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Hebrew Section
Introduction		2
The history of the Jews of Raciaz (1736–1888)	Shlomo Grinspan	17
How the zealots fought the “Haskalah” in Raciaz	Ish Chail	19
The Zvolin [Zwoleń] Hasidut	R' Zvi Zemach	22
Raciaz my town	Elazar Mor	24
The beginnings of Raciaz	Avraham Yosef Kleiner	38
In the old Bet Hamidrash	Shraga Yosef Ostro	45
The Bet Hamidrash fire	Esther Gutman	48
The old Bet Hamidrash fire	Efraim Goldberg	50
The cultural activity in town	Michael Avukay	58
Raciaz during the First World War	Esther Shrenski	67
My town	Galila Arkevitch	72
The youth in our town	Miriam Buch	75
The Jewish children in the Polish school	Chana Orzhan	81
The “Hatzfira” newspaper at the Zionist meetings		84
The Raciaz of old	Moshe Moskovitch	86
My family and my teachers	Yechezkel Bet-Halachmi	91
Yechezkel	Rachel Bet-Halachmi	103
With my dear father	Esther Yitzhar	107
My grandfather	Tirtza	110
The first among the first	Efraim Tzoref	112
This is the history of the “community goat”	Yosef Chaim Lask	114
The Association of Raciaz Former Residents	Michael Avukay	122
R'Yeshayahu Kamin z”l	Chana Kamin	124
My father R'Yeshayahu Kamin	Moshe Avni	127
My father z”l	Shraga Yosef Ostro	131
The Balfour Declaration in Raciaz	Mordechai Porat	133
Organizations in Raciaz	Shmuel Dubinski	138
The false charge	Yitzhak Buch	143
The Hebrew School	Miriam Buch	145
My uncle R'Hirsh Gedalia Kolmirezh	Efraim Z.	146
The Poalei Zion Orchestra	Zvi Kenster	149
A monument to the martyrs, my relatives	Efraim Zoref	150
R'Yitzhak Mordechai Zlotnik z”l	A. Y. Altus	160
Mordechai Goldberg	Zev Weinstock	161
My grandfather Rabbi Dan	Yosef Kirstein	169
Rabbi Dan the Melamed [teacher]	Yosef Aharoni	171
My father the community helper and my mother the generous	Sara Weinstock	172
My father z”l	Rachel Kopolis	173
My origins	Esther Gutman	177
The Hiller Home	Gedalia Moscowitz & Yitzhak Hiller	180
My father Gedalia Lask	Esther Pochodny	182
My Father z”l	Zvi Lask	186
Our Home	Esther Broida (Lampkovitz)	187
My Parents	Efraim Goldberg	191
R'Mendel Granat	Yosef Ramon	193
Yechiel Eliezer Burstein z”l	Nathan Ben Menachem	196
His song	Yosef Ramon	197
Reuven Tzinamon z”l	Ahuva Tenenboim	199
The tragic death of my grandfather and grandmother	A. Y. Altus	200
Memories	S. Zhelinevski	202
Moshe Oved-Gur	Efraim Z.	203
The Horrors of the Holocaust
The Nazi invasion of Raciaz	A. Y. Altus	213
The life in Raciaz was silenced	Chaim Fogel	219
The Nazi invasion of Raciaz	Golda & Pesach Moscovitch	240
In the Ponyhovsk camp	Pages about Plonsk from the Ringelblum Archives	242
On the verge of ruin	Chaim Fogel	245
After the deportation	Breina Kenster	249
In our desolate and orphaned home	Zvi Kenster	256
Folklore in Raciaz
My grandfather R'Yosef Hirsch	S. Weinstock	263
The Litwak cantor	Elchanan Rachum	264
The great dispute	Avraham Yosef Kleiner	265
Supplement to the above story	S. Y. Ostro	266
The maxims of R'Mendel Grant	A. Y. Kleiner	268
Wolf the fool	Chana Klopman	274
The Sanctifiers of God's Name and of the Homeland
My son Amnon	Michael Avukay	277
My brother	Edna Solel (Avukay)	281
His life's song came to a sudden end	Ch. Lamdan	282
Purity and completeness	Ben Artzi	283
Amos Tzoref z”l	Efraim Avi-Amos	285
A commander-educator	Yechezkel Kaspi	290
Praise to sorrow	Efraim Tzoref	292
Yiddish Section
Foreword		299
The years before Auschwitz	Yakov Grinspan	303
In the town that I was born	Elazar Mor	319
In my parents' home	Rachel Kopolis	327
My mother's generosity	Sara Weinstock	333
The fire in the Bet Hamidrash	Ester Gutman	337
Anti-Semitism in Raciaz	Esther Shrenski	339
The Balfour declaration in Raciaz	Mordechai Porat	341
The false charge	Yitzhak Buch	334
The Nazi invasion in Raciaz	A. Y. Altus	347
My friend Leibl Grinspan	Moshe Schulman	354
In the death-camp Auschwitz	Chana Rachionska	359
Those who were saved in Pawiak	Y. Shmulevitch	364
The Association of Raciaz Former Residents in Israel	Michael Avukay	379
* * *
They shall shine with the briliance of Heaven.....		385
Isser Tzemach z”l	Efraim Tzoref	387
At home	Chana Klopman Karsch	389
Yehoshua Bet-Halachmi z”l	Esther	390
Michael-Chaim Kenster z”l	Moshe Kenster	391
The Rosenstein family z”l		393
Zvi Pocodny z”l	Esther Pochodny	394
The Narzhemsky family		395
Avraham-Moshe Navra		396
Sara Feige Navra and her children		397
Chana Moscovitch-Pedro		398
Zisa and Henia Vogel z”l		399
The Shmulevich family		400
Mendel Kahana and his family		401
Neche Tzemach Kravetzki z”l; Yitzhak Altus and his wife		402
Bella and Yehudit Eibschitz; Shaye Birnboim and his wife		403
The Lassman family		404
Meir Birenboim; Hersch Wolf Ratzonski		405
Luzer Finkelstein; Dr. Avraham Klopman z”l		406
Shmuel Eliya Margoles and his wife		407
Asher Byalostotzki		408
The David and Rivka Goldstein family		410
Shaul Korbe and his wife		411
Miriam Dvora Schwarz and her son; Moshe Halberstat		412
R'Moshe Mordechai Byalostotzki and his wife		413
Yechezkel Dovroshklenko z”l; Naftali Weinstock z”l		414
Leib Zelig Zhebitzki and his wife		415
R'Yosef Leib and Rivka Pochodny z”l	Michael Avukay	416
R'Yosef Zvi and Tzipora Klopman z”l		418
R'Yitzhak and Meche'le Kashtchenovski z”l		419
Dov ben R'Dan Kirstein z”l		421
Zvi Boda and his mother Chaia		422
List of Raciąż Jews Killed in the Holocaust		423
English Section
Gal-ed: Selected chapters
Introduction		3
The town where I was born	E. Mor	7
Pilgrimage to the graves of my fathers	Rachel Beth-Zion Lask-Abrahams	17
The Balfour Declaration	M. Porat	25
The Bet Hamidrash fire	Esther Guttman	26
Tha false charge	Y. Buch	29
My parents' household	R. Kopolis (Zemelman)	31
The Nazi invasion	A.Y. Altus	35
M. Avukay (Pochodny)		43
The Racionz Society in Israel		52

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