A six-fingered boy lost for ten years and hunted in two continents has been round in Kiev, Russia, and is now on his way to join his father, Louis Bressler, a Pittsburgh merchant. The boy is Isaac Bressler, 15.
The father was saving money here to send for his wife and two children in Skvira, Russia, when the war broke out and he lost trace of them.
One son, found in 1923, told of his mother’s death and said he did not know where his brother was.
In 1923 the Department of Immigrant Aid of the National Council of Jewish Women took up the search. Their agents scoured orphan asylums in Russia, Germany and the Argentine.
In an institution at Kiev they found a boy who fitted the description except that he had five fingers on his left hand instead of six. Records were unearthed showing that the finger had been amputated. A tiny scar remained.
Isaac will land in New York soon.
The annual New Jersey conference on Palestine will be held at the New ark Y:M.-Y.W.H.A. Sunday, March 11, with United States Senator W. H. King, of Utah, and Morris Rothenberg, chairman of the national board of directors of the United Palestine. Appeal, scheduled as the principal speakers. More than thirty communities will be represented. Aaron Levinstone of Newark, state chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, will preside. Arrangements are being completed through the offices of Meyer S. Mints, state director of the U. P. A.
Rabbi H. Baras, formerly of Plymouth, Mass. has arrived in Ogden, Utah’s second largest city, to fill the pulpit of the Congregation Brith Sholem of that community.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
