Krivichi, Belarus

Kryvitsh Yizkor Book
(Krivichi, Belarus)

54°43' / 27°17'

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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