Linking Cemeteries
In 1948 Rabbi Solomon Friedlander has immigrated to America with his immediate family and settled in Washington Heights. It was a great joy when the whole family gathered together and the last one to come over was my grandmother. It was a unified family. Suddenly, tragedy struck—eight months later my grandmother died. It was on a Sunday, first day of Slichos. We were in the US merely eight months and we had to find a burial place for a very holy woman. Some people offered us places, but it wasn’t suitable. Rabbi Solomon Friedlander took his brother-in-law with him and within three hours he bought a plot of 26 in Queens Mt. Hebron Cemetery. Thus, the Lisker Cemetery was created in America—the auxiliary of the one in Liska.
In 1971 the Lisker Rabbi traveled to Hungary to visit the wholly graves. When he saw the cemetery he was appalled by its appearance. He allocated money to fix some of the tombstones and he had his mother’s remained exhumed and brought to the US and put it in the now Lisker US cemetery. During the communist era there was talk of dismantling the cemeteries. Hearing of this happening—he also had his father-in-law’s remains and grandmother’s brought over. The Lisker Cemetery continued in the US but not barring yearly visitations from the family in Hungary. The Lisker Cemetery in Hungary is in good condition through some generous donors. Now the present cemetery is practically filled as well and is visited quite often. Both cemeteries are almost a unit, housing very holy people—the direct ancestors of Lisker Cemetery in Hungary.
The Friedlander Family on their pilgrimage to Liska to pray at the grave of Zvi Hirsh z'l of Liska
Oldest descendant of Zvi Hirsh z'l of Liska on his annual visit
The Jewish cemetery in Olaszliszka
Mt. Hebron cemetery in Queens
Reb Heshy, visiting at the grave of his Grandfather.
