Notes: The complete translation of this book is also available here: The Cieszanow Memorial Book The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Cieszanow Purchase details for a printed copy of this translation can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Cieszanow.html

Dedication to Morris Kleinberg, MD
Supporters Honor Roll
Translator's Foreword
Organization Section
“To Enter into the Inner Sanctum”	Dr. David Ravid	1
A Foreword to the Publication of the Memorial Book	Dr. David Ravid	3
And This Is How It Began…		4
To the Editor of the Cieszanow ‘Memorial Book!’	Dr. David Ravid	9
History Section	Dr. David Ravid
The Life of the Jews in Cieszanow Up to the First World War		13
The Sacred Congregation of Cieszanow		14
The Community of Cieszanow	Dr. David Ravid	19
The Cieszanow of Three Centuries		20
From Cieszanow in Modern Times		20
The Trial of the Scourge Eichmann in Jerusalem		22
The Miracle on the Collective Farm		24
Personalities & Pictures		27
Rabbi Yekhezkiel Schraga Halberstam ז”ל		27
Rabbi R' Aryeh Rubin ז”ל		28
Rabbi Sholom Yekhezkiel Schraga		28
Rivka Shmukler, Her Son Shimon, & Daughter Chana, ע”ה		29
Reizl Koenigsberg, Two Daughters, & Brother Mordechai		30
R' Baruch Bessekhs & His Wife Tzivia Koenigsberg		30
R' Mordechai Glanzer, ע”ה & the Members of His Family		30
R' Asher Dieler ז”ל, his wife Dwora and their son		32
R' Abraham Shmukler and his family		32
Reizl Schmid ע”ה		32
R' Abraham Goetz, ע”ה		31
The lady, Rachel Lieberman from Lubliniec near Cieszanow		33
A Handiwork of Shmelka Lieberman, Tishri 5730, B'nai Brak, Israel		33
In the Takhkemoni School		34
‘HaTzofim’ in Cieszanow		33
R' Eliezer Taubenblatt and his wife		35
The Tzigler Family		35
The wife of R' Yehoshua – Miriam Yehudis ע”ה		35
R' Yitzhak Kaufman, שליט”א		35
R' Leibli Sternlicht, ז”ל		36
The Kaufman Family		36
R' Nahum Furman, ע”ה		36
Rachil Neshi Furman, ע”ה		36
An Israeli Hero – I		37
An Israeli Hero – II		37
The Rapaport Family – The Kohanim		37
R' Baruch Aryeh Kalechman ז”ל		38
The Goetz Sisters		38
R' Joseph Tanenbaum ז”ל		38
Two Righteous Women		38
R' Abraham Ber Starkman, his wife and grandchildren ע”ה		39
The Najman Family		39
R' Moshe Lempel and Family		39
R' Yerucham Fishl Zeuerman		39
R' Simcha Schweber ז”ל		40
R' Mordechai Schrieber & his wife, ז”ל		40
The Schneider Family		41
A Repentant		41
From the People of Our City		42
Cieszanow Children		42
In the Hebrew School		42
From the Intellectual Youth of Cieszanow		42
R' Mordechai Schreiber,'יח, and his wife, Eidel ז”ל		42
The Rabfogel Family		43
R' Joseph Eichler, Chana Eichler		43
The Rabfogel Daughters		43
David Ravid and his wife		43
A Memorial Candle for Our Mothers		44
My Little Town, Cieszanow	Dr. David Ravid	45
The Evil Spirit, ‘HiSta-Khrumika’ Dominates the World		45
The Rebbe Speaks the Law		44
On This Day, I Recall My Transgressions		70
In the City of Killing	Chaim Nachman Bialik	119
Good Advice from a Friend….	Dr. David Ravid	121
The First Explosion!	Dr. David Ravid	122
A Poem of Mourning to the Memory of Our Brothers and Sisters who were Killed the Germans!	Dr. David Ravid	123
A Hymnal of Praise for the Members of the Committee of the Organization	Dr. David Ravid	124
A Birthday Celebration for Cieszanow Children in Danzig		125
