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Death of Yaakov Leizerovich

By a record that probably names him, he probably died in the Holocaust, in 1942.

A record that probably names him, from the Pruzhany memorial book (Pinkes fun finf fartilikte kehiles: Pruzshene, Bereze, Maltsh, Shershev, Selts (1958)), says:

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25) יעקב לייזעראָוויטש מיט זיין פרוי. די טאָכ־טער זייערע, כייקע, איז אין דער לעצטער מינוט אַנטלאָפן קיין פּרוזשענע;

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25) Yaakov Leizerovich with his wife. Their daughter, Chaike, escaped to Pruzhany at the last minute;

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