Ciechanowiec, Poland

Ciechanoviec-Bialystok District;
Memorial and Records
(Ciechanowiec, Poland)
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Translation of
Ciechanowiec; mehoz Bialystok, sefer edut ve-zikaron

Edited by E. Leoni

Published in Tel Aviv, 1964

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Originally published in Israel and the USA in 1964 by the Ciechanovtzer Immigrants Association
EDITORIAL BOARD FOR 1964 EDITION
IN THE U.S.A.

M. Gelfand	B. Leve
S. Gelfand	B. Siegel
M. Harris	B. Ptashek
M. Solondz	L. Feldman
J. Zlizer	S. Pasternack
P. Chazan	M. Kagan
B. Yarmus	M. Kalish
E. Yarmus

IN ISRAEL

Zvi Alisar (Kaminkovsky)	Rachel Heller-Levin
Shoshana Avner (Yarmus)	Chava Sir Werba
Tehila Ashlagi (Silberberg)	Menachem Levin
Dvora Blumenkrantz (Peretz)	Zvi Pasternak
Batya Baksht (Lubovitz)	Tuvia Peretz
Shimon Drori (Yaskolka)

Translated by Judy Baston and Ros Romen

English Section of Book

E3	Marginal Comments	Professor Benjamin Mazar
E7-E67	The Jews In Ciechanowiec	Eliezer Leoni
E68-E76	Atrocities and Hell	Ester Kleinoth (Goldberg)
E77-E79	Chechanovtze in the New World	Dr. David Tabak

Preface

3	Names of the Members of the Editorial Board in Israel and U.S.A. **
4	Map
5	Expression of thanks to the editor by the members of the committee of the organization	Ciechanoftser Relief in America
6	Ciechanovitzer Relief in America
7-8	On the Cover of the Book	Zvi Elyasher (Kamenkowski)
10-12	This Should be the Last Yizkor Book	Memorial Book Committee in America
13-16	Great Heritage for Posterity	Eliezer Leoni

History of the Community of Ciechanowiec

21-70	Early History of the Jews in Ciechanowiec **	Eliezer Leoni
71-74	Rabbi David Saul Katzenelbogen Head of the Rabbinical Court	Meir-Shalom Sitzidrovski

The Scenery of Ciechanowiec

77-79	The Nurzec	Peretz Hirschbein
80-86	Nature and Climate for Ciechanowiec	Ephraim Eliyahu Ribak
87-89	The Nurzec and the Forest	Tehila (Ashlagi) Zilberberg
90-91	Beauty Spots in Ciechanowiec	Yeshayahu London

That We Remember

95-120	Our Twinned Town -- Ciechanowiec	Ephraim Eliyahu Ribak
121-131	The Past	Zvi Matison (Niavadomi)
132-137	Ciechanowiec 70 Years Ago	Gittel Pacziarz
138-142	The Character of Ciechanowiec	Chana Vetman (Kozovski)
143-146	Ciechanowiec during the First World War	Moshe Zlotolow
147-149	The Fire in our Town in 1915	Yitzhak Steinberg
150-153	The Battlestorms	Abraham Kozovski
154-156	A Lament for my Burnt Town	Yitzhak Bloom
157-158	Memories	Malka Meisler Peles (Kaplansky)
159-165	Diaspora Route	Zvi Elyashar (Kamenkowski)
166-167	Pogroms During the Polish Uprising	Yeshayahu London
168-170	After the First World War	Dr. Avraham Spielman
171-172	Mutual Aid Among the Ciechanowiec Jews	Chaya Yehudit Yarmus (Wiadro)
173-175	My Birthplace Ciechanowiec	Eliyahu Feldman
176-185	These I Shall Remember	Gamliel Chaim Zilberberg
186-202	Jewish Wolia	Chava Werba (Ser)
203-204	The Shtetl between the Two World Wars	Joseph Gebali (Yabkowski)

