Yiddish TOC translated by Dora Rytman and Judie Goldstein

Hebrew TOC translated by Sara Mages

To you Krynki / Baruch Niv [H]	5
To you Krynki (Krinek) / Benedict Nisht [Y]	7
“Pinkas Krynki” / The Editorial Board [H]	9
The “Pinkas Krynki” [Y]	11
With gratitude and blessing [Y] [H]	14
A praise to the hard working initiators / The Editor [Y] [H]	15
Krynki map	24
From the history of the Jews in Krynki / Dov Rabin	25-30
From the distant past [H]	25
“The Writ of Privilege” [H]	25
The Burgher's Attack on Jewish Rights [H]	26
Krynki – A Community Member of the Council of Lithuania [H]	27
The Krynki Community Rebels [H]	28
Krynki's Jews in the 19th century [H]	29
Chapter on the fires [H]	30
From the history of the Jews in Krynki / Dov Rabin	31-37
From the distant past [Y]	31
The description of the emergence of the community [Y]	31
The bourgeois against the rights of the Jews [Y]	32
The Krynki community, Kehila, at its beginning [Y]	33
Krynki a community in Lithuania [Y]	33
The government assembly and its meeting in Krynki [Y]	34
The Krynki people revolt [Y]	35
Krynki Jews in the 19th century [Y]	35
During the Polish uprising in 1863 [Y]	36
Krynki produces textile; chapter on the fires [Y]	37
Bibliography/Sources [H]	38
About Jewish Life in Krynki: during the second half of the 19th century until 1896	39-52
About Jewish Life in Krynki: during the second half of the 19th century until 1896 / D.R. [H]	40
Through the decades / Ab[raham] Miller	40
Chapter on textile production [Y]	40
Krynki in Confusion [Y]	41
The Fires [Y]	41
The Shtetl Is Rebuilt [Y]	42
The Beginning of the Tannery / A.B. Miller	42
People Become Tanners / Hillel Katz-Bloom	44
From Tanners to Leather Manufacturers / Ab[raham] Miller	45
The First Tanners [Y]	45
Krynki Rabbinate / Dov Rabin
Religious Leaders of Krynki [H]	47
About Two Heads of the Rabbinical Court / Moshe Zinovich [H]	48
Krynki Rabbinate / Dov Rabin [Y]	49
The First Rabbis [Y]	49
Preachers [Y]	50
The “Haskalah” – Rustling Winds of the Haskalah Movement [H] / Dov Rabin	51
“Enlightenment” Winds [Y]	52
In the Flourishing Years of Krynki (1897-1915) / D. Rabin	53-61
In the flourishing period of Krynki (1897- 1915) / Dov Rabin	62-93
General overview [Y]	62
The Jewish population [Y]	62
The economic state and the aspirations of the Krynki Jews [Y]	62
Tanning, the life of Krynki [Y]	63
The first strike [Y]	66
Krynki a town of Torah [Y]	66
Under Russian cultural influence [Y]	66
The beginning of Krynki Zionism [Y]	67
The Tannery Town of Krynki in creativity and struggle
The tannery center
Krynki a town with a name / Mordecai V. Bernstein [Y]	68
The tannery / Shmuel Geler [Y]	68
The Strike Period
The condition of the Jewish tannery workers and laborers / M.V. Bernstein [Y]	69
The beginning of the strike movement / H. Weinberg (Hershel Pinkes) [Y]	69
Before the start of the strike / Yossel Cohen [Y]	70
My debate with the rabbi / H. Weinberg [Y]	71
Terror and arrests / Yossel Cohen [Y]	72
The first victory / Hillel Katz-Blum [Y]	72
The workers became aware of their power / A.B. Miller [Y]	73
The second tanners strike [Y]	73
The prolonged tanners battle for a humane existence / Sofia Dubrow Ehrlic [Y]	73
Revolutionary activity
Beginning of the revolutionary movement in Krynki / Dov Rabin [Y]	75
