Kryvitsh Yizkor Book
(Krzywicze, Belarus)

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Translation of Ner tamid: yizkor le-Krevitsh

Edited by: Matityahu Bar-Ratzon

Published in Tel Aviv, 1977

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Eilat Gordin Levitan

 

Our sincere appreciation to Mr. Yosef Shamir of the Krivitsh Society in Israel
for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation from: Ner tamid: yizkor le-Krevitsh; Kryvitsh yizkor book,
ed. Matityahu Bar-Ratzon, Tel Aviv, Krivitsh Societies in Israel and the Diaspora, 1977

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Krivichi prior to the First World War
“Ner Tamid” Hebrew 5- 8 
“Ner Tamid” Yiddish 9- 15 
The Shtetl by Yosef Shamir née Shimentzik 18- 21 
Testament to Kriviczi from the depths of memories by David Zakai (a Gendalin grandson) 22- 35 
My hometown by Yehoshua, son of Arye Lieb Bunimovitz (Hebrew) 36- 48 
Memories of old Kriviczi by Yeshayahu Katzovitz Z”L 49- 68 
My hometown by Yehoshua, son of Arye Lieb Bunimovitz (Yiddish) 69- 79 
My town and my fathers’ home by Chaim Mordechai Tauger 80- 98 
Reflection and memories of my lost town by Mendel Rabinovitz 99- 103 
Economy and culture in the shtetl by Yosef Shamir 104- 131
A scroll of poverty and torment by David Kasdan 132- 154
 
The Holocaust
Martyr orphan (a poem) by M. Bar- Razon 156- 157
The memorial scroll and the list of the martyrs 158- 165
Of massacres and distraction by Yehoshua, son of Arye Lieb Bunimovitz 166- 194
In the shadow of the sickle and hammer by Yeshayahu Katzovitz Z”L 195- 228
Death and destruction by Mendel Rabinovitz 229- 263
Ocean of blood and tears by Rabbi Moshe Drayzen 264- 307
Lament for Kriviczi by Shlomo Blacher 308- 326
On martyrdom by Eliezer Shod 327- 372
In Yiddish by Klara Tauger- Shod 373- 408
My shtetl, a look from a far Dov (Berl ) Katzovitz 409- 425
Orphaned from my Kriviczy home by Shalom Sitzkin Z”L 426- 435
Images and impressions by Shlomo Blacher 442- 454
From days of dark and horrors by Zahava Slobodsky (Zlatka Shteingold) 455- 467
Alayen and Elnet over Wegn by Michla Weisenholtz 468- 511
Yizkor to the Krivitczi community by Mina and Reuven Finger (the teachers) 512- 517
by Yeshayahu Katzovitz Z”L 518- 537
by David Kasdan 538- 597
In the Diaspora – isolation…and return to our land by Yosef Shamir 598- 617
By Hertzel Zukerman 618- 632
Of massacres and reprisal by Mariasha and Eliyahu Botwinik 632- 669
A Brunam in Krivichi by Mattityahu Bar Razon 670- 673
A day in Dachau by Mattityahu Bar Razon 674- 714
In memory of natives who passed away since the war 715- 716
Siama Kaplan 717- 719
A tree and its fruits by Genesia Shmoglerski 720- 722
A blessing for the completion by the editor 723- 724

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