Szczuczyn, Poland

The Destruction of the Community of Szczuczyn
(Poland)

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Translation of Hurban Kehilat Szczuczyn

Published by Former Residents of Szczuczyn in Israel

Published in Tel Aviv, 1954

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Dr. Alex Stone

Translations and Formatting

Tauna Abel and Itzhak Wertman

Our sincere appreciation to Itzhak Wertman, representing the former residents of Szczuczyn,
for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation of the Yiddish portion of Hurban Kehilat Szczuczyn
(The Destruction of the Community of Szczuczyn), Tel Aviv, Former Residents of Szczuczyn in Israel,
1954 (151 pages, Yiddish).

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Introduction to the Translation of SZCZUCZYN

By Joyce Field
Project Manager
JewishGen Yizkor Book Project

This translation would not have been put on the Yizkor Book web site without the efforts of many people. Dr. Alex Stone had the translation for many years in a typed format, which he sent to people upon request. He was eager, however, to get a wider audience for it. It wasn't until Tauna Abel, a friend, acquired a scanner and took the considerable time to scan, correct, and format the text that we were able to acquire this translation for our web site. We must also acknowledge the efforts of Lance Ackerfeld, who was able to find a member of the Szczuczyn landsmanschaft, Yitzhak Wertman, to give us permission to publish the translation on our web site.

Along with his signed permission to JewishGen to publish this translation on our web site, he wrote a touching note, which moved me so much that I wish to reprint one part here. Mr. Wertman wrote, "I have received your letter in which you ask my permission....Not only do I agree to this initiative--but I am very happy that there is still somebody who is interested [in] publishing a book of Jewish life and culture which existed in the towns and villages of Poland until the extermination of the Jews by the German murderers."

Mr. Wertman would be totally amazed if he knew how many people are interested in these yizker bikher.

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF HURBAN KEHILAT SZCZUCZYN

Foreword and Pre-Holocaust Period

Foreword--in Hebrew and Yiddish --Yeshiah Skubelski	1
Jews in Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) Until Their Destruction --Yeshiah Skubelski	2
The Cooperative Bank in Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) --Borukh Zeml	5

The Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) Holocaust

How the Jews of Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) Struggled and Suffered --Chaye Soika-Golding	6
The Destruction of the Jews in Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) --Document	18
My Experience during the-Second World War --Moyshe Farbarovits	20
My Experience during the-Second World War --Fishl Mikhalski	33
Life in a Bialystok Bunker --Chayeh Golding-Keyman	35
The Last Night With My Children in the Bialystok Prison --Chayeh Golding-Keyman	39
Shtutsin (Szczuczyn)--My Old home --Ruven Finklshteyn	46
Memorial Prayer and the El Meyleh Rakhamim--for the Destroyed Kehilah of Shtutsin (Szczuczyn)	47

Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) Jews Live On: The Creation of the Gmiles Khesedim Fund in the Name of the K'dushe Shtutsin (Szczuczyn), Z.L., in Israel
In Memory of our Beloved Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) --Borukh Fishl Zeml	49
The Great Mitsveh; of the Gmiles Khesedim --Meyir Grinfeld	51
The Official Acknowledgment of the founding of the Gmiles Khesedim in the name of the Martyrs of Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) --Document	54
The Solemn Declaration of the Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) Society of New York --Heyman Horovits	55
The Gmiles Khesedim Fund in the Name of the Martyrs of Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) --Yeshiah Skubelski	56
The Old and New Gmiles Khesedim --Ruven Finklshteyn	59
The General Account of the Gmiles Khesedim Fund	61
Former Residents of Shtutsin (Szczuczyn) Now Citizens of Israel	63
The Managing Committee and Auditing Commission of the Gmiles Khesedim Fund	69
List of Photographs	--

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