Foreword	The Editors	9
Foreword	Yitzhak Perlov	13
Map of the Town
- 1 - Our Town
Monograph	Arie Tzidkoni (Leibel Tzidkowitz)	21
- 2 - Under Czarist Rule and German Occupation
The Czar and his suite	Zalman Holz	161
Yente “the caught one”	Perl Rosenbaum	165
The “Progress” Society	Zalman Holz	172
The 1914 deportation from Skierniewice	Zalman Holz	179
The “Lech-Lecha” [Go out] Torah Portion	Simcha Spiegel	184
Founding the first Zionist Organization	Aharon Rosenbaum	193
Learners and sharp minds	Alter Teiblum	218
My father is charged with espionage	Moshe Russak	221
How my brother was saved	Rivka Holz-Lieberman	224
Sent from Heaven	David Holz	228
- 3 - Stchipiorne
Stchipiorne prisoners camp	Elimelech Rosenblum-Vardi	233
Poems from Stchipiorne	Yechiel Weinact / Moshe Vogel	241
How I survived	David Holz	244
- 4 - The writings of Manele Levkowitz
The Heder years		249
Godel Schenker		251
The Hatzefira newspaper		252
The Cholera epidemic		253
The cantor and slaughterer		254
Achdut [“Unity” ] and the “Sabbath Observers”		255
Yidel Dondik		258
Beggars		260
Shloimele the butcher and his wife, a “woman of worth”		260
“Metricals” [records] and Yahrzeits [memorial days]		262
Zionism in the year 1896		263
The Prophet Eliyahu [Elijah] ?...		264
Doctors and barber-surgeons		264
		266
- 5 - Cultural-Social, Political, Religious and Philantropic Activity
There once was a town with Jews [poem]	Aharon Rosenbaum	271
The Ahavat Zion [love of Zion] little synagogue	Anshel Abramowitch	274
The Tif'eret Zion [splendor of Zion] Association	Tuvia Leibush Reichenbach	276
Agudat Israel	Chaim Shlomo Gottesgenade	279
Beloved Figures	Chaim Shlomo Gottesgenade	287
The Hechalutz movement in the attic...	Shmuel Liebfeld	293
The “Union”	Yosef Landa and Leibel Rosenfeld	295
“Herzliya”	Moshe Landa	298
The youth league “Zukunft” [future]	Avraham Moshe Levkowitz	305
The “unbelievers” from the Mizrachi movement	Zev Zeide	312
Kosher food for Jewish soldiers	Yeshayahu Blatt	316
Charity deeds	Yakov Levkowitz	319
“The meaning of a flag”	Eliezer Herz	329
From a letter	Pinkus Zimmering	331
The last Committees	A list	335
- 6 - Figures, Types and Episodes
Our street	Ahuva Tzidkoni (Borenstein)	343
Our courtyard	Azriel Kotchinski	353
The nice balebatim [lit. home-owners]	Israel Heller	356
The Rabbi R'Simcha	Reuven Pinchevski	359
R'Efraim Lieberman	Ch. Eisenberg	364
Visiting my home	Reuven Gottlieb	367
From my private gallery	Zalman Holz
Moshe Bombel		371
The rabbi Shiye		371
R'Leibel Lieberman		373
Hinde wife of Shimon-Yosef		375
R'Arie Asher		376
R'Sholem Shochet [slaughterer]		377
Fanie Deitcher		377
R'Avraham Itzik Leib's		379
“The sale of Yosef”		380
Zliche is riding a horse and Dvoire is fainting	Tuvia Leibush Reichenbach	383
The characters in the “sale of Yosef” play	List of performers	385
Two episodes	S. Kalikstein	386
The Shotkovske Alley	Simcha Spiegel	388
- 7 - Skierniewice Heroes Fallen in Israel's War of Independence
Dovid'l	Anshel Abramovitch	393
With Dudek in Italy	Shimon Inovlotzki	397
This was David	Yitzhak Goldberg	399
Nathan's route from Kotzk to the Haganah	Meir Bornstein-Scharfhartz	400
My friend Nathan	Arie Tzidkoni (Leibel Tzudkowitz)	404
Binyamin the poet, artist and fighter	David Geltzer-Etzioni	406
My grandson Shalom Yezhora	Nathan Itzkowitz	409
Efraim (“Piske” ) and Chana	Zvi Firstenberg	412
Chaim	Tuvia Leibush Reibenbach	417
Menachem	Tuvia Leibush Reibenbach	420
Yoel, in the dark August-night	Simca Spichler	423
My friend Yoel	Elyam	427
- 8 - The Years of Pain, Destruction and death The stories of our survivors
The struggle for life	Mirele Erster-Leslau	431
“Joseph Podstolski”	Meir Rosenthal	453
I risked my life for the Skierniewice rabbi	Devora Kutchinska	465
In the Skierniewice forests	Meir Bender	474
In the slaughter-towns	Shimon Inovlotzki	488
“Out of the depths I have cried to You” [Psalms 130:1]	Avraham Yakov Kolski	514
The last communal workers of Skierniewice and their self-sacrifice	Azriel Kutchinski	528
In the labor-camps and in the death-camps	Ite Weissman-Lindon	624
The history of the Jewish population in Skierniewice during the German occupation	Zenon Djiewietzki	634
Our liberation	Yosl Neuchowitz	644
The heroic captain	Ch. L. Fuchs	650
In our ruined home town	Chaim Frenkel	652
Our handful of survivors	Niche Krippel	666
Kadish for the martyrs		670
- 9 - Skierniewicer in the World
Skierniewice Jews in America	The New-York Committee	673
Skierniewice-Raver Landsmanshaft Society in England	S. Elstein	687
Australia, Argentina and France	Yosef Landau	693
In our own country	Meir Sharfharz-Borenstein	700
- 10 - Our Dear Ones, Never Forgotten
Necrology		723
- 11 - Greetings and Acknowledgments
From Landsleit and from Landsmanshaft Organizations, on the occasion of the publication of this book		759
- 12 - Miscellaneous
From the Editorial Board		767
Table of Contents		769
Bibliography	Yitzhak Perlov	773

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