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A bucher Leichter 19 years old from Williamsburg who was a counselor in the munchatcher camp drowned in a lake in Connecticut while he was there on a major trip.

Yup, another Jewish "Camp" victim!

This time it was A Viznitzer bucher, Leichter (from Williamsburg) a counselor in the Munkatsh camp who went rafting or canoeing on the Delaware river last night. Fell out into the wild water and his friends thought he was making a "colover" when he screamed for help. (it is the third victim of the upper Delaware this year.)

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/brooklyn/nyc-drown0715,0,2629867,print.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-brooklyn

Brooklyn teen drowns at Conn. park





BY GALIA GARCIA-PALAFOX AND PETE BOWLES

July 16, 2004

A camp counselor from Brooklyn, described by relatives as a good swimmer, drowned Wednesday night while on an outing with 350 youngsters at a Connecticut amusement park, police said.

Yossel Leichter, 19, who was working this summer as a counselor at Munkas, a Jewish day camp near Kiamesha Lake in Sullivan County, was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, about two hours after he was pulled unconscious from a spring-fed lake at the Lake Quassapaug Amusement Park in Middlebury.

Lt. Richard Guisti, a spokesman for the Middlebury Police Department, said the death appeared accidental. He said police received an 8:22 p.m. call of a drowning at the lake.

Guisti said about 350 children from three day camps were at the park at the time — including about 40 youngsters who were swimming in the small, private lake. Leichter was pulled from the water by lifeguards before police or paramedics arrived, Guisti said.

Witnesses told police that Leichter had been missing anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes, Guisti said. He said it was the first drowning in the lake in 12 years. A spokeswoman for the amusement park referred callers to the police.

"It shouldn't have happened," Leichter's brother-in-law, who gave his name only as Isaac, said at the family home in Williamsburg. "He was into swimming very much. There was no explanation for such a thing."

Leichter, who lived with his mother, three brothers and four sisters, was a member of the Nitra community and had just graduated from the Nitra School. Relatives said he was engaged to be married but that no date had been set.

"He was good with children and loved kids, and that is why he was working as a counselor at the camp," Isaac said. He said Leichter attended the Munkas camp each summer and that this was his first year as a counselor.

"He was a typical Hassidic boy who was learning and studying," Isaac said. "He was a good boy. God decided he need him also."

Joel Green, 25, of the Pupa Community Synagogue, said Leichter prayed there several times each day, usually in the morning. "He was a very Jewish boy," he said. "It was a real tragedy for everyone in the synagogue."

About 200 people attended Leichter's funeral yesterday at the Yereim Orthodox Chapel in Williamsburg. He was buried in Monsey, N.Y.
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Drowning at amusement park

MIDDELBURY (AP) -- Middlebury police say a 19-year-old camp counselor from New York state has drowned at the Lake Quassapaug Amusement Park.

The victim was pronounced dead last night at Waterbury Hospital, shortly after being pulled out of the water.

Police got a call shortly after eight last night that there was a drowning victim who was unconscious at the park. Police estimate the man had been under water between five to 10 minutes.

Witnesses indicated the man may have been under water longer than that.

One person who worked with the victim, said his co-worker went under water and started flailing his arms and thought he was joking.

The victim was brought to shore by Lake Quassapaug lifeguards before police officers or paramedics arrived. The victim's name has not been released.

(Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)
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Camp Counselor Drowns At Connecticut Park
Jul 15, 2004 7:08 am US/Eastern

(Middlebury) Middlebury police say a 19-year-old camp counselor from New York state has drowned at the Lake Quassapaug Amusement Park.

the victim was pronounced dead last night at Waterbury Hospital, shortly after being pulled out of the water.

Police got a call shortly after eight last night that there was a drowning victim who was unconscious at the park. Police estimate the man had been under water between five to 10 minutes. Witnesses indicated the man may have been under water longer than that.

One person who worked with the victim, said his co-worker went under water and started flailing his arms and thought he was joking.

The victim was brought to shore by Lake Quassapaug lifeguards before police officers or paramedics arrived.

The victim's name has not been released.