Wegrow, Memorial Book,

Community of Wegrow, Memorial book
(Poland)

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Translation of Kehilat Wegrow; sefer zikaron

Edited by: M. Tamari

Written by: Former residents of Wegrow in Israel

Published in Tel Aviv, 1961

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Project Coordinator and Translator

Susan Kahana

This is a translation from: Kehilat Wegrow; sefer zikaron; Community of Wegrow;
Memorial book, ed. M. Tamari. Tel Aviv, former residents of Wegrow in Israel, 1961

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INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD	3
Wengrow and History
Nissan Slotzky: History of the Jewish Settlement in Wengrow	X
List of the Rabbis of Wengrow	28
Book of the Religious Court Judges	33
IN THE SHADOW OF WAR
Meir Steinberg: In the Old Beis-HaMidrash in 1904	47
Yaakov Virnick: An Eye for an Eye	48
Pesach Teshapov: Father's House	48
Moshe Caspi: Figures from the days of WWI	50
Yaakov Kamylz: Wengrow was, and Isn't	53
Mattatyahu Mendlbaum: Gives Charity and Does Good	55
THE HOLOCAUST
Tzvi Tzelniker: The Eve of the Holocaust	59
Malka Visbkach: Concentration Camp	60
Rothstein: Mass Grave	61
A.P.: Rabbi Morgenstern sanctifies G-d's name	62
R. Mendlbaum: In Hiding	62
Dr. Hillel Zydman: "Good Neighbors" as Beasts of Prey	53
Ephraim Przepiurka: The way Wengrow was destroyed upon its inhabitants	64
Shmuel Reizman: The Revolt in Treblinka	66
Yerachmiel Zolti:Wengrow in Ruins	69
Sarah Kaplan: Merciful Jews	70
S.L. Shneiderman: A Jewish Mother Fights for her daughter	71
A.P.: Collection of Testimony	72
Documents from the Holocaust Period	75-78
HOLY AND SECULAR ¹
Shlomo Zablodovitz: Customs and Ceremonies, Joy and Mourning	81
Shmuel-Chaim Yellin: Religious Education	86
Zablodovitz: Religious Communal Experience	90
Shmuel Gorky: The Cemetery	91
Simcha Mandelbauim: A New Wind Blows in Wengrow	92
Moshe Caspi: Drama Circle	95
David Paspiyorka: My Hometown	96
David Albershtadt: Wengrow, as I'll remember her	101
Shlomo Zivnitz: Learned Men	102
PUBLIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Yosef Leshitz: The beginnings of Religious Zionism	105
Aharon Reizman: Hebrew School "Tarbut" and Evening classes in Hebrew	107
Zev Amir (Mandelboim) Labor Unions	110
PERSONALITIES
Rabbi Shmuel Weiss ztz"l - Yisrael-Yitzchak Weiss	115
The Holy Rabbi Yaakov Mendel Morgenstern ztz"l	116
The teacher Natan Tzvi Pasis ztz"l	117
Reb Avraham Yellin z"l – Shoshan Schneider (Yellin)	118
Reb David Izak Niman z"l – Aharon Reizman	119
Aharon Reizman z"l – S. Zablonovitz	120
Mendel Holander z"l - S. Zablonovitz	120
David Golfarb z"l – S. Zablonovitz	121
Yeheil Meir Reisman z"l – Aharon Reisman	122
Avraham ben Hillel Paspiyorka z"l	123
Mendel Paspiyorka z"l	124
Reb Yaakov Reisman Dina Resiman A.Y. Weintraub,M. Zyman z"l	125
A Virnick, P. Weintraub-Feigenbaum Y.A. Feingold z"l	127
FOLK ART
A. Zilberstein – Folk Art	131
IN THE SERVICE OF THE NATION
Zev Yellin: From Generation to Generation	137
Shlomo Yiskolkah z"l – A. Perlmujter S. Levi A.S. Avraham	138
David Pomerantz z"l – Yosef M	140
Yisrael Leshitz z"l	140
YIZKOR	143

THE MARTYRS OF WENGROW	143

Footnote

1. Holy and Secular is an expression borrowed from the Havdalah Service which ends the Sabbath. The concept is that Sabbath is holier than any other time, although all aspects of Jewish life are considered to be Holy. The idea of this footnote is borrowed from Jerrold Landau

The exact translation is somewhere between dynasty and continuity of generations, but the meaning within this context is that each generation faces its own deaths, in the ghettos, or on the battlefields. Back

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