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Translation of Lebn um umkum fun Olshan
Edited by: Former residents of Olshan in Israel (Irgun Yotzey Olshan)
Published in Tel Aviv, 1965
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Acknowledgments
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This is a translation from: Lebn um umkum fun Olshan;
The life and destruction of Olshan. Tel Aviv, former residents of Olshan in Israel (Irgun Yotzey Olshan), 1965. (H,Y)
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[Page 2] Book Committee
Meir Shli [Page 3] Photo - Book Committee
Under Photo - Kabalt Fanim (Heb: Welcome – ?) from Book Committee for Yakov and Batya Kaplan from America Sitting from Left: Ziml Abramovitz, Shabtai Kaplan, Batya Kaplan, Yakov Kaplan, Ayre Gershoni, Aharon Abramovitz. Standing from left: Khanya Yisraeli, Reuven Leond, Aharon Shuster, Shifra Kotin-Trabsky, Yakov Kozlavsky, Pesakh Gershonovitz, Moshe Ziskond, Yitzhok Khodosh [Page 4] |
| The Town of Olshan Until World War I | ||
| 17 | Historical Notices | |
| 19-39 | The Jews of My Generation | Yakov Kaplan |
| 40-44 | The Town That I Remember | B. Tz. Goldberg |
| 45-47 | This is How the town Appeared | Shepsl Kaplan |
| 48-50 | Jewish Workers Movement | Moshe Baron |
| Between Both World Wars | ||
| 53-58 | In the Years of the First World War | Shepsl Kaplan |
| 61-63 | Child and Teenage Years | Arye Gershoni |
| 64-65 | The Tragic Death of Ester Levin | Shlomo-Halevy Levin |
| 66-68 | Memories of Teenage Years | Leah Blokh-Rudnik |
| 69-72 | Melameds and Religious Schools | Shepsl Kaplan |
| 73 | The “Tarbes-School” and its Educational Activities | Pesakh Gershonovitz |
| 74 | The “Tarbes School”, The Light of the Town | Shifra Kotin Trobsky |
| 75-77 | An Account of the Educational Council of the “Tarbus” School | |
| The Religious Life | ||
| 86 /td> | Rabbi Reuven Hodosh, Cantors, Singers, and Prayer Leaders | Shepsi Kaplan |
| 87 | The Synagogues | Pesakh Gershonovich |
| 90 | Sabbath Eve in Town | A.A. Potashnik |
| The Economic Life | ||
| 95 | The Jewish Farmers and their Land Ownership | Pesakh Gershonovich |
| 102 | Cooperative Peoples-Bank | |
| 104 | “Linat Hatzedek“ | |
| 97 | Horticulture (Gardening) | Shepsl Kaplan |
| 99 | Hand Knitting and Handicraft | |
| 101 | “Gmilos-Hesed” (Non-interest Loans) Box | |
| 107 | Firemen | |
| 108 | “Hakashra” and My Zionist Activities | Arye Gershony |
| 109 | The Activity of “Hakhalutz” - Pioneer Settlers in Palestine | Reuven Ben Aharon |
| 110 | (Beyt-R) and Its Cultural Activities | Shifra Kotin-Trabsky |
| 111 | The Money Collection For “Keren Hakayemet” - National Fund | Pesakh Gershonovitch |
| Types of People and Images | ||
| 121-138 | The Day-to-Day Lives of Olshan Jews | Shepsl Kaplan |
| Borokh the Pharmcist | ||
| Sh. L. Dolinski and His Communal Activities | ||
| The “Gabai” (Synagogue Warden) Gershon Abramovitch | ||
| The Olshan Shokhet (Ritual Slaughterer) Mordkhe-Nete and his Peasant Trade | ||
| R' Shimon Segolovitch the Prayer Reader | ||
| R' Yudl the Physician and His Wife “Heyvn” | ||
| R' Itsche the Sexton and Hebrew Teacher | ||
| R' Yoneh Gdalye the Timber Merchant | ||
| Bonyeh Kaplan and R'Elye Schvartz | ||
| Berl the “Emperor” | ||
| Dudke the Smith | ||
| Yehoshua the Smith | ||
| The “Pinchukes” (Old Family Name) | ||
| Peshe the Baker | ||
| Blume Berkman | ||
| Shmuel Beyarski | ||
| R' Leyb the Butcher | ||
| Hirshl Rudnik | ||
