The Book of Strzemieszyce

0 The Book of Strzemieszyce

(Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland)

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Translation of Sefer Strzemieszyce
Edited by: Jechiel Sztern

Published in Tel-Aviv, 1967

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This is a translation from:
Sefer Strzemieszyce (The Book of Strzemieszyce),
Editors: Jechiel Sztern, and the Strzemieszyce landsmanshaft in Israel with the help of Strzemieszycers all over the world
(Y, H - 140 pages).

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Translated by Bill Leibner

Introduction	Sztern	1
A poem	Chaim Monowicz	3
Glancing at Jewsless Strzemieszyce	Jechiel Sztern	5
Historical review of Strzemieszyce		8
Reb Nachum Englard		14
The Jewish Strzemieszyce	Jecheskel Sonder	18
The Bet Hamidrash and the Holy Duties that it fulfilled	Yakov Klapper	20
The Bet Hamidrash Jews in our Town Strzemieszyce	Yakov Klapper	21
In Rav Shlomo David Sonder's Stiebel	Yakov Klapper	22
The other area, the Viennese	Yakov Klapper	23
Our street	Yakov Klapper	24
Strzemieszycer Jews in the study hall	Rotsztajn	25
A few words regarding our shtetl [hamlet]	Sz. Fajtman	26
The Hechalutz and the Hechalutz Hatzair	Jechiel Sztern	29
The Hashomer Hadati movement	A. Szpigelman	31
The Mizrachi movement	A. Szpigelman	33
The theater in Strzemieszyce	Jechiel Sztern	34
Memories from my shtetl	Chaim Monowicz	36
Memories of Sabbath eve	Jechiel Sztern	38
On the eve of Passover	Jechiel Sztern	40
The eve of Rosh Hashanah	Jechiel Sztern	42
Sukkoth and Simchat Torah	Jechiel Sztern	44
A wedding in the shtetl	Jechiel Sztern	46
A holy type of person in the shtetl	Wiktor Kupfer	48
Religion	Wiktor Kupfer	49
Family life	Wiktor Kupfer	50
Culture	Wiktor Kupfer	52
“Menschlichkeit” (humanity)	Wiktor Kupfer	54
Interesting character in the shtetl	Jechiel Sztern	56
Reb Berisz	Jimmy Feder	57
Martyrdom	Jimmy Feder	63
The Shoah diary	Jona Grin	67
The translated Shoah diary	Jechiel Sztern	---
Szajndl Merc	Jechiel Sztern	89
A tragic documentary letter	Getke Merc	92
The undertaking to bring back the bones	Jechiel Sztern	95
My visit to Auschwitz	Jechiel Sztern	98
The sanctified bones	Yakov Klapper	99
The Zagłębie people are shedding tears	Josele Fridman	100
The Rajnsztajn family	Sz. Rajnsztajn	105
The Monowicz family	Jechiel Sztern	108
The memories of a difficult period	Sala Wajnberg	110
The long journey	Gitla Rotmensch	112
From Strzemieszyce to Israel	Bela Feldman	118
We were seven	Gitl Gliksztajn	121
I shall never forget	Dora Bart	122
From the diary of the late Fela Szeps		123
From the diary of Bronka Pański		125
The painful journey to Israel	Bluma Szajnerman	127
Strzemieszyce, a graveyard	Shimon Geshuri	130
The Strzemieszycer committee in Israel	Jechiel Sztern	131

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