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Translation of
Sefer Yizkor le-kehilat Augustow ve-ha-seviva
Edited by J. Aleksandroni
Published in Tel Aviv, 1966
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The Gateway to the Book the editor | 11 | |
This is the story[1] | ||
The History of the Town and its Jewish Community by M.S. Geshori | 17 | |
Rabbis of Augustów by M. Tzinovitz | 89 | |
The Rabbi the Gaon Yitzchak Kosovski Yitzchak Kosovski | 100 | |
Rabbi Azriel Zelig Noach Koshelevski by Yitzchak Edelstein | 101 | |
Scholars in the City by M. Tzinovitz | 104 | |
The Rabbi the Gaon Reb Betzalel Ze'ev Gibstein by M. Tzinovitz | 110 | |
Learned Men That I Knew in the Days of My Childhood by Rabbi Yekutiel Azrieli | 114 | |
Lipsk by B. Efrati | 115 | |
Sztabin by Leah Sherman | 116 | |
From My Diary by Dr. Nechemiah Aloni | 117 | |
From Days Gone By by Eliezer Markus | 119 | |
Way of Life and Lifestyle | ||
My City Augustów by Akiva Glikstein | 130 | |
In My Wanderings by Tz. Z. Weinberg | 134 | |
The Jews in Augustow by Yaakov Frenkel | 149 | |
My Memories by Reuven Levi | 158 | |
In Those Days by Noach Borovitz | 165 | |
There Was… by Leah Sherman | 167 | |
Fathers and Sons by Daniel Kaplan | 170 | |
From the Days of My Childhood by Chaim ben Abba Orimland | 173 | |
Between War and War by Yishayahu Livni (Bialovitzki) | 175 | |
Talmud Torah (1920-1940), Tiferet Bachurim and More by Elchanan Sarvianski | 176 | |
In the Mirror of the Press Compiled by M. Tzinovitz | 179 | |
Greeting by Khaye Kalinsk | 185 | |
The Past that Does Not Pass Away by Abba Gordin (Yiddish, DK) | 189 | |
Abba Gordin (Yiddish, DK) | 217 | |
On the Old Path by Eliezer Aronovski (Yiddish, DK) | 218 | |
Mottinke the Sweet; The Saccharin Man by El. Aronovski (Yiddish, DK) | 222 | |
Some Personalities of Our City | ||
In the Company of Meir Meizler and Yaakov Frenkel by Tz. Z. Weinberg | 232 | |
A Penny by Tz. Z. Weinberg | 241 | |
The Keinan Family by Eliezer Markus | 245 | |
My Brother Sender; Lippe the Wagon-master by Akiva Glikstein | 248 | |
Abba Gordin by Chaim Dan | 256 | |
Maskilim and Chovevei-Tzion by M. Tzinovitz | 257 | |
Dovid Arieh Aleksandrovitz; Reuven Rotenberg by Zelda Edelstein | 261 | |
Fania Bergstein | 264 | |
My Parents' House by M. Ampel (Volmir) | 266 | |
The Name by Tz. Z. Weinberg | 267 | |
My Family by Feigl Rabinovitz (Meizler) (Yiddish) | 280 | |
Reuven Sini (Yiddish) | 282 | |
Dovid Goldstein (Yiddish) | 283 | |
Avraham Yaakov Nattar (Yiddish) | 284 | |
Liptzin Sam (Shepsel) (Yiddish) | 284 | |
Secular Life | ||
The Daily Economics of Augustów's Jews by Dr. Moshe Markus and Eliezer Markus | 285 | |
The Status of Teachers by Meir Meizler | 290 | |
On the Way to Zion | ||
The History of Chibbat Tzion and Zionism in Augustów by M. Tzinovitz | 293 | |
My Aliyah[4] to the Land[5] by A. Glikstein | 294 | |
The First Group of Those Who Went Up B. Efrati | 300 | |
The History of HeChalutz in Augustów Dr. N. Aloni | 302 | |
Friends Tell: | 323 | |
HeChalutz HaTzair in Augustów by Moshe Amit (Drozinski) | 325 | |
My Road to HeChalutz HaTzair by Yishayahu Shadmi (Blechertzik) | 331 | |
Hashomer HaTzair by Zenya Riftin (Yones) | 333 | |
Beitar and HaTzohar in Augustów by Dr. Moshe Markus | 341 | |
The Mizrachi Movement (Yiddish, DK) | 342 | |
Institutions (Religious, Charitable, Cultural and Educational) | ||