| The Family Varanovski | ||
| The Family Gurvich | ||
| R'Meyer the “Agent” | ||
| 139 | Elyakum Litzki and His Love for “Soil Work” | Mina Zhalovski-Litzki |
| 140 | The Toiler (worker) Families of Oshmaner Street | Shifra Kutin-Trabski |
| 143 | Dina Potashnik | Rabbi Eliezer Potashnik |
| 144 | The Family | Liond Reuven Liond |
| 145 | The Family Abramovich | Zeydl Bagdanovski |
| 148 | The Fanily Kozlovski | |
| 150 | The Famity Potashnik | An Olshaner |
| Olshaners in America | ||
| 160 | Emigration and Longing (Nostalgia) | Y.Leyb Potashnik |
| 164 | Olshaners in America | Shepsl Kaplan |
| 166 | (Traykayt??) and Pride | Zeydl Bogdanovski |
| Holocaust | ||
| 169-190 | In the Years of the German Extermination | Shepsl Kaplan |
| The Outbreak of World War II | ||
| The Festive Entry of the Red Army | ||
| Germans Occupy Olshan | ||
| The Polish Police, Local Authorities and German Fateful Sentences | ||
| Establishment of the Jewish Council | ||
| Looting of Jewish Possessions | ||
| Saved myself from Olshan Slaughter and Holocust in Volozhin | ||
| 179 | The Great Slaughter in Volozhin | |
| In the Volozhin Ghetto (?? Witness) | ||
| In the Vishniever Ghetto (??? Witness) | ||
| The Systematic Extermination in the Olshaner Locale (Environment) | ||
| Resettlement of Olshan in Oshmana Ghetto | ||
| 188 | The Martyrdom of Rabbi R'Moshe Aharon Feldman On the (Arisher) Side | |
| 191 | From Volozhin Back to Olshan | Hana Lev-Tcherniovski |
| 193 | Zhelanke - The Mass grave of 400 Jews | Haya Kzura-Katz |
| 194-198 | Under the German Regime | Pesakh Gershenovitch |
| June 24, 1941 | ||
| The Tragic Death of Pharmacist Borukh Abramovitch Killed in a Gypsy “Action” | ||
| Olshaner Nazi-Regime compelled to Drag Two Tanks | ||
| 199-203 | Olshan Jews in German Concentration Camps | Shepsl Kaplan |
| Zhezmir | ||
| Koshidar | ||
| The Nazi Murder of Children | ||
| 204 | The Extermination of the Children by Germans in the Kashidar Camp | Shepsl Kaplan |
| 207 | Childhood in the Shadows of the Gallows | Haya Altman-Abramovitch |
| 216 | The Extermination of Children in Zhezhmir Camp | Haya Kzurer-Katz |
| 217-232 | The Tortured Jews run to the Partisans | Shepsl Kaplan |
| Anguish and Extermination in the Aleksat Camp | ||
| The Death March and the run to the Woods | ||
| Encounter With Soviet Troops in German Uniforms | ||
| (Punishment - Expedition Fired Upon our Group)? | ||
| The (Hebrew?) line?, Row) of Liberation | ||
| The Death of Bunzeh Kaplan on the Eve of Liberation Return to the Former(old) Home After the Liberation | ||
| 233-240 | The Way Through Anguish | Haya Kzurer-Katz |
| 241 | In the Extermination Camp Lament (Estonia) | Aharon Shuster |
| 254 | Women in Ghettos and Camps | Rivka Davidson-Segalovich |
| 262 | From Camp to Camp | Henye Blozer-Tchepelansky |
| 265 | The Camp in Vilna in the “Inexpensive Houses” | Rivka Shkop-Abramovich |
| 268 | My Experience in the Years During the German Extermination of Jews | A. A. Potashnik |
| Struggle (Conflict) and opposition | ||
| 283 | The Hero's Death of Tschepelonsky's Partisan Group | Michle Gurvich-Kozlovsky |
| 285 | In Struggle against the Germans | Zisl Abramovich |
| 289 | In the Woods (Forest) | Sima Rudnik-Soladukha |
| 292-364 | Armed Partisan-Struggle | Reuven Liand |
| 365 | Final Word | |
| 373 | Victims of the Shoah (List) | |
| 381-429 | Necrology (Obituaries) | |
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