Mt. Carmel (old) Cemetery, Queens, NY: Kramer Section, First President of Aguch, Chazak - RCD #1

So we're here at Kelkas and Mishbahas Kramer. The uh field to the family of Kramer for the K Kramer family. The Kramer family started with Moi Elezar Kramer who passed away in 1925. He came from Kitz and he was a Talmet of Rebis of Kitz who I believe whose father I think was maybe a Talmud of the Alter. Anyway, he was from the Kabad Ga from Kabad lineage. uh he started a Buddhist Kabadi Kabad in America working together with the other old Kabadim at the time. Abdin who we visited in um Staten Island, Rabbi Rosenbal who was I think in the Washington cemetery near Burough Park I think or maybe a maspath. But anyway, this is the Kramer family. And this is the entrance. Mars L. Kramer. Mosha Laser Kramer. Elaza Kramer. Mars L. Kramer. The door. It opens up here symbolically. Yeah. Okay. Now we move over here to read what it says on the actual stone. father of Venu andu mother was a ley Kramer modest and pious he he he spread to the public and this is very interesting because in 1925 in 1924 I I actually saw a copy of the of the invitation He sent to all the Kabachs in the greater tri-state area to come you. We're going to make a sem of shas. And it could be this is the first public sem of SHAS WHICH CAME THROUGH NOT THE litfox and he made it this Jew this Jew. So here it says it's interesting he learned with he was a businessman but he learned with them and they and they finished. Yeshivasabichavage. He supported the yeshiva of the inab. He was excellent. He did tremendous. He gave away from his hard-earned money for his business Friday. He passed away in 60 years. Now he bought a home also in Bath Beach. Bath Beach. And he had that was considered in those days like vacation because this they they had their business in Manhattan. Their business in Manhattan that was the official office of Abdul Kabad in the in the early in the 1920s going into the 1930s. I believe it was in their their office because his son we're going to go to in a moment took over. Kazak Kazak. Uh yeah. Anyway, um and and from the the business that he uh that he did, he gave a lot of money to Kabad. So, he's credited to be kind of the first official uh member of Kabad or or or created and our and the you know, thanked them and and perpetual leader. Now they bought here 78 for it. This whole section here is their private. Their private look over there.