In memory of
מעזשביזש

The Medgibosh Progressive Solidarity Society

Medzhybizh, Ukraine→Brooklyn & Elmont, New York
Painting of the Medgibosh Progressive Solidarity Society gate at Beth David Cemetery, Elmont: two granite pillars with members' names, a bench and a path between them
The society gate at Beth David Cemetery, Elmont. Illustration (AI-generated) based on a photograph by Michael Howard.
Map: Medzhybizh to New York, about 7,413 kilometres Medzhybizh Podolia New York United States Atlantic Ocean 7,413 km
Medzhybizh to New York, distance as the crow flies. The emigrants travelled by rail to a port, then by ship.

Immigrants from the town of Medzhybizh came together in New York to care for one another in sickness, to pray together, and to buy land so that no one from home would be buried among strangers. The Medgibosh Progressive Solidarity Society kept its own ground at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, entered through a gate whose two granite pillars list its officers and members. Inside it the society raised a memorial to the people of Medzhybizh murdered in 1942.

The society is no longer active. This site keeps its memory: the names on its stones, the gate, the memorial, and the town its members came from.

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Painting of the society gate inscription, MEDGIBOSH PROGRESSIVE SOLIDARITY SOCIETY INC., with the Glick family monument beyond
The gate inscription, with the Glick family monument beyond. Illustration (AI-generated) based on a photograph by Michael Howard.

Never forgetting, and remembering where we came from.

Part of the Medgibosh remembrance archive. This is an archive kept in memory of the society, not the society itself.

In loving memory

Marcia Glick Auerhan&Robert M. Auerhan

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