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The footage below, was taken in the summer of 1969, when the leading Gedolim came to visit Camp Agudah, in Sullivan County.
In the eight minute movie, taken without sound, the viewer will see the Posek HaDor, Hagon Rav Moshe Feinstein being greeted by Hagon Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky, as well as Hagon Rav Boruch Sorotzkin, Hagon Rav Ruderman, and Hagon Rav Shneur Kotler, ZATZAL.
This footage was just uploaded to YouTube on January 30, 2012, and has not bee publicized before.
The (unidentified) narrator on the film says that the person who took the movie had asked Rav Yaakov permission to make the recording, and he says that permission was granted.
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You may also recognize Yankel Pffeferkorn on a couple of spots.
Rav Shneur and Rav Gifter are there as well…
I would guess that this was shot prior to 1969.
The narator and the one who took the film is Rabbi Yisroel Bader from Boro Park.
Very interesting footage- thank you for posting it. However, I showed it to a Camp Agudah old-timer who was there for many, many years and he said this is not Camp Agudah. He has a feeling it might be Ohr Shraga, where Rav Yaakov ztl stayed.
also, based on the cars, it was probably the late fifties or early sixties. If anyone has any further information- naarator, can you help?- it would surely interest many people.
Thank you.
Amazing! Thanks uploader and thanks YWN!
Just beautiful! The current generation desperately needs more of these holy archives. It seems to my untrained eye, though, that this film could be cleaned up professionally, made sharper, slowed down and easier to watch. If there was not such an attempt, I humbly suggest a consultation with pros such as JEM (Jewish Educational Media) http://home.jemedia.org/ (718) 774-6000 who are at the cutting edge of this technology and have been doing this for years with the old films and tapes of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Knowing them, they’ed be more than happy to help for such a holy endeavor.
Note that it is not really an eight-minute movie, as claimed. The footage is 3 minutes and 24 seconds, and then it repeats another 1 1/2 times.
#5 – if the cars were from the 50’s, it makes sense that they would appear in a yeshivishe camp in 1969!!
And also note that Camp Ohr Shrage was called Camp Torah Vodaas back then.
It is Ohr Shraga (or Camo Torah Voda’as as you may call it) without question. It is clearly recognizable as I spent many years ago. There is a shot of the gazebo Reb Yakov TZ”L would learn in and it both looks exactly like it is even today and is positioned relative to the building they then called the ‘Casino’ which although it has been painted a little different is exactly the same. The other buildings are familiar as well. Furthermore, it was where Reb Yakov spent his summers and it is quite clear from how he walked throught he premises and showed Rav Moshe TZ”L around that this was Reb Yakov’s place.
Actually it was not called Torah Vodaas. It was called Camp Mesivta and was later renamed Ohr Shraga after Rav Shraga Feivel Medelovitz TZ”L.
# 1 says that you can see Yankel Fefelkorn.
# 5 says its bichlal not Aguda.
Either way, who remembers the good ole’ days at Aguda in the 80’s? That place rocked!!!!!