Fortunately, through research I discovered a rare, well-preserved document issued by the Krakow Jewish community on August 9, 1940, just prior to the Dinter family’s relocation to the Bochnia ghetto. This document, which bears a distinct photo, is the registration form of Abraham Dinter, a teenage grandson of Rav Simcha. Tragically, Abraham Dinter would be murdered only two years later, in August of 1942, in the Belzec death camp.
Recently, an article was published in a chareidi journal in Israel detailing the relationship between Rav Simcha and the Belzer Rebbe. Dinter family members asked me to translate this article. It contained undated newspaper clippings pertaining to Rav Simcha and his fundraising on behalf of Belz.
I was glad to assist the family with this translation as well as to visit their former homestead at 9 Brzozowa Street in Krakow. In some sense, this is both where the saga surrounding the Dinter family begins as well as ends. At this late date (2016), there are no known Dinter family members residing anywhere in Poland. The family’s scattered remnants now reside in Israel, the United States, and in Canada, where they have sowed new roots and sprouted new branches.