The revolutionary propaganda / Betzalel (Alter) Patchebutski [Y]	76
The activities of anarchists
The beliefs of the anarchists - terror - acts. Demonstrations of the anarchists [Y]	77
Niamke the anarchist [Y]	78
The activities of the Krynki anarchists outside of their shtetl [Y]	79
The workers take over the power in Krynki / Aba Lev-Btz (Alter) Patshebatski [Y]	80
A S. Lutz revives the “Bund” / Nechum Bliacher-M. Friedman [Y]	82
From the cultural-social life in Krynki. A center of Torah	83-89
Culture and Society / Moshe Tzniowicz [Y]	83
Zionist Activity / D. Rabin [Y]	85
The Zionist Movement in Krynki at the Beginning of the Century / Baruch (Bendet) Niv [Y]	85
In Education and Culture / D. R. [Y]	86
Di Hebrayishe Lehrehrkes - The Hebrew Teachers / Baruch (Bendet) Niv [Y]	88
The First World War [H]
Mutual aid to the refugees [H]	93
The First World War	94-110
The beginning of Russian defeats
Relief to homeless refugees / Bendet Nisht(B. Niv) [Y]	94
At the end of the summer 1915 / D. Selkof [Y]	94
Under the German occupation (Fall 1915 - Spring 1919) [H]
Under the pressure of the occupier / Dov Rabin [H]	95
In Starvation and Distress / Shamai (Shima) Lider [H]	97
The German occupation (Fall 1915 - Spring 1919) Under the pressure of the occupier / Dov Rabin
Under oppression and great needs [Y]	98
The trades during the destitute times [Y]	99
In the abandoned tannery places / Shmuel Geler [Y]	100
Jewish cultural resurrection / D. R__N [Y]	100
The “Literary Society” and its struggles / Israel Vaner [Y]	101
Zionist activities and Hebrew education; The “Zionist Center”; “Tzeirei Zion”; The Hebrew School / Baruch Niv [H]	104
The Hebrew elementary school / Benedict Nisht [Y]	105
Struggle with Germans for teaching in Yiddish / Sarah Fel-Yelin [Y]	106
During the time of the revolutions
When the Germans Left; The Rule of the Workers Council / Shamai (Shima) Lider [H]	107
During the time of the revolutions
The workers reign in Krynki / Israel Stolarski [Y]	108
The activities of the workers regime and its demise / Wolf Ekstein [Y]	108
Activities of the “Bund” during the war years / Hershel Giteles Augustovski [Y]	110
A song about the war years / AB Miller [Y]	110
Jewish Krynki between the Two World Wars (May 1919 – September 1939)	111-145
In Krynki After the First World War / Zeev Tzur [H]	111
The Jewish Community in Krynki Between the Two Wars / Dov Rabin [H]
Torah and Traditional Devotion in Krynki
Torah and Tradition in Krynki / Hanoch Sorski [H]	122
Rabbi Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkowski / David Mishkovski [H]	122
Rabbi Shmuel Leb, may G-d avenge his blood, a rabbinical judge and rabbi / Hanoch Soraski [H]	125
Hosts of Torah and Religion / Hanoch Soraski
Houses of worship and regular minyanim in Krynki [H]	125
Cheders, Teachers, Personalities, Organizations [H]	127
Reb Shmuel Glembocki (The Rebbetzin's) / Chaya Glembutski-Rabinowitch [H]	127
Agudas Yisrael and its Youth in Krynki / Hanoch Soraski [H]	128
Krynki's Zionism and its Activities
The Aims and Status of the Movement / by D. Rabin [H]	128
The Jewish Education Enterprise
The Hebrew School / Efraim the son of Efraim [Afrimzon] [H]	130
More About our School During the Changing of Ruling Authorities / Shamai (Shima) Kaplan [H]	132
