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Translation of
Sefer yizkor le-kehiat Sarny
Edited by: Y. Kariv
Published in Tel Aviv, 1961
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Yiddish translated by Yocheved Klausner
| Introduction | The editorial board | 5 |
| * * * | Nachman Blumenthal - Yad Vashem editorial board | 9 |
| The beginning of Sarny and its image | Prof. Ben-Zion Dinur | 13 |
| Between Swamps and Forests | ||
| Wolyn's Jewry | Yitzchak Lamdan | 19 |
| The landscape of Sarny | Berel Frimer | 20 |
| My town Sarny | Yakov Tzuk (Kotelshetzik) | 21 |
| Once there was Sarny | Arye Avatichi | 22 |
| Memories from the first days | Dr. Yona Glik | 24 |
| Sarny - its formation, existence and destruction | Shlomo Zandveiss | 27 |
| Sarny - its formation, existence and destruction [Y] | Shlomo Zandveiss | 82 |
| From start to end | Baruch Reches | 155 |
| Pogroms [Y] | Moshe Hughes | 157 |
| During the days of Petlura and the Haidamaks | Moshe Burko | 158 |
| In an exchange of kingdoms | Avi Mor (Morik) | 161 |
| Between the wars | Arye Etstein | 163 |
| An emissary in Wolyn in 1930 | Moshe Stavi | 166 |
| My visit to Sarny in 1935 | Berel Luker | 170 |
| So we grew up, so we matured | Levi Bikovski | 171 |
| The Way of Life | ||
| What I will tell my son | Sara Turkenich-Katzman | 177 |
| Education and Culture | ||
| Melamdim and teachers | Yakov Tzuk (Kotelshetzik) | 179 |
| My father Yosef Nabazshani [Y] | Tzvetel Nabazshani | 182 |
| My rabbi | Mordechai Pecznik | 183 |
| The education in Polish Wolyn | Shmuel Rozenhek | 183 |
| The educators of the young generation in Sarny | Avraham-Ajzik Morik | 186 |
| Stages in the development of the education | Sara Turkenich-Katzman | 188 |
| The first Hebrew School in Sarny | Yitzchak Idan (Zladin) | 191 |
| Tarbut School | Issachar Bastos | 192 |
| ORT School | A. N. Meshorer (Zingerman) | 194 |
| Sarny's youth in the Torah centers | Moshe Hughes | 194 |
| Cultural activities in Sarny | Moshe Hughes | 195 |
| The first Spectacle [show] in Sarny | Yehiel Slutziki | 198 |
| Movements and Parties | ||
| Zionist Sarny | Yisrael Ritov | 198 |
| A clandestine Zionist meeting during the days of the Czar | Yehiel Slutziki | 201 |
| Zionist youth organizations | Moshe'le Zingerman | 202 |
| Hashomer Hatzair in Sarny | Efraim Schneider (Munia) | 204 |
| The Mizrachi movement in Sarny | Baruch Rabinovitz | 206 |
| The Revisionist movement in Sarny | Asher Miasnik | 208 |
| Sarny's Jews and Keren Kayemet LeYisrael | M. M. Horowitz | 209 |
| The Communist movement in Sarny [Y] | Mordechai Pecznik | 211 |
| Torah and Hassidut | ||
| The synagogues in our town | Avraham-Ajzik Morik | 212 |
| The synagogue of the Stolin-Karlin Hasidim | Asher Miasnik | 213 |
| The Stolin-Karlin Hassidut | Dr. Zev Rabinovitz | 216 |
| Hasidic customs in my father's house | Shlomo Zandveiss | 218 |
| How I earned a place for myself in the world to come [Y] | Moshe Borko | 220 |
| The dynasty of the Brezne Admorim | HaRav Aharon Pecznik | 222 |
| The rabbi from Brezne and his Hassidim in Sarny | Y. L. Yonatan zl | 223 |
| The Admor R' Yosef Pecznik | Mordechai Pecznik | 226 |
| The head of the Yeshiva [Y] | E. Kast | 227 |
| In a margin of a letter | Dr. Ester Trasi | 230 |
| HaRav R' Nachum-Yehusua HaLevi Pecznik | HaRav Aharon Pecznik | 231 |
| HaRav R' Chaim-Moshe Hechtman | Yafa Hechtman-Brvado | 232 |
| HaRav R' Aharon Kunda | S. Ben-Zadok | 233 |
| On Weekdays and Holidays | ||
| Market day in Sarny | Avraham Morik | 234 |
| The Czar Nicolai II in Sarny [Y] | Shlomo Zandveiss | 235 |
| Tragic meetings | Yakov Tzuk (Kotelshetzik) | 236 |
| The Sarny joke-teller [Y] | Shlomo Zandveiss | 241 |
| Sabbath in the town | Rachel Teres-Zukerman | 242 |
| The Seder night at my parents home | Yafa Hechtman-Brvado | 242 |
| Judgment Day | Pua Golomba-Yanait | 243 |
| Sarny's youth in France | Nehemiah Gildnhorn | 246 |
| From the memories of one of the first immigrants | Penina Glingnski-Barzilai | 246 |
| The hidden | Mordechai Pecznik | 246 |
| The Surrounding Communities | ||
| Jews in the villages around Sarny | Meir Volkon | 248 |
| From the way of life of the rural Jews | Nehemiah Gildnhorn | 248 |
| Klesów - the town, its people and its fate | Yosef Zoliar | 250 |
| How the kibbutz was founded in Klesów | Gila Turkovic- Slutsky | 251 |
