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Death of Yaakov Velvel Glezer

By a record that probably names him, he probably died in the Holocaust, in 1943.

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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טייערע עלטערן שבע און יעקב־וועלוול גלעזער ... מיט זייערע פאַמיליעס (פרוזשענע) אומגעבראַכט דורך די נאַצי־רוצחים, אין 1943.

Machine translation 

Dear parents Sheva and Yaakov-Velvel Glezer ... with their families (Pruzhany), killed by the Nazi murderers in 1943.

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