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Introduction and Forward |
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Introduction |
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The Community of Yurburg Among Lithuanian Jewry - Common and Unique Features - Professor Dov Levin |
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Chapter 1: The City and the Setting on the Banks of the Neiman River |
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My Yurburg - Sol Goldstein |
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Yurburg on the Banks of the Neiman River - Y. D. Kamzon |
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Jews of Yurburg - Y. D. Kamzon |
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On the Riverside - Shimon Shimonov |
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A Unique Town - A. Sarid |
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Yurburg - My Town of Birth - Dov (Berl) Levinberg |
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Memories of the Town of My Birth - Yurburg - Emmanuel Kopelov |
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That Was the Yurburg That I Knew - Mordechai Zilber |
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Our Yurburg - Bat Sheva Elon (Shtock) |
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Yurburg - My Unforgotable Town - Hinda Levenberg (Becker) |
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Siaudine (Shaudine) - Yurburg's Neighbor
-Meir Leibush (family in El Paso, Texas) |
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Yurburg - Regional Trade Center
- Hinda Levenberg (Becker) |
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Jewish Occupations in Yurburg - A Supplement to the Essay of Hinda Levenberg (Becker) |
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I Remember - Zevulun Poran (Yiddish) |
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My Shtetl Yurburg - Shimon Shimonov (Yiddish) |
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Years Ago There was a Town of Yurburg - Motl (Mordechai) Zilber (Yiddish) |
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Beautiful Town of Yurburg - Ben Devorah (Yiddish) |
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Yurburg Under Water - Adapted by Paz (Yiddish) |
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The Town Jurbarkas
- A Yurburger (Yiddish) |
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Yurburg Under the Soviet Regime
- Translated into Hebrew by Shimon Shimonov |
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The Land of My Parents - Zevulun Poran
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Chapter 2: The Families |
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The Story of the Escape and Remnant of My Family - Aliza Leipziger-Porath (Irving Leipziger 's and William Berton's Family) |
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Memories of My Parents House - Bluma Heselovitz-Feldman |
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Me and My Family in Yurburg - Shoshanah Petrikanski (Poran)-Knishinski |
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Yurburg and People of Our Childhood - Hannah (Feinberg) Shraga (Shrage) |
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One Family from Many in Yurburg - The Story of The Smolnik Family - Zevulun Poran |
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The Most Family Knows a Sad Event in the Family - Yonina Most-Efraimi |
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The House of the Frank Family - Sarah Frank-Shapiro |
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My Family in the Days of the Fire and the Shoah (Holocaust) - by Rachael Hess (Ess) - Greenstein |
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My Parents House - Yafsh Levin Taitz |
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Zeev (Velvel) Levin Family - Rachel Levin-Rozenzweig |
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Hess Family -Tzvi Nekhemyah Hess |
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Petrikansky Family - Zevulun Poran |
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Families In Yurburg (Introduction) - Zevulun Poran |
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(Eliezer) Eliashuv Family - Aharon Elyashuv |
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(Haim Eliahu) Eliashuv Family - Arieh Elashuv |
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Afriaski Family by - Hannah Apriaski-Abel |
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Beiman Family - Yakov Beiman |
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Barshatnasky Family - Miriam Bershtanski-Verpolis |
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Reuven Hess Family -Rachel Hess-Greenstein |
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Haslelovitz Family - Yafah Heselkovitz-Lupianski and Bluma Heselkovitz -Feldman |
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Weinberg Family - Rivkah Weinberg-Ravitzky |
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Chaimovitz Family - Niuiah Chaimovitz-Slovo |
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Levenberg Family - Hinda Levinberg-Becker |
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Leipziger Family - by Aliza Leipziger-Porath (William Berton's Family ) |
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Magidovitz Family - Hannah Magidovitz-Goldman |
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Most Family - Leah Most |
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Mazor
Family - Mina Mazur-Simon
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Naividel Family - by Mordechai (Motl) Naividel |
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Melnik Family - Ge'ulah (Grunia) Melnik-Rabinovitz |
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Minzer Family - Sheina Mintzer-Polover
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Smolnik Family - Hannah Smolnik-Polen |
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Polarvitz Family - Shoshanah Polarvitz
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Feinberg Family - Mina Feinberg |
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Frank Family - Sarah Frank-Shapira |
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Koplov Family - Emmanuel Kopelov |
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Karabelnik Family - Hannah Karabelnik-Trainin |
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Rodensky Family - David-Mordechai Rodensky
