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Title	Author	Page
Introduction
Chapter 1
The public Life - Associations and Institutions		1-28
The communal life - the “Association”	Yakov Amitzur - Steinhaus	3
The Jewish community	Yakov Amitzur - Steinhaus	7
The Home for the Aged	Shmuel Choresh	16
How the Jews lived in our town	Yakov Amitzur - Steinhaus	22
Chapter 2
Zionism and Youth Movements		29-66
The Zionist Organization	Y. Amitzur	31
The “Maccabi” Organization	Michael Tcherkes-Amitz	43
Memories from the “Maccabi” years	Reuven Choresh	48
Days of changes and turmoil, the Philip Vasilevitch School, Hashomer Hatzair	Aharon Cohen	48
Hathiya in the years 1924-1928	M. Amitz	57
Memories from the Youth Movement	Zvi Shchori-Schwarzman	60
Gordonia	Dvora Beinishes (Fischer)	62
Our training group [Hachshara]	Arie Bari	64
Chapter 3
Education and Culture		67-98
The Hebrew education in our town	Y. E.	69
The old and the new Talmud Torah	Y. E.	78
The High-School	M. Amitz	84
Memories from High-School	Dina Fuchs	87
The Vocational School	Yosef Hurwitz	88
The School of Commerce	Nesia Goldberg-Rabinowitz	89
The cultural life - Institutions and Organizations	Y. Amitzur	91
The Zionist Library	Yosef Hurwitz	98
Chapter 4
Personalities		99-126
Y. L. Bershevski	Yakov A.	101
Rabbi Moshe Gevelder	Y. A.	103
Rabbi Shimshon Efrati	Shlomo Weisberg	104
Avraham Goldgal	Baruch Katmafaz	105
Klara (Sarah) Lankovski	Y. K.	106
Yehoshua-Isaac Ber”g	Israel Avner B.	107
Moshe Vizaltir	Y. E.	108
Yosef-Leib Schiller	Mordechai Axelrod	109
Natan Lerner	Yosef	110
Yehoshua Kahat	Dvora Sapir (Haramati)	111
Aharon Steinhaus	Yakov	112
Yechiel Tcherkes	Y. E.	114
Shalom and Keila Kilimnik	Y. E.	115
Ben-Zion (Beni) Melechsohn	Y. E.	115
Benyamin Bichutz	Y. E.	116
Mordechai Schneider	Y. E.	117
Yosef Feldsher	Y. E.	118
Peretz Grinberg	Y. E.	118
Shabtai (Sioma) Bookshpon	Michael Amitz-Tcherkis	119
Ephraim Tchak	Y. E.	120
Baruch Yakir	Y. E	121
Fania Horesh	M. A.	122
Moshe Zilber		123
Moshe Tsam	Y. E.	124
R' Shneur-Zalman Shneurson	Shmuel Horesh	124
Chapter 5
The Days of the Holocaust		127-169
Days of turmoil	Shlomo Weissberg	129
In the days of the Holocaust	Shlomo Weissberg	132
Memories from the deportation	Yakov Akerman	137
What I went through	Donia Sapir-Furman	138
My grandfather's visions in the bloody valley (a poem) [Y]	Yosef Lerner	141
The chronicle of Transnistria [Y]	Yosef Hurwitz	142
The road of pain [Y]	Tania Fuchs	152
On the bloody road, the Kopeigarad ghetto [Y]	S. Weissberg	158
In the Bershad camp [Y]	Ester Rechter	162
Back home [Y]	S. Weissberg	164
Chapter 6
Brichany of old [Yiddish section]		171-230
Once upon a time, there was a little town	Michael Tcherkes	173
Brichany of 50-60 years ago	Shlomo Lerner	189
Between the Two World Wars	Shlomo Cerebrenik	197
How the Jews lived with us	Yakow Amitzur-Steinhaus	199
The General Assembly of the Loan-and-Savings Fund	S. Weissberg	208
Rabbis in Brichany	Chaim Melman	209
Moshe Kizhner (Reitzes)	Chaim Melman	211
Moshe Rosenblatt, a friend from my youth	Avraham Goldgehl	212
Remembrances	Baruch Hoichman	217
Memories from Brichany	David Beznassi	220
Money given to the poor to buy Matza for Passover (lit. “wheat money”)	Shlomo Lerner	226
A remark	Yakov Amitzur	230
Chapter 7
Some True Stories		231-266
The interrupted party	Y. E.	233
The Lynching	Ester Amitzur-Steinhaus	234
The first Keren Hayesod delegation	M. Amitz	236
A speech for the ears of one person	Y. E.	238
The death of Dr. Herzl [Y]	Welvel Kizhner	239
“We announce for the entire world” (The “town crier”) [Y]	Y. E.	241
During the horror of the pogrom [Y]	Y. Steinhaus-Amitzur	243
Episodes from my little town [Y]	Nelson Weiner	245
Organization of Former Brichany Residents in Israel [Y]	M. Amitz-Tcherkes	247
The Brichany Relief in America [Y]	Yosef Kessler (Kestelman)	251
Brichany former residents in Brazil [Y]		260
Friends from Venezuela [Y]		262
A bit of Folklore [Y]	Y. Amitzur	263
How Itzik bought out his friend's sins	Welvel Kizhner	265
Chapter 8
Our Townspeople who have Fallen in the War of Independence		267-272
Meir Gelman	A. Feinberg	269
Yasha (Yakov Moshe) Gnesin	(A collection)	270
Chanan Tepperman	Sara Reichman	272
Chapter 9
A Memorial Candle for the Families		273-290
List of Martyrs in Alphabetical Order
Chapter 10
Brichany Today		293-296
A letter from a Brichanyer		295

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