Kolno, Poland

Kolno Memorial Book
(Kolno, Poland)

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Translation of Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Kolno

Edited by: Aizik Remba and Benjamin Halevy

Published by the Kolner Organization and Sifirat Poalim
Tel Aviv, 1971

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This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Kolno (Kolno memorial book),
Editors: Aizik Remba and Benjamin Halevy, Tel Aviv,
The Kolner Organization and Sifirat Poalim, 1971 (Hebrew, Yiddish, English, 750 pages).

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Table of Contents for English Section

Preface		7
Prologue	Benjamin Halevy	10
Our Kolno	Herschel Kolinsky	13
Economics and Commerce in Jewish Kolno	Eric Sosnow	25
Schools and Education in Jewish Kolno	Eric Sosnow	36
The End of the Kolno Community	Dinah Koncepolsky-Chludniewitz	45
From Ghetto to Ghetto, from Village to Village, like a Hunted Beast	Dinah Koncepolsky-Chludniewitz	51
Kolno Girls in Auschwitz	Deborah Charniewitch-Lubel	56
A Christian Woman's Evidence	Halina Golshovska-Glaser	59
Nachum Remba	Jonas Turkov	62
On the Ruins	Rachel Alter-Borkowsky	64
A Visit to Kolno in 1961	Avner Aliphaz	68

Table of Contents for Hebrew/Yiddish Section

I. Introduction

Contents
Preface	Editorial Committee
At the Book's Gate	Benjamin Halevy

II. A Town on the Border

The History of Kolno and its Jews	Simcha Sklanewitz	1
The Story of the Kolno Community	Kalman Karlinski	14
Economics and Society in Kolno Between Two World Wars	Chaim Ezra Sosnow	28
The Cooperative Bank in Kolno	Mordechai Brizman	42
Reprints from Kolno’s Newspapers		47
Father's Store	Zvi Hiller	51
Artisans	Moshe Brizman	55
Two Letters		58

III. Society and Cultural Life

The Zionist Organization in Kolno	Isaac Remba	63
From "Hertzelia" to "Zionist Workers"	Avigdor Eisenfeld	71
"The Pioneer" in Kolno	Moshe Pnini-Karlshtein	75
Youth Awakening	Abraham Bar-Adon	80
The Principals of "Hashomer Hatzair"	Isaac Moshe Weintzimer	84
"Hashomer Hatzair" in Kolno in the the early days	Zerach Gootman	91
"Hashomer Hatzair" activities in our town	Shalom Ben Israel	95
Communists in Kolno	Zerach Marvid	99
Cultural Life	Jacob Fabritzki	101
The Rabbis of Kolno	Moshe Tznowitz	105
Torah Scholars in Kolno	Moshe Tznowitz	112
Our Teachers and Educators	Abraham Kaplowitz	114
My Teachers	Avner Elipaz	118
My Study Years in our Town	Zvi Hiller	125
Reprint from "The Small Jews Paper"		129

IV. Way of Life

The Face of our town Kolno	Isaac Remba	137
Kolno Chapters	Renata Heter (Rachel Borkovsky)	149
Kolno at the Beginning of the Century	Litman Shavit (Sharchekwitz)	155
The Life of a Kolno Youth	Eliahu Bramson	158
Childhood Memories	Avraham Bar-Adon	165
Youth Years in the Home Town	Chaya Sara Goos-Paltinowitz	170
Places and People	Eliahu Marvid	171
From the Past	Yosef Marvit	178
	Meir Burakevitz	182
Market Day in Kolno	Zvelun Kornetzki	183
Reprint from "The Small Newspaper"		186
How Medle was Saved	Zvia Paltinovitz	189
The Border	Mathethia Malawani	190
In the Cheder	Zvi Korentzki	194
Father's House	Eliahu Marvid	199
My Father's House	Avraham Bochko	201
The House on Vincenti Street	Mathathias Shreiter	203
Purim in Town	Moshe Meisner	206
Grandma is Sewing Shrouds for Herself	Bluma Goren-Malavani	208
Reprints from Jewish Newspapers about Kolno		209

