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The city of Brody – now in Ukraine but in Austrian Galicia in the 19th century and in Poland between the two world wars--boasted a Jewish presence for almost 400 years. A Jewish community was documented there as early as 1588 and endured until 1943, when the last Jews were deported from Brody for extermination in a Nazi death camp. A number of survivors who had miraculously escaped the Nazi death machine ended up in Israel. There, in 1955, Nathan-Michael Gelber's Toldot Yehudei Brody 1584-1943 (Brody: A History of the Jews of Brody 1584-1943) was published by Mosad HaRav Kook in Jerusalem as part of a series about towns in Europe which had been home to Jews. Meanwhile, other Brody survivors dreamed of a second book to commemorate and perpetuate their mother city. What they envisioned was a spirited collection containing historical essays, remembrances, testimonies, even poems, about what life had been like in Brody. Out of this dream was born the volume Ner Tamid: Yizkor LeBrody (An Eternal Light: Brody, in Memoriam), published by the Organization of Former Brody Residents in Israel in 1994. Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld

The Founders of the Organization of Former Brody and its Vicinity Residents in Israel
Uri Gasthalter	Naphtali Jacob Rotmann
David Hammermann, of blessed memory	Haya Shahar-Donner
Nathan Meirsohn	Moshe Shalmi-Stadtmauer
Josef Parvari-Leiner, of blessed memory	Haim Shmuszkin
Alexander-Olek Podmerner	Mendel Singer, of blessed memory
Moshe Rosenblum, of blessed memory	Anshel Stromwasser, of blessed memory
The Former Brody and its Vicinity Residents Committee
Naphtali Harash	Moshe Shalmi-Stadtmauer
Hermann Lilian	Raphael Shlinger-Shalev
Dov Pestes (chairman)	Haim Shmuszkin
Alexander-Olek Podmerner	Eliezer Tolmacz
Zipora Rom	Jacob Tomashower
Haya Shahar-Donner	Isaac Zohar-Zorne
The Memorial Book's Committee
David Altmann	Dov Pestes
Josef Ettinger, of blessed memory	Zipora Rom
Bianka Lilian	Zehava Shmuszkin
Malwina Lilian-Dembinski	Isaac Zohar-Zorne
The Editorial Board
Yehoshua-Shiko Mandel
Aviv Meltzer (editor-in-chief)
Josef Parvari-Leiner, of blessed memory
Sarah-Samith Shmuszkin-Rubinstein

Map of Brody (Click on the map to enlarge)