The Hebrew High School / Efraim the son of Efraim [Afrimzon] [H]	134
With the Hebrew Teachers in Krynki / Arnold Rozenfeld [H]	135
An Energetic Pioneer for the Hebrew School / Daniel Perski [H]	136
In Conclusion by the publisher [H]	137
At the Margins of the Hebrew School
A Libel Against the Teacher Etel / Efraim Afrimzon [Ben Efraim] [H]	138
An Incident in the Literary Society Theater / Shamai (Shima) Kaplan [H]	139
Labor Zionism and Aliya
“Hechalutz” / D. R. (Hechalutz) [H]	139
From the Labor Zionist Movement / Shmuel Harbarm-Krupnik
The Hechalutz Chapter [H]	141
The Purging of Vessels on the Eve of Passover [H]	142
The Hechalutz Carpentry Workshop [H]	142
The Left Leaning Poalei Tzion Party	143
The Heshel Sapirsztejn Zionist library; For the Benefit of the National Funds; The Cherut-Hatechia Organization [H]
Jewish Sport Groups
‘Maccabi’ [H]	143
The ‘Bar Kochva’ Soccer Team [H]	144
‘The Young Chalutz’ [H] Dvora Levin-Shepets [H]	144
The Momentous Activity of ‘The Young Chalutz’ / Haim Sheinberg [H]	144
Under the Renewed Polish Reign (May 1919 - September 1939)	146-166
General overview / Dov Rabin
The Beginning of Polish Rule [Y]	146
Jews and Christians in Krynki [Y]	146
Economic discrimination [Y]	147
Krynki – An “Economic Ruin” [Y]	149
Dynamism & Mutual Aid Initiatives [Y]	149
The Jewish Public Life
Social Competition
Vigilance and Activity [Y]	151
Ideologies and Political Currents [Y]	151
The Competition of Social Forces [Y]	151
The Bund [Y]	152
The Communists [Y]	153
Education & Culture
The Secular School in Yiddish [Y]	153
The Hebrew School [Y]	154
Libraries [Y]	156
The Zionist Movement
Trends Within the Movement and What they Supported [Y]	157
The Hekhalutz Aliya to Eretz Israel [Y]	158
The Life Pulse Of Krynki / Shmuel Geler
The Economic Life of the Jews [Y]	159
Religious Life
Torah and Traditional Devotion in Krynki [Y]	162
Rabbi Reb Khizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovski / David Mishkubski [Y]	163
Krynki Melamdin / Betzalel (Alter) Patshebutski [Y]	164
Two Reb Shmuels [Y]	164
Reb Shmuel “der Rebetsin's” [Y]	165
Reb Shmuel Glembutski / Yishie Drayzi [Y]	165
Once there was our Krynki [H]	167-176
Our Krynki / Frida Zalkin-Kushnir [H]	167
Seven days in our town / Shmuel Geler [H]	168
Krynki welcomes the Shabbat [H]	170
Shabbat evening [H]	171
In the atmosphere of Judaism and Zionism / Yehudah Eckstein [H]	172
From the way of life /Ashe Golob [H]	172
A story about an informer / Efraim Ben-Efraim [H]	173
Our Shtetl Krinik	175-188
From my childhood year / Beilke Shuster - Greenstein	175
Krinik / Avrom Soyfer	176
The weekday Krinik / Shmuel Geler	180
On a market day [Y]	181
The dear Sabbath comes [Y]	183
Friday evening [Y]	184
Baruch Vladek visits the eternal light / Daniel Charney	185
The “Skif” / Hershel Zakheim	186
From the Krynki “Hakhalutz” / Shmuel Herbarem-Krupnik	187
A summary [Y]	188
Memorable Characters of Old Krynki
Rabbi David Moreni – A Landlord from Those Days / Yechiel Kotik [H]	189
The Lifesaving Act of Rabbi Yossaleh / Yishai Dryzik [H]	189
Kopel Zalkin – Pioneer Krynki Tanner / Y. G. Steinsapir [H]	190
Yankel – My Teacher and Grandfather / Moshe Weinberg (Pinkas) [H]	190
Two characters: Pinchas the Builder & Rabbi Shmuel Tentser / Avraham Miller [H]	191
Study Group Teachers / Berl Zakon [H]	191
