Yanow near Pinsk; Memorial Book
(Ivanava, Belarus)

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Translation of
Janow al yad Pinsk; sefer zikaron

Edited by: Dr. Mordechai Nadav (Katzekovits), with the collaboration of Nachman Blumenthal;
Association of Former Residents of Janow near Pinsk in Israel

Published in Jerusalem, 1969

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This is a translation from: Janow al yad Pinsk; sefer zikaron ; Yanow near Pinsk; memorial book;
ed: Dr. Mordechai Nadav (Katzekovits), with the collaboration of Nachman Blumenthal;
Jerusalem, 1969, Association of former residents of Janow near Pinsk in Israel

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Yanov near Pinsk (Janów Poleski)

Memorial Book

YANOV NEAR PINSK

(JANÓW POLESKI)

MEMORIAL BOOK

Publication Committee members

Eiser Apelbaum, Asher Lifshitz, Mordekhai Nadav (Katzekovitz)

Nechemia Nadav (Katzekovitz) , Ben-Zion Feinstein

Editorial Committee

Eiser Apelbaum, Mordekhai Nadav, Ben-Zion Feinstein

Printing Preparation

Meir Choviv

Printed in Israel by “Hamerkaz” Press, Tel Aviv

May they be remembered for good
Our fellow towns-folk in the diaspora
Portnoy Family in Mexico
Mr. Alter Reznik from New York
Mr. Joshua Feldman from New York
For their assistance in the publication of this book
Yanov Near Pinsk
Memorial Book
Edited and prepared for printing by
Dr. Mordekhai Nadav (Katzekovitz)
with the collaboration of Nakhman Blumenthal

Jerusalem 1969

Monument of Memorial

JANÓW
(Near Pinsk, Poland)

Who were incinerated and killed
by the Nazis, their names should be erased,
In the Years of the Holocaust (Shoah)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Support from our townsmen overseas
The Portnoy Family of Mexico
Mr. Alter Reznik of New York
Mr. Joshua Feldman of New York
who have assisted in the publication of this book.

* * * * *

This book has been published
with the generous assistance
of our fellow townsman
Mr. LOUIS VICKER
and his wife NEDDI
Chicago, U.S.A.

Mordekhai Nadav: Words of Introduction

XIII

From the Past

Berel Pomerantz: Poems	3
Mordekhai Nadav: General Picture of the Community of Yanov	12
Writings about Yanov from “Ha'Meilitz”	26
Zvi Pisar: Notes about Yanov	35
Articles about Yanov from “The Pinsker Shtime”	44
Khlavna Katzekovitz: My Home Town (memories)	52
Beila Feigan: Memories of my Childhood	60
Pinkhas Katzekovitz: Memories	63
Levi Levin: Things from 60 - 80 years ago	66
Menakhem (Manya) Mednik: Memories from my Parents' Home	68
Eiser Apelbaum: Yanov Before World War I	73
Levi Feinstein: Education, Charitable Institutions and Credit Bureaus	77
Eliyahou Chelenchuk: Synagogues and Societies	79
Menakhem (Manya) Mednik: Customs of our Town Yanov	81
Menakhem (Manya) Mednik: Yanov Artisans	83
Zvi Aviv: The Youth Rebellion against the Czar	86
Sarah Mednik: A Collection of Memories	88
Yerukham Arzi-Tannenbaum: Cheder Teachers in Yanov	91
Levi Feinstein: My Immigration to Canada	93
David Warshevsky: The Tarbut School	95
David Warshevsky: The People's Cooperative Bank	97
Tsemakh Portnoy: The Jewish Life of Yanov	99
Miriam Cohen: “Rifishtsas” [a separate part of the town of Yanov -ed.]	103
Eiser Apelbaum: Military Conscription in 1925	104
Ben-Zion Feinstein: The Zionist Movement Until 1939	106

