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Translation of
Kisvarda es Kornyeke Zsidosaga Emlekkonyv
Edited by: Rabbi Dr. Karoly Jolesz, Efrajim Agmon, Rabbi Smuel
Aba Grosz, Jichak Mandel,
Avraham Marmorstein and Jozsef Reismann
Published in Tel Aviv, 1980
Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator and Translator
Permission to reproduce material from this Yizkor Book has
been granted by Abraham Marmorstein,
of Petach Tikvah, Israel, one of the
original editors of the book and the chair of the Kisvarda group.
This is a translation from:
Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Kleinwardein ve-ha-seviva
(Memorial book of Kleinwarden and vicinity),
Ed: Rabbi Dr. Karoly Jolesz,
et al., Tel Aviv, Kleinwardein Society, 1980 (269 pages, Hebrew, Hungarian,
and English).
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This translation is in memory of my grandmothers, Gizella Fischer and Pessel Spiro, whom I never knew. They were two simple, pious women who went from the suffering and terror of the Kisvarda ghetto to perish in Auschwitz. May their memory be for a blessing.My mother and grandmother Gizella arrived together at the gates of Auschwitz, where they were sent different ways by the infamous doctor known as the "angel of death." My mother had lost her kerchief on the way, and my grandmother took off hers and gave it to her, saying "you have a cold, you need it more than I do." That was the last time they saw each other.

| Introduction |
| List of the Names of the Martyrs (about 1700 names of individuals and families) |
| History of the Jews of Kisvarda |
| Kisvarda Lives in My Heart |
| Jewish Life in Kisvarda |
| Biographies of rabbis and dayanim |
| Our School |
| Our Yeshiva |
| Sabbath Keeping Businesses in Kisvarda (list of names) |
| Kisvarda Jews Serving in World War I |
| Between the Two Wars |
| Forced Labour Battalions |
| The Holocaust |
| Individual Reminiscences |
| Two Days in the Ghetto of Kisvarda |
| Notable People from Kisvarda |
| The Towns near Kisvarda (capsule summaries): |
| Ajak |
| Anarcs |
| Baktaloranthaza |
| Dombrad |
| Fenyeslitke |
| Gemzse |
| Gyulahaza |
| Gyure |
| Kisvarsany |
| Laskod |
| Mandok |
| Nyirjako |
| Nyirkarasz |
| Nyirmada |
| Nyirtass |
| O-Feherto |
| Or |
| Patroha |
| Szabolcsbaka |
| Tiszabezded |
| Tiszamarton |
| Tuzser |
| Vaja |
| Zahony |
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