THE ZDUNSKA-WOLA BOOK

Edited by Elchanan EHRLICH (Hebrew and Yiddish) and Leila KAYE-KLIN (English) Designed by Avraham FRANKEL and Avraham KALUSHINER Published by the Zdunska-Wola Association in Israel, in conjunction with the Zdunska-Wola societies in the Diaspora, “Israel” Press Ltd, Tel-Aviv, April 1968 (Nissan 5728). Book Committee: Avraham FRANKEL Hannah FRANKEL Yitzhak ARAD Yosef SALAMANOVICH Arye STASHEVSKY Avraham KALUSHINER Herman HOLENDER Mordechai LANDSBERG Nachum KLINGBEIL Katriel KLEIN Languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, English.

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

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With the publication of the book by The Organizing Committee	1
With the publication of the book [Y] by The Organizing Committee	3
Foreword by The Editor	6
Foreword [Y] by The Editor	9
FIRST SECTION
The History of the ZDUNSKA-WOLA Jews
The History of the Zdunska-Wola Jews [Y] by Dr. Yakov Goldberg	13
Jews in town [Y] by Arie Silberberg	30
Zdunska-Wola [Y] Geographical Dictionary	39
Our town as reflected in old newspapers	40
Minutes of the synagogue leaders' meetings [Y] by Photo-copies	42
Minutes of the last community-meeting [Y] by Year-Book	43
SECOND SECTION
Sources of Livelihood
The character of the town by Yitzhak Arad	47
Three generations [Y] by Avraham Fraenkel	57
A town of hard-working people by Yitzhak Arad	61
The “Sherer” society [Y] by L. Stashevski	64
The Jews - a dominant factor [Y] by Arie Silberberg	68
Our financial institutions by Avraham Fraenkel	78
The Jewish Zdunska-Wola [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	83
The Jewish Zdunska-Wola by Avraham Fraenkel	89
Organizations and Cultural & Aid Institutions
The Agudat-Israel organization in town by Yitzhak Arad	95
Hashomer Hatza'ir by Y. Arad	99
The Bikur-Cholim [visiting the sick] Society by Menachem Bar-Lev	102
The “Borsht“ Society by Menachem Bar-Lev	103
The Po'alei Zion party by Mordechai Landsberg	104
Our Po'alei Zion [Y] by Avraham Mordechai Kazhetz	107
Zionist and Pioneer Zdunska-Wola by Meir Nov	110
The Revisionist Movement and BEITAR in our town by Arie Stashevski	112
The establishment of the “Bund” by Refael Krakowski	117
The Jewish communist movement [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	120
The founding of Tzeirei Zion [Y] by Moshe Kroll	123
Organizing the Hechalutz by M. Bar-Drora	127
The “Gymnastics Association” [Y] by Aharon Rosenberg	129
The Jewish Sports Club by N. Klingweil	135
Hapoel Hamizrahi and Young Poel Mizrahi [Y] by Zev Riva	139
The sports organization “Morgenstern” by Moshe Plevinski	141
Vision and practice in Tora Va'avoda [Torah and Labor] by Shlomo Leib Friedman	144
The activity on behalf of JNF by Chaim Peled	147
Organizational activity until 1939 [Y] by Chaim Pinkus	149
Elementary School No. 4 by Rivka Levy-Schwarzbart	157
“Bet Yaakov” by Rivka Levy-Schwarzbart	159
The Bund Movement [Y] by Itamar Troskalaski	160
Drama circles by Itamar Troskalaski	163
Hashomer Hatza'ir [Y] by Sara Suessholz-Rosenberg	166
The candle of education by Avraham Ehrlich	168
THIRD SECTION
Cultural Heritage and Famous People
Dynasty branching by M. S. Geshuri	173
Hasidim and men of action in Zdunska-Wola by M. S. Geshuri	175
The Rav R'Menachem Lissar by M. S. Geshuri	178
The history of a family by Yitzhak Arad	180
“The Wolbrozher court” [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	181
R'Avraham Yitzhak Dayan (Lushtchanovski) [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	183
R'Eliezer Shalom Dayan (Zholnierski) by Sheindl Sendzjeyevski	184
Dr. Yakov Lemberg by Yitzhak Grinboim	185
My Father - R'Yitzhak'l Hasid z”l by Menachem Bar-Lev	190
R'Leibel SHOV [ritual slaughterer] by Menachem Bar-Lev	192
R'Mendel Koska by Menachem Bar-Lev	194
Dr. Yakov Lemberg - an exemplary Jewish community worker by Avraham Fraenkel	195
