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Hebrew translated by Sara Mages

Yiddish translated by Yocheved Klausner

[Hebrew]
With the publication of the book		5
From the Historical Sources		6-7
Maps		8-9
And you remembered (poem)		10
In the shadow of destruction	The Editor	23
El Male Rachamim		24
The Towns that Were
May I share it with you (poem)	C. N. Bialik	27
Dobrzy and Golub on the Drwęca River	Yehudah Rozenwax	28
Dobrzyń, My Town	Dr. Yechiel Lichtenstein	30
My childhood years in Dobrzyń	Yakov Rimon	41
My town (Poem)	Walter Field	44
The town's Rabbi	Mendel Sonabend	51
My father's house	Yehudah Rozenwax	54
Daily life in the town	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklanka)	59
The nobility and the inspiration of Dobrzyń's Jews	HaRav Yitzchak Yedidya Frenkel	63
Childhood and Adolescence (Memories)	Zev Lent	65
A few memories…	Dina and Yitzchak Shperling	73
Institutions and Movements
A vibrant and active community	Yehudah Rozenwax	76
Institutions and Movements	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklanka)	79
Prayer and Torah institutions and religious ministrants in the town	Yehudah Rozenwax	87
The Jewish education in Dobrzyń-Golub	Shmuel Meiri (Miniwski)	90
The beginning of the establishment of the “Bund”	Yakov Gorny	94
“Hashomer Hatzair”	Chaim Lord	95
The library named after “Shalom Aleichem”	Chaim Lord	102
The struggle for education in our town	Yakov Vazus	105
Spirit and Vision
During the holidays	Yehudah Rozenwax	113
The Jewish theatre in Dobrzyń	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklanka)	117
The idea of immigration to Israel strike roots	Yehudah Rozenwax	119
The first Dobrzyńaim in Israel	Yehoshua Eshel (Isaac)	121
From the Horrors of the Holocaust
The pain in the heart (poem)	Yehudit Golan (Rozenwax)	129
In the tempest of the war	Zadok Zudkevitz	130
The men left and didn't return	Yehoshua Flusberg	137
Fleeing for our lives	Yitzchak Riz	140
How did we manage?	Yehudit Golan (Rozenwax)	145
Seven sections of Hell	Gorny Frum	149
In the concentration camps	Bracha Rotolski (Goldberg)	161
After the liberation	Gorny Frum	164
Personalities in the Town
Reb Feibush Lipka	Yehezkel Cohen	170
Yosef Chaim Roda	Eisenberg	171
R' Efraim Eliezer Granat {Rimon) z”l	Yakov Rimon	176
My beloved mother May she rest in peace	Mendel Sonabend	179
My grandfather's house	Shmuel Meiri-Miniwski	180
Chana Chaya Granat-Katsher	Yakov Rimon	185
Thirty days of mourning for my grandmother	Moti	186
Chaya Shifra Bilewski	Yehudah Rozenwax	187
Shmuel Zeinwil Lipka	Minda Lipka Bornstein	189
The brothers Mendel and Avraham Hirsh Kahan	Avraham Dor	190
The dreamer who wasn't rewarded	Shmuel Meiri-Miniwski	193
A bundle of memories about my brother the poet	Yakov Rimon	200
How my heart will cry (poem)	Yosef Tzvi Rimon	206
My parents' house	Shmuel Meiri-Miniwski	209
R' Yeshayahu the “Great”	Avraham Dor	211
R' Tzvi Zev (Hirsh Wolf) Lax	Yakov Rimon	213
To my girlfriends who weren't rewarded	Rivka Shapira (Horowitz)	214
In memory of my parents	Yakov Kahan	216
In Memoriam
Yehoshua Eshel	Avraham Dor	218
Shoshanna Vinkor (Offenbak)	Yisrael Lahav	221
Yehiel Bunim Granat-Rimon	Yakov Rimon	222
Tova Shiwek	Shmuel Shiwek	224
My father's house	Shoshanna Vinkor (Offenbak)	225
A man's path	Zadok Tzvi Florman	226
About Tzvi because he's gone	Yitzchak Spielberg	231
To my father, who is very dear to me…	Chava	232
Chana Rozenwax	Yehudah Rozenwax	234
About the death of Yehudah Spielberg	Eliyahu	235
My son, Yehudah, my son	Your father	237
Nisan Fogel	Avraham Dor	240
My husband - Nisan Fogel	Bilha Fogel	241
Katriel Isaac	Avraham Dor	242
Mordechai Goldberg	Avraham Dor	243
Dov Yalowski	His daughter Leah	245
Yitzchak Rozenwax	Ben-Zion Epstein (Dovrat)	246
Avraham Rozen	Avraham Dor	248
Rozenbaum Moshe Aharon		249
Personalities and their activities
The poet Yakov Rimon (Granat)		254
Ask, the Jewish people… (poem)	Yakov Rimon	257
In those days (poem)	Yakov Rimon	259
The Warschawski family in New-York	Yehudah Rozenwax	260
[Yiddish]
The Towns that Once Existed
The Synagogue and Shtiebels in Dobrzyn	An unknown rabbi	264
Our Jewish people in Dobrzyn	Shlomo Alexander	270
My town Dobrzyn	Mechele Platnyarz Schlesinger	273
A glimpse on the synagogue alley	Mechele Platnyarz Schlesinger	274
The synagogue in Dobrzyn	Tuvia Inski	275
Memories from my old home in Dobrzyn	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklenka)	279
The Community and its Institutions
The religious life in Dobrzyn	Rabbi Nathan Sanger	285
Institutions and parties in Dobrzyn	Sara Graner Krantz	292
The active members of the community	Charles L. Graner	295
The establishment of the Bund in Dobrzyn	Yakov Gorny	298
The struggle for education in town	Yakov Vezjos	300
Our Landsleit in America
The brief history of the Chicago Dobrzyn Organization	Ester Graner Rebbe	307
The first association of Dobrzyner in America	Shlomo Alexander	312
D e s t r u c t i o n
Memories from the years of war	Michael Cohen	318
The twenty who were hanged	Mrs. Degala	324
On the winding roads	Yehoshua Goldberg	325
The pain and suffering of a family	Gavriel Kotcher	329
My Bundle of Troubles in the Russian Military	Yitzhak Rosenwaks	332
Pain and suffering in the Second World War	Elya Tzala	354
After the liberation	Gorny/Fromm	381
Memories	Yosef Dratwa	385
Personalities
R'Yakov Leib Graner	Ester Graner Rebbe	390
Bunem Zaklikovski	Shimon Yosef Platnyarz (USA)	395
The Dobrzyner Rav [rabbi]	Mendel Sonabend	397
My beautiful loving mother, May she rest in peace, the Dobrzyn Rebbetzin	Mendel Sonabend	401
Rivka Aleksander	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklenka)	403
Memories dedicated to my father R'Feivush Lipka	Yeshayahu Lipka	404
The “Dreamer” who did not live to see his dream come true	Shmuel Meiri Minivski	439
From Home to Home
List of the departed		443-452
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