The Jewish Youth Organization of Lubliniec, near Cieszanow, directed Mr. Simcha Segal		125
R' David Michael Zurman ז”ל, a scion of Cieszanow – with his wife		125
From Lieutenant Colonel Rabbi Moshe Avital, Tel-Aviv		129
Polish Jewry	Rabbi Mordechai Fogelman	131
Cieszanow	Dr. Lev Fishelzohn	132
The Holocaust	Michal Ravid, Age 10	133
A Poem from the Pinkas of the Shtetl	Melekh Ravitch	134
R' Menachem Mendl Yaroslavitz, ז”ל,		135
The High Holy Days of the Past	Shmuel Lieberman	136
Memories of the Outbreak of the War in 1939		136
My Shtetl Cieszanow	Shmuel Lieberman	137
A Memorial to R' Aharon Paluh ז”ל	Shmuel Lieberman	138
To Everlasting Memory	Shmuel Lieberman	138
A Few Words Dedicated to the Holocaust	R' Shmuel Zeinvil Tepper, Past Chairman of the Zionist Histadrut in Cieszanow	139
The Accounting of Our Work to Publish the Yizkor Book	Shmuel Z. Tepper	140
Now to the Issue!		141
The Extinguished Star	Shmuel Zeinvil Tepper	142
Yizkor!	The Grandchildren	144
Yizkor!	Shmuel Zeinvil Tepper	144
Yizkor!		145
Mrs. Dwora Lempel ע”ה		145
R' Zelig Wartzel and his wife Nechi ע”ה		146
R' Menachem Wartzel and his wife ע”ה		146
R' Baruch Aryeh Kalechman, הי”ד	Shlomo Zinger	146
Memories	Moshe Mikhl Tepper, נ”י	148
From the Older Generation – To the Younger Generation of Cieszanow Descendants in Israel	Dr. David Ravid	149
Chaya Angerst-Berger		150
R' Schraga Feivel Lehrer		151
Chapters of Memories	Schraga-Feivel Lehrer	153
Epilogue		166
In the Cieszanow Ghetto	Tuvia Friedman	169
Cieszanow, A Bastion of the Belz Hasidim	Ben Zion Friedman	172
The “Bayt Yaakov” School in Cieszanow	Ben Zion Friedman	174
The Simple Cieszanow Jews	Ben Zion Friedman	174
How Fortunate is the Eye that Beheld a Sacred Community Moved by the Study of God's Torah	Ben Zion Friedman	175
R' Leib Ber Geller	Mina Yaroslavitz-Tanenbaum	177
Addendum	Mina Yaroslavitz-Tanenbaum	178
Memories of Parents and Family	Yaffa Weinstein-Berger	178
General Section
A Memorial for All Time !		182
R' Aryeh Leibusz Koenig ז”ל		183
Memories from the Last War	Schraga Feivel Lehrer	184
Yisgadal VeYiskadash Shmay Raboh…	Schraga Feivel Lehrer	185
Our Cieszanow Community is Adopted in Haifa	Schraga Feivel Lehrer	186
A Memorial Prayer	Shlomo Zalman Baumel and his son, Jonah	188
Children on the ‘Aryan’ Side Together With Their Families	Ala Mahler	189
1. A General Overview of Life on the Aryan Side
2. A Life of Wandering
3. Life in the More Permanent Refuges
Cieszanow – My Second Home	Mordechai Kaufman	197
Eastern Galician Jewry – A Pillar of the Jewish People		197
Memories of Zionist Activities in Cieszanow		199
Memories-Episodes		201
Education and Study in Cieszanow		201
I Am Arrested by the Cieszanow Police		202
A Regional Get-Together of “Hitakhdut” in Cieszanow		203
A Petit-Journal, “Der Baginen” in Cieszanow		204
How Many Traitors Does the Jewish Land Require?	Mordechai Kaufman	206
Words to Remember...	Frieda Starkman-Kaufman	208
Scions of Cieszanow Are Tied to the State of Israel	Mordechai Kaufman	209
Our Revered Women	Dr. David Ravid	211
May A Righteous Man Be Remembered for All Times!	Dr. David Ravid	213
My Grandfather מוהר”ר Yitzhak HaKohen Glanzer, ז”ל	Zvi Elimelekh Glanzer	214
Names of the Holy and Pure Souls Most of Whom Were Killed in Sanctification of The Name		215

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