Łask, Poland

Memorial Book of Lask
(Łask, Poland)

51°35' / 19°08'

Translation of
Sefer yizkor Lask

Editor: Zev Tzurnamal

Published in Tel Aviv 1968

Acknowledgments

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This is a translation of: Sefer yizkor Lask (Memorial book of Lask),
Editor: Zev Tzurnamal, Published: Tel Aviv 1968 (H,Y,E 737 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Lask (1968)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

From the Editor [H]	Z. Tz.	7-9
In lieu of Introduction [Y]	Zeev Tzurnamal	10
Congratulations to the Editor [H]	Organization of Lask former residents	14

YIDDISH
Impressions and Memories
Little about everything	Alter Widovski	15
Lask landscapes	Zeev Ahi-Efraim [Efraim's brother]	24
My town of birth	Zeev Tzurnamal	31
Bits of memories	Zeev	40
The religious life	Zeev Tzurnamal	49
At twilight in the old Stiebel	Eliezer Elai	75
The Mikve [the ritual bathhouse]	Yechiel Neuman	79
Small fires and big fires	Zeev	82
The Anti-Semitic scandal	Yakov Levkowitz	86
The unsuccessful attempt	Zeev	89
Memories from the Gymnastics Association	Chaim Byalik	91
The town's water-carrier	Yechiel Neuman	93
When the Holy Sabbath arrives	Eliezer Elai	100
In a few short strokes	Zeev	106
The crazy and the infirm	A Lasker	114
Butchers and carriage drivers	Yechiel Neuman	120
Lasker revolutionaries	Zeev	124
A Jewish Mayor for one day	Yechiel Neuman	129

HEBREW
Figures and Personalities
The Lask scholars	The Editor	131
The treasure (poem)	Mordechai Elai	142
The Rav R'Yakov Meislish	Zeev	143
The Rav and his house [Y]	Eliezer Elai
R'Itche Gerzon	Zeev	162
The Rav R'Leibel Eisenberg	Ben Dvora Mirl	165
R'David Eisenberg	David Halachmi	174
R'Heinich Yide Moishe's	Ben-Moshe	176
R'Zelig Kozhmin	Ben-Moshe	182
R'Shalom Brzhezhinski	Avraham Kozhmin	184
R'Moishe'le Bornstein	Ahi-Efraim [Efraim's brother]	190
R'Mordechai Schiratzki	Zeev	209
R'Efraim Bornstein	His brother Zeev	211
R'Mates, cantor and slaughterer [Chazan-Shochet]	Zeev	217
R'Berish Neuman	A pupil	222
R'Kopel Zhitintzki	A pupil	226
R'Shlomo and Efraim Naskowitz	Zeev	229
R'Daniel Plachta	Ahi-Sara [Sara's brother]	234
R'Shlomo Besserglick	Ahi-Michael [Michael's brother]	238
R'Shimon and Avraham Warshaver	Zeev	243
Singer the barber-surgeon [Y]	Welvel Moishele's	245
R'Aba Byalik	Zeev Moishele's	250

Economic Corporations
The economic face of the town [H]	Sharaga Neuman	256
Charitable women	Laskay	268
The Craftsmen's Association [Y]	A Lasker	274
The Loan-Without-Interest Fund	A Lasker	278

Parties, Movements and Society
The Zionist Organizaton	Zeev Tz.	293
The JNF	Chava Bornstein	316
Pioneer Youth, Hanoar Hazioni, Hashomer Hatzair & Hechalutz	Avraham Kuzhmin	324
The Social life [Y]	Zvi Michaeli	335
With the poet Yitzhak Katzenelson	Achi Machtasha
Libraries, sports, Drama Club [Y]	W. Moisheles	351
The Revisionists and BEITAR	Yechiel Neuman	357
The Tarbut School [Y]	Machtasha Troiba	362
The Heder Yesodei Tora	A Lasker	366
The Jewish Library [Y]	Shimol Simel	368
The activity of JNF	Avraham Kuzhmin	373