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Rabinowitz Family - Yakov Rabinowitz |
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Rahaza Family - Israel Rahaza |
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Raizman Family - Sarah Raizman-Yagolnitzer |
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Rikler Family - Aharon Rikler |
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Smolovsky
Family - Abraham Smolovsky
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| Stern - Fein Family - Erika Katz |
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Chapter 3: Personages and Public Figures |
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The Author Avraham Mapu - by Zevulun Poran |
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Zelig Shakhnovitz - Author and Intellectual - by Pinkhas Volman |
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Shlomo (Saul) Goldstein
- by Zevulun Poran |
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Boris Bernstein - The Man, His Vision and his Works - Zevulun Poran |
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Pinchas Shakhnovitz - Zionist and Man of the Book - Zevulun Poran |
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Eliezer Liepziger -Teacher, Educator and Principal - Emmanuel Kopelov |
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Eliezer Liepziger - Friend and Soul-mate - Dr. Shlomo Kodesh |
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Alter-Mordechai Shimonov - Shimon Shimonov |
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Mordechai Zilber - The Man and His Pen - Sarah Alkoni and Zevulun Poran |
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Clara Bernstein-Dushnitzki
- Zevulun Poran |
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Zalman Laibosh
- Actor and Director - Zevulun Poran |
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The Artist William Zerach - Paz |
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Avraham Kasif - Educator and Man of Learning - Zevulun Poran |
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Chaim Seiger
- Teacher and Educator - Zevulun Poran |
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The Author and Educator Yisrael Dimantman
- Paz |
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Berl Levinberg
- The Man and Public Figure - Zevulun Poran |
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Hinda Levinberg-Becker and Her Diary - Zevulun Poran |
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Rachel Niv - From Yurburg to a Beit-Zera - Yakov Niv |
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Meir Laibosh
- The Man and Friend - Zevulun Poran |
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Shimon Feinberg - Pioneer and Public Personality
- Zevulun Poran
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Chapter 4: Religion, Culture and Community Life |
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Yurburg - A Jewish Community Distinguished by its Intellectual Life by M. Simon Tilsit - translated by Josef Valk, son of Matityahu Valk, a native of Yurburg |
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Yurburg in Questions and Answers of the Rabbinical Literature - Edited by Paz |
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The Old Synagogue Tells Its Story - Pinchas Shakhnovitz |
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The Synagogue and the Communitys Religious Life - Zevulun Poran |
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History of the Jewish Community in Yurburg - translated and rewritten in Hebrew by Z. Poran |
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The Yurburger Community - A Tax Payer |
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The Talmud-Torah (Religious School) in Yurburg (from "Hamelitz") - N A.D. |
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The Elementary School in Yurburg - Paz |
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The Hebrew Gymnasium in Yurburg - Givat Brenner and Rivka Weinberg Ravitzky |
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Student ID Card of a (High School) Gymnasia Student - Tovah Most |
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Zionism and the Zionist Activity in Yurburg - Zevulun Poran |
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Yiddishism and Folkism in Yurburg - Zevulun Poran |
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Yurburg - A Song to the Tune of a Lithuanian Folk Song - Emanuel Kopelov |
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Yurberik
Liked the Theater - Motl (Mordekhai) Zilber - Motl (Mordekhai) Zilber - (Yiddish) |
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Memories of People and Events - Avraham Shmulovsky |
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The Rabbis of Yurburg During the Last Generation |
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Rabbi Moshe son of Rabbi Shmuel Levinson - by Nakhum-Eliezer Dushkes |
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The Rabbi Yacov-Yosef Kharif |
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Rav Yekhezkel bar Hillel Arie Lifshitz |
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Rabbi Avraham Diamant, Yurburg's Last Rabbi
- Z. Poran |
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Rav Chaim-Reuven Rubinstein - The Rabbi in the Days of the Shoah - Paz |
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Religious Scholars Whose Names are Linked to Yurburg |
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Rabbi Shlomo Son of Arie-Lieb |
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Rabbi Yitzhak-Eliahu Son of Shemuel Landa |
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Shlomo Levy Ben Israel Feinberg
- Philanthropist - Paz
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Chapter 5: Youth and Their Activities in Yurburg |
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The Maccabi Sports Organization in Yurburg - Z. Poran |
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The Jewish Scouting Movement - "Shomar Hatsa'ir" (The Young Watchmen) - Z. Poran
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The Hostel and the Educational
Activity - Z. Poran |
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There was the Betar Movement in Yurburg - Zahavah Pulerevitz - Ben Yehudah |
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The "Hechalutz" (Poineer) as the Head of the Camp - Z. Poran |
