Radzyn Podlaski, Poland

Radzyn Memorial Book
(Poland)
51°47' / 22°37'
Translation of

Sefer Radzyn

Edited by: Yitzchak Zigelman

Published by the Radzyn (Podlaski) Immigrants Association in Israel,
Tel Aviv, 1957

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Acknowledgments
Project Coordinators
Yaakov Goldwasser

Translations

Nachman and Temy Goldwasser
Yaakov Goldwasser

Our sincere appreciation to Pesach Tunkelszwarc, of the Radzyn-Podlaski Society,
for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation from: Sefer Radzyn (Radzyn Memorial Book).
Editorial Board: Y. Avi-Ara, B. Borshtein, M. Gotesdiener, L. Vinderboim,
Y. Lust, A. Lazar, A. Danilak (Toronto), M. Lichtenshtein (New York), Tel Aviv, 1957

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Information on the Registration of the Jewish Religion Congregation in Radzyn

Title	Author	Page

The Shtetl, a Jewish Mother
A Memorial to the Town (H ^*)	Yitzchak Zigelman	5
Holy to God (Poem)	Meir Segal	7
Radzyn	Mendel Lichtenshtein	7
My Shtetl (Poem)	Abba Danielak	9
The Jewish Community in Radzyn (H)	Levy Winderbaum	12
The Song About the Radzyner (Poem)	Yitzchak Katzenelson	13

The Past Generations
My Shtetl Radzyn	Benzion Burshtein	19
The Synagogue and the Beit Midrash; Sabbath in the Shtetl	Abba Danielak	43
What Was	Yaakov Greenblat	51
Radzyn Characters	Mendel Goldwasser	57
Bright Figures	Yisroelke List	62
My Radzyn	Mendel Lichtenshtein	65
Radzyn Portraits	Abba Danielak	73
Moishe Smolaz	Shmuel Daniely	79
Songs From My Home	Meir Segal	81

Radzyner Chasidism
The Rabbi's Court	Abba Danielak	86
The House of Izbitzeh and Radzyn (H)	M. S. Gshuri	103
Yisrael From Kotzk Goes With the Rabbi to Find the Snail (H)	Yisrael Kantor	113
The Rabbi Who Shook Up Poland	Y. Y. Trunk	115
The Rabbi and the Colonel	M. Ben-Shmuel	120
From Those days (H)	M. Ben-Shmuel	122
The Golden Chain	Leib Rochman	123
The Unbroken Blue Chain (H)	Mordechai Tanenbaum	127

Life and Youth
In Your Streets Radzyn (H)	Yitzchak Kenani	131
My Shtetl	Levi Vinderbaum	149
In the Shadow of the Town (H)	Simcha Hochenberg	152
Memories of Radzyn	Abraham Zigelman	156
The Teachers of Small Children – The Whip and Youth	Zanvil Zaltzstein	160
Episodes From the Jewish Workers Movement in Radzyn	Zvi Liberson	162
The Jewish artisans	Zvi Liberson	173
Interest Free Loans (H)	Dov Katzenelenbogen	175
The Founding Gathering of the Poele Zion	Tzipah Rosenfeld	179
The Poele Zion in Radzyn	Shprintzeh Gottesdiner	182
Gottlakes	Abba Danielak	183
Nathan Shvalbeh	Nachman Meisel	188
Lazerkeh Szalasheh and the Radzyn Amateur Artists	Henich Applebaum	191
Hashomer Hatzair in Radzyn (H)	Emmanuel Tor	193
The Amateur Stage of “Hashomer Hatzair” (H)	M. Ben-Shmuel	198
About the Educational Activity in the Hashomer Hatzair Branch in Radzyn (H)	Y. Zeligman	200
About Our Development	Ch. Shlimak	203
From the Melting Pot (H)	David R.	206
The Ascender (Poem)	L. Vinderbaum	208

Destruction and Extinction
The Beginning of the Storm and Extinction (H)	Abba Lichtenshtein	211
The Beginning of the Disaster	Rachel Zaltzshtein Freter	221
The History of the Extinction (H)	Yehoshua Rosencrantz	227
Hellish Experiences in the Radzyn Ghetto	Sarah Bashe Voyazsher	245
Five Years in the Abyss	Sarah Ashman Zaltzshtein	249
In the Struggle For Survival	Liber Farbiash	264
Two Years in a Dark Pit	Sarah Fass	271
The Parting	Sarah Basha Vyaszisher	281
In the Inferno Unknowingly (H)	Chana Burshtin	282
With My Father the Rabbi Chaim Fine in Russia (H)	Sarah Achicam-Fine	284
My Return Home	Ethel Keitelgisser	292
Radzyn After the Destruction	Rachel Zaltzshtein Freter	294
On the Ruins of My Shtetl	Zvi Lieberson	301
Radzyn in 1946 - After the Destruction	Zevel Zaltstein	304
The Jews of Radzyn in the Partisan Groups	Zvi Lieberson	306
Leibel Lev – the Leader of a Partisan Group	Shifrah Lev	309
The Survivors of Radzyn		312
About Moishelach and Shloimelach and a Life that Vanished (Poem)	Aryeh Lozer	321
Yisrael Lichtenstein: His Last Will and Testament (H)	Idah Zigelman	326
Shimon Kleinbaum		327
Yisroel Moshe Rubinstein	Y. Lust	327
Among the Fallen		328

New Roots
Radzyners in Israel (H)	Yitzchak Avi-Arah	330
Asher Rosenfeld (H)	Simcha Reichenberg	335
The Editorial Board for the Book	Pictures	336
Radzyners in America	Yaakov Greenblatt	337
Radzyners in America	Mendel Lichtenstein	339
Meir Segal		341
Yosef Danilak- Of Blessed Memory (H)	Idah Z – n	342
Yaakov Greenblatt – Of Blessed Memory		342

Yizkor
List of the Missing		345
With the Fallen (H)		357
Map of Radzyn		360

^*All articles are in Yiddish, except those marked (H) are in Hebrew Return

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