Rivka Yosselevska
On the evening of 14 August , the SS surrounded the ghetto in the village of Zagrodski, near Pinsk, in Belarus, which was home to five hundred Jewish families. The following harrowing account by Rivka Yosselevska of the mass killing of her family and other Jews by members of the Einsatzgruppen:
One could not leave the line, but I wished to see � what are they doing on the hillock? I turned my head and saw that some three or four rows were already killed � on the ground. There were some twelve people amongst the dead. I also want to mention that my child said while we were lined up in the ghetto, she said, �Mother, why did you make me wear the Shabbat dress; we are being taken to be shot;� and when we stood near the dug-out, near the grave, she said, �Mother, why are we waiting, let us run!�
Some of the young people tried to run, but they were caught immediately, and they were shot right there. It was difficult to hold on to the children. We took all children, not ours, and we carried � we were anxious to get it all over � the suffering of the children was difficult � we all trudged along to come nearer to the place and to come nearer to the end of the tor
FOX, RIVKA (Rebecca) (Landsberg), Jewish communal worker and philanthropist; b. 21 Dec. in Biebrusk (Babruysk, Belarus), daughter of Leib Wolf Fox and — Rosenberg; m. c. Abraham Landsberg in Russia, and they had six daughters and three sons; d. 20 Feb. in Toronto.
Rivka Landsberg epitomized the dedication of the urban Jewish home-maker whose volunteer service had a significant impact on her community. After leaving Russia she and her family spent some time in England, where two of their children were born in the early s. In or the Landsbergs came to Toronto. Abraham found work as a tailor while Rivka, confronted by the absence of any practical means of distributing charity among East European Jews, who congregated largely in St John’s Ward, soon involved herself in ameliorating the living conditions of this emerging community. One of the founders in of the Toronto Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society, the first formal charitable organization among East European Jews, she served as principal inspector for its investigating committee, formed after to seek out destitute families.
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