MANEVICHI 51°22' / 25°32'
POVORSK 51°16' / 25°08'
TROYANOVKA 51°20' / 25°17'
Translation of Ayara b'yaar
Written by: Jehuda Merin
Printed in Israel, 1980
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This is a translation from: Ayara b'yaar; A Townlet in the Forest, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master's Degree in the Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University.
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Ramat-Gan, Israel | 1980 |
Maniewice | with approximately 4,000 Jews (including Jews from the surrounding villages and 1,500 Jewish refugees from western Poland |
Povorsk | with approximately 1,500 Jews |
Troyanowka | with approximately 300 Jews |
" Today the people from the 'forest townlets' are strongly tied to the fighting brigade. There is reciprocal aid. We take care of their security and guard them. [and] They pay us with love and with important work but what is most important, we feel that we fulfill a simple human duty. The war will be over some day; and these people will become free. We shall be proud to have helped them to survive this horrible period."12In this modest research paper, based on the testimonies of survivors and on Holocaust literature, I wish to show that when there was any possibility of escape, however minimal, Jews by the thousands took advantage of the situation. When necessary, the fought for their lives against the Germans and their associates. The Jews quoted from Maicewicze, Povorsk, Trojanowka, Leszniwka, and vicinity were no more heroic than were the Jews
"I have read the list of the names of the Jewish partisans. [and] There are few combatants and commanders in my detachment. This list can be extended and can become ten times longer."
"THERE WERE MANY OF THEM"13
2. Yakob Bronstein, Yad Vashem, Testimony B-1431115 - 3190/03. Back
3. Itzchak Arad, "Family-camps in the forests--an original way of rescue", Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust. Pp. 278-279. Back
4. The Voice of the War Invalids, the organ of the war-invalids, 1976, Tel Aviv, No. 111. "An Image of a Criminal": Lombard Gustaw was in charge of a formation of cavalry whose main function was to kill Jews in Polyesia and Vohlyn. In the region of the river Pripec, his formation has killed 5,200 Jews. Back
5. Hersh Smoliar, Yad Vashem, Testimony M-115/3293-3605/03. Personal Testimony about the formal orders ("Direktivy") concerning the family-camps; issued by the Soviet government. Back
6. S. Zafran, ("Wierny"), Like Pines They Grew, pp. 132-137. Back
7. Aba Klurman, "Stages in the Soviet Partisan Movement," Like Pines They Grew, pp. 160-162. Back
8. Jozef Sobiesiak, Ryszard Yegorow, Wild Seeds, ("Burzany"), pp. 218-220. Back
9. Dob Lorber ("Malinka"), Like Pines They Grew, pp. 90.91. Back
10. Motel Gajer, Yad Vashem, Testimony, "My Last Visit in Maniewicze" ("Kewer Owes"). Back
11. S. Zafran (Wierny), Yad Vashem, Testimony, Z-1430/43. Back
12. Jozef Sobiesiak (Max), Ryszrd Yegorow, Wild Seeds, ("Burzany"), Warsaw, 1960, pp. 268. Back
13. M. Koniszczuk (Kruk): "There were Many of Them" in Partisans' Friendship. Moscow: "Der Emes", 1948. Translated from Russian by Benjamin West. Back
14. M. Dworzecki ("Ban Habtorim"), Jerusalem, 1967, p 67. Back
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