V. Personalities and People

Shining People	Meir Barak (Berkowitz)	217
Rabbi Shmuel Panitz (Bar Adon)	Isaac Remba	219
Poems	Rachela Bavli	222
Reprints about Karlinski, Gabavitz & Remba		224
Avraham Shmuel Hershberg		235
Shining Personalities	Meir Burakevitz	236
Gedalyahu Allaya	Isaac Remba	242
Reprints from the "Small Newspaper"		247
The Man that Brought the Big World to the Small Town	Raya Zaltzbuch	249
Teacher	Z. Weinberg	254
Kukimki	Rachel Alter-Burkovski	258
My Father Rabbi Mordechai Zondel	Ariah Margalit	262
We Were Three Friends	Tuvia Lubel	267
Pessach Bar-Adon	Yosef Charif	270
Teachers and Educators	Chaim-Ezra Sosnow	274

VI. Before the Storm

From the Diary of an Immigrant	Eliahu Marvid	281
The Eve of War	Blume Goren-Malowani	286
Youth in Kolno	Zvelun Kornetzki	292
The Quiet Before the Storm	Dr. Fishel Horwitz	295
Poems	Y. Daniel Lewitz	305
In our Town Before the Destruction	Yafa Aharoni-Zevlodovitz	308
Guarding the Safety of our Townspeople	Shalom Ben-Israel (Malovani)	311
A Visitor from the Land of Israel	Zerach Gootman	315
That’s How I Remember You, My Town	Areh Rosenfeld	317
Towards Passover 1940	Mordechai Birzman	321
Facing the Past	Mina Karni-Ostshaver	323

VII. Kolno’s Destruction

In the Evening I Remember	Rachel Alter-Burkowski	331
The Beginning of the Holocaust	Zehava Shefer-Rivitzki	333
That's How it Began	Shlomo Davidowitz	334
Destruction of Kolno (Hebrew and Yiddish)	Helena Galshovska-Glazer	337
Destruction of the Kolno Community	Dina Kontzpolski-Klodinivitz	343
(Same as above in Hebrew)		352
The Destruction of the Jewish Community	Faigel Galambeck	357
My Sister Sarah	Avner Elipaz	359
On the Ruins	Rachel Alter-Burkowski	363
During the War Years	Israel Chalupovitz	369
A Visit to Kolno in 1961	Avner Elipaz	372

VIII. Persecuted

From the Nazi Frypan to the Soviet Fire	Chaim-Tuvia Garbowicz	379
Pages from the Torture	Aaron Chernovitz	382
(Same as above in Hebrew)		390
Two Years in a Dark Attic	Yacov Lubel	396
(Same as above in Hebrew)		412
Like a Chased Animal	Dina Konzpolski-Klodinivitz	425
(Same as above in Hebrew)		430
From Death Camp in Auschwitz	Debova Chernovitz-Lubel	435
(Same as above in Hebrew)		440
Memories from the Woods	Yacov Ben Nehemia (Fabritzki)	444
(Same as above in Hebrew)		459
From the Woods of Bialo-Russia	Dr. Fishel Hurwitz	469
Nachum Remba (Hebrew and Yiddish)	Yanes Turkav	486
The Torturous Road of the Survivors	Ch. Borkowski	494
After the War	Avraham-Asher Lubel	495
Kol Nidre	Aaron Chernowitz	499
(Same as above in Hebrew)		501
Survivor of the "Fire"	Moshe Glokowitz	504
Because of My Grandfather	Berl Lubel	508
A Bunch of Memories	Berl Burstein	510
Through Two World Wars	Zerach Marvid	518
Activities in the French Underground	Dr. N. A. Lapid (Liptzinski)	523

IX. Remembrance Pages

Killed in Israel's Wars
Avraham Dolowitz (Shadni)		535
Avraham Stephaner		538
Capt. Isaac Sklanawitz		545
Efraim-Zalman Margalit		550

Killed in the Holocaust

X. At Book’s End

Necrology		645
About Activities of Kolno Jews in Israel	Kalman Ben Efraim	669
Kolno People in Israel	Raya Zaltzbuch-Agraninok	671
Kolno People in the USA	Kalman Karlinski, Hershel Karlinski	674
Kolno People in the Diaspora	Raya Zaltzbuch-Agraninok	678
The Kolno Family in Mexico	Avner Elipaz	681

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