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Death of Yisrael Roitkop

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

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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איך וויל אויך דערמאָנען די אומגעקומענע האַרציקע פשוטע מיטאַרבעטער פייערלעשער: ליפּע זאַקהיים, מאיר פּרוזשאַנסקי, די ברידער ישראל און משהל רויטקאָפּ

Machine translation 

I also want to mention the hearty, simple fellow firefighters who perished: Lipe Zakheim, Meir Pruzhansky, the brothers Yisrael and Moshel Roitkop

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