Yeshayahu Katz

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Yeshayahu Katz

Hebrew: הרב ישעיהו כץ
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Alytus אליטוס, Lithuania ליטא
Death: circa 1914 (53-62)
Baksht-Borisovka בקשט-בוריסובקה, Poland פולניה
Immediate Family:

Son of Zecharia Mendel Hacohen Katz and Hannah Chaya (Shafer) Katz
Husband of Roshke Chaya Katz
Father of Zeharia Mendel Katz; Shifra Katz; Tzibel Tzila Chaya Katz; Hershel Katz; Bashe Reize Razel Shereshevsky and 4 others
Brother of Genia Sharf; Pearle Paya-Rela Samachson Feldman; Baruch Elya Rabinov; Avraham Weisbord; Shlomo Zalman Dolinsky and 4 others
Half brother of Pearle Paya-Rela Samachson Feldman

Occupation: רב בבאקשט ובוריסובקה, היום בפולין. מרבותיו של אחיינו, "הרב הנזיר"
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About Yeshayahu Katz

Yeshayahu Katz was the Rabbi of Baksht-Borisovka.

Bakshty Borysowka is in the region of Ivye in the Grodno oblast, Poland (today Belarus). He was a graduate of Volozhin Yeshiva.

Yeshayahu Katz's wife and all their children were murdered by Hitler in 1942-43 in the Holocaust. Yeshayahu Katz was the first child of Rabbi Zeharia Mendel Katz and Hannah-Haie Shafer. Rabbi Zeharia Mendel Katz was the Rabbi of Radin (the town of the "Hafetz Haim") and Alytus. See this link from the Hebrew Wikipedia: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%9E%...

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Yeshayahu Katz's Timeline

1856
1856
Alytus אליטוס, Lithuania ליטא
1892
1892
1900
1900
Borysowka, Poland
1904
1904
1907
1907
1914
1914
Age 58
Baksht-Borisovka בקשט-בוריסובקה, Poland פולניה
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Baksht Borisowka, Poland