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Table of Contents

Foreword  [1] (H)	Mendel Honig	1	
Foreword (Y)	Mendel Honig	3	
Foreword (E)	Mendel Honig	6	
			
A. Between the Two World Wars			
Przytyk in Historical Sources (H)		11	
Jewish and General Factors in the History of Przytyk (H)	Jerzy W. Halbich	12	
Memories of my Old Hometown (H)	Chaim Maltz	18	
There Once Was a Town…  (H)	Chaim Goldman	25	
A Bundle of Memories  (H)	David Maltz	26	
My Grandfather’s Home  (H)	Shlomo Meir Przytycki	27	
My Town – An Island  (H)	Dina Grobstein (Schwitzka)	31	
Religious Values in the Life of the Jews of Przytyk (H)	Chancha Friedman-Honig	34	
The Education of Jewish Children in Our Town	Shlomo Eitan	36	
With the Boats of the Maapilim [2] (H)	Nachum Gil (Glibter)	40	
Responses and Memories (H)	Vitel Honig	42	
Factions and Jewish Manners in Przytyk (H)	Dr. Eng. Shalom Honig	43	
When Tribulations Afflicted the Jews	Mendel Honig	50	
			
Przytyk in Historical Sources (Y)		54	
Jewish and General Factors in the History of Przytyk (Y)	Jerzy W. Halbich	55	
Memories of my Old Hometown (Y)	Chaim Maltz	62	
In the Years 1905 and 1914-1918 (Y)	Yitzchak Milstein	71	
My Grandfather’s Home (Y)	Shlomo Meir Przytycki	79	
My Town – An Island (Y)	Dina Grobstein (Schwitzka)	83	
We Move With the Przytyk Youth (Y)	Moshe Melech Mauer	89	
The Fisher’s Cooperative in Przytyk (Y)	Shalom-Velvel Cymbalista	92	
Przytyk Dreams About the Land of Israel… (Y)	Tzvi Zaltzschirer	95	
The General Zionists and Beitar  (Y)	Margalit Rubinowicz-Milstein	99	
We Escaped to Russia…  (Y)	Yirmiahu Kaufman	101	
Portraits and Events  (Y)	Hiller Strasman	105	
Some Events from the Town (Y)	Yaakov Kirshenzweig	109	
From the First World War – and Later  (Y)	Miriam Tishler	112	
A Colorful Jewish Life (Y)	Chancha Friedman-Honig	114	
Memories from the Town of Przytyk  (Y)	Gutsha Blecher-Mieirfeld	116	
My Youth  (Y)	M. Rosenstein	118	
People, Shtibels and Institutions in Przytyk (Y)	Moshe Wagschal	119	
How Przytykers in Paris Remember their Town (Y)	Chaya Kirshenzweig, Morris Rosenstein, Shifra Friedman, Shalom Cymbalista	123	
Militant Przytyk  (Y)	Helen Baum	124	
Factions and Jewish Manners in Przytyk (Y)	Dr. Eng. Shalom Honig	126	
From Przytyk to the Land of Israel (Y)	David Zeitani (Baumelgrin)	135	
			
B. Events in Przytyk – March 1936			
The Town is Burning!  (H)	David Shtockfish	157	
Our Self-Defense  (H)	Yitzchak Friedman	160	
In the Home of the Minkowski Family (H)	Sh. Berlinski	164	
It is Burning (Y)	M. Gebirtik	167	
The Przytyk Pogrom (Y)	Yaakov Lencynski	168	
In the Home of the Minkowskis  (Y)	Sh. Berlinski	187	
The Eve of the Pogrom (Y)	Shifra and Shalom Cymbalista	190	
We Were Victims of the Pogrom  (Y)	Tzirel and Gittel Mauer	191	
On the Day of the Pogrom  (Y)	Hiller Strasman	193	
During and After the Pogrom  (Y)	Tamar Kaufman	195	
Our Self-Defense  (Y)	Yitzchak Friedman	197	
We Prepared Resistance  (Y)	Yisrael Cymbalista	200	
Why Did the Events in Przytyk of 1936 Take Place?  (Y)	Dr. Jozef Urban Holan	203	
Pogrom and Resistance (Document)  (Y)		207	
With the Minkowski Orphans in a Krakow Synagogue at Neila  (Y)	L. Rodal	228	
The Bloody Events in Przytyk  (Y)	Michael Teper	232	
Our Town is Burning…  (Y)	David Shtockfish	238	
35 Years after the Tragic, Famous Pogrom in Przytyk  (Y)	Y. Shmuelewitz	244	
			
