Memorial Book Sokolow-Podlask
(Sokołów Podlaski, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer ha-zikaron; Sokolow-Podlask

Editor: M. Gelbert

Published in Tel Aviv 1962

 

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This is a translation of: Sefer ha-zikaron; Sokolow-Podlask (Memorial book Sokolow-Podlask),
Editor: M. Gelbert, Residents of Sokolow-Podlask in Israel and in the USA, Published: Tel Aviv 1962 (H,Y 813 pages)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

 

Editorial Board for the Sokolow yizker-bukh   7
Sokolow Podlaski City Map Meyshe Zaints 8
Introduction   10
Let us Tell   12
 
The Old Home
Sokolow Podalski Ithak Raizman 17
The AMDOR of Sokolow-Podlask Gad Zaklikovski 29
Rabbi Moshe Zvi Vingerten Yitzhak Caspi 37
The Sokolow Melody Khayim Meyshe Mayzlish 39
The Sokolow Rebi's Yeshive Mordkhe Khayne 45
Our House in the Shul–heyf Hershl Madanski 51
From the Shtetl Meyshe Mandlboym 56
Sokolow Between the Two World Wars Meyshe Zayants 72
The Street of My Childhood Years Sore Bar–Sholem 91
“Koze” Street Perets Granatshteyn 96
Our shtetl Nakhum Zilberman 104
Sokolow Until the Destruction Avrom Beialilev 109
The Great Conflagration Hershl Y. Koyfman 117
The Dawn Prayer-group Yitskhak Rayzman 123
In the Shtetl Borekh Rozenboym 128
My Shtetl Sokolow Yisroel Kasher 132
My Grandfather Writes a Seyfer Torah Mordkhe Reznik 142
The Night Tells Meyshe Shteyngart 144
I Accompany My Father Meyshe Shteyngart 145
Of Old-time Sokolow Gad Zaklikowski 147
Jewish Economic Life in Sokolow Neta Koyfman (Ekhu) 155
The Jewish Community in Sokolow Avrom Bialilev, Pinkhas Rafalovitsh 170
The Burial and Psalm Society Eliezer Rubinshteyn 179
The Jewish Loan Fund Pinkhas Rafalovitsh 181
Sokolow Craftsmen Nosn Fademberg 186
The TOZ in Sokolow A. Rubenshteyn, Kh. Rotshteyn 190
From the Sokolow Hell Khanina Rotshteyn 197
The Yavne School in Sokolow Pinkhas Rafelovitsh 200
The Religious Youth-organization Ha'shomer Ha'dati in Sokolow Elieyzer Rubinshteyn 206
The Russian and the German Yekhiel Ornshteyn 209
Sokolow Youth I. Nahari–Mendzshitski 211
The “Frayhayt” Movement in Sokolow Tsvi Tshekhanovitski 218
The Zionist Organization in Sokolow Y. Grinberg 223
The Joys of Youth in the Nest of The Young Guard [H] Adina Yelin-Landoy 227
The Bund in Sokolow from 1900 to 1911 Nosn Fodemberg 229
The Bund Movement in Sokolow Borekh Roznboym 233
The Bund in Sokolow Khenina Rotshteyn 236
My Environs Note Koyfman 241
Houses of Prayer in Sokolow Pinkhas Rafelovitsh 255
On the Roads to the Familiar Shtetl Y. Rozenberg 284
Social Struggles in the City-The Pioneers are Coming [H] Haim Bar-Shalom 287
The First Zionists of Sokolow [H] Haim Bar Shalom 288
The Last Remembrance Leah Morgnshtern 289
Sokolow at the Beginning of the Century Khayim Bar-Sholem (Fridluv) 293
Between hammer and anvil I. Grinberg 304
The Day of Giving of the Balfour Declaration in Our Town [H] Mattel Freider-Kaplan 307
Agudat Israel in Sokolow A Sokolower 310
Sokolow-Podlask - A Stroll over the Jewish Streets Avrom Shpadl 312
 
Destruction
Sokolow Ghetto Simkhe Poliakevitsh 323
The Annihilation of Sokolow [H] Pinkhas Rafalovitsh 397
On the Aryan side and in the Forest Tsipore Rozen-Makhron 431
From the German Hell Khane Shtutman-Vishny 442
The Bedeviled Circle of Danger Gedalye Vishny 451
On the Aryan Side Pola Shvarts 458
Escape from Treblinka Shimon Greenshpan 465
From Those Days Shmuel Kohen 469
My Experiences in the German Concentration Camps Elye Shteynberg 478
In the French Resistance Hershl Y. Koyfman 518
In a Partisan Soviet Printery Avrom Farbiarzsh 523
My Wanderings Between Life and Death Khanetshe Grinberg 530
Return to Sokolow … Khave Shpadl 536
Sokolow … Without Jews Shleyme Rotshteyn 540
Sokolow … After the End M. Tzanin 544
A Memorial List of the Victims 548
Sokolow Landsmanshaft in Chicago Meyshe Mandlboym 575
Sokolow Landsmanshaft in New York M. Chayne 588
The Sokolow Aid Committee in Los Angeles Khanina Rotshteyn 599
The Sokolow Landsmanshaft in Paris Ayzik Goptarnik 602
Sokolow in Israel Khayim Bar-Sholem (Fridlub) 614
 
