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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehila kedosha Cieszanow
Editor: Dr. David Ravid (Shmukler),
Published in Tel Aviv 1970
English Translation Prepared and Published by
Jacob Solomon Berger
Mahwah, New Jersey, USA 2006
Our sincere appreciation to Jacob Solomon Berger who has kindly donated
Our thanks to Sondra Ettlinger for extracting the pictures from the original book,
enabling their addition to the project.
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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 | By 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 | By 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 זל | 27 | |
Rabbi R' Aryeh Rubin זל | 28 | |
Rabbi Sholom Yekhezkiel Schraga | 28 | |
Rivka Shmukler, Her Son Shimon, & Daughter Chana, עה | 29 | |
Reizl Koenigsberg, Two Daughters, & Brother Mordechai | 30 | |
R' Baruch Bessekhs & His Wife Tzivia Koenigsberg | 30 | |
R' Mordechai Glanzer, עה & the Members of His Family | 30 | |
R' Asher Dieler זל, His Wife Dwora and their Son | 31 | |
R' Abraham Shmukler and His Family | 31 | |
Reizl Schmid עה | 31 | |
R' Abraham Goetz, עה | 31 | |
The Lady, Rachel Lieberman from Lubliniec near Cieszanow | 32 | |
A Handiwork of Shmelka Lieberman | 32 | |
In the Takhkemoni School | 33 | |
‘HaTzofim’ in Cieszanow | 33 | |
R' Eliezer Taubenblatt and His Wife | 34 | |
The Tzigler Family | 34 | |
The Wife of R' Yehoshua Miriam Yehudis עה | 34 | |
R' Yitzhak Kaufman, שליטא | 34 | |
R' Leibli Sternlicht, זל | 34 | |
The Kaufman Family | 35 | |
R' Nahum Furman, עה | 35 | |
Rachil Neshi Furman, עה | 35 | |
An Israeli Hero - I | 36 | |
An Israeli Hero - II | 36 | |
The Rapaport Family The Kohanim | 36 | |
R' Baruch Aryeh Kalechman זל | 37 | |
The Goetz Sisters | 37 | |
R' Joseph Tanenbaum זל | 37 | |
Reizl Shmukler, עה (Right) Chaya Weber עה (Left) | 37 | |
R' Abraham Ber Starkman, His Wife and Grandchildren עה | 38 | |
The Najman Family | 38 | |
R' Moshe Lempel and Family | 38 | |
R' Yerucham Fishl Zeuerman | 38 | |
R' Simcha Schweber זל | 39 | |
R' Mordechai Schrieber 'יח & His Wife, זל | 39 | |
The Schneider Family | 40 | |
A Repentant | 40 | |
From the People of Our City | 41 | |
Cieszanow Children | 41 | |
In the Hebrew School | 41 | |
From the Intellectual Youth of Cieszanow | 41 | |
R' Mordechai Schreiber,'יח, and His Wife, Eidel זל | 41 | |
The Rabfogel Family | 42 | |
R' Joseph Eichler, Chana Eichler | 42 | |
The Rabfogel Daughters | 42 | |
David Ravid and His Wife | 42 | |
A Memorial Candle for Our Mothers | 43 | |
My Little Town, Cieszanow | By Dr. David Ravid | 44 |
The Evil Spirit, ‘HiSta-Khrumika’ Dominates the World | 44 | |
The Rebbe Speaks The Law | 44 | |
On This Day, I Recall My Transgressions | 69 | |
In the City of Killing | By Chaim Nachman Bialik | 119 |
Good Advice from a Friend | By Dr. David Ravid | 120 |
The First Explosion! | By Dr. David Ravid | 121 |
A Poem of Mourning to the Memory of Our Brothers and Sisters | By Dr. David Ravid | 122 |
A Hymnal of Praise for the Members of the Committee of the Organization | By Dr. David Ravid | 123 |
A Birthday Celebration for Cieszanow Children in Danzig | 124 | |
The Jewish Youth Organization of Lubliniec, near Cieszanow, directed by Mr. Simcha Segal | 124 | |