R'Motl Rosenberg z”l by Avraham Fraenkel	197
Moshe Rosenberg z”l by Avraham Fraenkel	199
Aizik Iglitzki, may God avenge his blood by Avraham Fraenkel	200
Tzila Salomo by Avraham Fraenkel	201
Yissachar Berish Pik, may God avenge his blood	201
Herschel Karpen by Avraham Fraenkel	202
In memory of R'Motel Rosen by Mordechai Landsberg	203
My father z”l by Baruch Rosen	205
Hadassa Mazia Peshtchik by A. Mazia	208
Bar Levav [of a pure heart] by A. Drachliss	211
R'Moshe Solomonowitz by Yosef Solomonowitz	212
In memory of my father, may God avenge his blood by Zvi Klingweil	213
Rachel Yakobowitz-Lieverant [Y] by Herman Hollander	215
Hersch Yitzhak Kopperwasser [Y] by Herman Hollander	217
The first emigrant to Eretz Israel - Eliyahu Set by Yitzhak Arad	217
The Hashomer Hatza'ir counsellors in our town by Yitzhak Arad	219
Dr. Yakov Rosenberg z”l by Nachum Klingweil	221
Architect Michael Shaviv z”l by Nachum Klingweil	223
Dr. Yakov Grinboim, may God avenge his blood by Nutek Klingweil	224
Yosef Pazentchevski z”l by Nutek Klingweil	225
My brother Eliyahu by Nisan Set	227
Adolescence by Shoshana Yaffe	228
R'Mordechai Ben-Shalom (Friedsohn) by M. Nov	229
R'YechielMeir Peled may God avenge his blood by Chaim Peled	230
Shoshana Yaffe (Rechthand) by Bela Golombowitz	231
Shoshana Yaffe by Chasia D.	232
In memory of David Herschfinger z”l by S. Glaser	233
R'Itche Meir Goldhammer by Fishel Goldhammer z”l	234
R'Hershel Indik by	237
Henech Moshkowitz by Avraham Klein	238
R'Itche Mandel z”l by Avraham Rogozhinski	239
Tzila Salomon by Menachem, Gideon & Amos	240
Mordechai Meir Freiman by Itamar Troskalaski	241
Avraham Dzalovski z”l by Bronka Kagan-Dzalovski	243
The barber-surgeon by Rachel Cohen-Lozhitchak	244
Yankele Schor by Moshe Schor	245
Family Chabalok by Mendel Volkovich	247
Baruch Wittenberg by “Lexicon”	248
Lipovski Sasha by “Lexicon of the Jewish Theater”	249
R'Israel Meir Riva z”l by Chan Fraenkel-Riva	250
My sister Henia Fuchs by Penina Bintel	251
FOURTH SECTION
Memories and Way of Life
As I saw it by Dr. Efraim Shmueli	255
The image of a town by Nechemia Ring	260
At home with my parents by Avraham Fraenkel	266
The Jewish Firefighters [Y] by Mordechai Landsberg	268
R'Moshe Aharon Wiener by Avraham Fraenkel	270
The conquest of labor by Mordechai Landsberg	272
Social acivity 50 years ago [Y] by Fishel Goldhammer z”l	274
Episodes From the First World War [Y] by Yosef Shlomo Granat	279
Memories from my Polish town of birth [Y] by	281
A bundle of memories [Y] by Refael Krakowski	284
Hospitality and Benevolence [Y] by Yitzhak Yosef Riba	288
Episodes from Former Times [Y] by Y. Riba	293
My Heder [Y] by Rachel Wechsler-Partek	295
My town by Sara Shaffir Karpen	297
General mobilization and war-fever [Y] by Shimon Klein	299
Tashlich [Y] by Shimon Klein	301
From the Destroyed Home [Y] by Lieverant	302
A Tragic Episode From Long Ago [Y] by Moshe Leverant	306
Flowers on the graves [Y] by	309
The libel by Chana Portek-Landsberg	311
The town as it is carved in my memory by Avraham Packentreger	314
In memory of our home town [Y] by Itamar Troskalanski	316
Our courtyard [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	317
“Remember what Amalek did to you” [Deut. 25:17] by Yitzhak Arad	320
The Jewish Zdunska-Wola by Shlomo Grinboim	322
FIFTH SECTION
Occupation and Holocaust
Shlomo Zlicovski's poem by Yitzhak Katzenelson	327
The first victims by Rivka Levy-Schwarzbart	332
The “Stamplen” [rubber stamp, seal] decree by Rivka Levy-Schwarzbart	333
The Sheradz Action [Y] by Pinchas Kalushiner	334
The Tearful Thursday [Y] by Michael Deutsch	336
Shomo Zhelichovski, who walked to the gallows singing by Moshe Prager	338
A hero's death of ten martyrs in Zdundka-Wola “Hatzofe” newspaper	344
Kaddish… by Avraham Kalushiner	345
Yizkor… by Shaul Kiebel	349