The Economy and Institutions

207-212	Making a Living in Ciechanowiec	Ephriam Eliyahu Ribak
213-214	"Frufintzia" and "Monopol" ????	Issur Smoliar
215-216	The Economy of our Shtetl	Yitzhak Steinberg
217-218	Industry and Trade	Yeshayahu London
219-222	The Character of the Jewish Economy of Ciechanowiec	Shimon Drori (Yaskolka)
223	Artisans and Workers	Simcha Pasternak
224-228	The Economic Destruction of the Jews of Ciechanowiec	Eliezer Leoni
229-230	The Jewish Community after World War I	Joseph Pasternak
231-237	Charitable Institutions of Ciechanowiec	Yitzhak Steinberg
238-246	Medicine and Sanitation	Dr. Avraham Spielman
247-249	Fires and Fire Brigade in Ciechanowiec	Yeshayahu London

The Zionist Movement, Youth Movements and Parties

253-254	The Beginning of Zionism in our Shtetl (Yiddish)	Yitzhak Steinberg
255-258	The Beginning of the Zionist Movement in our Shtetl (Hebrew)	Mordechai Bachrach
259-260	The Sails that Brought our Ship to Israel	Chana Webman(Kozowski)
261-265	Collections for the Jewish National Fund in 1913 (List of Donors)	Issur Smoliar
266-268	The Jewish National Fund in Ciechanowiec after the Balfour Declaration	Tehila Ashlagi (Zilberberg)
269-272	The Start of the Hechalutz Movement	Menachem Lewin
273-274	The Founding of the Pioneers in Ciechanowiec	Bertche Shtiegel
275-278	Hechalutz During the 1930's	Chana Ben-Yosef (Ptashek)
279-282	The Courageous Journey of Ciechanowiec Pioneers Aboard the Ship Welos	Shimon Ben-Yosef Schlechter
283-286	Hechalutz Junior in Our Town	Zvi Elyashar (Kamenkowski)
287-292	The Freiheit in Ciechanowiec	Yaacov Lew
293-300	Betar of Ciechanowiec	Shalom Cohen
301-313	I Made Aliyah	Tuvia Peretz
314-316	The Zionist Worker Organization of Ciechanowiec	Yitzhak Soloveitchik
317-318	Mizrachi and Hashomer Hadati	Zvi Pasternak
319-321	The Torah V'avoda Organization	Velvel Zagodny
322-324	Agudat Yisrael and The Youth of Agudat Yisrael	Gamliel Chaim Zilberberg
325-327	The Leftist Poalei Zion in Ciechanowiec	Joel Treibatsh
328-330	The Left Zionist Workers Party	Yehuda Mondri
331-333	A Bloody Party Struggle	Abraham Rudi

Education, Culture and Art

337-339	The Cultural State at the End of the Nineteenth Century	Issur Smoliar
340-342	The Reformed Cheder	Golda Porat ( Winer)
343-345	How They Began the Craftworker School	Yitzhak Steinberg
346-348	The Vocational School	Chana Turinski
349-351	The Russian Municipal Pro-Gymnasium	Yitzhak Farber
352-353	The School of Sheintshe Meisler and Alter Herschke Krebnogy	Chaya Mondri (Steinberg)
354-362	The History of the Hebrew Elementary School	Shimon Drori (Yaskolka)
363-365	The Hostel of the Tarbut School	Pinchas Aron (Abramson)
366-369	The Character of the Tarbut School	Kalman Abramson
370-371	The First Hebrew Kindergarten in" Nystadt"	Rachel Wilkanski (Rozen)
372-373	The Education of the Teenagers in Ciechanowiec	Chaya Hagidos (Etkes)
374-379	Hebrew Cultural Activities in Our Town	Zvi Elyashar (Kamenkowski)
380	The "Tarbut" Library	Shayntshe Rubenstein
381-382	The Maccabi Sports Club	Shimon Drori (Yaskolka)
383-384	The Hapoel Sports Club	Feivel Mandelsberg
385-388	Amateur Entertainers in Ciechanowiec	Rivka Paremba (Kotik)
391-393	The Cheder of Rebbe Yechezkel Eidem	Rachel Bloomstein (Wengorz)
394-396	Cheders and Teachers	Yaacov Lew
397-398	The Beit Yosef Noverdik Yeshiva in Ciechanowiec	Gamliel Chaim Zilberberg

