Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Epigraph: P–I–N–K–A–S S–T–O–K		4
Photographs of the Editorial Board		8
Photographs of the “Book–Committee”		9
Preface	The Book–Committee	10
Foreword	I. Tzudiker	15
Introduction	S. D. Freiman	22
Diploma from JNF for “Stok Martyrs Forest”		25
Letters from the JNF		26
The Early Period of the Town Stok
The town	S. D. F–––N	29
Stok in various times and forms	Shlomo Freiman	33
In Memoriam – Stok in my memory	I. L.	71
The Community and its activity		76
Short and long notes about Stok of long ago	Aharon Feuertag	91
Memories and reminiscences from Stok	Yudel Neuman	95
My home town Stok, as I remember it	Betzalel Kortzarze	105
The forest	Yitzhak Rosenberg	112
What I remember about Stok and about my brother Sanne	Ethel Burstein	118
Torah teaching and melamdim in the town Stok	David Stolowitz	124
Where the whirlwind has passed	M. Seldin	130
Parties, organizations and co–operative banks	S. Pinchassohn	142
A few short noted about the shtetele Stok	Chana Tchopkevitzer–Goldstein	157
Memories that cannot be forgotten	Chana Woloveska–Schneidman	159
Facts that caused disappointment in life	Sheine Zuker–Weiner	163
My town Stok as I remember it, and what it meant for me	Yerachmiel Novenstern	166
My family – as I remember it	Golde Tzuknir	174
Craftsmen and regular folk, as I remember them and what became of them	Israel Kiyak	192
Memories frm my youth in our shtetl Stok	Chaim Zuker	208
My town Stok – people and livelihoods	Yechiel Novenstern	214
The youth organization “Zukunft” [future] in town	Berish Novenstern	230
Dates and notes about life and destruction in Stok	Aharon Feuertag	237
Cultural life in Stok	M. G––––T	241
From my town Stok, over the Russian diaspora, to the State of Israel	Moshe Galant	243
Stok, the younger sister–town of Vegrov	A. Silberstein	259
Stok, my ruined little town	Leibtche Langleiv z”l	261
The Vegrow drama–group playing in Stok	Motel Zayonetz	264
Notes about my town Stok	Gitel Altshuler	271
Things that cannot be forgotten	Yechiel Novenstern	274
A testimony in memory of our fathers and mothers	Simcha Langleiv	278
A bundle of memories from the days of my youth	Malye Malishewitz	280
Trifles, remembered from our hometown Stok	Avraham Yankel Schwarzfarb	283
Negative and positive in town in general and in our Jewish Stok	Dr. Moshe Kiyak	287
A letter	Melech Ravitch	291
By the streams of the Vistula (poem)	Melech Ravitch	292
People to Note and Remember
Leizer Zuker z”l	Melech Ravitch	297
Memories from the first 20 years of my life	Leizer Zuker z”l	299
Father's heritage	Esther Zuker	305
Sculptor Avraham Oschego – creator of Ohel Peretz	Mark Turkov	313
The Jewish “Sherif” in Stok	Tzalke Wishnievski	317
Leibel Wishnievski – one of the first victims	Yitzhak Rosenberg	324
Moshe Baruch Cantor – the soft–hearted Jew, who killed himself	David Stolowitz	328
Mordechai Mendel Novenstern	Yechiel Novenstern	332
Seen with my eyes, “through my Stok glasses”	I. Rivkes	335
Crying for the death of my brother Sanne	Berish Burstein	350
In memory of our murdered mothers	Chaim Yeshaya Kuper	353
The Shtetl during the Holocaust
The memorial tablets in The Chamber of the Holocaust [martef hashoah] in Jerusalem and the memorial plaques in the Stok Landsmanshaft in Argentina		357–358
A word about the exhumation	Yoel	359
Stok without Jews – something about their annihilation	Feige Zhielenietz–Reiter	361
