The Destruction of Zloczów
(Zolochiv, Ukraine)

49°48' / 24°54'

Translation of
Der Untergang fun Zloczów

Edited by: Szlojme Mayer

Published in Munich 1947


 

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Dr. Liza Gold

 

Translations

Gloria Berkenstat Freund

 

This is a translation from: Der Untergang fun Zloczów (The Destruction of Zloczów),
ed. Szlojme Mayer, Published in Munich 1947 (Y, 45 pages).


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[Front cover:]
 
Szlojme Mayer
The Destruction of Zloczów


(Hebrew text beginning “Remember what Amalek did to you!”
appears across photograph of a cemetery)
 
[Title page:]
 
Szlojme Mayer
The Destruction of Zloczów

Written by the survivors of
Zloczów Jewry
Dedicated to the memory of the
Zloczów martyrs

 
[Following unnumbered page:]
 
I express a heartfelt thank you to my brother, Eliyahu Mayer,
the photographer, Hersh Grinzajd, and all of the other Zloczów Jews
who took part in this work.
Sz. Mayer

 

  Forward 5
I. This Is How It Began 5
II. The Pogrom 9
III. Judenrat - Contributions 15
IV. Aktsias - The Death of Sh. J. Imber 15
V. Ghetto 23
VI. Typhus Epidemic 27
VII. Ghetto Liquidation 31
VIII. The Last Struggle 37
IX. The New Legend 43

 


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