| Nyzhnya Apsha Religious |
| ~ Religious Life ~ |
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In 1919, Rabbi Aharon Zvi BECK was appointed as Rabbi of Nyzhnya Apsha. He was born 1892 in Holyatin to Avraham and Chaya Gitel (née BERGER) BECK. (Chaya Gitel's mother, Rivka, was a daughter of Rabbi Aharon Zvi TERKELTAUB from Brid.) |
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Rabbi BECK was very much loved by the townspeople of Nyzhnya Apsa. He took great care in looking after the needs of his congregation, and set up a small yeshiva where boys from the village and neighbouring area studied. |
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Unfortunately, Rabbi Aharon Zvi died at a young age on 18 Tevet 5692 (28 December 1931) and was buried in Nyzhnya Apsa (tombstone pictured below). |
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After his passing, his younger brother, Rabbi Moshe Yakov BECK (pictured below), who also married his daughter Rachel, took his place as Rabbi in Nyzhnya Apsa. He remained there until the deportations in 1944. During the war his wife and children were killed. After returning from the camps, he married his brother's younger daughter, a sister of his wife. They moved on to Sighet, in Romania, where he served as a Rabbi, and from there to Paris, France. Eventually they moved to America where he opened a synagouge in the Flatbush area of New York City. |
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