Saved From the Fire
Shmuel Avraham Bernshteyn 629
About Pinkhas Sobol, May His Memory Be for a Blessing Yitzchak Nahari 630
Dov Goldstein, May His Memory Be for a Blessing CH. Bar-Shalom 632
 
Personalities
The Heart and the Conscience - Mordechai Grinberg Yitzchak Ben-Aharon 635
Rabbi Mordechai Halbershtat Moshe Mayzlish 637
Chaim Zilberman, Yaakov Tikolski, Avraham and Chaitza Zaiontz, Mendel Loshitzki, Yaakov Lustigman Chaim Bar-Shalom (Fridlov) 639
The Rabbi Reb Moshe David Morgenshtern Rabbi B.M 646
Reb Sender Rubinstein Pinchas Rafalovitz 649
Rabbi Yehuda Hirsh Skrzidlover Pinchas Rafalovitz 650
Rebi Mendl Morgnshteyn May God Avenge His Blood A Sokolower 652
Henokh Zayants A Sokolower 653
Dr. Yosef Zilberman Khayim Bar-Sholem (Fridlub) 655
Dr. Yosef Zilberman Leyvi 657
Dr. Yosef Zilberman Dr. M. Dvorzshetski 658
A Key Dr. Yosef Zilberman 660
Borukh Vinogura Y. Manitsh 664
Social and Folkish Poetry in the Yiddish Verse Borukh Vinogura 667
Khane Kovalska Lili Berger 672
Ayzik Platner [Flatner?] “Folks-shtime” Lili Berger 675
Poems [“City”, “Snow”, “Dawn”, “Thus am I Happy”] Ayzik Platner 676
Shimen Vays and Yisroel Morgnshtern H. Rotshteyn 680
Two People Who Fooled One Another Shimen Vays 685
Poems [“Late Summer”, “Tamuz Evening”, “I Will Have to Become a Stone”] Y.Y. Morgenshtern 690
Gad Zaklikovski of blessed memory, Reb Yankev Fridlub of blessed memory, Reb Alter – The Sokolow Village Walker, The Paramedic Aron Vans may God avenge his blood, Yisroel Bram, The Bundle of Hair Simkha Poliakevitsh 692
Butshe Rubinshteyn's Estate Perets Granatshteyn 708
Arye Tsibule Peretz Granatstein 713
Hershl Grinberg Gad Zaklukovski 718
Alter Ben-Tsion Shuster Gad Zaklikowski 720
Berl Meter-Boyman Gad Zaklukovski 722
Reb Yisroel Itsikh'l Soyfer, Alter Khayim Kapavi of Blessed Memory, Reb Yankev Leyb Blumberg May His Memory be for a Blessing, Hershl Reyzman, Hershl Lopate the Expediter, Golde the Laundress, Khayim Borekh the Water-carrier, Shmuel Fasmanter the Dead Avrom Bialilev 726
Reb Khayim Shmuel Rozenberg May God Avenge His Blood, Mordkhe Zalman (Vinogura), Yisroel Yankele, Avrom Yoel Melamed (Hokhberg), Khane Sheyne Khave's Yankev Grinberg 733
Old Yekl, Shaye Dvoshe's, Yankl the Wise, the “Broker”, the “Broker”, Mordkhe Zalman's, Mordkhe Lukover Hershl Y. Koyfman 737
Reb Pinye Osher's Baltshe Hendl Raysman 741
Kalman Yekhiel Fridman, Avrom Shteynvaks (Shteynberg), Khenokh [sic] Dagin (Henekh Pshenena), Tsvi Beytsali (Hershel Tsibule), Khaye the Baker Yekhiel Arnshteyn 744
Reb Pintshe, Reb Moyshe-Aron, Reb Zelik'l Leybush Rubinshteyn 749
Khayim Moyshe Shpilman Dr. Avrom Shpilman 752
Avrom (Abish) Viezshba Kh. Bar-Shalom 755
Yidele Grinberg K. Giser 757
Necrology 759

 

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