Skalat, memorial volume of the community which perished in the Holocaust

Skalat, Memorial Volume of the Community
which Perished in the Holocaust
(Ukraine)

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Translation of Skalat; kovets zikaron le-kehila she-harva ba-shoa

Edited by: H. Bronstein, Yaacov Krol School in Petah-Tikva and former residents of Skalat in Israel

Published in Tel Aviv, 1971

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This is a translation from: Skalat; kovets zikaron le-kehila she-harva ba-shoa; Skalat,
Memorial volume of the community which perished in the Holocaust, ed. H. Bronstein.
Tel Aviv, Yaacov Krol School in Petah-Tikva and former residents of Skalat in Israel, 1971

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SKALAT
A Community Destroyed

Ch. B.	Acknowledgements	3
	Contents	5
Editor	Foreword	7
	Map of Skalat and the Surrounding Area	8
Avraham Shlonski	Vow (a poem)	9
I. Frischman	Greetings	10
Dr. Baruch Ben Yehudah	Project for the Commemoration of Communities	11
Chaim B.	From the History of the Town	12
Chaim Bronstein	Reflections	14
	Skalat During the First World War	18
Hadassah Katz	My Town - Skalat	21
Moshe Marder	Skalat's Pioneers in Agricultural Settlement	24
Eliezer Rosenstock	The Main Synagogue of Skalat	27
Monio Dickstein	The Betar Movement in Skalat	30
Tonka Pikholz	The Husiatyn Hassidim in Skalat	31
	The Russians “Free” Skalat in 1939	33
Eliezer Dagan	How Was the Judenrat Founded in Skalat?	44
Tonka Reis (Pikholz)	I Was Saved by “Aryan Papers”	47
Peretz Landsman	In the Struggle for Life	64
From “There Are No Butterflies Here”	Theresienstadt (a poem)	66
Hinda Kornweiz	Mother of the Daughters	67
	Berl the Rabbi's Son and the Brave Teacher of Skalat	68
	Belcec	70
	The Testimony of Rudolf Rader	71
	Among the Partisans	89
Baruch Amitz	With Kopbak's Men to the Carpathian Mountains	90
	The Forest Burned	93
	Echoes of the Skalat Holocaust in Russian Literature	98
	Jewish Fighters in Kopbak's Division	101
Dr. Hillel Zeidman	The End of Skalat	105
Ar'el Asheri	We Adopt a Destroyed Community	112
Haim Guri	From That Conflagration (a poem)	116
Ar'el Asheri	Throughout the Soviet Union	117
Mordecai Orr	In the Land of Cold and Frost	118
Zeev Reuveni	From Skalat, Via Chelbinsk, to the Skies of Degania	122
	The Trial	136
	The Indictment Against Muller	137
	The Destruction of the Jews of Galicia	139
I. B. F.	The Trial, a Quarter Century After	151
	Testament	154
Fischel Goldstein	The Last Jew in Skalat	156

Translator's note: Pages 8-9, 66 and 116 are not included in the actual Table of Contents

Photographs

Skalat - Towns and Cities Surrounding (Map)	8
Skalat	12
The Audience at the Skalat Adoption Ceremony	14
Children of the Skalat Hebrew School in 1937	17
Hadassah Katz With Her Charges in the “Gorodonia” Movement	22
The First Hebrew Speaking Group in Skalat	23
Moshe Marder With the Oldest “Gorodonia” Group	25
In the Streets of Skalat (three photographs)	29
Husiatyn Hassidim in Skalat	32
Pioneer Youth Sees Off a Comrade Leaving for Eretz Israel	37
The Girls of the “Akiva” Movement in Skalat	40
The “Grina Kloiz” in Skalat	43
The “Bashta” - Here Hundreds of Jews Were Shot	48
Tonka's “Aryan” Papers	56
(Tonka's) Work Papers	58-9
"Skalat Water Carrier” Painted by Cipora Hermoni	63
Rosa Pickholz (with others)	68
In the Belcec Death Camp	85
The Commanders of the Murderers in the Belcec camp	88
The Wall of Fighters, Yad Mordecai Museum (Skalat appears on the right, seventh row from the bottom)	92
General Kopbak With His Officers	104
Kroll School Adopts Skalat	110
Hadassah Katz Remembers, at the Adoption Ceremony	111
The Kroll School Choir at the Adoption Ceremony	113
Scroll of Remembrance	114
Dov Aloni, of Yad VaShem	115
At the Remembrance Ceremony	116
The Russian Engineer Understood Our Ambitions	124
A Red Cross Document from Prague	130
Monument to the Martyrs of Skalat, in the Martyrs' Forest	136
The Verdict in the Case of Rivel and Muller	140
A Bridge Made of Gravestones, Skalat 1967	156
Fischel Goldstein at His Old Store, with the new Shopkeeper	157
Plaque in the Chamber of the Holocaust, Mt. Zion	159
Monument to the Children of Skalat, in the Martyrs' Forest	160

Translator's note: The list of photographs is not included in the actual book

SKALAT Plaque
from The Chamber of the Holocaust (Mount Zion, Jerusalem)
(P.O.Box 6426, Jerusalem 91063, ISRAEL)

Memorial Monument

to the martyrs of the city of
SKALAT
and the area (may G-d avenge their blood)
who were killed during the years of the Holocaust.
Oh that my head were waters,
And mine eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people
(Jeremiah 8, 23)

TNZB”H (May their souls be bound in life)
Memorial day the sixth of Sivan.
Organization of Skalaters in Israel and the Diaspora.

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