Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit Society

The Ostrovtzer Independent Mutual Benefit Society helped immigrants from Ostrowiec by providing friendship, loans  and assistance to landsmen who left Ostrowiec and came to Toronto to start a new life. They also helped to provide medical services to the members and their families at reasonable cost.

In addition, the Society organized a young men’s branch for the sons of members.

After the Holocaust, in addition to assisting new immigrants from Ostrowiec, including burial services, they  were active in conducting annual memorials in Toronto including establishing a memorial monument.

The society currently has a Facebook page that can be seen here.

In recent years, correspondence with  Max Hartstone, secretary of the relief committee , have been made available in the Ontario Jewish Archives.