[1] In the wake of pogroms during the 1917–1921 Ukrainian War of Independence, he and his family fled to Riga, Latvia.

[1] The Makarover Hasidic community in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, included numerous members who had immigrated there due to the Ukrainian pogroms.

[1] According to an article in the local Yiddish newspaper, he was greeted at the Winnipeg train station by "several hundred Hasidim".

[1][4] His community bought him a house on Flora Avenue, where a large number of Jewish immigrants resided.

[3] On June 12, 2022, a group of Belz Hasidim organized an overnight stay in Winnipeg with the help of Rabbi Tzvi Altein of the Winnipeg Chabad in order to pray for the Holy Spirit of the Tzadik Twersky after many decades that people have not been to his holy grave and to say kadish for the Rabbi in form of a minyan.