The Polish Doctor / D. Selkoff [H]	192
Krinik in the Past: From the Distant Past	193-203
From my Contact with Krynik and Krynkers / Yehazkel Katyk	193
Krynker Thieves [Y]	193
David Moreynu [Y]	193
Yosel Lieder [Y]	195
Reb Yosele Hatzadik (what people said) / Issy Drayzik	195
From the Period of Krynker Revolutionaries I See Everything Again (a poem) / Yosel Cohen	196
My First Master / A. M. Weinberg (Meshal Pinkus')	197
My Journeys to Krynik / Sam Levin	199
The Attempted Assasination of a Manufacturer / Betzalel (Alter) Potchebutski / Nachum Anschel Knischynski	200
“Niomke Anarchist” (As told by his older brother) / Lipa Friedman	201
Krynker “Revolutionaries” Who Went Abroad / Betzalel (Alter) Patchebutzki	202
Socialist Activities of a Proletarian High School Student / Sarah Fel-Yellin	202
The Great Fire [Y]	203
A Worker's Reading Circle [Y]	203
Description and memories	204-221
My Kavkaz (mountain) / Wolf Ekstein	204
Our shtetl in the past / Avram Miller	205
The waters in Krinik [Y]	205
The market place and the streets [Y]	206
Count Varion stacks tree bark for Krinik [Y]	206
A cloud burst [Y]	206
The tanneries in the past [Y]	207
The artisans [Y]	207
Nice citizens, Maggids, Hassidim, Cantors [Y]	208
From the respected citizen of the community [Y]	208
Types from among the “common people” [Y]	208
Triple storied names [Y]	209
The pastimes of the children [Y]	209
During the reconstruction of Krinik [Y]	209
Mentally ill, dark souls (underworld) [Y]	210
Dark “souls” [Y]	210
Krinker healers - doctors [Y]	210
Pharmacists and midwives [Y]	211
Healers, exorcists and other healers [Y]	211
Something more about a Polish doctor / D. Selkof	211
Krinik Of My Memories / Berl Zakon (Belartzer)	213
Krinker Manufacturers [Y]	213
Fires [Y]	214
Great men of the Torah [Y]	214
Luminous figures	215
Special common people [Y]	215
Remember / Moishe Weinberg (Pinkes)	216
The Krynki life-style
Not a fanatical Community / Berl Zakon (Belartzer)	217
The Sabbath and High Holidays; The Holy Sabbath [Y]	217
Days of Awe [Y]	218
Sukes [Y]	218
Hanukah and Purim [Y]	219
The dear Passover [Y]	219
Shavuos [Y]	219
Tishebov [Y]	219
“Linat Hazedek” [Y]	219
The mentally ill, confused people, and nicknames / Betzalel Patschebutski	220
A disturbed person [Y]	220
Seasonal disturbed people [Y]	220
An Exorcist [Y]	220
Nicknames [Y]	220
Nicknames according to Chaim-Opstam [Y]	221
An error / A. Fridenstein	221
Notices and Lists	223-224
Yiddish names of the Krinik streets [Y]	223
Names of regions [Y]	223
Jews on the Krynki Town Council [Y]	223
Dedication of the “Public Heder” [Y]	223
“Krinker Vakhnshrift” [Y]	223
“Funken” [Y]	223
“The young revolutionaries” [Y]	223
A book about Krynki and Krynkers [Y]	224
Investigator, man of letters and world scientist – a Krynker [Y]	224
The only female judge in the Israeli army – with a Krynki connection [H]	225
Additions	225-228
Fundraising in Krynki in 1903 for the victims of the Kishinev pogroms [H]	226
At the outbreak of the Storm 1939-1941 [H]	229-231
At the Outbreak of World War II / Fear and Terror [H]	229
22 Months Under the Protection of the Red Army / Temporary Rescue and Anxieties [H]	229
Teaching in Krynki During Soviet Rule / Arnold Rozenfeld [H]	230
From Krynki to the Land of Israel via the Soviet Union and Syria / Yehudah Eckstein [H]	230
