy" (real estate) contract issued on March 26,
1945.
Signed by Szymon Datner,
sealed by the official stamp of the Association. Below Szymon
Datner signature and the stamp, there is another small stamp,
dated 5.IX (September), 1945 which says:"Decision questioned
during inspection" accompanied by two initials.
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