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[Translation Editor's Note: This table of contents includes entries for articles that appear in the book but not in the original table of contents.]

Translation Project Editor's Note
List of Illustrations
Town Locator
Name Index
Map of Vishnevets – Moshe Segal	flyleaf
(title page)	1
(credits page)	2
Part One (Hebrew)
Note from the Editorial Board	7
Note from the Organization of Vishnevets Immigrants	9
Acknowledgments and Blessings	10
Vishnevets
Vishnevets in Original Sources and Sefer Vishnivits – Chayim Rabin	11
Guide to Volin – Dr. Mstislav Orlovich	16
Vishnevets (History and Description) – Encyklopedia Powszechna	18
Vishnevets in Ruins and Her Annihilated Jewry – Meir Or	20
Our Town
Cradle of Our Childhood – Yakov Ayzenberg	29
When I Remember Vishnevets – Sonya (Shats) Levanon	30
Opening Remarks at the Adoption Ceremony – Moshe Kahan	33
Vishnevets as We Saw It – Children of Binyamina	34
The Hole in the Synagogue (from tales of Vishnevets) – Avraham Rozenberg	39
Poem – Chayim Elyovich	40
Poem – Nurit Sheyner	41
Oy, Mama (Poem) – Nitse Biv	41
Vishnevets through Its Institutions – Various photos	42
In the Tempest of the Holocaust (Survivors’ Testimonies)
History Will Not Repeat Itself – Edna Yafe	51
The Vishnevets Ghetto – Zev Sobol	52
Nazi Atrocities in Vishnevets – A Survivor	61
In the Sea of Human Madness – Sore Kitaykesher (Kirshenboym)	72
I Was a Girl in the Vishnevets Ghetto – Rachel Sobol (Fuks)	79
The Destruction of Vishnevets, Volin – Mendel Zinger	84
A 12-Year-Old under Nazi Rule – Gdalye Rozenberg	93
From Inferno to Inferno – Moshe Segal	97
Jewish Communism in Vishnevets – Yehuda Margalit	107
Jewish Communism in Vishnevets – G. Nudel	111
Years of Senseless Horror – Chayim Korin	114
With the Soviets in Vishnevets and Afterward – Y. Mazur	119
The Victims We Sacrificed… – Sonye Shats	126
Under Justice-Perverted Regimes – Yerachmiel Servetnik	129
Russia, Which Was My Undoing – Menashe Tsvik	132
An Answer to a Grandson (Poem) – Meir Or	136
My Trip to Vishnevets in 1956 – M. Meliv (Frayer)	137
Institutions and Movements
Tarbut and Culture – Chayim Tsvi Mazur	141
A Hebrew Kindergarten in Vishnevets – Tsipora (Shlayen) Kornfeld	145
General Zionist and General Zionist Pioneer Representatives in Vishnevets – Y. Ron	147
A Treasured Memory of Vishnevets – Hentsye Zak (Zeyger)	150
Young People in Vishnevets – Moshe Shteynberg	152
The Founding of Young Pioneer in Our Town – Yakov Chatski	154
How I Came to Immigrate – Chayim Verdi	157
Youth Guard and More in Vishnevets – Moshe Leshed (Markhbeyn)	160
Betar in Vishnevets – Sore Kitaykisher (Kirshenboym)	163
In a Training Detachment in Vishnevets – Tsipora (Shlayen) Kornfeld	164
Drama Circles in Vishnevets – Yone Ron	167
An Anti-Semitic Judge's Verdict in Vishnevets – Yehoshue Ron (Shike Geler)	169
From Cheder to the Northern Fence – Yitschak Verdi (Reyzels)	172
How Yitschak Reyzels (Verdi) Was Wounded	175
The Northern Fence Builders – B. Chabas	175
Notes and Letters
Letter from Kopel Dobrovitker	179
Letter from D. Balmelakhe to Yakov Chachkis	180
Letter from Leybtsi Fefer	182
Leybtsi (Arye Leyb) Fefer, of Blessed Memory	184
People We Remember
Grandma Chane-Malke – Yone Ron	189
Azriel (Son of Moshe Aharon) Kubrik – A. Barak	191
Shimon Ayzenberg – Lipa Goldberg	194
Something about Shimon Ayzenberg – Yitschak Kecholy	196
Duvid Roynik – Lipa Goldberg	197
The Spirit of Nachum Beren – Sore Or	199
In Memory of My Beloved Parents and My Best Friend, Avraham Bisker, of Blessed Memory – Eliezer Tsinberg	202
Something about Dad, of Blessed Memory – Tsvi Katz	204
In Memory of Mr. Avraham Vitels, of Blessed Memory – Y. N-S	206
R’ Mordekhay Kechum – Y. Ron (Shike der Geler)	207
Gdalye “Gedoyle” – Y. Ron	209
On the Nation’s Stage
Betsalel Mishne – Batye Derbarimdiker	213
