Kurów, Poland

Yiskor Book in Memoriam
Of Our Hometown Kurow
(Kurów, Poland)

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Translation of
Yisker-bukh Koriv; sefer yizkor, matsevet zikaron la-ayaratenu Koriv

Editor: Moshe Grossman

Tel Aviv 1955

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Acknowledgments

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Neil Lott

This is a translation of: Yisker-bukh Koriv; sefer yizkor, matsevet zikaron la-ayaratenu Koriv (Yiskor book in memoriam of our hometown Kurow),
Edited by Moshe Grossman, Former Residents of Kurow in Israel, Tel Aviv 1955 (Y 1148 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Kurow

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

A Grave and a Monument [H]		ז – ח
A Grave and a Monument		ט – י”ב
A Burial place and a Memorial [E]		י”ב – ט”ו
Remembrance		ט”ו – ט”ו
Our Cemetery List of the Holy Dead Sons of Kurow		י”ו – נ”ב
Melekh Ravicz about Arya Merier's Cooper Hammering		נ”ג – נ”ד
Official Documents about the Holocaust		נ”ה – נ”ו
Encyclopedias and Historical Works about Kurow		נ”ו – ס”ב
Artist about the Kurow Synagogue		ס”ג – ס”ד
A Packet of Observations (from Moshe Grosman)		1-12
We Thank		13-16
Kurow and its eminent people [H]	Rabbi Reb Arya Mordekhai Rabinowicz	17-20

Our Community Institutions, Culture Societies, Parties, Professional Unions, Places of Worship and Charity Societies

The Zionist Organization in Kurow	Benyamin Wajnrib	23-38
The Mizrakhi in Our Shtetl	Benyamin Wajnrib	39-46
The Cooperative Bank	Benyamin Wajnrib	47-50
Betar in Kurow	Arye Rozenzon	51-72
Our Professional Unions	Shimeon Wajnberg	73-78
Library and School	Avraham Ahron Sztern	79-96
The Tzeirei Agudat Israel	Pinkhus Szildkroyt	97-106
Several Episodes about Our HaHalutz	Liptshe Wajnrib	107-112
Memories of Our HaHalutz and Hakshora	Dovid Kartman	113-116
Left Poalei Zion	Dovid Kaltman and Sheyndl Sztrasburg	117-124
The Hakhnasat Orkhim [Hospitality for Guests]	Dovid Kaltman and Sheyndl Sztrasburg	125-126
The Beis haMedrash [House of Prayer]	Yehiel Hecht	127-132
Several Words about My Brothers and Sisters of Keren Betar</td>	Kalman Tajtlbaum	131-132
From All to a Few	Yekuthiel Wachman	133-140
Linas haTzedek	Shmuel Gotlib	141-144
Several Additional Comments about the Zionist Movement in our Shtetele [small town]	Shmuel Tajtlbaum	145-152
A Kurow Trade	Moshe Hanisman	153-156
A Beis-Medrashnik [one who attends a House of Prayer] about the Beis-Medrash	Shmuel Wajnman	155-158
Bikur Holem and Library	Gershon Wajde	159-160

In the Bunkers, Caves, Stalls, Fields and Forests (September 1939-May 1945) Memories from the Survivors

My Survival	Zahava Fogelman	163-196
The Survival of Lev Grosman		197-220
I Was a German Soldier	Nekhemia Wurman	221-234
The Destruction of Kurow and the Survival of Shmuel Hanisman		235-270
68 Months in a Struggle with Death	Yisroel Hitlman	271-286
And Yet I Remained Alive	Chaya Tabe Katlocz	287-366
Remained Alive, But…	Benyamin Wajnrib	367-370
	Moshe Szulsztajn	371-390
Their Last Road	Slava Cymerman-Ginsburg	391-394
The Auschwitz Inmate - Number 42212	Simkha Kloperman	395-400
Always on the Eve of Death	Malka Knodlich-Sztern	401-426
My Childhood, Youth and Partisan Struggle	Sane Rozenzon	427-502
I Will Relate It In Brief	Mariam Wajnbuch	503-506
Survived and Lived to See	Chaya Ricer Waserman	507-518
Some Sorrow (Song)	Leizer Eichenrand	519-528
The Survival of Chaim Hanisman		529-540
How I Survived	Dinale Rotsztajn-Ricer	541-552
Monshe -The Nisnbaum Couple		553-556
A Letter from Meir Akerman		555-556
Songs: I Saw a Mountain, Ayzykl the Shouter, The Melody of My Father's Sewing Machine	Moshe Szulsztajn	557-566
A Drawing by Josl Bergner		565-566
A Woman from Kurow in the Koval Ghetto	Feyga Brik-Rechsman	567-586
Our Calamity	Shimeon Zilbering	587-588
Songs from a Simple Jew	Chaim Rachelsman	589-590
From Kurow to Sobibor and the Revolt in that Camp	Hershl Cykerman	591-610
Our Sons and Daughters in the Armies, in the Struggle Against the Nazi-Murderers (Photographs and Necrology		611-616