Personalities and Characters

Yona Kravetz: Yanov and its Jews	111
About Yeshai Adler:	119
S. Ernst: Concerning His Life (119);
Ezra Reichert: Businessman Extraordinaire (122); ZD'K:
About our Yeshai (125)
About Yehuda Zvi Levin:	127
Mordecai Levin: A Short Biography (127);
Menakhem Riblov: Yehuda Zvi Levin of Blessed Memory (129)
Asher Kornei: Memories of Grandfather's House (R. Moshele Megidos)	130
Berel Divinsky: My Brother Alter	133
About Nakhum Tishbei	141
David Warshevsky: An Expensive Chess Game	143
Aharon Rotblatt: The First Female Pioneer who went to Israel	144
I. Eisenberg: Veilie Minsky	146
About Berel Pomerantz ( from the introduction by Noakh Peniel in his book of Poetry )	148
Berel Pomerantz: Letter to Z. Weinberg	152
Eiser Apelbaum: How does one please Berel Pomerantz	156
Dr. M. A. Nahir: Zvi Avivi (Reznik)	160
Eiser Apelbaum: Moishe Yeshaya the Klezmer	161
Eiser Apelbaum: Berel Zarutzky the Chimneysweep	162

Lists of Family Members

Sarah Freidel Ruzh'ansky: Memories of my Father	165
R. Avraham Yehuda Ha'koen of Blessed Memory
Pinkhas Katzekovitz: My Family	168
In Memory of Levi Kuperstokh	172
Eiser Apelbaum: In Memory of my Parents	175
Yoel Shartok: The House of my Father, Reb Zalman Ts'rtok	177
Rivka Yoselovitz-Cherniavsky and Chana Yoselovitz: My City and my Parents' House	180
Chana Arzi-Tanenbaum: Memories of my Family	182
Masha Epstein-Odrozinsky: Memories of my Family	184
Miriam Strubinsky-Geladi: Memories of my Father's House R. Reuben Strubinsky	186
Tsila Epstein: Memories of my Family	187
Merel Kuper (Portnoy-Kuperstokh): My Sister Nekhama (Poem)	190
Yona Kravitz: Pesakh Okroynitz	192
Yona Kravitz: Avraham Kravitz	193
About R. Yitzhak Khaim Pomerantz	194
Bushes Family	195

The Holocaust

Avraham Epstein: My Letter	199
Zalman Tz'rtok: Four Letters	200
Khonan Valodovsky: In German Prison	204
Ruchel Reznik: Memories of the Life of a Nurse	207
Mordecai Bezdesky: My Memories	217
Shmuel Gerber: Memories of the Nazi Occupation and the Red Army	264
Shmuel Aizenshtein: Memories of Days of the Nazi Occupation	308
Ben-Zion Feinstein: Memories	312
Daniel Sershtok: My Memories from the Period of Nazi Occupation	320
Avraham Feinstein: Chapters of the those Days	324
Eiser Apelbaum: From Days of Yanov	328
Eleazer Portnoy: Memories of Bitter Times	344
Aharon Pomerantz: World War II and the Holocaust	349
Yitzhak Odrozinsky: The Sawmill and the Jewish Sawmill Workers	358
Eiser Apelbaum: For the Love of a Bottle of Milk	366
Eiser Apelbaum: The Last Kol Nidre	367
Shabati Odrozinsky: Songs	369
Eiser Apelbaum: The Bravery of Leizer Ratnowsky	379
Ben-Zion Feinstein: The Fall of Heroes (Three Reznik Brothers)	384
Khonan Valodovsky: My Brother, Dr. Kotel Valodovsky	385
Khonan Valodovsky: Catching a "Tongue" (German) [Understanding the Language]	388
Sheindel Faltshuk: A letter to a Partisan	390
Shepsel Barzovsky: From History	391
Collecting Communal Testimonies from Yanov Survivors	392

Memorial Calendar

Record of Victims Murdered at the Hands of the Nazis in Yanov	409
Jews of Yanov who Died Serving in the Partisans	419
Jews of Yanov who Died in World War Two in the Polish and Red Armies	420
Jews of Yanov who Died in His Holy Name in the Woods around Yanov	421

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