Kamyanyets, Belarus

Memorial Book of Kamenets
Litovsk, Zastavye, and Colonies
(Kamyanyets, Belarus)

52°24' / 23°49'

Translation of
Sefer Yizkor le-Kehilot Kameints de-Lita

Edited by: Gelbart Eisendtadt

Published in Tel Aviv, 1970

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Jenni Buch

This is a translation from: Sefer Yizkor le-Kehilot Kameints de-Lita;
Memorial book of Kamenets Litovsk, Zastavye, and colonies.
Ed Gelbart Eisenstadt. Tel Aviv, Kaminiec and Zastavye communities in Israel and the U.S.,
1970, "Orli," Rehov Akiva Eiger 8, Tel Aviv.

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The Old Home

Abraham Schudroff	Foreword	9
Leybl Goldberg (Sarid)	The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in Kamenetz	12
Leybl Goldberg (Sarid)	A Short History of Kamenetz-Litovsk	26
Yehezkel Kotik	My Reminiscences	29
	Short Biography of Yehezkel Kotik	38
Sholom Aleichem	Letter to Yehezkel Kotik	39
Abraham Shudroff	Yearning and Mourning for my Home Town	43
Dvora Dolinsky-Pansky	Kamenetz as I Remember You	46
Velvel Kustin	The Jewish Agricultural Colonies	56
I. Z. Mendelson	The Day of Atonement in our Town	69
Hatzkel Kagan	The Years of my Youth in Kamenetz	73
Itzhak Sheinfeld	Kamenetz – The Memories of my Youth	85

The Holocaust

Dora Galperin	The Tragedy of Jewish Kamenetz	91
Dvora Rudnitsky-Singer	My Life in Ghettos and Concentration Camps	105
	The "Angel of Belsen"	117

Kamenetzers in the United States

Sarah Hurwitz	The Kamenetz Society in America	127
Meir Mendel Visotsky	The Establishment of Kamenetz-Litovsk Aid Society in America	130
Charles Raddock	The Kamenetzer Yeshivah of America	136
Velvel Kustin	The Kokhav Ya'acov Anshey Kamenetz D'Lita Society	143

Kamenetzers in Israel

	Bialik School in Tel-Aviv Perpetuates the Memory of the Community	149
Dov (Bertschik) Schmidt	My Journey to Kamenetz in 1965	175
Samuel Lipchick	Our Heritage	182
	To Their Memory	184

	Necrology

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