Sokoly, Poland

Sokoly: In the Fight for Life
(Sokoły, Poland)

52°59' / 22°42'

Translation of Sokoly: B'maavak l'haim

Edited by: Shmuel Kalisher

Published in Tel Aviv, 1975

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Avigdor Ben-Dov

Our sincere appreciation to Moshe Maik, Organization of Sokoly Emigrés in Israel,
for permission to publish this material.

This is a translation from: Sokoly: B'maavak l'hayim,
Sokoly: In the Fight for Life, editor: Shmuel Kalisher, Tel Aviv,
Organization of Sokoly Emigrés in Israel, 1975 (H)

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Sokoly: in the Fight for Survival

Shmuel Kalisher, Hebrew editor and translator (from the Yiddish)
Association of Sokoly Survivors in Israel, Tel Aviv (1975), 438 pp. (Hebrew)

Avigdor and Laia Ben-Dov, English editors and translators (from the Hebrew)

Introduction		7-8
A Word from the Editor		9-10
General Information about Sokoly		11
An Excerpt about Sokoly from a Guidebook		13
Reuven Lev, z”l, A Memorial for the Holy Martyrs of Sokoly (a Poem)		14

PART ONE: IN THE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL Survivors' Testimonies

The Destruction of Sokoly	Michael Maik	17-141
Autobiography	Avraham Kalifowitz	142-157
At the Height of the Decay	Chaim Goldberg	158-187
In a Struggle for Life	Liba Goldberg	188-200
Yadgika the Shepherd	Tsipora Burstein	201-207
Under the German Hammer	Issur Wondolowicz	208-213
The Paths of My Travails	Moshe Surasky	214-216
Bobtcha Shafran	Rachel Kalisher	217-220
In the Village of Piatkwa	Zalman Sukman	221-223
Memories of My Life in Sokoly	HaRav Yosef Rosenbloom	224-228

PART TWO: OUR TOWN Characters, Images, Customs, Events

A Town Also has a Body and Soul	HaRav Aharon Reuven Charney	231-236
My Family	HaRav Yitzhak Meir Ben-Menachem	237-239
A Chain of Memoirs	Moshe Dworkin	240-243
Youth Movements in Sokoly	Dr. Bernard Kahan	244-246
The Great Conflagration	Dr. Menachem Levine	247-248
My Childhood	Dr. Philip Goldstein	249-251
Sokoly Pioneers in the Land of Israel before World War I	Nathan Zahavi	252-256
Academics and Yeshiva Students	Yisroel Leib Elgrod	257-260
Memoirs of a Teacher	A. Wasserman	261-262
I Was a Teacher in Sokoly	L. Shmeltsinger	263-264
The Mail	Zippora Zatorsky	265-267
Our Universities	Liba Langleib	268-270
Yankel Chaim and Mirka the Water Drawers	Masha Kaplansky	271-272
Years of My Childhood	Leon Lorinsky	273-274
My Father Rav Yosef Czerwonicz	Ida Schweitzer	275-277
Theatre in Sokoly	Moshe Goldberg	278-280
I was a Soltis in Sokoly	Yehoshua Sorowitz	281-282
The Miracle	Alter Schneider	283
The Image of My Father, Zelig Surasky	Tsipora Breinsky	284-285
My Childhood	Bela Waslowsky	286
Reflections	Bracha Broin	287
Memories from Sokoly	Batya Matzner-Paziger	288
My Family in Sokoly	Yehuda Ilan	289
Images of My Aunt and Uncle	Aharon Zamir	290-299
Men of Letters and Men of Faith	Chaim Olsha	300-316
Torah, Commerce, and Trades in Sokoly	Michael Maik	317-389
In Memoriam – Yizkor		391
Standing at Attention		392
List of Holy Martyrs Arranged by family groups		393-405
Arranged by individual names
Eulogies for Sokoly Expatriates in Israel		406-414
Sokoly in Photographs		415-433
Photo Name-Identification List
Addresses of Sokoly Survivors in Israel		435-438

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Sokoly: in the Fight for Survival

Shmuel Kalisher, Hebrew editor and translator (from the Yiddish) Association of Sokoly Survivors in Israel, Tel Aviv (1975), 438 pp. (Hebrew)

Shmuel Kalisher, Hebrew editor and translator (from the Yiddish)
Association of Sokoly Survivors in Israel, Tel Aviv (1975), 438 pp. (Hebrew)