Zolotonosha Friends Landsmenschaft

Zolotonosher Friends was a Landsmanschaft formed by immigrants from Zolotonosha, Ukraine.
It started out as a social club and a benefit society which became inactive in the early 1960s. Its lasting legacy was the burial plot at Mt Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, NY

Mount Carmel Cemetery (MC)
83-45 Cypress Hill Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Phone - 718-366-5900
mailing address: Call # 276, PO Box 860093, Ridgewood 11386
est. 1902 approx. 85,000 burials.
First burial 28 December 1906.
website: www.mountcarmelcemetery.com (has a searchable burial database)

Entrance to Zolotonosher Friends section of cemetery column 1		FRONT view of pillar (men's names) B.KOLCHIN DeShadai Chai kechaf/z ap/fesarim (very roughly - Of the Living G-d, powers from above affirm points to these names) SHLOMO TABACHNIKOFF YISROEL ELI SAMUELS YAKOV POKRASSA DAVID LEVI MEITZNER ? COMMITTEE yoma veoline/veyaline)? AVRAHAM ELENKRIG ASHER BER WEST YAKOV VISHNER AIZEK MESSEN MEYER POKRASSA DOV FINKELSTEIN ELIEZER KLEMOW ZOLOTONOSHER FRIENDS (written at bottom) © 2007 photo - Gary Pokrassa © 2014 - Translations - Janet Billig
Entrance to Zolotonosher Friends section of cemetery - column 2		SARAH PRITZ ZACHARAYA MANKOFF CHESED? KEREE? NISAN ve CHAYA HENIS MENDEL ve CHAYA LOURIE YOSEF ve SHAMLI LOURIE MOSHE ve FANNIE LOURIE YITZCHAK YAKOV ve MIRIAM LEBA NEWMAN YEHOSHUA ve ZISEL RUDIN SHABTAI ve DEVORA SEMEL CHEZKEL ve BAYTEE SEMEL ZOLI MELECH ve NAOMI BLOOM NECHAME ve BRACHA NEWMAN IZAK ve PESSEL LOURIE PINCHAS ve LAYA VANOWITZ MORDECHAI ve MASHA SOBEL LOUISE MALDITZ YEHUDA LEIB MANKOFF SHLOMA ve HELEN GLAS YESHUA ve BETEE GOLDSTEIN NAFTALI ve BRACHA STEINBERG YISROEL ELENKRIG AIZIK BRAGIN MORDECHAI MITZELMACHER AVRAHAM ve RIVKA YELIN AVRAHAM ve SHAYNA FAREL BRODSKY YOSEF KOLTSHIN ZALMAN ve MALKA SAMUELS SHALOM LEVINSON MOSHE ve RACHEL LAUDER © 2007 photo - Gary Pokrassa © 2014 - Translations - Janet Billig
Entrance to Zolotonosher Friends section of cemetery column 1 side view		B. KOLCHIN column/pillar #1 con'td - SIDE VIEW (women's names) ELKEE TABACHNIKOFF CHANA SAMUELS DEVORAH POKRASSA BLOOMA PESNER MOLLIE YELIN TESSALA ELENKRIG LEAH WEST RADYA VISHNER CHAYA POKRASSA HINDA RISA FINKELSTEIN ESTHER KLIMOR © 2007 photo - Gary Pokrassa © 2014 - Translations - Janet Billig
	The Zolotonosher Friends Constitution was published in book form in 1936. This copy belonged to Meyer Pokrassa, one of the founders of the organization. It has been scanned by his grandson, Gary Pokrassa. The book has been donated to YIVO for their collection of Landsmanschaften documents. Click on the image of the cover to access a pdf of the entire book. On pdf p.25 (just after book page number 42) you will find many names of the Constitution Committee, Officers in 1936 and ex-Presidents.
Gathering of Zolotonosher Friends 1952		25th Anniversary dinner of the Zolotonosher Friends, the Jewish burial society formed by this group of immigrants and lifelong friends. My maternal grandparents Rosalie (nee Vogel) and Adolph Messen (seated, left), their daughters Gladys and Suzette behind them, New York City, 1952. They weren't just a burial society, they were a lively group of lifelong friends, and a quasi-extended family. I believe the core group (including my grandparents, Rosalie and Adolph Messen) met in Paris in the years before and during World War I. © 2014 Peter A Klein
Zolotonosher Friends Invitation	(c) 2017 Gary Pokrassa	Postcard invitation to Zolotonosher Friends meeting in 1957 The group held meetings every third Wednesday in New York City
Mt Carmel Zolotonosher Friends Landsmanschafft Spreadsheet with Hebrew translations of gravestones (download)
Home	© 2007 photos - Gary Pokrassa © 2014 - Translations - Janet Billig	content last updated 12 October 2023 © 2014 Peter A Klein Janet Billig Gary Pokrassa © 2017 Gary Pokrassa

Zolotonosher Friends was a Landsmanschaft formed by immigrants from Zolotonosha, Ukraine. It started out as a social club and a benefit society which became inactive in the early 1960s. Its lasting legacy was the burial plot at Mt Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, NY

Zolotonosher Friends was a Landsmanschaft formed by immigrants from Zolotonosha, Ukraine.
It started out as a social club and a benefit society which became inactive in the early 1960s. Its lasting legacy was the burial plot at Mt Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens, NY