R' David Michael Zurman זל, a scion of Cieszanow with his wife. | 124 | |
From Lieutenant Colonel Rabbi Moshe Avital, Tel-Aviv | 127 | |
Polish Jewry | By Rabbi Mordechai Fogelman | 129 |
Cieszanow | By Dr. Lev Fishelzohn | 130 |
The Holocaust | By Michal Ravid, Age 10 | 131 |
From the Pinkas of the Shtetl | By Melekh Ravitch | 132 |
R' Menachem Mendl Yaroslavitz, זל, | 133 | |
The High Holy Days of the Past | By Shmuel Lieberman | 134 |
Memories of the Outbreak of the War in 1939 | 134 | |
My Shtetl Cieszanow | By Shmuel Lieberman | 135 |
A Memorial to R' Aharon Paluh זל | By Shmuel Lieberman | 136 |
To Everlasting Memory | 136 | |
A Few Words Dedicated to the Holocaust | By Shmuel Lieberman | 137 |
The Accounting of Our Work to Publish the Yizkor Book | By Shmuel Z. Tepper | 138 |
Now to the Issue! | 139 | |
The Extinguished Star | By Shmuel Zeinvil Tepper | 140 |
Yizkor! | The Grandchildren | 142 |
Yizkor! | By Shmuel Zeinvil Tepper | 142 |
Yizkor! | 143 | |
Mrs. Dwora Lempel עה | 143 | |
R' Zelig Wartzel and His Wife Nechi עה | 144 | |
R' Menachem Wartzel and His Wife עה | 144 | |
R' Baruch Aryeh Kalechman, הי'ד | By Shlomo Zinger | 144 |
Memories | By Moshe Mikhl Tepper, ני | 146 |
From the Older Generation To the Younger Generation | By Dr. David Ravid | 147 |
Chaya Angerst-Berger | 148 | |
R' Schraga Feivel Lehrer | 149 | |
Chapters of Memories | By Schraga-Feivel Lehrer | 151 |
Epilogue | 164 | |
In the Cieszanow Ghetto | By Tuvia Friedman | 167 |
Cieszanow, A Bastion of the Belz Hasidim | By Ben Zion Friedman | 170 |
The ‘Bayt Yaakov’ School in Cieszanow | By Ben Zion Friedman | 172 |
The Simple Cieszanow Jews | 172 | |
R' Leib Ber Geller | By Mina Yaroslavitz-Tanenbaum | 175 |
Memories of Parents and Family | By Yaffa Weinstein-Berger | 176 |
General Section | ||
A Memorial for All Time ! | 180 | |
R' Aryeh Leibusz Koenig זל | 181 | |
Memories from the Last War | By Schraga Feivel Lehrer | 182 |
Yisgadal VeYiskadash Shmay Raboh… | By Schraga Feivel Lehrer | 183 |
Our Cieszanow Community Is Adopted in Haifa | By Schraga Feivel Lehrer | 184 |
A Memorial Prayer | By Shlomo Zalman Baumel and his son, Jonah | 186 |
Children on the ‘Aryan’ Side Together With Their Families | By Ala Mahler | 187 |
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 | By Mordechai Kaufman | 195 |
Eastern Galician Jewry A Pillar of the Jewish People | 195 | |
Memories of Zionist Activities in Cieszanow | 197 | |
Memories-Episodes | 199 | |
Education and Study in Cieszanow | 199 | |
I Am Arrested by the Cieszanow Police | 200 | |
A Regional Get-Together of ‘Hitakhdut’ in Cieszanow | 201 | |
A Petit-Journal, ‘Der Baginen’ in Cieszanow | 202 | |
How Many Traitors Does The Jewish Land Require? | By Mordechai Kaufman | 204 |
Words to Remember… | By Frieda Starkman-Kaufman | 206 |
Scions of Cieszanow Are Tied to the State of Israel | By Mordechai Kaufman | 207 |
Our Revered Women | By Dr. David Ravid | 209 |
May A Righteous Man Be Remembered for All Times! | By Dr. David Ravid | 211 |
My Grandfather מוהרר Yitzhak HaKohen Glanzer, זל | By Zvi Elimelekh Glanzer | 212 |
Names of the Holy and Pure Souls Most of Whom Were Killed in Sanctification of The Name | 213 | |
The Murdered Families Who Gave Their Lives in Sanctification of the Name | 221 |
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