Editing Pocking (section)

== The Archive of the Exodus from Russia ==
Rabbi Shlomo Matusov, deputy director of Tomchei Tmimim in Pocking, preserved documents and photographs documenting the period of the exodus from Russia and especially the Chabad life in Pocking.

In the archive there is a notebook in which he documented a travel journal of Chabad chassidim in the Pocking DP camp, where Rabbi Matusov wrote down every movement in Pocking from the period when they began leaving for France and for over a year. The journal documents many topics such as:

* Chassidim who arrived in Pocking
* Chassidim who left Pocking for other destinations
* Joint budgets
* Donations
* Letters sent to the Frierdiker Rebbe, letters from the Frierdiker Rebbe
* Letters sent to the Rebbe
* The Rebbe's responses
* Shipments of seforim and holy items that arrived from the Rebbe as director of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch

It appears that this notebook was mainly intended for the purpose of ongoing reporting to the Frierdiker Rebbe and his son-in-law, the Rebbe, about every detail during the settlement of the chassidim after leaving Russia. The transcript and photographs of the travel journal are published in the book "The Exodus from Russia" which documents the lives of the chassidim during the period of exodus from Russia and the DP camps. About 200 rare photographs documenting the lives of the chassidim during the escape and during their stay in the camps were published in the book.