C.  The Holocaust			
Remember!  (H)	David Zeitani	253	
The War and the Destruction of the Jewish Population of the Radom Region  (H)	A. Rotkowski	257	
Przytyk During the 1930s, and its Destruction  (H)	Yisrael Cymbalist	259	
The Destruction of Przytyk  (H)	Shifra Friedman	268	
During Those Melancholy Days  (H)	Dr. Eng. Shalom Honig	269	
War and Destruction (Y)	A. Rotkowski	275	
The Martyrology of the Przytyk Jews  (Poles Relate)  (Y)		278	
I do not have Enough Energy to Tell About That Cruel Era  (Y)	Yisrael Tishler	281	
Fragments of Bravery and Anguish  (Y)	Shaul Kirshenzweig	293	
I was Saved from Auschwitz  (Y)	Feiga-Leah Kuperwas	300	
At Hard Labor and in the Death Camps  (Y)	Tzvi Teper	302	
One Survivor from an Entire Family  (Y)	Tamar Kaufman	305	
In Ghettos and Camps  (Y)	Yisrael Leventhal	310	
The First Victim of the German Murders  (Y)	Lola Basow	315	
In Auschwitz, We Just Waited for Death…  (Y)	Leibish Friedman	318	
Jews of Przytyk Escaped to Wierzbica   (Y)	Chaya-Sheva Malcmacher	321	
A Tragic Episode  (Y)	Sheindel Friedman (Schwitzki)	323	
During Those Dark Days  (Y)	Dr. Eng. Shalom Honig	325	
The “Supermen” Turned People into Sheep  (E)	Malka Honig	335	
			
D. Personalities			
Rabbi Yisrael Shapira of holy blessed memory (H)	Meir Shapira	339	
In Their Memory  (H)	Mendel Honig	343	
Monuments to Several Families of Przytyk  (H)	Devora Zaltzschirer	378	
Elimelech Yitzchak Katz  (H)	David Zeitani	380	
Yossel Przytyker  (H)	Tz. Z. Weinberg	381	
Nathan Fuerst  (H)	From the book “Memorial to the Fallen of the Israel Defense Forces”	385	
From Our Personalities  (Y)	Yisrael Cymbalista	386	
We Must Remember Them  (Y)	Mendel Honig	392	
Several Personalities of Przytyk  (Y)	Hillel Strasman	408	
Our Father Hershele the son of Yaakov Mauer of blessed memory  (Y)	Tzirel and Gittel Mauer	411	
The Miller Family  (Y)	David Zeitani	412	
Moshe Fuerst  (Y)	Sam Davis	414	
			
E.  A Memorial Candle			
The List of Martyrs		411	
Mourning Notices		427 [3]	
The Organization of Przytyk Natives in Israel (H)	The Committee	455	
The Przytyker Landsmanschaft in Israel  (Y)	The Committee	459	

TRANSLATOR’S FOOTNOTES

1. These three Foreword sections are identical translations of each other.

2.  Maapilim are the immigrants who came to Palestine in the years prior to the founding of the State of Israel, despite great obstacles imposed on them by the Mandatory Government. Sometimes termed as ‘illegal immigrants’.

3. There is a typographical error in the original here, which says 227.