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J. A. C. - The Jewish Athletic Club - Z. Poran
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Chapter 6: the Destruction of Jewish Yurburg |
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The Book of Tears - Z. Poran - (Hebrew image of the Poem) |
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The Shoah (Holocaust) in the Second World War - Z. Poran |
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Yurburg Destroyed (The Story of Hannah Magidovitz) - as recorded by Zevulun Poran |
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Additional details on the Annihilation of the Jews of Yurburg - The Testimony of Hannah Magidovitz - Translated from Yiddish by Paz |
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Family in Dire Straits - Belah Bernstein - Mering's Testamony |
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Yurburg in the First Days of the Shoah - (from the book "Lita") |
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The Destruction of Yurburg - Tzvi Levit - Yiddish - same as above article |
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Yurburg in the Days of Its Destruction - Rabbi Ephraim Ashri - Yiddish |
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Cases of the Killing of Women and Children by Shooting - The Ulms Trial, Tilsit - Yosef son of Matityahu Valk of blessed memory |
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The Oppressors - Lewitzkas and Kaminskas
- Shimon Shimonov |
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The People From Shaodina Were the First to be Executed
- Avraham Levyush |
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The Last Days in Yurburg and the Surrounding Area - Aba Val's story - recorded by Paz |
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A Group of "Yurburgers" in the Forest
from Words of the Partisian Yehudah Tarshish - rewritten by Z. Poran |
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The Daring Escape to the Partisians in the Forest - Mordechai Berkover |
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A Letter from the Jail in Yurburg - Mika Liubin - |
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At the 7 km Marker from Yurburg to Smaleninken - Leib (Arieh) Elyashev - Yiddish |
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I Dreamt a Dream (song) - Y. Katznelson |
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Flowers of the Fatherland Grow on the Mass Grave in the Foreign Country - Zahavah (Zlata) Pulerevitz-Ben Yehudah |
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The Bitter End of the Community of Yurburg - Paz
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Chapter 7: Survivors of Yurburg Perpetuate the Memory of their Community |
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The Organization of Yurburg Emigrants and Its Activites to Save the Memory of the Community - Shimon Shimonov |
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Meeting of Emigrants from Yurburg in Jerusalem - Frieda Shakhnovitz-Zevuloni |
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What Does the Mean to Yurburg Tell Us? - Zevulun Poran |
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Yurburgers Help other Yurburgers - Mordechai Zilber |
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We Shall Remember - The Scroll of Planting the Yurburg Grove |
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Address on the Planting of the Yurburg Grove - Aliza Leipziger-Porath- (Irving Leipziger's Family and William Berton's Family) |
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A Memory for Our Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren - Zevulun Poran |
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The Valley of Destroyed Communities - Yad Veshem - Memorial Site
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TheYurburg House in Jerusalem |
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Yurburger Plant a Grove in Memory of their Loved Ones - A list - Shimon Shiminov |
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I Shall Always Remember Them - Hannah Feinberg-Shraga |
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A Memorial Candle for My Family - Diana Tobin (Berzener) |
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In Eternal Memory - Shulamith Miller (Feldman) |
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In Memory - Frida Epstein-Pukhert |
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Eternal Memory - Roza-Shoshanah Birger-Tarshish |
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In Eternal Memory - Dorothy Chosid-Bodnoff |
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Jewish Residents of Yurburg - List by Street - Mordechai Berkover |
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Members of The Organization of Former Citizens of Yurburg and the Vicinity in Israel - Shimon Shimonov |
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People of Yurburg Abroad - List of Sons and Daughters of Yurburg Living Outside Israel - Shimon Shiminov - originally in English {Additions by Joel Alpert - not in the original book} |
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Greetings from Former Residents Yurburg in Lithuania - Shimon Shiminov - originally in English |
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Survivors of Yurburg, Shoah Survivors (Holocaust Refugees) in Lithuania |
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Epilogue: Address on the Occasion of the Internment of Ashes of Lithuanian Martyrs at Yad VeShem - Zevulun Poran - Shimon Shiminov - originally in English |
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The Only Tombstone (Exerpt from Ben-Gurion's Address) - Shimon Shiminov - originally in English |
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We Shall Remember - Zevulun Poran |
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The Introduction to the Book of Remembrance and Summary of the Chapters |
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Contents of the Yurburg Yizkor Book (herein translated into English) |
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Special Illustrative Supplement - 16 pages , 32 photos on the subject of Yurburg |
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Additional Materials Collected and Added After the Publication of the Original Hebrew Book
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