Aaq, i should have been a little clearer; i read testimonials from Holocaust survivors who lived in my grandfather’s town, in a documentary put out by project yizkor. That project isn’t frum, but they have some good sources. The town was Meretch(merkine, in Lithuanian), and was not far from Grodno. The town’s story was a prime example of pre war Europe. The older generation, my grandfather’s parents, learned and learned all day, and opened their shops for 3 hours to do business. They davened in a beis medrash. The younger ones davened in a Young Israel type shul with lots of singing (no mention of the American problems of dancing etc) but weren’t into learning. And the youngest generation were ALL in shomer hatzair.
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