The Remnants of Hechalutz Hatzair / Chaim Sheinberg [H]	231
At the outbreak of the Storm	231-234
Jews in Krynki under Soviet reign / Koshnir Alihou and Fride Zelkin	231
The beginning of WWII / Bielke Shuster-Greenstein	232
On the eve of Russian invasion / Avraham Sofer	233
Under the reign of the Red Army / B. Shuster-Greenstein	233
Destruction and Might – The Destruction and end of the Jewish Community of Krynki / The editor	235-260
Killing and the Ghetto - At the Beginning of the Nazi Invasion [H]	237
Flames and the First Murder – Polish Jew Hatred, Decrees, and Degradation [H]	237
The Judenrat and its Tasks [H]	238
Imprisonment in the Ghetto [H]	238
During the Time of Confinement – Slavery, Crowding, and Hunger [H]	239
Torment and Evil – The Terrifying “Feldwebel” [H]	241
The Bloody Day of Passover Eve – The Hymn of the Murderers, and “Business” – The Slaughter [H]	242
The Absorption of Deportees: Epidemics – And They Tortured Them with a Pool [H]	243
In the Final Months of the Ghetto: Inclinations to Revolt [H]	243
The Annihilation of the Community/ The Editor The liquidation of the Ghetto	244
The Scroll Of Kelbasin In the Valley of Death / Dov Rabin [H]
The “Gathering camp” and its “commanders” [H]	245
In Rintzler's Hell [H]	245
How I survived Kelbasin's hell / Feivel Wolf [H]	247
In the survivors' camp / Avraham Sofer [H] Unable to escape; Krynki's Judenrat	249
Our Krynki Holocaust Tribulations / Eliyahu Kushnir
The Border Pharmacy [H]	250
The Empty Ghetto [H]	251
In the Tannery with the Remaining [H]	251
Hiding Underground in a Crate [H]	251
Sheltered in Sodom by Two Righteous People [H]	252
An additional man in the den of evil [H]	253
Approach of the Red Army [H]	253
The Goyim Take Revenge On Our Saviors [H]	253
To Auschwitz with the Krinkers / Avraham Sofer [H]	254
Jumping From the Death Train and Arriving in Bialystok / The Editor [H]	254
In Auschwitz / Avraham Sofer [H]	255
Facing death; In Birkenau [H]	255
Facing a woman survivor from Krynki [H]	256
A rebellion in the death camp [H]	257
Krynki's Partisans / The Editor [H]	259
The “Maksim” group; In the “Frojs” Battalion; Krynki's Partisans and fighters – alone in their units [H]	260
Destruction and Heroism	263-318
A dream (a song) / Sarah Fel-Yelin	263
The Cataclysm - Nazi Germany Attacks Russia / Avraham Sofer	264
The Downfall Of The Jewish Community Of Krynki / Lola Wolf-Resnik	264
The Jewish Quarter Is Bombed And Destroyed [Y]	264
The Mass Murder At The Town Pastures [Y]	265
“Better We Should Be Sacrificed For The Sake Of The Town Rather Than The Town Be Sacrificed For Us” [Y]	265
The Polish Anti-Semites Take Revenge On The Jews [Y]	266
Edicts And Persecutions [Y]	266
We Are Closed Up In A Ghetto [Y]	266
The Judenrat [Y]	267
Life And Scenes Of The Krynki Ghetto [Y]	267
Jew-Baiting And Murders [Y]	269
The “Twenty Men Action” [Y]	269
The Murderous Sergeant [Y]	270
Hunger And Epidemics [Y]	270
The Pre-Passover Action [Y]	270
Brestivitzer Jews Are Transferred To Krynki [Y]	271
The Ghetto Is Divided [Y]	271
The Liquidation Of The Ghetto [Y]	271
The Work Camp And It's Liquidation [Y]	272
In the Ghetto / Avraham Sofer	273
Deterioration and Overcrowding [Y]	273
Bloody Friday [Y]	274
“One Should Escape to the Forests” [Y]	274
