Rabbi Yitzchok Flam רבי יצחק פלאם הי"ד נפטר בדמי ימיו כח ניסן תרעט

Update from Sivan 5778 by Moshe Flam:

For some reason I made a mistake with the year and thought its 5678, 100 years ago. But it's not. His passing away was 1919, 5679. April 28 1919, four months **After** WWI.

His daughter Chaya's tombstone was recently found and on it was listed that she passed away in Adar II of 5679 and that he was still alive (Nero Yair, may his candle continue lighting) which meant that the passing of Rabbi Yitzhok in 5678 couldn't be true. My father, שיחי' לאורך ימים ושנים בטוב ובנעימים proved from this that it was a mistake.

Written by Menachem Moshe Flam: Rabbi in Lvov. Died at age 53 from bullet wound by armed forces during wwi. (this edit was updated on Rosh Hodesh Iyar 5774, this date has NOTHING TO DO with my great grandfather's date of passing)

Korczyna

On 28 of Nisan 13 to the Omer is the day Bnei Yisroel entered Eretz Yisroel under Yehosua.

A side note: Hebron had been liberated by the British from the Turks on 19 Kislev that year, and Jerusalem surrendered on the first night of Hanukka.

A picture from the same day that he passed away can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_55th_Division_gas_casualt...

A convention on the future of Eastern Europe after the war (WWI) had closed that day.

UPDATE: It turns out that the militias fighting in Lvov (Lemberg) at the end of the war, and also attacking civilians, Rabbi Yitzhak was wounded by a bullet. He was in the hospital for a year, and finally passed away at the age of 53.

He is burried in the old Lemberg cemetery. It may be a cemetery that was demolished by the Nazis and turned into a market.

Images of the Korczyna Jewish cemetery can be found here: http://www.odyssei.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=91045 including the Shul (Synagogue) http://images22.fotosik.pl/142/8038b198535829fa.jpg

More images here: along with news of a restoration and online preservation of the cemetery http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Krosno/krosnokor2.htm

The Yizkor book says (as a joke) that the Jews of Korczyn were so rich, in the first years that they were worried that they wouldn't be able to give Matonos Laevyonim to the poor on Purim.

Korczyna Jewry was demolished on Erev Rosh Hodesh Elul 5703 (April 12, 1942, a fatal day for many towns of Jews under German occupation)

A list from memory of known Jews of the town can be found here. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Krosno/krosnokor1.htm#LISTFROMBILL

A list with images of Hassidic Jews prior to 1930. Could they be family? http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Krosno/krosnokor.htm#DAVIDZWIRN

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Update: Searching for 'Lemberg 1916' I found interesting images of the commander of a Austro-Hungarian Howetzer gun unit fighting alongside the Turkish forces in Gaza and buried in Jerusalem was from Lvov - Lemberg: Here's a picture of the Austro-Hungarian army leaving Jerusalem Erev Hanukah 676, http://riowang.blogspot.co.il/2012/05/lemberg-fifth-grave-of-hero-o... The picture shows several Jews leaving the city with them, one is wearing a Shtreimel. Rabbi Yitzchok's brother in law Menachem Mendel Rubin was the head of the Hassidic Jews (Kolel Galicia) here, so perhaps the Jews at the head of the civilian procession is him!

• Here's an album of the German Army in Lvov (Leipzig) with images of the train station at the time - reminiscent of the story of Rabbi Yitzchok's to-be daughter in law, Rebetzin Sarah (Langner) Flam ע"ה, my grandmother.
• A realistic drawing of Hassidic Jews in Lvov, one riding a horse, others running. Not sure what to make of it. http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9/demetriuslj.1/0_8a29_8587e06_XL
• The big shul in Drohobyz http://www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,177060234,var,Drohobycz-Drohob...
• An article about the anti-Czarist Jewish attitude during WWI and the Galician Jews support for the Austro-Hungarian empire: http://mida.org.il/2014/08/28/jewish-holy-war-galicia-1914-1916/
• A few years later: http://dustofeurope.com/2010/08/day-17-lviv-a-familiar-pattern/
• Remains of the Jewish cemetary in Lvov https://vanishedworld.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/a-journey-in-black-a...

הכותב: מנחם משה פלאם - נינו.

הרב יצחק פלאם (בן הרב דוד) היה ממלא מקום חותנו הרב שמואל אהרון רבין בקורטשין. המינוי נעשה כאשר בנו של הרב רבין, הרב מנחם מנדל יצא לארץ ישראל לעמוד בראש כולל גליציה.

עדכון מראש חודש איר התשעד:

עבר לגור בלמברג - לבוב, ושם התלבש כמנהג חסידות בלז (ואולי אף כמנהג אדמורי בלז - יתכן שמשפחת האדמור לבשו כולם את כובע הקולפיק גם בימות החול).

היה מלמד, חי בדוחק,

בסוף מלחמת העולם הראשונה, השתרר תוהו ובוהו בלבוב - למברג (השם הגרמני) וצבאות שודדים מלאומים שונים לחמו זה בזה, כשהם פוגעים גם באזרחים. רבי יצחק נורה ונפגע מכדור. שכב בבית חולים במשך כשנה , עד שהוכרע.

-- כל זאת לפי עדות בנו רבי דוד פלאם, לבנו הוא - רבי שלום, אשר סיפר את הדברים בשביעי של פסח האחרון בחייו, ויום ההולדת של אביו רבי דוד, לנכדו הנושא את שמו, ר' יצחק בן מרים מושקוביץ בת רבי שלום:

הפניצילין נתגלה רק בזמן המלחמה והיה נפוץ רק בידי כוחות הברית (אנגליה, צרפת, וארה"ב) ולא היה בידי הכחות במזרח (הממלכה האוסטרו הונגרית, הצאר - ואחריהם הקומוניסטים, וכמובן העותמנים).

כח ניסן הוא יום כניסת בני ישראל לארץ ישראל - ביריחו, בכיבוש הראשון עם יהושע