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Is it known how old the Ohel in Anapol is and who erected it?
Architecture was never very high on Satmar's list, quick construction was. Sort of like the Communists with those big gray monstrosities they would put up for apartment buildings.
The Ohel is Anipoli is relatively new no more than 10 years. I think Gabbai renovated it.
Here in Israel (home) construction is mostly based on concrete. I hate it. Everything is concrete. I call it Grey Communist Concrete. Large buildings, small additions, tall walls, everything is done in Grey Communist Concrete. :-(
Chabakuk Elisha: I think the Ohel is rather new. I would suspect that the Ohel was built sometime in the late 1990's.
I have a book called "Graves of the Tzaddikim in Russia" that was printed in the late 1980's and it shows the kevarim of the Maggid and Reb Zusia before the Ohel was built.
Reb Yehuda Leib HaCohen is also buried in the same Ohel. Interestingly Reb Zushe and Reb Yehudah Leib are the two students of the Maggid that the Alter Rebbe chose to publish there Haskomas on the Tanya.
I also remember seeing picture of the 3 keverim before the Ohel was built.
A picture of Reb Zusia's kever can be seen here:
http://asimplejew.blogspot.com/2...t-2-
shevat.html
"Reb Yehuda Leib HaCohen is also buried in the same Ohel. Interestingly Reb Zushe and Reb Yehudah Leib are the two students of the Maggid that the Alter Rebbe chose to publish there Haskomas on the Tanya.
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They both lived in the town of Anapoli.
There are three other people burried there -
http://photos1.blogger.com/hello...24/
DSCF1695.jpg
I had the pleasure of visitng the kevorim of the Magid, Besht and AR before the new round of shiputzim. With only a candle for lighting, it really made the experience very real. One felt a connection not only to the Tzadik but also to the history of the place and the milennia of Jewish life in the shtetlach. It's all gone, trmapled over by people with cookie cutter senses of self and history, be they Lubavitch, satmar or litvish. I'm still amazed ( though not sure why) that with all the grave stomping tours organzied every year to the Ukraine, lubavitch and beyond, narry a picture of a Jew sayng a kapitel tehillim, perke mishnayos or kaddish at the kivrei achim found in each place. Do people know, or care, that a stones throw from the Besht, the Magid and others are THOUSANDS of jewish men , women and children lying in a barely marked and poorly maintained ravine/mass grave? In the case of lubavitch there has not even been an attempt to locate the mass grave of the 2,000 Jews of the lubavitch ghetto and mark it accordingly. Do the chassidim that visit these places and others in the ukraine not have someone from their family lying face down with a bullet through the head, somewhere in the ukraine/Russia? Mottel, go back, you missed the graves of the kedoshim for whom we mourn.
After leaving Kiev, I realized that I had missed stopping by Babi Yar . . .
it left a decidedly unsettled feeling in me.
Two posts on the mass graves in Lithuania
and Poland
http://mordechai7215.blogspot.co...-from-
past.html
http://mordechai7215.blogspot.co...d-
yeshivah.html
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