| The founding of the kibbutz in Klesów | S, Even-Zohar | 252 |
| The image of a Klesów man | Yitzchak Tabenkin | 254 |
| The Jews from the village Karpilewka [Y] | Yente Burka-Perlstein | 256 |
| The Antonovka train station | Aharon Shavit (Stern) | 259 |
| How it was destroyed | ||
| * * * | Yitzchak Kacenelson | 263 |
| Calendar of the war and the Holocaust in Sarny | 264 | |
| The Yizkor Day [memorial day] [Y] | Yosef Perlstein | 264 |
| From the beginning of the war until the Nazi occupation | Mordechai Pecznik | 266 |
| The illusion about the strength of the rescue money | Yitzchak Greenbaum | 269 |
| In the Ghetto and in the Extermination | ||
| The destruction of the city of Sarny | Yitzchak Geller zl | 271 |
| The destruction of the city of Sarny [Y] | Yitzchak Geller zl | 285 |
| The Ghetto - from beginning to end [Y] | Tzvi Perlstein | 305 |
| A little girl in the ghetto | Yona Burko-Sherman | 311 |
| Life in the ghetto [Y] | Yosef Wolf | 311 |
| The liquidation [Y] | Avraham Freilach | 312 |
| Destruction [Y] | Yisrael Cork | 314 |
| In the field of destruction | Yosef Wolf | 315 |
| The arson that didn’t materialize | Baruch Krimski | 316 |
| I was fifteen years old | Arye Turkenich | 317 |
| The regional commissar promised | Pinchas Neumann | 320 |
| Rescued through a German [Y] | Feiga Sherman | 322 |
| Comments to the story of my sister Feiga'le zl | Yitzchak Schwartz | 329 |
| From the ghetto to tha partisans [Y] | Berel Bick | 331 |
| In the battle for salvation and life | ||
| How I was saved from the field of slaughter in Sarny | Yisrael Pecznik | 334 |
| The extermination and the rescue | Leah Tiech- Minkowski | 336 |
| In a Partisan Section [Y] | Zalman Perelmuter | 347 |
| In the Soviet Army [Y] | Issachar Bastos | 349 |
| My revenge on the exterminators of Sarny's Jews | Meir Volkon | 350 |
| Vengeance on the murderers | Avraham | 352 |
| A Jewish partisan | Ester Zolotov-Ivri | 353 |
| Like a hunted animal in the forests | Roza Waks-Steinberg | 354 |
| Rescued Jewish children [Y] | Tzvi Alshanski | 364 |
| A doctor in the Forest [Y] | Dr. Hanan Weinberger | 366 |
| The perished and the rescued [Y] | Dr. Shimon Tzvayman | 368 |
| After the Victory | ||
| The field of slaughter in Sarny | Meir Volkon | 370 |
| The mass grave | Yosef Wolf | 372 |
| A meeting in Central Asia | Raaya Kremer- Huberman | 373 |
| On the ruins of Sarny | Bruria Bagon-Zilberg | 375 |
| The rescue of the Torah Scrolls | Yosef Fabrikant | 375 |
| How the pictures of the martyrs were taken from the KGB | Miriam Bergman | 376 |
| From Sarny to Israel [Y] | Yakov Niemoy | 377 |
| From the university to Siberia | Moshe P. | 388 |
| Through the pit in Ponar and the expulsion of Kolyma | Cywia Navozani-Vildshtein | 389 |
| Sarny 1957 | Bluma Zvayman | 394 |
| From that fire [Poem] | Haim Gouri | 397 |
| Memorial Candles | ||
| The Martyrs of the Holocaust | 401 | |
| The Etshtine family | ||
| Binyamin Edelstein | ||
| Yosef Barzas | ||
| Pesach and Yehusua Burko | ||
| Yakov Brick | ||
| The family of Shmuel Geipman | ||
| Ester Goldman | ||
| Yehusua Gloiberman | ||
| Chaim Glik | ||
| Aharon-Gudel Grushko | ||
| Shemariho Grshonok | ||
| Avraham Dictiar | ||
| Chaya Denenberg | ||
| Shmuel Volkon | ||
| Pinchas Zandveiss | ||
| Ahar'l Zandveiss and his wife Rivka | ||
| Penina Zandveiss | ||
| Mindel and Leizer Juk | ||
| The family of Tzvi Zoliar | ||
| Velpel Zinger | ||
| The family of Izia Zinger | ||
| Mendel Zinger | ||
| Chaim Chanis | ||
| Avraham Turknitz | ||
| Aharon Miasnik | ||
| The Nisman family | ||
| Alter Pasman | ||
| Zev Pikman | ||
| Tirza Pecznik | ||
| Chaim and Luba Prelstein | ||
| Binyamin Kanterovitz | ||
| Reuvni'cha | ||
| Yisrael and Chaya Rosenfeld | ||
| Aharon Roseberg | ||
| Yitzchak Reks | ||
| Zev Shcorr | ||
| Riva Schpanerplig | ||
| From all the nations [poem] | Natan Alterman | 432 |
| The martyrs of the Holocaust in Sarny | 433 | |
| Fell in the illegal immigration, the Haganah and the War of Independence | 451 | |
| Fell in the front and in the partisans' battles | 459 | |
| In Memory of the Missing | ||
| Passed away in Israel and abroad | 465 | |
| The association of former residents of Sarny and the surrounding area in Israel | The committee | 508 |
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