Personalities

401-413	Chronicles of My Father's House	Meir Hillel ben Shamai
414-426	The House of Kozowski	Eliezer Leoni
427-429	Important Figures in our Shtetl	Ephriam Eliyahu Ribak
430-431	Rabbi Yehudah Hachanochi	Rabbi Aviezer Tzitzowitz
432-434	Rabbi Shneur Zalman Schneerson	Rabbi Aviezer Tzitzowitz
435-442	My Grandfather	Chaya Farber (Cukiernik)
443-448	My Father Moshe David Heller	Rachel Heller Lewin
449-450	Moshe David Heller and the Ciechanowiec Working Youth	Bertche Shtiegel
451-452	Baruch Zvi Cohen	One of his students
453-460	Reb Yosef Tuvia Ziberberg	Z. Hagai
461-466	Reb Avram Meir Zilberberg	Z. Hagai

Local Color and Folklore

469-472	The Local Color of the Chassidim in out Shtetl	Rachel Konopiaty
473	The Beit Midrash of the Gerre Chassidim	Yitzhak Pasternak
474-477	The Fate of an Apostate	Abraham Rudi
478-480	The Story of a Blind Cantor	Mottel Rosenthal
481-483	The Selling of Mitzvot	Rachel Malka Elkes (Kishner)
484-487	The New Cemetery and the Chevra Kadisha in "Nystadt" Chaim Gamliel Zilberberg	Gamliel Chaim Zilberberg
488-489	Enjoyment	Elyanek (Leib) Spielman
490-493	Ciechanowiec Humor	Hersch Ber Pasternak
494-495	Folklore of Ciechanowiec	Tehila Ashlagi (Zilberberg)
496	The Incident of the Dead Person	Zissel Berg (Weissberg-Kalamarz)
497-498	Sharp and Sharper	Yehoshua Mordecai Rosenblum

Personalities and Dynasties

501-503	The Humble People of the World	Chana Vetman (Kozovsky)
504-507	My Brother R'Shabtai Cohen (Kalish)	Moshe Kalish
508-511	Jews of Eretz Yisrael	Chava Werba (Ser)
512-514	Der Nister (The Hidden Saint)	Avraham Moshe Wrubel
515	The Fathers of my Family	Rabbi Aviezer Tzitzowitz
516-518	My Sister Rivka Hachanochit	Pnina Rotem (Hachanochit)
519-521	Two Types	Yitzhak Bloom
522-525	The Cantor and the Composer Reb Kalman Abramson	Eliezer Leoni
526	The Teacher Reb Simcha	Avraham Moshe Wrubel
527-528	The Teacher Reb Yerucham	Shimon Drori (Yaskolka)
529-531	Reb Yerucham Kashtan	Yaacov Farber
532	My Father the Schochet Reb Chaim Itzel Szedlitzki	Pinchas Ben-Yair (Szedlitzki)
533-534	The Death of the Schochet Reb Itzchak Szedlitski	Leah Mozeh (Steinberg)
535-536	The Chevra Kadisha of "Nystadt"	Yaacov Ptashek
537-538	My Father Sander Plonski	Miriam Barzanik (Plonski)
539	My Father Shmuel Lichtenberg	Tamar Shamir (Lichtenberg)
540	Mt Father Meir Lavendesh	Aryeh Lavendesh
541-543	My Father Yosef Schweider	Tziporah Mondri (Schweider)
544	The Devotion of my Grandfather	Shmuel Kirschenbaum
545	Yossel the Deaf	Chana Turinski
546-550	My Family	Yitzhak Ben-Eliezer (Rozen)
551-552	David Heller	Rachel Heller Lewin
553-554	The High Priest: Moshe Holtzman	Tehila Ashlagi (Zilberberg)
554-556	About Chaya Lubowitz	By her sister and her friends
556-557	Eliezer Turynski	Chana Karmon (Zilberberg)
558	R' Dov Lis	Reuven Ptashek
559-560	Nechama Kaplan	Rachel Konopiaty
561	Dr. Yitzhak Brenner	Rachel Konopiaty
562	Dr. Yitzhak Brenner	Bertche Shtiegel
563-565	In Memory of Souls	Yitzhak Shlatzki
566-570	Ciechanowiec Characters	Hersch Ber Pasternak
571-573	The Twenty-Second Day of Cheshvan	Peshke Kaplan (Kazan)
574	At the Empty Crib	Yitzhak Bloom

