Rubiezewicze, Belarus

Rubiezewicze, Derevna and Surroundings

(Belarus)

53°41' / 26°52'

Translation of
Sefer Rubizhevitsh, Derevne ve-ha-seviva

Edited by: D. Shtokfish

Published in Tel Aviv, 1968

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This is a translation from: Sefer Rubishevitsh, Derevne ve-ha-seviva (Rubiezewicze, Derevna and surroundings),
ed. D. Shtokfish, Tel Aviv, 1968 (442 pages, H / Y)

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Translated by Ronald M. Miller

Preface		3
Forward		5

Section 1 – The Village Up Until September 1939

Sketch of "Street Map of Rubezhevichi"		9
History of Rubezhevichi	Simon Osherowitz	11
A Walk through the Town	Ariah Port	17
Our Town over the Past Century (Selections from "Hamlitz" and "Hatzfira")		55
From Rubezhevichi's Position	S. Osherowitz	61
The 1906 Pogrom in Rubezhevichi	Eliyahu (Lotta) Segalowitz	81
The Blood Libel	Mendel Drokt z"l	84
The 1917 Pogrom	Eliyahu Segalowitz	85
The Establishment of the Baitar Party in the Village	Jochabed Brasinski (Deinofsky)	86
The Children of Yaacov (Religious School)	Bitia Brill (Gurion)	88
Illegal Entry into the Land of Israel	Libba Einreich (Fishkin)	89
Maloritsky	Baska Deinofsky-Shapiro	91

Section 2 – From Our Stories

Children of Rubezhevichi	Meir Aronovsky	97
Mr. Liotte Aizenbud	S. A.	105
In Memory of Rabbi Edelman's z"l Family	Jochabed Deinofsky-Brasinski	107
In Memory of the Goan Rabbi Eliezer Edelman z"l	Hersh Zvi Edelman	108
Mr Shepsel the Doctor	Simon	109
Mr Chaim Lieb Osherowitz the Elder	Simon Osherowitz	110
Yaacov Katzowitz	Ephriam Zucker	111
Sheina Feiga Katzowitz	Ahavah Zucker	112
Memories of Mr Yaacov Meir Gorodski z"l	P. L.	113
To the Memory of Itzka (Yitzhak) Kantorowitz	R.	115
In Memory of Yitzhak Plotnick	Ariah Port	118
Hope in the Image of Schmuel Leib Bunimovich	Moshe Bunimovich	120
Feitl Zak	Moshe Zak	121
In Memory of My Brother Reuven	Ariah Port, Schlomo Slonim, N. Mosel	122
Destruction of the Bereaved Family	Gishka Poliez	124
Our Family	Rochel Rabovsky (Borisevich)	126
Avi's House	Biti Gurion-Brill	127
In Memory of My Parents and My Brother	Jochabed Brasinski	129
In Memory of My Parents, Brother and Sisters	Teivel Silverman Brosky	130
Instead of a monument	Doba Shapiro-Ben Ariah	131
History of One Family	Meir Chaim Aronovsky	133
One Left From a Large Family	Devorah Backman Fishkind	141
The Sorrowful Ways of Peya Shimonowitz Gurion	Moshe and Eliezer Gurion	142

In Defense of the Birthland

Moshe Rosenharz	Shalom Shapiro	145

Section 3 – The Surrounding Villages of Wolma, Derevna and Gran

Derevna and Rubezhevichi	Schraga Ben-Dovid (Davidowitz)	149
My Town Derevna	Miriam-Mary Aronovsky	152
My Village Derevna	Rabbi Yitzhak Zvi Shimonowitz	156
My Village Derevna	Meir Aronovsky	158
Only Burnt Houses Found in Derevna	Dodka Kossover	161
Decline of Jewish Wolma	Moshe Shimonowitz	163
Memoirs From Gran and Surrounding Areas	Ariah Abramowitz	165
Jewish Families in Gran	Zina Horowitz Braun	171

Section 4 – The Holocaust and Conflict

The Specific Dates the Holocaust Affected Rubezhevichi and the Surrounding Villages		175
From the Diary of Sarah Fishkin		176
From the Diary of Sarah Fishkin		181
From the Diary of Reuven Port z"l		231
The Last days of the Ghetto	Moshe Zlokovsky	235
The Destruction of Jews from Rubezhevichi and Surrounding Areas	Gishka Poliez	249
The End of the Jewish Existance in Rubezhevichi	Moshe Gurion	253
In a Forest and in a Field	Yerachmiel Segalowitz	263
Letters from the Days of Siege	Manacha Levine	269
One Sad Day	Ahavah (Libba) Zucker	271
In the Nazi Death Camps	Yaacov Fishkin	275
Farmers Helped Us	Yitzhak Borkowitz	284
Tragic Tales from the Occupied Years	Eliezer Gurion	286
How We Were Saved	Eliyahu Segalowitz	300
The Children's War in Rubezhevichi	Yitzhak Kossover	306
Our Successful Escape	Rochel Bilkin Sender	307
In the Ghetto and in the Forests	Pinie Horowitz-Leichtenstein	309
I Was a Prisoner of War	Simeon Segalowitz	311
From the Ruins of Rubezheviche to the Storming of Berlin	Benjamin Rachelson	316
I Collected Ammunition	Simon Schuster	319
The Going Under of a Jewish Neighborhood	Seika Osherowitz z"l	324
Living Through Hell	Feiga Kosel-Segalowitz	334
Tomorrow, After the War	Moshe Zak	335
We Remained in the Village	Yaacov Hargin	337
Three Terrible Paths	Nachman Berman	341
We Set up an Uprising	Yechiel Segalowitz	350
Out of the Ghetto to be with the Partisans	Dr. Fishel Horowitz	357
The Stories of Our Partisians		363
The Children of Rubezhevichi and Surrounding Villages that Fell Victim while Fighting the Nazi's		366

Section 5 – Memoirs

People of Rubezhevichi Who Died in the Holocaust		373
People of Derevna and Gran Who Died in the Holocaust		383
Survivors who Died Later		387
Children of Rubezhevichi who are in Israel and Worldwide		419
Rubezhevichi Townspeople in Israel and Worldwide		421

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