Bergwerk, as well as Haim Shnuer, Moishe Brenner, Mrs. Raucher, Pearl Schwartz and several others whose names are missing.
I thought then that the chapter Boiberker in the United States was closed as far as Relief for the townpeople was concerned, since there weren't any of them left in Boiberke. However, in April 1958, that was ten years after the Relief Committee was disolved, we came to Israel to the celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, I was visited by a fellow Boiberker in Israel, Uri Kruvi, (Krauthammer). He called on me to say he had a mission to get some money to help a townsman, Shmuel Joizip Shames' son, who had been deported by the Communists when they entered our town at the beginning of the war, to deep Russia. After the war, Russia made a pact with Poland and many Jews were permitted to return to Poland; he, too, was permitted to return, and eventually he was helped by the Jewish Agency for Israel to emigrate to the State of Israel. There, two of our townsmen helped him acquire a horse and wagon, enabling him to make a living by peddling. But when his horse fell dead and he needed another one, the Boiberker landsleit in Israel tried to raise 600 pounds for another horse. After listening to the story, I asked Kruvi how much the old time Boiberker in Israel were ready to raise among them. His reply was, whatever they could, they will raise among themselves. I advanced 300 pounds and told him that we expect two other Boiberker from America to visit Israel shortly for the celebration and that I intended to collect their share from them. I did collect from Herman Zuch and Abe Fischer their share when they arrived in Israel.
Several days later, we met in Haifa with a large group of Boiberker who resided in that city. From them I learned that they planned to organize themselves into a Boiberker Society to help Boiberker immigrants who were coming to settle in Israel, and would need assistance. Thats how the Boiberker Free Loan Society was organized in Israel.
When we revisited Israel two years later, we learned that the old time Boiberker had already organized the Fund with their own meager few pounds. When the culture house which Abraham Fischer build in Raanana was officially opened, about 100 Boiberker landsleit from all over Israel came to the opening and there we learned that the Free Loan Fund which they organized must have monetary assistance, otherwise it cannot exist. Abe and I, promised our assistance. We undertook to secure help from our Boiberker in the United States. As soon we returned we interested Sam Marcus, Samuel Bergwerk and Adolf Gross in this project. At a meeting on September 11, 1960, we organized ourselves into a comittee and collected $1,525.00 on the spot. The treasurer Sam Marcus left for Israel and handed to the committee $2,000.00, advancing $475 out of his pocket.
At our second meeting on November 6, of the same year, Marcus rendered a detailed report and also handed individual receipts which the Comittee in Israel issued for distribution among the donators in New York. We eollectcd an additional $490. After reimbursing Marcus his $475, the treasury had a balance of $15.00.
At our third meeting on April 30, 1961, which was also the Yahrzeit for the victims who were slain by the Nazis in the Ghetto of Boiberke, we collected $985.00, to add to the balance of $15. When I brought the $1.000 to the committee in Israel, they advised me that they were operating the Free Loan Fund with 4000 Israeli pounds and the rest was put away for the Memorial (Yizkor) book which we intend to publish as soon we gather all material. Since it appeared that it would take a long time before we can actually publish the book, I told the committee that I feared that the Israeli pound would be devaluated by then and therefore, it would be advisable to invest the money, which was on deposit in the bank in Tel Aviv for something that was fixed to the dollar. However, we needed more money to accomplish this, so I advanced to the committee in Israel 450 American dollars which I had with me.
Upon my return, we had a