The Nazi Murderers and their Polish Collaborators / Chaim Weiner	275
The Liquidation of the Ghetto / Avraham Sofer	275
The Scroll Of Kelbasin / Dov Rabin	277
The Chief Murderer and his “Court Sentence” [Y]	277
Rintzler's Hell [Y]	277
The Struggle For Survival / Feivel Wolf	279
Early Tribulations [Y]	279
And It Began Like This [Y]	280
In The Krynki Ghetto [Y]	281
The Massacre Before Passover [Y]	282
Before The Destruction [Y]	282
Inside The Kelbasin Camp [Y]	284
In Rinzler's Hell [Y]	284
On The Way To Death [Y]	286
Do Not Forget, Remember! (poem) / Chaim Sheinberg	288
After the Departure for Treblinka / Feivel Wolf	289
In the Grodno Ghetto [Y]	292
The Factory-Camp / Abraham Sofer	293
The Last Road [Y]	295
Jumping From the Death Train and Arriving in Bialystok / The Editor	297
In Auschwitz / Abraham Sofer	298
With Krynki Jews in Birkenau [Y]	298
Our First Victims in the “Work” Camp [Y]	299
The Period of “Kanada” [Y]	300
The Krynki Mutual Aid [Y]	300
The Krynki Girl [Y]	301
The Crematoria Are Burning [Y]	302
Let Us Blow Up the Crematoria! [Y]	303
Shlomoh Avnet Killed in the Battle [Y]	303
Struggling & Wandering / Feivel Wolf	305
The “Big Action” (Slaughter) in Grodno [Y]	305
Escaping from Grodno [Y]	306
Wandering – Homeless [Y]	307
My Brother Leaves [Y]	310
I Join the Partisans [Y]	311
Krynki Partisans / The Editor	312
More about Moshe Slapak and his Krynki partisan group / Shmuel Geler	313
Partisans and Krynki fighters; Jews and their unity [Y]	315
A Krinker “organizes” a Passover Seder in a German concentration camp [Y]	316
Exhumation of the Krynki martyrs / Shmuel Wolf and Heschel Eizen	317
The roster of the victims. The victims of the bloody Passover-eve [Y]	318
On the Ruins of Jewish Krynki: My Shtetel, Krynki / Sarah Fel-Yelin	318
On our ruins (from my visit)/ Baruch Niv [H]	319
With the Krinkers - on the way to Israel / Arnold Rozenfeld [H]	321
After the Holocaust	322-325
On the ruins of the Jewish Krinek / Baylka Shuster-Greenstein	322
On the cemetery of our home town / Sarah Fel-Yelin	322
On our ruins. My last visit / Benedict Nisht	323
Necrology [Y]	328
They Fell for the Defense of Israel's Birth [Y]	333
Yisrael Korngold [Y]
Tuvia Gendler [Y]
Yehuda Zhack [Y]	334
Nakhum Nisht [Y]
Ya'ir Friedman [Y]	335
Yitskhak Khefer [Y]
Monument On The Field Of Ashes At Treblinka [Y]	338
Perpetuating And Remembering [Y]	339
Krynker Yizkor Committee [Y]	340
This Is How We Began Trees–Memorial candles for our martyrs [Y]	342
A Children's House In The Name Of Our Murdered Community [Y] [H]	343
Pictures [Y]	344
Our Written Grave Stone [Y] [H]	346
A Memorial Book about the Destruction of Krynik [Y] [H]	347
Memorial Services For the Krynker Martyrs [Y]	348
Krynkers Around The World (Pictures)	350
With the conclusion of the “Pinkas” / Dov Rabin [H]	359
The Final Word [Y]	361
Aid Index of Topics [Y] [H]	363
In Conclusion [Y] [H]	370
After The Book Was Completed [Y] [H]	371
More Names Of Krynker Fighters Who Perished [Y]	371
Personalities (Pictures) [Y]	372
Organized Community Events [Y]	372
Krynki Today … (April 1967) [Y]	373
Supplementary Material (Not included in the Yizkor book)
Synagogues in Krynki
Cemetery in Krynki
You Tube video from Krynki, Poland

 

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