Yitgadal… by David Packentreger	349
Figures in the Holocaust by Avraham Fraenkel	350
Dr. Lemberg, may God avenge his blood by Avraham Fraenkel	350
Chaim Nathan Videbski by Avraham Fraenkel	350
R'Yankel Shamash (Packentreger) by	351
Getzl Fraenkel, may God avenge his blood by Avraham Fraenkel	351
Shlomo Zhelichovski, may God avenge his blood by Avraham Fraenkel	352
Hangings in the Zdunska-Wola Ghetto by Yakov Rokman	352
Our “Friends” – the Volksdeutsche [Y] by Blume Dubin	354
Zion and nothing else by S. D. Bonin	355
My ruined Zdunska-Wola [Y] by David Herschfinger	357
Chelmno by Avraham Kalushiner	358
Mauthausen by Avraham Kalushiner	360
Stuthoff by Avraham Kalushiner	363
Nine months of Stuthoff hell by Tzipora Neiman-Zhelitzki	364
Treblinka [Y] by Shimon Klein	367
Concentration camps [Y] by Yehoshua Danziger	368
Five years of Nazi hell [Y] by Motl Weltfried	374
My old home [Y] by Herman Hollander	377
The fateful days of September 1939 [Y] by Moshe Hollander	378
A bundle of memories from Russia by Helena Baumatz-Tinski	380
This I shall remember… by Zvi Bodek	383
Chelmno - the grave of the Zdunska Jews [Y] by Zalman Goldberg	384
Remember and Do Not Forget Moshe Yosef Daum	386
The first monument in memory of our Zdunska martyrs [Y] by Harold Zvi Hollander	388
The Zdunska-Wola ghetto [Y] by Luba Weltfreid-Sitner	394
I was a wanderer by by Luba Weltfreid-Sitner	404
In those days by Fela Zelkowitz-Lotatovski	412
Zdunska-Wola [Y] by Shlomo M. Wissotzki	417
How we survived by M. Yoskowitz	418
The farm by Elkana Levkowitz	421
A stone for the monument [Y] by Leib Storzhinski	429
My town (poem) [Y] by Henry Librovaki	432
A medal [Y] by Leib Storzhinski	433
From the abyss upward (poem) [Y] by Rivka Schwarzbart	434
I am hungry [Y] by Rivka Schwarzbart	435
In the grip of fear, hopes and ruin by Pinchas Lieberman	436
A young boy in the Zdunska-Wola ghetto by Nechemia Ring	439
Zdunska-Wola “The Book of Horrors”	441
Wola by Arie Kronman	442
In simple words [Y] by Elyakim Fraenkel	443
Destruction [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	444
In the cemetery [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	445
The twisted path of the martyrs' ashes by Zelig Fraenkel	446
Press coverage of the burial of the Zdundka-Wola martyrs' ashes Newspapers: Hamashkif, Haboker, Haaretz, Davar	452
Bibov, the hangman of the masses by A Lenman	455
Testimony Yad Vashem	458
In the camp in Posen [Y] Yad Vashem	461
Years of Pain and Death [Y] by Bluma Pozner–Nusbaum	463
After we returned from our flight [Y] by Leibish Piatrkovski	468
The black powers were stronger [Y] by Leibish Piatrkovski	471
Dream by Pesach Kopelevski	473
Last greetings from Zdunska-Wola Ghetto by Y. Ben-Shraga	474
Episodes from the old home [Y] by Frieda Levkowitz-Tzipris	475
Back on the ruins [Y] by S. Kiebel	477
Fateful days in the Zdunska-Wola ghetto by Avraham Klein	478
Episodes from Lodz ghetto [Y] by Yosef Rosenberg	480
In the Nazi death-camps [Y] by Avraham Schillis	484
Our yearly Memorial Service [Y] by Zvi Hollander	485
Memorial in honor of the martyrs of our town	488
The day of liberation [Y] by Shimon Klein	493
A Zdunska-Wola survivor tells her story Hatzofe (newspaper)	496
Story of an Eretz Israel woman who returned from Zdunska-Wola Haboker (newspaper)	497
SIXTH SECTION
Heroism
The Partisans' Song by H. Glick	501
Widevski by S. D. Bunim	501
Father and son by S. D. Bunim	503
Zdunska-Wola fighters among the liberators of Maidanek camp [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	506
Resistance in the ghetto and camps in the forest [Y] by Eliyahu Boimatz	508
Zdunska-Wola Jews in resistance and battle [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	515
Illegal groups in Lodz ghetto by Moshe Yakobowitz	517
Our Landsleit in the French Resistance [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	519