Ben-Tsion (Bentsi) Tsur, of Blessed Memory – His Parents	214
Neta Hadari – Yakov Chachkis	216
Our Dead in the Nation
Azriel Kubrik – Yitschak Ben-Tsvi (the President)	219
Duvid Roynik, of Blessed Memory – Meir Or	220
More about Shimon Ayzenberg	221
A Time to Mourn – Meir Or	222
Chayim Zev Barkay – Meir Or	226
Simche Zak, of Blessed Memory – Meir Or	228
Yitschak Rabin – Meir Or	229
Moshe Goldshub, of Blessed Memory – Meir Or	230
My Father, Yehuda, and My Mother, Sore – Tikve (Rozental) Sklod	231
Sore, Duvid Roynik’s Daughter – Mikhael Goldberg	232
The Sofer Brothers
About Yosef Sofer – Hentsye Zak	237
Yakov Sofer, of Blessed Memory – Meir Or	238
Asher Sofer – Ts. R.	240
Collection (Contributions Received after Typesetting)
Those Who Are No Longer – Y. N.-S.	243
Among Russian Citizens and on Its Frontiers – Mikhael Valdman	244
From a Survivor’s Diary – A. Y. Teyer	247
The Story of Asher Sofer – Cherne (Katz) Rabin	271
R’ Simche Ayzik Rotman – M. M.	275
Loving Friends (Poem) – Simche Ayzik Rotman	278
On The Enlightenment (Poem) – Simche Ayzik Rotman	280
My Parents, Some of the First Immigrants from Vishnevets – Shlome Rachmani	281
Bat-Sheve and Zalman Chazan, of Blessed Memory – Meir	282
In Memory of the Martyrs of Vishnevets – Chayim Rabin	284
Part Two (Yiddish)
A Note from the Organization	287
Editors’ Foreword	289
Horror and Death
The Last Rabbi of Vishnevets – Edna Yafe	295
Gone but Not Forgotten – Mordekhay Fishman	296
The Vishnevets Ghetto – Zev Sobol	298
Horror in Vishnevets – A Survivor	311
Vishnevets Takes in Its Brothers – Rachel (Sobol) Fuks	326
Mama (Poem) – Avraham Lev	335
In the Sea of Human Madness – Sore Kitaykisher (Kirshenboym)	336
A 12-Year-Old – Gdalye Rozenberg	346
Mama Is Gone (Poem) – Avraham Lev	352
With the Soviets in Vishnevets and Afterward – Y. Mazur	353
From Inferno to Inferno – Moshe Segal	363
Jewish Communism in Vishnevets – G. Nudel	379
Jewish Communism in Vishnevets – Yehuda Margalit	382
Vishnevets 1944 – Simche Hirsh Biteners	387
The Victims We Sacrificed – Sonya Shats	393
Our Poor Town
Vishnevets in Original Sources and the Memorial Book – Chayim Rabin	401
Vishnevets: Historical Dates – Chayim Rabin	408
A Treasure of Memories – Avraham Blum	413
Vishnevets – Avraham Averbukh	418
Vishnevets, My Town – Yehoshue Zeyger	420
I See My Vishnevets – Zeyde Kamtsen	425
Schools in Vishnevets – Meir Or	428
My Contribution to the Memorial Book – Mishe Koren	433
The Distorting Mirror of Vishnevets – Meir Averbukh	455
Episodes and Legends
Face Down – Sh. Ayzenberg	469
The Rabbi and the Police Commissioner – Louis Ratman	471
Vishnevets Ghosts – Yakov Sheyngold	472
Hometown Memories – Mordekhay Fishman	474
The Blood Libel against R’ Yosele Radiviler, the Great Scholar – M. Chazan	476
Jewish Benefactors – Avraham Freylekh	484
A Favor for a Favor – M. Chazan	486
People: Types/Characters
Chane Malke – Meir Or (Averbukh)	493
Three Privileged Generations – Alef	496
R’ Levi Yitschak of Berdichev’s Grandchildren from Vishnevets – Meir Averbukh	499
Hirsh Bisker, of Blessed Memory – Chayim Baral	501
Avraham Yehuda Katz – Yoel Akiva Zusman	504
Fund for the Sick in Vishnevets – Miryam Meliv (Frayer)	507
Mikhel Fishman, of Blessed Memory – From Newspapers	510
Idel Shapiro – The Editors	513
A Story with Duvid Roynik – Sh. Sheyner	514
Makhlye Vaynman (Kremenetski)	515
Society
History of the Vishnevets Society – Avraham Freylikh	517
Vishnevets Adopted – Meir	523
The Vishnevetsers’ Good Reputation – Yosef Shatski	525
Vishnevetsers in Israel and America – Avraham Averbukh	527
With Brethren from Argentina – M. Alef	530
Vishnevets Organizations in America and Israel – The Organization	534
A Last Word
Vishnevets 1956 – Miryam Meliv (Frayer)	538
List of Printing Errors	545

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