*Memories of Our Shtetl* [Town] - Types, Images, Ways of Life, Events**

Autobiography	The Rabbi Tuvya Gutman Rapaport	621-656
Family Necrology		657-660
The Rabbi Tuvya Rapaport Sows the Research Work of Israel's Wisdom	Sh. Ernst	661-664
The Transformation of a Melody - “Stand Up Holy Jews”	Rapaport-Barlaf	663-664
Parents, Grandparents - The Biography of a Generation	The Rabbi Tuvya Gutman Rapaport	665-744
Three Stories: A Kurow Jew Publicly Sanctifies the Name of Heaven ; How Mendl Wasertreger [water carrier] Ate Meat During the Nine Days; A Match from Heaven		745-760
Meir Rapaport - The Modest and Educated Man	Sh. Ernst	761-764
What Happened in 1914?	Rabbi Reb Arya Mordekhai Rabinowicz	765-772
Eternal Memory		771-772
Several Words About My Father, the Rabbi Reb Elimelekh Guterman	Yitzhak Guterman	773-776
Reb Josele the Shoykhet [ritual slaughterer]		777-778
Once - Once… (Memories)	The Rabbi Dovid Kirszenbaum	779-786
In the Bright Glare of Generations	Sh. Tenenbaum	787-798
My Father - a Grandson of Reb Shmuel Kurower	Yehiel Grabatsztajn	779-802
From My Memories About Kurow	Shlomo Rozenberg	803-808
My Father, Reb Moshe Mordekhai, May He Rest In Peace	Dovid Arya Najmark	809-812
A Child's Episode	Moshe Grosman	813-820
Hundreds of Episodes, Curiosities and Happenings	Y. Zilbershtayn (Jacob Silvershtein)	821-892
A Literary Anniversary Celebration with a Kurower in Israel (Pictures)		893-894
A Gentile Lost and A Jew Found	Avraham Ahron Sztern	895-900
A Strike by the Khevre Kadishe [burial society], or the Illegal Funeral	Shlomo Wachman	899-900
It is Already 20 Years	Ziva and Rari Rozenberg	901-902
My Short Biography	Jakov Josef Szifman	901-904
In the Year 1905	Avraham Rozenszpir	903-906
My Father, Yudl Brik, of blessed memory	Feyga Brik (Tsipora Rechtman)	905-906
At a Celebration of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem	Gitl Trudler	907-908
A Redress for the Victims	Moshe Feldberg	909-910
Commemoration…	Arya Wajnrib	911-914
Our Father, Avraham Leib Bricman, of blessed memory	Chaim Josef Bricman	915-916
Our Father, Avraham Leib Bricman, of blessed memory	Sholem Bricman	917-918
Dina's Daughter, Ester Chaya	Chaim Tajchman (Chaim Simkha Yehidlsl's)	919-922
Kurow, Warsaw, Siberia, Red Army, Polish Army, Eretz Yisroel	Simkha Rotfarb	923-926
A Disturbed Friday Night	Chanatshe Kawa-Lerman^[1]	927-930
A Packet of Memories	Chanatshe Kawa-Lerman	931-936
To the Memory of the Kheder-Yinglekh [boys in religious primary school] (Poem)	Chanatshe Kawe-Lerman	937-938
Like a Tree (Poem)	Meir Pakntrager	937-938
Two Rescued Orphans in a Kibbutz in Israel		939-940
I Live at the Jordan	Motl Hitlman	941-942
Memories	Sheyndl Kartman-Sztrasburg	943-944
An Episode of One and One Half Minutes - A Story About a Cossack Who Grabbed the Mezusah from Feywl the Shoemaker	Moshe Hanisman	945-946
The Belamer [podium on which Torah is read] and the Naughty Children	Moshe Hanisman	945-948
