What I know about the late Dr. Thon.
The late Dr. Thon was like a good angel to the Jews. Dr. Thon was also involved in religious matters and in the national affairs of the people of Israel. He did many favours for the Jews at the time of the riots in the Land of Israel. During the World War, Dr. Thon urged the Jews to help the Polish people. He explained to them that one must always help the weak. The late Dr. Thon was also a deputy to the Sejm in Warsaw, and there too he worked much for the benefit of the Jews of Poland. When the first pogrom broke out in Poland, he himself went to the President and spoke to him so that he would stop those people who were carrying out the riots, for it would not look good for the Polish people in the eyes of the other nations. The late Dr. Thon died in the sixty-sixth year of his life, in the year 5697. We too, the pupils of the "Yavneh" school in Pruzhany, mourn the death of Dr. Thon.
Chaya Gelman (pupil of Class 5 of the "Yavneh" school in Pruzhany).