Elegy [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	526
Elegy [Hebrew by Moshe Fraenkel] by Avraham Kalushiner	527
From beyond Moscow to Latrun [Y] by Zvi Ben-Chaim	528
A small consolation by M. Ben-Shalom	531
Chaim Nathan Widovski [Y] by Mendel Goldhammer	533
In battle against the Nazis [Y] by Moshe Hollander	535
A Jewish heroic fighter rewarded among Polish heroes by Max Wigdortchik	540
From Loywitch to burning Berlin [Y] by H. Silberberg	540
Zdunska-Wola Jews defending Jewish honor [Y] by Eliakim Fraenkel z”l	543
In the Rovno forests [Y] by K. Nutek	546
Revenge by K. Nutek	551
Among the Polish units [Y] by Mendel Spitzberg	554
The partisan woman - Pola Friede-Baumatz [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	555
Liberation of the Latin Quarter in Paris by P. Krakowski	558
Figures of Holocaust heroes Hilel Seidel	560
A meeting [Y] “The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw”	563
Map of the Ghetto	564
SEVENTH SECTION
May God Remember the Souls
“Yizkor”	567
Necrology	568-686
EIGHTH SECTION
The Fallen in battle in Israel
Yizkor and the names of the fallen	693
In memory of the sons byChaia Schenberg	694
A continuation of heroism [Y] by Avraham Kalushiner	694
Oppenheimer Dubi, may God avenge his blood	695
Eylon Gideon Sefer Yizkor [memorial book]	695
A boy fell in the Galilee by Shlomo Kodesh	696
Our Yehoshua, may God avenge his blood (Diamand)	696
Dayan Binyamin z”l	697
Warshavski Yakov Sefer Yizkor [memorial book]	697
Warshay Levy z”l by Judge Yosef Ben-Chanoch z”l	697
Todenovski Moshe (Musa) Sefer Yizkor [memorial book]	699
Yelinowitz Yitzhak Sefer Yizkor [memorial book]	700
Levin Shaul (Sasha) Sefer Yizkor [memorial book]	700
Moshe Nusskowitz z”l by Nitzanim	700
Avi Flamm by Avigdor	701
Karol Yakov Yeshayahu Sefer Yizkor [memorial book]	701
A Document Ministry of Defense	702
Landsmanshaften [former residents]
The Organization of former Zdunska-Wola residents in Israel [Y] Avraham Fraenkel	705
Friends of Zdunska-Wola Landsmanshaft in France [Y] P. Krakowski	710
The Organization of former Zdunska-Wola residents by Mordechai Landsberg	714
From the years of my childhood [Y] by David Aharonowitz	717
A Jewish Shtetl [town] - Wood Carvings
A collection of wood carvings by A. Ehrlich	719
A Collection of wood carvings [Y] by A. Ehrlich	719
When the Rabbi is not there by Berl Satt	a
Tuition fee by Berl Satt	b
A Portrait by Berl Satt	c
A Tailor by Berl Satt	d
A Cobbler by Berl Satt	e
The Water-Carrier by Berl Satt	f
The Mother by Berl Satt	g
Carrying the Prayerbook by Berl Satt	h
Contents of the English Part
Preface	3
The History of Jewish Settlement in Zdunska-Wola, by Dr. Jacob Goldberg	6
Reminiscences of Zdunska-Wola – City of my Birth, by Philip Rosenberg	15
Rachel Jacobowitch, by Harold Holender	19
History of the Zdunska-Wola Yiddish Landsmanshaften in New York, by Philip Rosenberg	22
Report of the Memorial Meeting Held in New York on Sunday, September 11th, 1966 by Harold Holender	26
In Memorial, by Maury Shor	28
In Memorial, by Leon and Anna Rafal Feldstein	30
Memoirs of my Life, Part I, by Moishe Holender	31
Memoirs of my Life, Part II, by Moishe Holender	35
The Liquidation of the Jewish Community in Zdunska-Wola, by Israel Tabacksblatt	38
The First Monument in Memory of the Martyrs of Zdunska-Wola erected by our Landsleit in Feldafing, Germany, by H. Holender	46
Zdunska-Wola Society and the Future of our Desecrated Town, by Philip Rosenberg	51
Day of Liberation, by Shimon Klein	53
Illustrations
Members of the Bakers Union	17
Zelig Wolf Rosenberg	18
Committee members of the “Zukunft”	18
By the graveside of Abraham Abrahamsohn	20
The founding of a loan fund for Israel	24
A memorial meeting in New York	27
Yankle Shur	29
Women mourning the destruction of the Temple	47
David Clack	55

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