Introduction
Preface	Yehoshu'a-Shiko Mandel
On the Image of the Brody Community	Arieh Tartakower	1
Snail, Emerge from Your Shell!	Simon Sauber	7
Chapter One: Brody – its History and Jewish Community
On the Start of the Jewish Settlement in Brody from his History of the Jews of Brody: “Jewish Mother Cities,” Vol. 6, Mosad HaRav Kook, Jerusalem [1955]
The Jewish Settlement of Brody from its Beginnings until its annihilation pp. 13-14; from “Pinkas Ha'kehilot”:	Nathan Michael Gelber	23
Brody: “The Jerusalem of Austria”	Nathan Michael Gelber	50
The Last Fire – May 23, 1867	Adele Landau-Mises	55
Brodyites in Leipzig	A. Yehuda (Osterzetzer)	59
The Synagogue in Brody from The Synagogues in Poland and Their Destruction, Mosad HaRav Kook and “Yad Va-Shem,” Jerusalem, 1943	David Davidowitz	61
Chapter Two: Culture and Society
The Wise Men of the Brody Kloiz	Rabbi J. J. Weissblum	67
The Rabbis of Brody of the Past 150 Years	Meir Wunder	86
The Brody Singers	Joseph Parvari (Leiner)	96
The Brody Singers and Their Heritage from Bimah II (9-10), 1961-1962, pp. 27-33	Dov Sadan	100
Brody: City of Border and Immigrants from his With Joseph Hayyim Brenner to the Land of Israel Sixty Years Ago, Mo'etzet Po'alei Haifa, 1969, pp. 19-29	Mendel Zinger	108
On the Very Close Connection of the Jews of Brody and Those of Volhynia	Joseph Parvari (Leiner)	114
The Aliyah of the Halutzim, “Artificial Immigration” and Hakhshara Activities from his With Joseph Hayyim Brenner to the Land of Israel Sixty Years Ago, Mo'etzet Po'alei Haifa, 1969, pp. 29-47		117
The Shomer Branch on Leshniovska Street	Sonya Katzman-Vinogradov	129
Jewish Brody in Its Last Decade as I Remember It	Yitzhak Zohar (Izio Zorne)	135
With the Misery of Isolated Jewish Homes from his From the Childhood District, “Dvir,” Tel-Aviv, 1938, pp. 64-74	Dov Sadan (Stock)	143
A Women's Organization in Brody	Bianca Lillian	150
Chapter Three: Testimonies to the Holocaust
Correspondence between Salomon Bardach in the Brody Ghettoand his Sister-in-law Dora Bardach in Switzerland		55
From a Letter to the Editor	Shmuel Stoianover and Raphael Shalev	58
The Last Days of the Community This report was translated from Yiddish to Hebrew by Yaakov Netaneli-Rotman. It is citied from Nathan Michael Gelber's History of the Jews of Brody: “Mother Cities” in Israel, Vol. 6, Mosad HaRav Kook, Jerusalem [1955], pp. 397-406	Kalman Harnik	59
I Alone Survived of My Family	Gina Lantzeter	69
The Warring Jewish Organization in Brody From the collection Underground Movements in the Ghettoes and the Camps, edited by B. Eisenstein, 1946, published by the War Archives, The Jewish Communities in Cracow (in Polish); and The Ghettoes' Wars Volume edited by Yitzhak Zukerman and Moshe Basock, HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, 1954, pp. 328-331		70
Brody in the Days of the Nazi Conquest	Amalia Olesker Friedmann	75
Revenge upon the Murderer	Hersh Pollack	80
In the Days of Wrath	Vladislava Larissa Choms (one of “the world's righteous”)	85
Testimony	Genya Rosenfeld-Berger	89
The Hand of Fate	Pessya Loewy	91
In the Days of the Conquest (Diary Excerpts)	Fanya Zorne Laufer	92
Brody Happenings from 1941-1943	Malvina (Mishka) Lillian-Dembinsky	97
Testimony (in third person)	Raphael Shalev (Fulu Shlinger)	202
Memories of Brody	Berta Landgeuertz Miasnik	208
My Mother: Paula Papernik-Poliner	Rivka Flumin	210
My Father, My Mother, and My Sister	Bronia Roth	212
Testimony	Abraham (ben Hayyim Noah) Shapira	214
Two Testimonies	Clara-Hayyah Zorne	216
What We Ourselves Experienced	Hayyim and Bina Gasthalter	220
Chapter Four: Remembrances
A String of Memories	Joseph Parvari (Leiner)	261
In Memory of the City of Brody – A “Mother City” in Israel	Miriam Lieberbaum (Dishel)	271
In Memoriam	Yitzhak Zorne-Zohar	273
Brody	David Altman	274
How My Family and Rabbi Steinberg's Family Were Saved	Ya'akov Braun	287
The Last “Oleh” from Brody	Yitzhak Weltman	292
My Family in Brody before World War I	Samuel Lamm	302
How Fortunate was I	Hinda Wohl (Hela Tuch-Tuviel)	307
From My Father's House	Naftali Harash	309
My Family, of Blessed Memory	Joseph Kahana	311
Members of My Family and Images of Brody Preserved in My Heart	Joseph Ettinger	313
There Was a Pious Man	Ya'akov Lieberman	318
One Friday at Home	Berta Kalenberg (Margulies)	320
My Family's Fate	Eliezer Tolmetz	322
My Family's Fate	Lea Shduel	323
My Family	Lola Rotenberg-Buchan	324
About My Family That Is No More	Pnina Hertzberg Lansky	326
Memories from My Father's House	Hadassah Esther Nathan (Weiss)	327
A Visit to Brody – 45 Years After . . .	Ziporah Rom	331
Chapter Five: Images and Eulogies
Our Teacher Nachum Okser, Brody's Janusz Korczak	Joseph Parvari (Leiner)	341
A Letter from Brody	Heinrich Adler	343
Through the Window (a poem)	Hadassah Esther Nathan (Weiss)	346
Samuel Weiler An offprint from Publications of the Partisan Fighters Museum, Tel-Aviv, Tevet 5732 – December 1971.	Joseph Parvari (Leiner)	347
Alas, German Mothers! (a poem)	Fanya Zorne	350
The Brody “Klezmer”	Samuel Lamm	352
In Memory of My Parents Simcha and Yasse Weiser	Shoshana Weiser	353
Two Episodes	Shraga Weintraub	354
In Memory of Our Father Ya'akov Unreich	Rivka Matushewicz	355
My Father's House (a poem)	Fanya Zorne	356
Images from Brody	Joseph Kahana	359
Our Father Joseph Parvari	Uri and Elazar Parvari	360
Our City Brody	Shaul Perlmutter	362
“Kaddish” for the Lost	Avshalom Sion-Szmuszkin	367
My Friend Nunek	Raphael (Fulu) Shalev-Shlinger	374
List of the “Righteousof the Nations of the World” Who Saved a Few of Brody's Jews		375
Chapter Six: Memorial Pages
List of the Martyrs of Brody and its Environs		383
The Youth of Brody Who Fought the Nazis and Fell in the Years 1939-1945		420
Former Brody Residents Who Passed Away in Israel		421
Former Brody Residents and Their Offspring Who Fell in Israel's Battles		426
Addendum
We Polish Jews (In the original Polish plus Hebrew, Yiddish and English translations)	Julian Tuwim	431
English Section
Preface	Yehoshu'a-Shiko Mandel	1*
The Jewish Settlement of Brody: From its Beginnings Until 1919 (From “Pinkas Hakehilot”)		19*
We Polish Jews		38*
My, Zydzi Polscy		59*
Brody Town Map		59*
Map and aerial photographs of Brody
Name index

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