Memorial book of the community of Chorzel

. Memorial Book of the Community of Chorzel
(Chorzele, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Chorzel

Editors: L. Losh, Association of Former Residents of Chorzele

Published in Tel Aviv, 1967

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This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Chorzel (Memorial Book of the Community of Chorzel),
Editors: L. Losh, Tel Aviv, Association of Former Residents of Chorzele, 1967 (272 pages; H, Y).

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Translated by Sara Mages [Hebrew] and Gloria Berkenstat Freund [Yiddish]

Part One [Hebrew]

We do not erect monuments for the righteous…^[1]	HaRav Efraim Sokolower	11
An image and a model that were lost	Z. K-N	13
In memory of the town and its Jews	Moshe Carmi	20
The legend of Chorozele…	Simcha Adler	30
Events and images that were engraved in my memory	Yosef Nesher (Adler)	54
How beautiful is our heritage	Aharon-Wolf Nafcha (Kowal)	65
The branch of “Hechalutz” Federation	Yakov Frenkel	70
HaRav Chaim-Mordechai Bronrot, May the memory of the righteous be of a blessing	Shimon Rav Yerushalmi	80
The town's Rabbi and his congregation	Avraham Sokolower (Tel-Aviv)	83
The synagogue's Gabai and his dream	Avraham Sokolower (Afula)	85
My brother Fishel	Dvora Lachower	86
P. Lachower – Lines to his life and his image	Yakov Fichman	93
The legendary Sokolow^[2]	Fishel Lachower	100
About Dvora Lachower	Y. Maymoni; S. Or; A. Kalish	103
About one association and two brothers	Shmuel Lachower	108
My husband Mordechai Eizensztadt	Elisheva Eizensztadt (Lachower)	111
My grandfather's family and my father	Yehiel Nizkin	113
My beloved father Mordechai Biran (Pszysusker)	Naomi	114
My grandfather's image	Dov Frenkel	115
The community and the individual in the circles of life	Matityahu Pater	116
From my personal memories drawer	Meir Ben-Yosef (Bachrach)	119
The history of one family	Yosef Shafarn	122
A visit to the town at the brink of its doom	Reuven Raz (Korzenik)	126
The one and only who survived Auschwitz	David Fiszring	129
My home that was destroyed …	Dov (Berale') Fater	135
The blood account of my family	Moshe Chaim Rostoker	139
Yizkor…	Bella Tykuslker (Wazler)	141
A Memorial Candle for my honored father	Chaya Segal (Friedman)	142
About the Holocaust of my family	Penina Biran	145
I saw the town in its destruction	Henry Adler	147
Two meetings with Chorozele in Israel	Moshe Baharab	149

Part Two [Yiddish]

Chapters of the Past	Moshe Kowal	153
Last Traces of Life and Death	Gershon Sniadower	168
Two Libraries Before the First World War	Shmuel Lachowner	189
My Annihilated Home	Hagar Hertzog	192
Images and Episodes	Menakhem Lanienter	200
Two Poems	Chaim-Dovid Kozica	203
The Dear Jews of Our Shtetl ^[3]	Y.M.Niborski	209
A Sum of a Family	Henya Niborski	211
Ways and Memories of the Past	Zelik Sniadower	217
I Remember!	Nemi Kohan (Zisl Gerszonowicz)	235
An Encounter In Bukhara	Malka Fliszyn (Bajszwiger)	236
Before My Eyes	R. (B.) Malka	238
There Was a Home, There Was a Shtetl ^[3]	Ruchl Niwes (Tykulsker)	239
Sons of Chorzele Who Fell Fulfilling Their Duty		240

Part Three [Yiddish] Documents and Lists

Bulletin: The Halutz Hatzair^[4] in Chorzele (No. 1. The 25th November 1932)		243
Records of the Gmiles Khesed Kase^[5] (22-23 January 1938)		252
A Letter from a Landsleit^[6] (from the 3rd of March 1938)		256
List of Chorzele Martyrs		260
List of Chorzele Deceased (in the Land of Israel and in Other Lands)		264
List of Chorzele Landsleit^[6] in the World (1966)		264
Memorial Names and Family Pictures		270

Footnotes “We do not erect monuments for the righteous; their words are their memorial” (Jerusalem Talmud Shekalim 2:5) Return Nahum Sokolow - a Zionist leader, author and Hebrew journalist Return town Return Pioneeer Youth Return Interest Free Loan Return person from the same town Return

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