Person · 5651–5703 AM · 1891 CE — 1943 CE
Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlow of Karlin רבי אברהם אלימלך פרלוב מקרלין
rebbe of Karlin after the Yanuka; he perished in the Pinsk ghetto
Son of the Yanuka. After his father's death in 1921, at thirty, he took the Karlin side of the house, while his brother remained in Stolin.
He was killed in the Pinsk ghetto on 14 Cheshvan 1942; four of his sons perished with him—Rabbi Aharon, Rabbi David, Rabbi Yisrael and Rabbi Mordechai Yosef—and his wife and daughter as well.
The year of his birth is given two ways: 1891 and 1892. He left no books of his own.
On the timeline
5525 · 1765 CEThe courts of Lithuania, Polesia and Volhynia: Karlin, Lechovitch, Kobrin, Slonim5699 · 1939 CEThe Shoah: the Destruction of European Jewry
Related
Sources
Documents of the period
- Testimonies on the death in the Pinsk ghetto — 14 Cheshvan 1942 and the names of the sons who died with him
Scholarship
- The register of the Karlin-Stolin house — both readings of the year of birth and his taking of the court at thirty
Basis: documents and evidence.