Rachov-Annopol;
Testimony and Remembrance
(Poland)

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Translation of
Rachov-Annopol; Pirkei Edut Ve-Zikaron

Edited by: Shmuel Nitzan, Rachov/Annopol and surrounding region society

Published in Tel Aviv, 1978

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This is a translation from: Pirkei Edut Ve-Zikaron (Rachov-Annopol; testimony and remembrance),
ed. Shmuel Nitzan, Rachov/Annopol and surrounding region society, Tel Aviv, 1978.

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Rachov - Annopol

Testimony and Remembrance

Editor: Shmuel Nitzan

Published by the Townspeople Association of Rachov-Annopol (Lublin District) and
Vicinity and the "OZ" Commemoration Fund

Editorial Board:

Editor	Shmuel Nitzan
Associate Editor	Yitzhak Bin-Nun
Editorial Assistants	David Stockfish	Translator and Editor, Yiddish section
	Israel l. Taslitt	Translator, English section
	Arye Brauner	Translator into Hebrew
Administration and Finance	Y. Bin-Nun Sh. Nitzan Y. Fishman (Israel)
Administration and Finance	Z. Wagman (U.S.A.) J. Crystal (Canada)

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Preface
Introduction	2
Jews in Rachov-Annopol	6
The "Rachov" Farm – a Jewish Estate	8
The Important Role of Rachov's Jews	9
Community Life and Institutions	15
Toward Community Reorganization	17
Free Loan Fund: Plan and Principles	18
Youth Activities: Political and Social	19
Growth of Zionist-Pioneer Activity	23
Early Youth Activities Endeavors	25
The Youth Pioneer Groups	26
My Pathways to the Pioneering Movement	29
The Education and School System	32
The "Tarbut" School in a Struggle for Survival	33
The General Talmud Torah and the Yeshiva	34
Our Town: Landscapes and Faces Down the Generations	36
How the Plague Was Halted	37
A Wedding in Town	37
"On Both Sides of the Wisla"	38
The Rescue Arrived Too Late	38
Memories of Home	39
Grandma Sheindl-Dvoire and Mother Chayeh Dinneh	40
The Splendid Passover	42
The Water Carriers and the Blue Box	43
"The Goats of Rachov"	44
A Hot Summer Day Before the Storm	45

Death and Annihilation
The Final Road for Rachov's Jews	49
Polish Prison Camp Became Torture Camp for Jews	50
"Jews, Save Yourselves!"	51
Decrees, Maltreatment and Illusions	52
Operation in Yanishov	53
Who Murdered the Survivors of Yanishov and Their Partisan Rescuers	56
On the Brink of Auschwitz	59
Saved by the French	61
We Shall Remember
Necrology

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Rachov - Annopol

Testimony and Remembrance

Editor: Shmuel Nitzan

Published by the Townspeople Association of Rachov-Annopol (Lublin District) and Vicinity and the "OZ" Commemoration Fund

Editorial Board:

Published by the Townspeople Association of Rachov-Annopol (Lublin District) and
Vicinity and the "OZ" Commemoration Fund