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Translation of Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Meytshet
Edited by: Benzion H. Ayalon
Published in Tel Aviv, Meytshet Societies in Israel and Abroad, 1973
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Our sincere appreciation to Mike Kalt, Elliott Miller, Martin Small, Myrna Siegel and Semadar Siegel
son of Nahum Margolin, one of the original members of the editorial committee.
this yizkor book to have it translated into English. We are very grateful for her
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This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Meytshet (Molchadz (Maytchet), In Memory of the Jewish Community),
ed. Benzion H. Ayalon. Tel Aviv, Meytshet Societies in Israel and Abroad, 1973
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| Title Page | |
| Preface / Book Committee | |
| Table of Contents | 5 |
| List of Pictures | 9 |
| Map of Molchadz (Maytchet) and martyrs' graves | 11 |
| Introduction / Editor | 13 |
| Foreword / Book Committee | 14 |
| Foreword - Yiddish / Book Committee | 16 |
| A Memorial Book / Nahum Margolin | 18 |
| Map of the Region | 26 |
| General Survey / Benzion H. Ayalon | 27 |
I. EARLY PERIOD |
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| a. The name and its meaning; | |
| b. References on the early period; | |
| c. Settlement of Jews in Lithuania; | |
| d. Multigovernment region; | |
| e. Mass-slaugrher of Jews by Chmelnitzky a. oth.; | |
| f. The region and its cultural influence; | |
| g. Immediate surroundings and economic relations; | |
| h. Molchadz in memorial books of the region; | |
| i. A Jewish community in the eyes of the press; | |
| j. Summary of part one. | |
| Memories from my birth town / Max Novomisky | 49 |
| My town Molchadz / Nahum Margolin | 57 |
| The dead Molchadz / Haya Lubchik | 64 |
| Jews in Great Svorotva / Y. Serebrovsky | 67 |
| Small Svorotva / Haya Lubchik | 68 |
| The village Yatra / Esther Malishansky (Lozovsky) | 70 |
| The tragic end / Haya Lubchik | 72 |
| My Village and the Memories of my Birthplace / Sarah Biribis | 75 |
| Typical Jewish life / Hayim Kravetz | 78 |
| The Gaon Shlomo Polachek / Benzion H. Ayalon | 85 |
| Rabbis and Scholars A / Rabbi Aharon Surasky | |
| 1. Rabbi Joseph Mordkovsky | 92 |
| 2. Rabbi Noah Mordkovsky | 97 |
| 3. Rabbi Israel-Zalman Shelubsky | 98 |
| 4. Rabbi Shalom | 105 |
| 5. Rabbi Jacob-Sender Greenberg | 106 |
| 6. Rabbi Nahum Shov | 108 |
| 7. Reb Isaac Grazikovitz | 109 |
| 8. Rabbi Meir-Meirim | 110 |
| Rabbis and Scholars B / Moshe Zinovitz | |
| 1. Rabbi Meir-Meirim | 113 |
| 2. Rabbi Yehuda-Leib Hacohen | 117 |
| 3. Rabbi Shmuel | 118 |
| 4. Rabbi Zvi-Hirsh | 119 |
| Rabbi Isaac-Naftali Belsky / D. Shlomovitz | 121 |
| Cultural Center in Molchadz / Nahum Margolin | |
| 1. The Shul-Heif | 122 |
| 2. Chassidim and Admorim | 124 |
| 3. Melamdim, religious and public figures | 127 |
| Rabbi Israel-Elhanan / Rabbi Joseph-Eliahu Pniel (Pekelni) | 134 |
| Molchadz (Maytchet), general survey / Benzion H. Ayalon | 137 |
II. BETWEEN TWO WORLD-WARS |
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| a. General Background; | |
| b. In Retrospect; | |
| c. Town Panorama; | |
| d. Government and Administration; | |
| e. Public and National Activities; | |
| f. Educational Institutions; | |
| g. Commerce and Business; | |
| h. Agriculture; | |
| i. Transportation; | |
| j. Jews of Molchadz. | |
| Students - Golden Youth / Nahum Naor (Orzechovsky) | 151 |
| Trade and Labor / Dov Shlomovitz | 153 |
| Youth in Molchadz / Haya Lubchik | 156 |
