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Translation of
Gombin: Dos Lebn un Umkum fun a Yiddish Shtetl in Poylin
The Editorial Board:
Secretary Editor: A. Shulman
Jack Zicklin
Yetta Rafel
Henry Grunbaum
Jacob Cyrmelinski (Celemenski)
Abram Zeideman
David Burns (Brzezinski)
Paul Tiber
Published in New York, 1969
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How I got a copy of the Yizkor book of Gombin
The Yiddish part, translated to Hebrew by my late father, Meir Holtzman, who was born in Gombin 1914 and left the shtetl on July 1939. He died 16 September 1998, before seeing his work, for which he dedicated the last months of his life, completed and published in Hebrew. He was very hopeful that the Yizkor book will be published in Hebrew so that descendants from Gombin will learn about the heritage of their ancestors, their life in the shtetl, their dreams and their tragedy... He worked very hard to achieve this, but his sudden illness followed by his death, kept him from seeing this project fulfilled. This web page is dedicated to his memory.
Translation from Hebrew to English by Ada Holtzman - Israel.
Dr. Ida Cohen Selavan Schwarcz - Israel translated from Yiddish the monograph of Jacob Rothbart: "Yiddishe Baalei Mlachot in Gombin".
Tel Aviv, 16 January 2000
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| A Poem | Mikolai Gibs | 5 | |
| Introduction | Jack Zicklin | 7 | |
| Deserved Recognition | Louis Philips Pochekha | 9 | |
FIRST PARTGombin's History from Early Times Until The First World War |
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| The History of Gombin | A. Sh. | 13 | |
| Gombin and the 1905' Events | Jacob M. Rothbart | 21 | |
| Jacob M. Rothbart | 28 | ||
SECOND PARTBetween the Two World Wars |
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| The Social and Cultural Life | M. Guyer |
49 | |
| The Public Work | Haim Rafel |
53 | |
| Gombin and its Rabbis | Michael Rozenblum |
60 | |
| Israel: The Religious Life | E. Finkelsztejn |
64 | |
| My Years at the "Bund" in Gombin | Jakob Cyrmelinski |
65 | |
| The "SKIF" (the Bund Youth Movement) in Gombin | L. Wolman |
72 | |
| The Zionist Movement | Rivka Frenkel Halperin |
74 | |
| The Beginning of the Zionist Movement | Louis Philips Pochekha |
77 | |
| Khalutzim (Pioneers in Eretz Israel) | Zelig Ettinger |
82 | |
| Hashomer Hatzair | Abram Ettinger |
84 | |
| I Go to Eretz Israel | Bella Tiber Cypris |
87 | |
| The Yiddish Library | Sydny Guyer |
89 | |
| The Drama Circle | Simcha Chaja |
91 | |
| The Sports Associations | Wolf Maintczik |
94 | |
THIRD PARTDer Khurban - Shoa - Holocaust |
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Der Khurban, The Destruction, Shoa |
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99 | |
| Poems | Rajzel Zychlinski |
100 | |
| The Destruction of Gombin | Jacob Grziwacz |
102 | |
| I Survived Auschwitz | Ben Guyer |
104 | |
Di Shul Brent - the Synagogue Burns |
Hania Shane Tajfeld |
115 | |
| In the Aryan Side | Roza Greenbaum - Dinerman |
116 | |
| Hidden by a Polish Farmer | Albert Greenbaum |
128 | |
| Jewish Children at the Concentration Nazi Camps | Jakob Frenkel |
141 | |
| "Survived in Soviet Russia" | Abraham Zeideman |
146 | |
FOURTH PARTPersonalities, Images and Charachters of Gombin |
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| Rabbi Yehuda Lajb Zlotnik | A.I. |
165 | |
| Rajzel Zychlinski | Abraham Szulman |
167 | |
| Heboch Goldszmidt | M. Guyer |
170 | |
| Marek Wolfowicz | Dzunia Wolfowicz |
173 | |
| My Father: Reuven Pochekha | Louis Philips Pochekha |
175 | |
| My Brother, Meir Zeideman | Abraham Zeideman |
177 | |
| Images and Charachters of Jewish Gombin | M. Rothbart |
179 | |
| Arie Zilberstein, the Candle Maker | Julius (Jona) Green |
197 | |
| Gombiner Jokes |
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201 | |
| YIZKOR |
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215 | |
FIFTH PARTThe Gombiner Landsmanschaften |
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| Gombin - America - Gombin | Sam Rafel |
305 | |
| A Visit to the Gombin House in Tel Aviv | Louis Philips Pochekha |
212 | |
Jack Zichlin |
5 | |
| Deserved Recognition | Louis Philips Pochekha | 9 |
Gombin - The Life of a Jewish Shtetl in Poland |
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| A Monograph of the Shtetl Gombin | Jacob M. Rothbart | 13 |
| My Shtetl Gombin | Henry Grunbaum M.D, | 25 |
The Years of Destruction |
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| In the Gombiner Ghetto and in the Nazi Camps | Ben Guyer (Benjamin Chaja) | 45 |
| Saved by a Peasant Family | Albert Greenbaum | 56 |
| Survived as an "Aryan" | Rose Greenbaum-Dinerman | 67 |
| Gombin Children in Nazi Camps | Jack Frenkel | 79 |
| Survived in Soviet Russia | Abraham Zeideman | 83 |
The Activities of the Gombiner Societies |
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| A Sacred Task | Sam Rafel | 99 |
| History of the Gombiner Young Men's in America | Jack Zicklin | 105 |
| The Activities of the Ladies | Mrs. Yetta Rafel | 111 |
| Some of the Former Presidnts of the Gombiner Organization | 112 | |
| The Organization in Newark | Nathan Kleinert | 115 |
| The Gombiner in Detroit | Louis Philips Pochekha | 119 |
| Chicago | 123 | |
| IN MEMORIAM | 125 | |
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