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Introduction		5
From the Editorial Board		6
The history of the town and the Jewish population	Yosef Lifshitz	7
Way of Life
The City of David 80 years ago	Dr. M. Zagorodski	63
The progress of the town	Yitzchak Ben-Yosef	69
Distant sights	A. Veiner-Yisraeli	71
Thoughts	Yosef Lifshitz	75
Segments of memories	Moshe Meiri (Moravchik)	77
My father's house	Yosef Lifshitz	80
In the Diaspora in Polesie [Polesia]	D. Tannenbaum	89
The town's way of life	A. Lahav Lakhovski	92
What we had no longer exist	A. Veiner-Zeldin	94
Memories	Zipora Konda-Gintzburg	97
Refugees in Davidgrodek	Y. Zeldin	99
Davidgrodek during the days of the Balakovtzes*	Gershon Berman	101
Memories	Zvia and Bracha Fishman	102
Institutions and Organizations
About our lost community	S. Kevinty	105
“Maccabi” in Davidgrodek	Yakov Klojeni	107
Organizations and Economic Institutions	Shmuel Papish	109
The “Kabaim” [firefighters] society	Yosef Yudovitz	111
The Zionist Movement
The beginning of the Zionist Movement	Yitzchak Eidan	115
About the Zionist activities in Davidgrodek	Shmuel Papish	117
“Poalei Zion” in Davidgrodek	S. Zizik	119
A tale about a notebook	A. Veiner-Yisraeli	121
The youth that was lost	M. Meiri (Moravchik)	125
Youth clubs	M. Meiri (Moravchik)	126
“HeHalutz” organization	Y'hoshua Begun	127
The training Kibbutz in Lisavitch	Rivka Aharoni-Ziporin	128
“HeHalutz HaMizrachi” in Davidgrodek	G. Gloiberman	129
The League for Working Eretz Ysrael	S. Zizik	131
The Revisionist Movement in Davidgrodek	H. Klojeni	132
“Keren Hayesod” Fund in Davidgrodek	A. Lakhovski	133
A Davidgrodek son in the “Jewish Legion”	Haim Yakhnich	134
How I got an immigration permit	Leibush Dushnik	135
How we immigrated to Israel	Dov Dushnik	135
“Tarbut” School
“Tarbut” School	S. Papish	139
The school	P. Dobrushin	141
Ten years since the establishment of the school	Litman Gotlib	143
“Tarbut” School	Moshe Meiri	143
How the “Bnei Yehuda” society was established	Yakov Hochman	144
“Bnei Yehuda” pioneers who revived our language	Yerachmiel Morstein	146
About the teacher Branchuk Of blessed memory	Mendel Kravchik	146
In memory of my loved ones	Sara Romer-Olshanski	149
Told by the Elders
My memories	Moshe Yehudah Lifshitz	153
Wonders and Miracles	R' Mordechai Kozikovich	155
Told by R' Kopel Lichtenstein Of blessed memory		158
Personalities
A. The Pure and the Holy, May the Lord avenge their blood (murdered by the Nazis)
Rabbi Yisrael Yehudah Kola Of blessed memory	Y. Ben-Yisrael	163
Avraham Zev Lutzki	A. Ziporin	164
My father R' Yosef Klojeni	H. Klojeni	165
Avraham Durchin	Y. Idan	167
Yakov Alpiner	Y. Lifshitz	168
Aharon Lifshitz	S. Zizik	169
Sara Gloiberman-Plotnitzki	Shoshanna Gloiberman	169
Musia Geier- Gloiberman	Shoshanna Zilberstein	170
About my beloved girlfriends	A friend	170
B. From the old generation (and also from the new)
HaRav Yeshaya Rozenblum	Y. Lifshitz	171
HaRav Yeshaya Rozenblum	A. Lahav	172
HaRav R' David Berkovitz	Yitzchak Ben-Chana	172
HaRav R' Dudle	A. Lahav (Lakhovski)	174
To the image of R' Avraham Yitzchak the “Angle”	Yakov Klojeni	175
In memory of R' Avraham Yitzchak the “Angle”	A. Lakhovski	177
The preacher R' Shaul Dov	Y. Magidovitz	177
Sara Ita Zeger	H. Klojeni	178
Yitzchak Leib Zeger Of blessed memory	S. Zizik and Y. Lifshitz	179
Passed Away in Israel
HaRav Shneur Zalman Shapira Of blessed memory	Yakov Ben Yosef Klojeni	179
R' Shimon Ronkin	HaRav Techoresh	181
Raphael Shefer	H.B.	182
Raphael Shefer	M. Gur-Ari	183
About the death of Yehudah Kashtan	Z. Rozenstein	184
Yehudah Kashtan	Y. Ritov	185
In memory of R' Yosef Kashtan	Gloiberman	186
The Rabbi R' Avraham Yitzchak May his soul rest in paradise	Yosef. Kashtan Of blessed memory	187
Yehudah Kashtan the teacher	H. Klojeni	187
From the mourning meeting in “Beit HaMore”	Dov Yelin	188
A memorial to the departed	Yakov Rimon	189
Rivka Ziporin-Aharoni Of blessed memory	Y. Ben-Shachar	190
R' Natan Neta Gloiberman	H. Klojeni	190
Persons from Davidgrodek (Photos)		191
The Holocaust
Why?	Y. Idan	197
We will remember	M. Meiri (Moravchik)	200
Who will tell	H. Klojeni	201
A monument	Zelda	202
My visit to Davidgrodek	M. Rapport	203
My last days in Davidgrodek	M. Schor Ami	204
From 1939-1945	Y. Klojeni	204
The last days of Davidgrodek Jews	Bat-Sheva Kusnir and Gronem Pilvin	208
About two small towns: Stolin and Davidgrodek	Michael Nosenchuk	209
Partisans
Among the partisans in the vicinity of Davidgrodek	Haim Hochman	215
The female partisan	Miriam Bragman	218
Polkovnik Stanovski	Haim Hochman	222
After the Holocaust
My visit to Davidgrodek after the Holocaust	M. Kravchik	227
In Davidgrodek in 1945	Meir Tzvi Korman	229
My small revenge to a heinous crime	Aharon Moravtchik	231
The murderer and his punishment	Leibus Dushnik	239
The small community (Rubel)
A house in the village	Y. Idan-Zeldin	243
Craftsmen in the village	Yitzchak Zigerman	260
Those who engaged in public needs with trust	Yakov Kolodni	263
Fragments of memories	Zelda Kagan-Stulin	266
The Balakovtzes* in Rubel	Yisrael Nachum Dortzin	268
Davidgrodek Landsmanshaft organization in Israel		270
A Memorial Prayer
A Candle for the Fallen
Lipman Yitzchak son of Leah		277
Aharon Sherman		277
Arye Shostakovski		277
Pesia Lev		277
Shoshanna Lev		278
Zev Lakhovski		278
Zev Virobnik		279
Shulamit Durchin		279
Tzvi Durchin		281
Ori Weisberg		282
Baruch Hochman		282
Zalman Gloiberman		283
Dov Gloiberman		283
Isar Brosky		283
List of the Martyrs from Davidgrodek		284
Davidgrodek sons and daughters who died in Israel		299
Family pictures		300
El Malei Rachamim		323
* The Balakovtzes was a Russian military group under the leadership of General Bulak Balakowitch

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