The people whose devotion remains within the community.

This center remembers departed אנשי שלומינו and communal workers through verified names, their actual connection to Shendishov, and the photographs, publications, letters and records that preserve their work.

A careful public record

This center includes only people whose own connection to Shendishov is documented. A parent or relative named on a donor’s dedication page is not treated as a member of the community unless an independent source establishes that person’s own connection.

A name is published here only after the deceased status, spelling, role and source have been reviewed. Uncertain names and dedication-only names remain in the research index until clarified.

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A Tovim Meoros page preserving the testimony of R Elimelech Fleischer
A communal worker remembered within Shendishov

R’ Elimelech (Meilech) Fleischer

R’ Meilech Fleischer appears in the community’s own publications not merely as a printed name, but as a person who remembered the earlier Shendishover court, spoke about its people, and helped carry its memory into the renewed life of the community.

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The constitution of the First Shendishover Galician Society
The society of Shendishov landsleit and remembrance of the kedoshim

R’ Zusha Tenzer

The reviewed memorial records identify R’ Zusha Tenzer among those who worked through the society of people from Shendishov and in preserving the memory of the kedoshim. His record belongs to the communal bridge between the destroyed town and its organized continuation in America.

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Committee page from the 1948 Shendishover dinner journal
The society of Shendishov landsleit and remembrance of the kedoshim

R’ Liber Hiller

R’ Liber Hiller is identified in the reviewed memorial records among the people active in the society of Shendishov landsleit and in remembrance of the kedoshim. The surviving record places him within collective work rather than an isolated name.

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The remembered community also includes those whose individual stories have not yet been recovered.

The research record remembers close to five hundred men, women and children from Shendishov and neighboring communities who were murdered in Shendishov on Tisha B’Av 5702 (1942). The search for a reliable name-by-name register continues.