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Translation of
Sefer Bursztyn
Editor: S. Kanc
Published in Jerusalem 1960
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| At the Gates of Tears | Uri Zvi Grinberg | 9-10 |
| We Remember | 17-18 | |
| Memorial assemblies | 21-24 | |
| History of the Bursztyn Jews | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 25-52 |
| My Shtetl Bursztyn | Dr. Mordechai Haber | 53-62 |
| There once was a town named Bursztyn | M. Nachwalger | 63-66 |
| Movements | Y. Fenster | 67-70 |
| The activities of BEITAR | Munia Cohen | 71-76 |
| Memories from days of lore | Lushe Pripler (Rosen) | 77-78 |
| R'Dov-Berish Gelehrnter zl | M. Gelehrnter | 79-80 |
| Hanoar Hatzioni branch in Bursztyn | M. Nachwalger | 81-84 |
| My adventures during World War Two | Dr. Lipa Schumer | 85-98 |
| Memories and adventures | Yakov Feldman | 99-106 |
| Bursztyn - History and Destruction | ||
| [Yiddish] | ||
| And you shall tell your son - our eternal duty | 113-116 | |
| The history of the Jews in Bursztyn | Dr. N. Gelber | 117-140 |
| My town Bursztyn | Dr. Mordechai Haber | 141-154 |
| The Prince Jablonowski and the Bursztyn Jews | Israel Fenster | 155-160 |
| The synagogue in the name of the Baron Hirsch | Yosef Schwartz | 161-172 |
| Our teachers | 173-178 | |
| Zionist organizations in Bursztyn | Y. Fenster | 179-182 |
| Hebrew schools | Y. Fenster | 183-184 |
| The libary in the name of Y. L. Peretz | Y. Fenster | 185-196 |
| Hasidism and Rabbis | ||
| Hasidism in Bursztyn | Rav R'Zeidele Eichenstein | 199-208 |
| Rabbis and slaughterers | Rav R'Zeidele Eichenstein | 209-210 |
| Rav R'Yoel Ginsburg | S. Shapira | 211-214 |
| R'Yankel shoichet [slaughterer] | Buntche Pomerantz | 215-220 |
| R'Shulem shoichet [slaughterer] | R'Z. Eichenstein | 219-220 |
| Cantors and melamdim [teachers] | R'Z. Eichenstein | 219-222 |
| The melamed from Lisica and his heder | Y. Schwartz | 221-224 |
| R'Hershele Strelisker | S. Shapira | 223-226 |
| Way of Life | ||
| The Tailors' Little Synagogue | Y. Fenster | 231-234 |
| Jewish parnoses [livelihoods] | Y. Fenster | 235-238 |
| Jews in the villages surrounding Bursztyn | Y. Fenster | 239-140 |
| Fires and epidemics | Y. Fenster | 241-244 |
| A story that happened in Demienew | Buntche Pomerantz | 243-248 |
| He knew it in advance… | Y. Fenster | 247-262 |
| Types and figures | Y. Schwartz | 263-272 |
| Jewish Intelligentsia | ||
| Jewish intelligentsia | Y. Fenster | 275-286 |
| Types of scholars | S. Shapira | 287-292 |
| R'Kopel Heinich | Yosef Schwartz | 291-294 |
| Dr. Zev (Wolf) Schmurek | Ilana Meschler-Schmurek | 295-300 |
| Destruction and Holocaust | ||
| In the valley of death and horror | (Yankel Feldman) | 305-316 |
| The road through all Hells | (Yankel Glatser) | 317-338 |
| Through lakes of tears and seas of blood | (Fala Tichover) | 339-350 |
| Over the bloody roads | Miriam Ginsburg-Allerhand | 351-356 |
| Inhuman suffering and pain | Dr. Lipa Schumer | 357-378 |
| Through horror and fear | Hersch Weissman | 379-386 |
| Deported by the Soviets and perished in the Katin woods | 387-394 | |
| Bursztyn - 1957 | By an eyewitness | 395-400 |
| From the few who have survived: | ||
| 1. Maltche Feffer | 401-402 | |
| 2. Yocheved Rudi | 403-404 | |
| The saved Torah-Scroll | 405-406 | |
| They died on the way to Eretz Israel | 407-410 | |
| List of Martyrs (Necrology) | 413-426 | |
| Y I Z K O R | 429-448 | |
| Foreword in English | 449-456 | |
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