How I Caught Fish	Moshe Hanisman	949-950
Studying Khumush [Torah] Without a Hat, but Not With a Bare Head…	Yitzhak Nisenbaum	951-954
Reb Dovid Tzwi Cymerman	Bela Lewin	955-956
Reb Yitzhak Moshe, son of Reb Akiva Licht, of blessed memory		957-960
Myriam Gitl Larberbaum	F. Kliger	961-962
Memories and Episodes	Gitl Trudler	963-966
My Sisters, My Brothers	Ester Trudler-Wachnhazer	965-968
Hershl Rushiser, the Rich Man, Porter, Story Teller	Moshe Feldberg	969-970
My Grandfather Leibush Feldberg	Chaya Dina Feldberg	971-972
The Last Khazan [cantor] and Sofer [scribe]	B. Wajnrib	973-974
This Is How I Saw Kurow	Sura Ajzensztadt	975-980
Several Jottings	Chaim Rachelsman	981-982
Because of a Chicken and a Rooster, Tur Malka Became a Ruin and Because of an Eye of a Goat, Ayzyk the Shoemaker Beats Hertske Berer	Avraham Ahron Sztern	983-984
My Shtetele [small town] Kurow (pictures and rhymes]	Avraham Ahron Sztern	985-986
Kurow Types	Benyamin Wajnrib	987-990
Curiosities, Episodes and Equivalents	Benyamin Wajnrib	991-996
Several Stories and Miracles About the Kurow Rabbi, Reb Noakh	Pinkhus ben [son of] Avraham	997-998
The Competition Among the Fair Merchants	Rywka Grynfeld	999-1002
Several Small Episodes	Fishl Feldberg	1003-1004
A Packet of Memories of the Old Home	Avraham Lerman	1005-1016
Several Words	Yehudis Krakowiak-Korngold	1015-1016
Two Songs	Chaim Sznajer	1017-1018
When I Was the Final Judge	Welwl Wachenhauser	1019-1020
Crumbs of Memories	Shmuel Pozarowczyk	1021-1024
Sora Rywka the Wife of the Fisherman and Troubles on Simkhas Torah	Leah Wajnsztok-Wachman	1023-1024
The School	Dwoyra Tajtlbam	1025-1026
On the Lubliner Road	Moshe Wachman	1027-1034
Pages from a Book of Memories	Simkha Hanisman	1035-1042
We Sat There on the River…	Moshe Feldberg	1043-1044

Necrologies, Obituaries

Leibl Landsman's Funeral (Picture)		1047-1048
Pictures, Mistakes Noticed		1049-1094
Necrologies		1095-1096

Landsmanschaftn^[2]

A Kurower from America Visits Israel (Harry Lipsman and His Wife, Ester)		1097-1100
Activity Report of the Kurower in New York		1101-1108
Kurower in New York (picture)		1109-1110
Several Additional Comments about the Kurower Society in New York	L. Kawa	1111-1114
Acknowledgement of Landsleit [people from the same town]	Yakov Lerman	1115-1116
The Kurower Landsleit [people from the same town] in Montreal	Pinkhus Akerman	1117-1130
Kurower in Montreal (picture)		1131-1132
A Little History of the Lives and Activity of the Kurower in Detroit	Chanatshe Lerman-Kawa	1133-1134
A Kurower in Argentina		1135-1138
Address Register of the Kurower Landsleit [people from the same town] in the World		1139-1146
Afterword		1147-1148
Contents		1149-1152

Footnotes This name also appears below on page 1133 as Chanatshe Lerman-Kawa Return Organizations of people from the same town Return

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