Synagogues by Rabbi Yekutiel Azrieli; Elchanan Sarvianski | 343 | |
Hostel for the Poor (Yiddish pp. 353-355, DK, and Hebrew) | 351 | |
The Establishment of the Library | 357 | |
The Library by M. Meizler | 357 | |
Jewish Education in Augustów by Yaakov Bergstein | 358 | |
Our Other Social Institutions (Yiddish, DK) | 366 | |
In the Struggle | ||
The Germany-Polish War; In the Second World War by Elchanan Sarvianski | 373 | |
Partisans: Noach Sarvianski; Shmuel Zupinski | 403 | |
How[6] It Was Destroyed | ||
The Town is Burning: (Yiddish) by M. Gevirtig; Hebrew Translation by Amitai. | 406 | |
The Destruction of the Jews of Augustów by A. Sarvianski | 408 | |
The Destruction of Augustów by Dr. Shor | 416 | |
From the Testimony of Amiel Shimon | 416 | |
From the Testimony of A. Karasik at the Trial of Adolph Eichmann | 417 | |
The Voice of the Forest by E. Aronovski (Yiddish, DK) | 423 | |
On the Ruins | ||
A Visit to Augustów after the Holocaust by Attorney. Moshe Einat (Zborovski) | 426 | |
The Desecrated Gravestones by Aleksander Yosefberg | 436 | |
Poems by Fania Bergstein | 438 | |
The Martyrs of Our City by Zelda Edelstein | 443 | |
A Tear Shed for the Destruction of Our Town by Chaim Lazdeiski (Yiddish, DK) | 443 | |
From the Song Face of a Massacred People by Yitzchak Katznelson (Yiddish, DK) | 449 | |
A Letter from a Survivor (Yiddish, DK) | 450 | |
Testimonies of Z. Kalstein, Fendzuch, Fania Landau (Yiddish, DK) | 459 | |
Poems by Eliezer Aronovski (Yiddish, OE) | 467 | |
After the Nightmare by Shmuel-Eliezer Aplebaum (Yiddish, OE) | 481 | |
The Tear-filled Road by Yitzchak Bialovzetzki (Yiddish, DK) | 485 | |
A Letter to Mother by Esther Tuker (Glikstein) (Yiddish, DK) | 489 | |
Memorial Candle | ||
Gad Zaklikovski by his wife Dina; (Yiddish, OE) | 490 | |
Gad Zaklikovski by Esther Eilender-Weinberg | 491 | |
Fania Bergstein by Sarah Berliner | 492 | |
Israel Zelia Bergstein by Chena Shraga (Bergstein) | 494 | |
Shlomo Plotzinski by Chena Shraga (Bergstein) | 494 | |
With Shlomkeh in Training by Rivka B. | 494 | |
Yisrael Levi | 495 | |
Tzila Bezant | 495 | |
Tuvia Rabinovitz by His brother Yisrael Rabinovitz | 497 | |
Barukh Chositzer by His Brother | 497 | |
Father by Esther Eiger (Ivriyah) | 498 | |
Father by Noach Varhaftig | 499 | |
My Father and My Brother by Esther Tuker (Glikstein) | 499 | |
My Father's House by Yitzchak Sherman | 499 | |
My Father, My Mother, My Brother, My Sister Leah, My Sister Vela by A. Sarvianski | 500 | |
Rivka Yaffa | 501 | |
Shabtai Kaplan by his Wife, Pesya daughter of Yoel | 501 | |
Kaplan Family by Daniel Kaplan | 501 | |
Shmuel and Golda Grinberg by Aminadav | 502 | |
Reuven Levi | 502 | |
Seven Martyrs by Binyamin Tzemach (Yiddish, OE) | 503 | |
My Father by Chana Orimland (Yiddish, OE) | 506 | |
Yizkor | ||
On the Day of Remembrance by Daniel Kaplan | 509 | |
List of Holocaust Victims | 511 | |
List of the Deceased | 524 | |
The Organization of Survivors of Augustow and Its Surroundings in Israel by B. Efrati | 526 | |
Augustow Survivors in Israel | 530 | |
Augustow Survivors in the Diaspora | 536 | |
Appendix A: Memories of Shalom-Naftali Soloveitchik | ||
Appendix B: Glossary of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Aramaic Terms | ||
Index |
Transaltor's Footnotes:
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