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The Shumsk Landsmanschaftn   5 Introduction   6 On Shumsk and the Shumsk Yizkor Book H. Rabin 9 Dedication to D. Chazan   15   On the Holocaust   Between Regimes in Shumsk F. Weisman 16 This is How it Began W. Berensztejn 21 The Last Days of Shumsk Ruth Sztejnman Halperin 29 My Last Days in Shumsk H. Cisin 49 Into The Shumsk Ghetto And Out Again – Five Times M. Kesel 53 Ghetto Experience L. Golub 59 Shumsk at her End (a reconstructed diary) Y. Geler 66 Shumsk, My Tragic Host M. Grenoch 80 From One Hell to Another A. Krejmer 87 My Front Line Battles M. Gervitz 96 After the Holocaust M. Krakowiak 103 Wanderings of a Boy from Shumsk M. Fuks 110 The Zionist Underground in Soviet Shumsk A. Krejmer 117 Shumsk in the Eyes of a Refugee A. Zilber 123 Small Revenge A. Krejmer 125   Shumsk Through Experiences & Memoirs   The Move to Shumsk Y. Sodman 129 Shumsk of Blessed Memory R. Safir 136 To Shumsk from the Heart M. Gervitz 138 A Youthful View of Shumsk S. Royak 140 Shumsk as I Remember It P. Lerner 144 Experiences and Memories Y. Tarn 147 Shumsk During the First World War A. M. Gilican 151 Summer Shabat H. Lavnah 158 Jews of Shumsk P. Lerner 162 Shumsk: a Town Remembered A. Mordosh 164 The Four Horsemen Aharon Lokaczer 167 Shumsk in the Cold H. Rosenberg 169 Experience P. Bandman 170 Simple Shumsk S. Bahat 171 Clear Memory   173 Shumsk Anew H. Lavnah 175 Anti-Semitism Throughout the Ages S. Bahat 180   Special Persons in Shumsk   Rabbi Mordechai Lerner   185 Rabbi Bereno R. Safir 188 The Historical Figures of Shumsk H. Rabin 193 Dr. Jacobson P. Lerner 199 Zechariah Shreiber (Rochman) B. Tsoref 201 Rabbi Benjamin R. Safir 204 A. Goldberg H. Rabin 207 Y. Sodman Y. Geler 211 Y. Sodman Y. Negar 214 A. Yukison D. Sachish 217 N. Milman Z. Ravitz 219 H. Milman Z. Ravitz 220 Rabbi Yusla and Sports S. Freder 221 The Last Rabbi of Shumsk A. Ortheim 224 Sara the Righteous D. Chazan 226 Rabbi Benjamin Shochat C. Rabin 230 M. Steinberg R. Ordi 234 The Years and More R. Safir 235 Yussel . . . . . M. Gervitz 237 Grandma Deborah P. Lerner 239 Aunt Katz Z. Rabin 241 Grandma Sara T. Adler 244 Feigele the Rebbitzin A. Safir 246 The Hazan Family: Jacob & Sara P. Gratzfeld 248 Family and History B. Rabin 249 Something from Shumsk and her Legends M. Chazan 252 Rabbi Idel Ashkenazi Z. R. 255 From the Neimans A. Lerner 258   Organizations and Different Movements   All My Melammeds P. Lerner 261 Schools in Shumsk C. Lavneh 267 The “Tarbut” School and Culture in Shumsk Zvi Rosenberg (Segal) 272 On “Hechalutz” in Shumsk and its Members Yosef Sapir 276 Shumsk: Aliyah Realized Y. Geler 281 The Lubomirki Group S. Safrim 289 The Drama Group in Shumsk R. Feldgar 291 Things I Remember A. Shprecher 294 Theatre in Shumsk M. Gilann 297 Economic Life C. Lavneh 301 Progressive Education P. Lerner 305 Kindergartens in Shumsk M. Gilann 308   Expressions of Shumsk   Money to a Friend M. Ravik 310 Not a Grave / Before (poems) S. Sagal 312 Remembrance Candle S. Sagal 314 University Opening Address S. Bahat 316 Shumsk the Unforgettable M. Rubin 317 Shavuot Y. Torn 319 Curses M. Ravik 319 Mother's Prayer M. Ravik 322 In Memory of My Brother M. Ravik 324 My Grandfather's Shul Y. Torn 324   Letters   A Letter from America to the Yizkor Book (1968) from Akiva ben Mordechai Peltz   327 A Letter from Gorochov (1938) from Yitzchak Geler   329 To the Organization of People from Shumsk in the Land of Israel (1945) from Yitzchak Geler   330 To Tzippora Gurewitz in Haifa (1937) from Yitzchak Geler   333 Letters from Gorochov, Poland (1938-9)   335 A Letter from Shumsk to the Readers of “BaMaale” (1937) from Yitzchak Geler   336 A Letter to the Shumsk Organization (from Italy 1946) from Yitzchak Geler   338 A Letter to Yitzchak Geler (1945) from Pnina Dorfman   340 A Letter to Pnina Dorfman (from Italy 1946) from Yitzchak Geler   341   Yiddish Section *   Editor's Foreword Chaim Rabin 345 Shumsk, My City of Birth Surki Berensztejn-Fiks 347 My Unforgettable Shtetl Shumsk Manny Rubin (Avraham Schochet's grandson) 356 Shumsk Is Destroyed Feige and Yossef Mednik (Recounted by M. Chazen) 358 How My Son and I Survived Chaim Geler 365 Dvorale's Death Zadie Chudiker 369 Sarah the Righteous David Chazen (New York) 372 It Happened in Shumsk M. Chazen 376 The Rich Man Becomes a Bathhouse Attendant M. Chazen 380 A Wedding at the Cemetery M. Chazen 382 “Ato Haraiso” (An Evening Prayer on Shmini Atzeret) M. Chazen 387 The False Accusation Because of an “Eruv” M.Chazen 390 Disguised as a Russian M. Chazen 394 A Rich Man and Wise Man – But Not After His Death M. Chazen 398 Two Friends – One Father M. Chazen 401 A Double Miracle M. Chazen 405 The Rabbi's Curse M. Chazen 410 From Shumsk to Tel Aviv Rivka Ehrlich-Goldenberg 415 A Letter to Mother from “Vellas” (Diary of an Illegal Immigrant) Zipora (Rojchman) Weisman 419 Reb Meir-Zvi, Son of Reb Abraham-David (Harry) Silverberg of Blessed Memory (Taken from “Dos Yiddisher Vort” [The Yiddish Word], Winnipeg)   440 What Can a Picture Tell Us? Etel Kleinshtein 442   The Martyrs of Shumsk   445 List of survivors from Shumsk, according to the countries in which they lived at the time the Yizkor Book was published, in 1968   475 Shumskers who lived in Israel and died before 1968 when Yizkor Book was published   477

* Editor's note: The table of contents in the original Shumsk Yizkor Book ends with Page 324 but the book itself continues through Page 477. The translation of the Yiddish chapter titles was done by Michael Goldstein. Return

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