The Holocaust
Israel's victory in 1967	The Editor	377
The poem about the Rodziner rabbi	Yitzhak Katzenelson	379
Elegy on the ruins of my town (poem)	Z. Tz.	381
In the murderous hands [Y]	Noah Pietrkovski	384
A song for my mother [Y]	Mordechai Elai
The Judenrat [Y]	Yekel Levkowitz	417
Ghetto (poem)	Mordechai Elai	432
Rivke'le (poem)	David Lehrer	433
Life in the ghetto [Y]	Rachel Grindler-Korn	435
I mourn and weep [Y]	Yeshayahu Weisselson	448
Surviving all troubles, thank God [Y]	Avigdor Weinberg	450
Ghetto B (poem)	Mordechai Elai	464
My life experiences and survival [Y]	Hinda Moses-Naskowitz	465
It has been 25 years… [Y]	David Lehrer	473
A letter from the Future World [Y]	Chaim Byalik	477
The lament of the hangman (poem)	Avraham Fokatch	480
The design of Destruction	Avraham Fokatch	482
Through all the Gates of Hell [Y]	Rivtche Weinberg-Griner	483
In the gas-chamber (poem) [Y]	Chaim Lehrer (America)	496
From the Lodz ghetto to Israel [Y]	Esther Karmiol-Zendel	498
The torn coat [Y]	David Lehrer	506
False hopes (poem)	Mordechai Elai	511
The last of a generation [Y]	Golda Kiebel-Katz	512
The hill (poem)	Mordechai Elai	522
A wave of pain [Y]	Hinde Goldhammer-Rechtman	523
Through labor camps to Israel [Y]	David Lehrer	538
The little sidur (prayerbook) [Y]	Golda Kiebel-Katz	541
Ma Nishtana (from the Passover Hagada)	David Lehrer	544
Over masses of graves [Y]	Machtasha Troiba	546
Father mine, Mother (poems)	David Lehrer	554
In the last minute [Y]	Shmuel Friedman	557
Alive out of the blood bath [Y]	Zvi Michaeli	582
A look back [Y]	David Lehrer	589
To the Nations (poem)	Mordechai Elai	594
He wanted to see his father [Y]	David Lehrer	595
Dramatic curiosities [Y]	Sharaga Neuman	598
The concentration camp (poem)	Mordechai Elai	617
From slavery to freedom	Yithak Troiba	618
I am looking for flowers (poem) [Y]	Chaim Lehrer (America)	621
My liberation [Y]	Yaffa Neuman-Korn	622
Beloved places (poem)	Mordechai Elai	628
My worries and doubts	Zeev Ahi-Zvi [Zvi's brother]	629
Remember and never forget [Y]	David Lehrer	635
The “boss” [Y]	Zeev Tzurnamal	637
To our neighbors (poem)	Mordechai Elai	640
Hans Bibov, the murderer	From the press	641
Hans Bibov to the gallows	Aliza Neuman	649
The survivors	Ben Dvora Mirl	654
With the Holocaust survivors	Avraham Kuzhmin	657
Tidings of Peace (poem)	Mordechai Elai	670
Recognition and thanks for Jews-savers	Zeev Ahi-Yissachar [Yissachar's brother]	671
Organization of Laskers in Israel	Ahi-Sarah [Sarah's brother]	676
The rush to America [Y]	Ahi-Zvi [Zvi's brother]	683
Lasker Association in America [Y]	Yakov Reichbart	686
Lasker Association in England, France & Germany [Y]	Ahi Machtasha [Machtasha's brother]	690
Glowing embers	Moshe Meir's brother-in-law	695

Epilogue:
Monuments in the Chamber of the Holocaust and the Martyrs' Forest	Ahi-Chaia [Chaia's brother]	697
Two monuments in America, dedicated to Lask martyrs
YIZKOR [Hebrew and English]	The Editor	701
List of martyrs (Necrology)	Collected by the Neuman brothers	705
The twenty [Y]	Editorial Board	722
A Mass Grave	Editorial Board	723
On the grave of our fathers	Editorial Board	724
Heroes in the War of Independence	Editorial Board	725
Died or were brought to burial in Israel		728
R'Moshe Chaim Pshychatzki	Yekl Levkowitz	729
Heinich the blind	Zeev	731

ENGLISH
Lask, My Home Town	Zeev Tsurnamal	1
Rabbi Yaacov Meizlech	Zeev Tsurnamal	11
Rabbi Leibel Eisenberg	Zeev Tzurnamal	18
Rabbi Mordechai Shiratzky	Zeev Tzurnamal	32
The Zionist Movement in Lask	Zeev Tzurnamal	35
A person from Lask		58
“Youth that was and is no more”	David Lerer	65
The Judenrat in Lask	Yekel Levkovitz	73
Life in thr ghetto	Rachel Grindler-Korn	90
Walking on mass graves	Machtasha Troiba	102
Wanted to see his father	David Lerer	110
The Sidur'l	Golde Katz-Kibel	113
A well of pain	Hinda Rechtman	116
Respect for Jew-savers	Z. Ben-Moshe
The survivors	Ben-Dvora Mirl	129
Encounter with survivors from our home-town	Abraham Kozymyn	134
Organization of Lask immigrants abroad	Zeev Tzurnamal	149
The rush to America	Jacob Reichart, N. Y.	158
Lask Association in Paris	Velvel Moshele's	162
Lask Committee in London	Velvel Moshele's	164
Lask Association in Germany	Velvel Moshele's	165

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