President and Executive Director of Microsoft Company Steve Balmer
visited the Brest region of Pinsk - the town where his mother’s father and
grandfather lived.
The businessman came to
Pinsk with his sister, chairperson of Pinsk Jewish community Iosif
Liberman who accompanied S.Balmer told BelaPAN. The trip was Balmer’s
gift to his sister’s 50th birthday.
The
unofficial visit of Microsoft President to Pinsk took only one day -
October 25. Blamer and his sister visited significant places of the
Jewish history of Pinsk, the museum of the Belarusian Palessie with an
exhibition of paintings by Jewish artists. A Pinsk historian showed the
honorable guest his great-grandfather’s grave. Steve Balmer and his
sister saw the building of the bakery that their uncle used to own.
S.Balmer also visited Pinsk synagogue where he talked to Rabbi Moshe
Fima and lit candles commemorating his ancestors.
According
to I.Liberman, a special menorah brought from Israel, with the words
“In honor of grandfather Shloma Dvorkin, mother Beatriche and 6
millions of Jews who died in Holocaust” was presented to S.Balmer
together with souvenirs, books and paintings of the town of Pinsk and
Pinsk district.
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