Grójec, Poland

Grizer Scroll
(Grójec, Poland)

51°52' / 20°52'

Translation of
Megilat Gritze

Editor: I. B. Alterman

Published in Tel Aviv 1955

Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem
for the submission of the necrology for placement on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation of: Megilat Gritze (Grizer Scroll),
Editor: I.B.Alterman, Grizer Association in Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1955 (H,Y 408 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Grojec

This material is made available by JewishGen, Inc. and the Yizkor Book Project for the purpose of
fulfilling our mission of disseminating information about the Holocaust and destroyed Jewish communities.
This material may not be copied, sold or bartered without JewishGen, Inc.'s permission. Rights may be reserved by the copyright holder.

JewishGen, Inc. makes no representations regarding the accuracy of the translation. The reader may wish to refer to the original material for verification.
JewishGen is not responsible for inaccuracies or omissions in the original work and cannot rewrite or edit the text to correct inaccuracies and/or omissions.
Our mission is to produce a translation of the original work and we cannot verify the accuracy of statements or alter facts cited.

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Introduction [H]	Y. B. Alterman	3
Grójec the Community that was Destroyed [H]	S. M. Ketler	5
Introduction to the Destroyed Gritzer Community	S. M. Ketler	18
The Wooden Synagogue [H]	Eng. David Davidowich	38
The Old Grójec Synagogue	Eng. David Davidowich	42

Jewish Social life in Grojec

Zionist Movement	Y. B. Alterman	51
The Activity of Po'alei Zion	A. Greenfarb	79
The Association and Its Institutions	* * *	83
“Beis Yaakov” School and “Bnos Organization”	* * *	86
The Activity of the “Bund” in Gritze	L. Kula	89
The Gritze Bundist Movement and Its Leaders	Leon Aller	101
The Professional Labor Union	Refael Bruin	111
The Founding of the Artisan Organization	Yaakov Kristal	113
Help for Jewish Children	* * *	115
The Economic Anti-Semitic Struggle Against Jews	* * *	118

Types and Personalities

The Little Town of Gritze	Yosef Heftman	125
Gritze of Yesteryear	J. Mastbaum	129
The Rabbi of Grójec [H]	Rabbi Simcha Elberg	131
The Rabbi of Gritze	Rabbi Simcha Elberg	143
Grandchildren	Y. B. Alterman	159
Bendit Rinkewicz	Genia Rinkewicz	165
My Torah Teacher	Y. B. Alterman	169
Asher Zelig	W. Kula	172
The Mother of Gritze	A. Friedman	175
Israel Klepfisz	Sh. M. Ketler	178
Some Cultural Activists	A. Friedman	180
The tormented workers of the Jewish public library		185
Chanina Kramarske	E.	187
Avraham Drajer	* * *	190
Yosef Drajer	I. B. A.	192

Episodes and Pictures

The first Jewish Labor Organization	Avraham Bornstein	201
The first revolutionaries	Meir Rubin	203
The “Little Bund”	Yakov Rinkyewitz	205
Seven “spies”	H. Goldberg	208
The Grojec jail	David Drajer	212
Through the Grojec little streets	Avraham Friedman	214
On the Eve of Yom Kippur	S. M. Ketler	217
My years in the Heder	W. Kula	222
Childhood years	Eliezer Bokser	225
Impossible to forget	Refael Broyn	227
My home of long ago	Chana Kaper - D. Yurkewitz	229
My world has disappeared	I. B. Alterman	231

The Destruction of the Jewish Community (Personal experiences, testimonies and recorded facts)

Before the downfall	I. B. Alterman	239
War		243
Occupation of Grojec		247
The first hunt		248
Polish prisoners		252
We are chased to Germany		254
In Jezow		259
In Czenstochow	Recorded and told by Avraham Hammer	262
Provocations		265
The members of the Judenrat		269
Establishment and activity of the Judenrat	From the notes of S. M. Rosenthal	275
A contribution		279
Life in the Ghetto		281
The first deportation		282
The second deportation		283
In the Warsaw Ghetto		287
How I escaped from the ghetto		288
Grojec Jews in Byalabrzeg		290
Deportation of the Jews from Byalabrzeg		292
In Skarzhisk		292
The last deportation		294
Forced labor camp in Smolensk		295
* * *
Gritzer Jews Who Perished in Smolensk and the Surrounding Area	Avraham Yaakov and Yosef Hammer	299
List of Gritze Jews Who Were in France and Perished in Deportation	A. Goldfarb	300
200 People from Gritze Were Buried Alive	Yitzhak Borenstein	301
The Gritzer Drum	David Dreyer	304

Poems

Holy	Shaul Maltz	306
Yizkor	Shaul Maltz	307
A Lament for My Town	Shaul Maltz	309

Gritzer Jews Around the World (Activities of the Landsmanschaften Committees)

The Emigration of Gritzer Jews to France	Goldfarb	313
The Achievements of the L. L. Association in Argentina in the Years 1945-53	L. Kulia	314
The Gritzer Landsmannschaft Organization in America	Shaul Maltz	318
12 Years of Activity by the “Organization of Former Residents of Grójec In Israel”	* * *	323

Yizkor

Akiva Laufer	Yaffa Har-Zahav Burger	347
Moshe Nisel Teitelbaum	Yudel Pasternak	348
Ester Bina Kaiser-Rochfeld	S. M. Ketler	349
Israel Diamant	Z. Ben-David	352
Gershon Klein	Yosef & Avraham Hammer	354
These I Will Remember and Lament	M. M. Kalmanzon	358
Simcha Yom-Tov	Avraham Friedman	360
Fayvl Artman	S. M. Ketler	362
America (Memorials)		363
France (Memorials)		373
Canada (Memorials)		379
Israel (Memorials)		391

List of names extracted from pages 366-369

Yizkor Book Project JewishGen Home Page

Yizkor Book Director, Lance Ackerfeld
Emerita Yizkor Book Project Manager, Joyce Field z”l
This web page created by Lance Ackerfeld