| Molchadz in the press / Moshe Zinovitz | 159 |
| The coming of Passover / Haya Lubchik | 161 |
| The Zionist movement | 163 |
| Molchadz in pictures A | 169 |
| "Hehaluts" / Yehuda Ben-Moshe | |
| 1. ''Hehaluts" in Molchadz | 185 |
| 2. A pioneer's sufferings | 187 |
| 3. Hehaluts and Kibbutsim / Nahum Margolin. | 189 |
| Molchadz Landsleit Organizations / N. M. | 195 |
| Maitcheter Jews in New York / from the press | 201 |
| Maitcheter in Argentina / Ben-Zion Sack | 202 |
| My parents' house / Nahum Naor (Orzechovsky) | 207 |
| The Dvorzecky family / Dr. M. Dvorzecky | 211 |
| Reb Nathan Orzechovsky / Israel Nathan | 218 |
| Sima Ben-Hur (Abramovsky) / Dr. Nahum Ben-Hur | 221 |
| Reb Moshe-Ahron Borecky and Family / Hana Mechtiger | 224 |
| Two letters from Feigl Borecky | 227 |
| My parents - Borecky family / Sara Biribis | 230 |
| My parents - Wolinsky family / Miriam Kleinshtub | 232 |
| Memories from Molchadz / Mordechai (Munia) Hassid | 235 |
| Gedalya and Nehama Yatvicky / Isaac Yatvicky | 236 |
| Reb Joshua-Aharon Lozovsky / Joseph Lozovsky | 238 |
| Family Lubecky / David-Leib Lubecky | 240 |
| The Margolin family / Hemda Lubrani | 242 |
| Reb Zvi-Hirsh Aharonovits / Jacob Horvits | 245 |
| Reb David-Hirsh Novomistky / Sara Aharonovsky | 248 |
| Sheine-Rachel Simkof-Bader / Moshe Zinovits | 250 |
| The Polonsky-Eidlin family / Tova Shomroni | 252 |
| My family / Moshe Korn | 255 |
| Reb Moshe-Aharon Shevchik / Yehuda Ben-Moshe | 258 |
| My ties with Molchadz / Zeev Rimon | 261 |
| My relation to Molchadz / Zelda Razvasky | 264 |
| My parents - Stolovitsky family / Benjamin Stolovitsky | 266 |
| Shlomo-Hirshl Shlomovits / Dov Shlomovits | 268 |
| Members of my family at Molchadz / Haya-Rivka Dissin | 269 |
| Personalities and figures / Nahum Margolin | 271 |
| Shlomo Shenitsky; Abraham Garbash and Leib Vinograd; Leibl | |
| Gilerovits; Alter Abrahamovits; Israel-Elhanan Pekelni; Moshe | |
| Savitsky; Israel Belzky; Jacob Gilerovits; Naftali the smith; | |
| Hana Shlomovits. | |
| Molchadz in pictures B | 275 |
| Molchadz youth in foreign armies | 285 |
| Remember the Holocaust / Dr. M. Dvorzecky | 288 |
| The voice of "Chvoinik" / Benzion H. Ayalon | 289 |
| Self defence in Molchadz | 291 |
| My suffering in the Holocaust / Moshe Korn | 293 |
| War of life and death / Abrasha Hanelis | 300 |
| The rise and fall of Molchadz / Freidl Makarensky | 303 |
| The bravery of Zimel Stolovitsky / Abrasha Hanelis | 307 |
| Three who took the road / Benjamin Stolovitsky | 309 |
| With the nomads staff / Reuben Rabinovits | 312 |
| My personal experiences / Tsira Rayak (Rabets) | 314 |
| Molchadz partisans / Moshe Rabets | 320 |
| Survivors' tales / Mina Levin (Gurski) | 323 |
| The action and the meeting / A. Ben-Shalom | 325 |
| Partisan fighters and avengers / Hanan Shmulovits | 328 |
| Memories from perished Molchadz / Yaacov Lachovitsky | 332 |
| Memories from Molchadz / L. Ozersky | 335 |
| Molchadz people in Lithuania / N. Ben-Arie | 337 |
| Molchadz refugees in Vilna / Isaac Movshovits | 343 |
| Esther Biribis of blessed memory / Sara Boretsky Biribis | 371 |
| Partisans and the Jews in the Forests of Maitchet by Dr. M. Dvorzetsky | 346 |
| These I will rightly remember | 367 |
| Memorial for the People who are gone | 369 |
| Memorial Pages and Pictures | 377 - 421 |
| Glory Memorial for My Unforgettable Relatives / Isaac Lublinski | 392 |
| Glory Memorial for Our Unforgettable Relatives / Dov and Chaikel Shlomovitch | 404 |
| Yizkor – List of Holy Ones | 422 |
| Epilogue | 427 |
| Prayers for the deceased | 429 |
| Index of Names |
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