We exhume the Stok martyrs in 1948	Itche Toscher	369
Kadish (in Hebrew and Yiddish)		373–375
For these things we weep [after Lamentations 1:16]	Mordechai Hersh Fried	377
This is the way it began	Yoel Lande	379
The day when out shtetl Stok burned	Esther Herzberg	383
My last day in Stok	Esther Fried Passesorski	386
My ruined shtetele Stok	Hinde Shlaska–Shraga	389
Yizkor candles for my family and for Stok	Rachel Schwarzberg–Malishewitz	393
Words dedicated to my large family, murdered by the Nazis	Pearl Schneidman–Langleiv	398
The war–years 1939–1945 in Stok	Vardi Chasia	402
The history of our homelessness and wanderings	Yoel Lande	412
My life during the war and in the A96concentration camps	Maly Malishewitz–Troine	416
From Stok to Treblinka – and the welcomed liberation	Chaim Tchechanowietzki	423
A red spot on the sun (poem)	Max	428
Between Stok and Treblinka	Shmuel Goldberg	429
The Nazi times in Stok during the war	Eli Yankel Teitelboim	435
Some of my experiences during the war and after liberation	Esther–Breindl Visnye–Goldberg	440
Wanderings of a Jewish boy through Stok and other places	From Yad Vashem testimony	447
The destruction of Ostrowek – and how I survived	Devora M.	449
How I saved myself from some of the “Aktzia”s	Maly Malishewitz–Troine	457
Rachel Oscziega's story about Maidanek, Auschwitz and her liberation	I. Tzudiker	462
Additions
A Chanuka evening with Hashomer Hatzair and Hechalutz, 40 years ago	I. L–––E	471
My friend Dvoshe	Rivka Gladstein–Goldfarb	474
Roize Burstein–Blumenkranz, as I remember her	Aharon Zisek	479
My father R'Moshe the Sofer [scribe] and our poor family	Israel Kiyak	481
Our destroyed shtetl and the first organizations	Freida Rachel Possesorski–Pagoda	483
Memories from my ruined old home town	Zelik Tchapkiewitz	487
Memories from my ruined shtetele Stok	Ethel Possesorski–Ellman	489
Stoker People over the World
Short opening words about this section	Editor	493
60 years of the Stok Landsmanshaft Society in New York	Aharon Zissek	494
Stoker Landsleit in Israel	Yechiel N–––n	502
Former Stok residents in Israel [H]	Shlomo Ben Yaakov	510
Stoker Landsleit in Montreal, Canada	Yitzhak Rosenberg	512
Stoker Landsleit in Argentina	S. B. L. B.	518
The first memorial for the Stok Martyrs	Feige Zhielenietz–Reiter	542
With Stok Landsleit in Israel	Bezalel Kortzash	545
Photos of survivors, death camps, forests and bunkers		547
Yizkor and Necrology
Yizkor	Zvi Ben Moshe z”l	551
The bloody list of the perished Stoker Jews		554
The destroyed localities in the neighborhood of Stok		571
Leibl Hochberg z”l, the dedicated pioneer		572
We remember – Chana and Yoel Lande		573
Mordechai Possesorski, the Bund activist, who worked in Lomze	Chone Mendelsohn	574
Shlomo Laufer, the young martyr from Batzk–Lopianke		575
Members of various political parties who perished in the Holocaust		576–577
An eternal remembrance, for the Pantheon of our history		578
Yizkor for the heroes of Israel		579
Memorial Section		580
Stoker who Died in Various Countries
Stoker who found their eternal rest in Argentina	Golde Burstein–Zuker	624
Yudel (Yehuda) Tosher z”l , pioneer of the Stoker Society in America		639
Beltche Nagelklop–Lande and her mother Goldele Nagelklop z”l	Yakov Tzudiker	640
Chaia Tova Freiman nee Langleiv		644
Our father Shmuel Yosef Kronfeld z”l [H]	The sons: Avraham, Moshe and Zev	647

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