Under Soviet Rule, 1939-1941

577-581	Ciechanowiec Under the Soviet Regime	Berl Lew
582-583	"The Red Messiah" Entered Our Shtetl	Alter Piuro
584-586	In Soviet Captivity and My Escape from Ciechanowiec	Shmuel (Munia) Yabkowski
587-595	The Aliya to Israel Under Soviet Rule	Shoshanna Avner (Yarmus)
596-600	My Pain in Soviet Russia	Dr. Avraham Spielman
601-608	Under Soviet Rule	Devorah Blumenkrantz (Peretz)
609-612	In the Battallions	Zvi Pasternak
613-614	The Holocaust
615-618	Kaddish (Prayer for the Dead)	Eliezer Leoni
619-625	Kaddish (Prayer for the Dead) (Yiddish)	Eliezer Leoni
627-629	The Last Days of Ciechanowiec Jews	Simcha Burstein
630-635	In Days of Terror, Anguish and Murder	Leibel Soloveitchik
636-638	The Brutal Murderer Romanus	Yehuda Ritz
639-642	The Bloody Days of the Ghetto (Hebrew)	Zvi Blutman
643-648	The Bloody Days of the Ghetto (Yiddish)	Zvi Blutman
649-657	A Chapter from the Destruction of Ciechanowiec	Ephriam Weiner
658-661	Yiddish	Velvel Ptashek
662-668	Terrible Scenes and Massacre (Hebrew) **	Esther Kleinoth (Goldberg)
669-678	Terrible Scenes and Massacre (Yiddish) **	Esther Kleinoth (Goldberg)
679-680	Struggling with Death	Chaya Mylnarz (Kozik)
681-687	In the Death Camps	Zvi Blutman
688-689	Yiddish	Chaya Chazan
690-696	The Road to Liberation	Leibel Soloveitchik
697-700	Yiddish	Aryeh Weissbord
701-704	In the Ruins of Our Town	Simcha Strussman

They Fell on Guard

705	For Father and Mother	Zvi Elyasher (Kamenkowski)
707-708	Morris Leve (Lew)	"Morgen" Journal
709-710	Shlomo Zlotolow	Yaacov Kotik
711-712	Dov Berele Genezdovitz	Benjamin Genezdovitz

The Conclusion of the Book

713-715	In the Margins of the Book	Prof Benjamin Mazar

In Memorium

719-809	Jewish Martyrs of Ciechanowiec
810-811
813-839	Memorial Notices
841-842	Irgun Olei Ciechanowiec in Israel
843-859	The History of the Irgun Olei Ciechanowiec on Israel	Eliezer Leoni
861	Irgun Yotsei Ciechanowiec in the USA
863-864	Ciechanowiecers in the USA	Zvi Matison
865-868	32 Years of Relief Work	Eliyahu Feldman
869-872	"Chevra Anshe Ciechanowiec" in New York	A. Sol-Podolowski
873--874	Active Figures in the "Chevra" in New York	Moe Bernstein
875-877	Chevra B'nai Moshe Anshe Neustat Ciechanowiec	Batsha Lewe
878-879	Ciechanowiec Youth Branch No. 495	L.P.
880-881	Two Warm Ciechanowiec Homes In America	Yaacov Zelizer
882-885	Moshe Yakov Gelfand	Betzalel Kotler
886-889	To the History of the Community	Eliezer Leoni
891-892	Index of all the contributors to the book
893-897	Index of places
898-925	Index of names
926-930	Index of drawings and photos

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Translated by Judy Baston and Ros Romen

Originally published in Israel and the USA in 1964 by the Ciechanovtzer Immigrants Association
EDITORIAL BOARD FOR 1964 EDITION
IN THE U.S.A.