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Pictures tell the story	Baruch Kaplinski	12
Ell, Molei Rachamim		18
Zhetel Martyrs		19
The old Zhetel
The history of the Jews of Zhetel	Baruch Kaplinski	33
Zhetel and budget of Lithuamia	Mordechai Berenstain	40
Zhetel of old	Avrom Iveniecki OBM	47
The Rabbis of Zhetel	Avrom Shepetnicki	49
The big miracle which occurred with the author from the Machanei Jehuda	Mordechai Berenstain	53
Books by authors of Zhetel		54
Articles about Zhetel in encyclopedias		55
Zhetel in the Hebrew press	M.Tzinurit, B. Kaplinski	58
Chapters from the history of Zhetel		65
Geography and climatic conditions in Zhetel	Dr A.I. Braver	67
Population and occupations	Baruch Kaplinski	69
On the threshold of the 20th century
Zhetel 50 years ago	Moshe Bitn	73
I left Zhetel in the year 1900	Izchok Gebury	76
Zhetel in my memory	Avrom Shepetnicki	78
A great city	Rabbi Itzchok Wainshtain	80
The Navaredok community in Zhetel	I.L. Nakric	82
My birthplace	Nachemie Emuna	83
Zhetel in the year 1905	Zalmon Mirski	85
Bits of everything	Avrom Izchok Medzwiedski	87
Settlers and army recruits	Avrom Leizerovich	93
The First World War
Zhetel at the time when I was the Rabbi	Rabbi Zalmon Tzarackin	99
During the German occupation	Josif Viniecki OBM	109
The Almighty is calling	Menachem Vernikovski OBM	111
Only memorial books remained	Avrom Zak	112
During the first world war	Moishe Mirski	113
The Jewish republic in Zhetel	Efraim Hamuni OBM	116
Transition from ruler to ruler	Nachemie Emuna	118
At the time of transition	Izchak Epshtain	122
This is how I remember Zhetel	Sora Medzwiedski	124
Between the two world wars
The cultural and economic existence	Avrom Iveniecki OBM	127
Zhetel and its tradesman	Moshe Mendl Leizerovich	132
The excommunication in Zhetel	Rabbi Alchanon Maracki	136
The big fires	Sora Epstein - Shuer	138
The endecks** are raging	Moishe Mirski	140
Parties
The lovers of Zion and the Zionist Aguda	Baruch Kaplinski	143
Revolutionaries of Zhetel	Moshe Mirski	148
Memories of Bund	Yechiel Kuzniecki	150
Memories of the SR (Social Revolutionaries) in Zhetel	H. Habibi	151
Workers of Zhetel after the I WW	Dov Orzechowski	152
Ha Chalutz	Josef Berman	155
Poalei Zion	Eliezer Namiot	159
Hashomer Hatzair	Jankef Indershtain	163
Revisionists and Betar	Avrom Alpert	165
Agudat Israel	Isroel Karpel	166
The Bund	Sholem Lisogurski	167
The first Keren Kayemet bazaar	Liza Kaplinski	169
The last Keren Kayemet bazaar	Sore Gal-Bigin	170
The social life in Zhetel	collected by Sore Gal	171
Institutions
Brotherhoods and institutions	Baruch Kaplinski	177
The voluntary fire brigade	Dov Orzechowski	179
Our fire brigade orchestra	Philip Zavich	180
The dramatic circle	Hinda Mirski	184
Medical and social institutions	Dr Avrom Alpert	187
A mission of help and aid for the sick	Henie Rosenblum	192
The orphanage committee	Shifre Medwiedski	194
Women’s social help	Sore Gal-Bigin	194
The People’s bank	Arie Berkovich	195
The fund for the poor	Sore Gal-Bigin	197
TOZ (Society for Preservation of Health) in Zhetel		197
Izkor - remember	Moshe Man	198
Schools
The Talmid Tora (student of the Tora)	A.Z. Silverman	201
The story of the Jewish peoples school	Beniomen Kaplinski OBM	203
How can I conceive it?	Avrom Sawicki	212
We built the Jewish public school	Moishe Minski	213
The Tarbut school	Dvoire Szkolnik	215
Memories of a pupil	Sora Epstein - Shuer	219
Rabbis
Rabbi Yankef Kranz OBM	I. Mandelbaum & I. Trunk	223
Rabbi Isroel Maier Hakohen OBM	Rabbi Maier Yasher	225
My meetings with Chafetz Chaim	Shabtai Majewski	227
The wise men of Zhetel	Moishe Tzinuvitz	228
H’rov Reb Baruch Avrom Mirski OBM	H’rov I.L. Mimun	230
H’rov Reb Baruch Avrom Mirski of the Lovers of Zion	Moishe Tzinuvitz	231
H’rov Reb Shmuel Rabinovich OBM	Moishe Tzinuvitz	232
The life of H’rov Reb Zalmon Tzarapkin	Rabbi Alchanon Tzarapkin	233
H’rov Reb Tzvi Churgin OBM	Josif Eliau Pekelni	236
Public figures and ordinary people
Reb Avrom Takavski – a older of Zhetel	Mojshe Man	239
Reb Leib Kaplinski OBM	Jehudit Ostrovski	240
Reb Shmuel Kustin OBM	Dvoire Shkolnik	240
Reb Mendl Vernikovski OBM		240
Reb Shloime Zalmon Dunetz OBM	Mordechai Dunetz	241
Reb Isroel Ezer Barishanski OBM	Avrom Ivenicki OBM	245
My grandfather Reb Isroel Alchanan Pekielny OBM	Leye Rozenblum	247
Types and facts	Mojshe Man	248
Reb Avrom the porush OBM	Efraim Pasach	249
Reb Moishe Ruven Mordkovski OBM	Avrom Iveniecki OBM	250
Reb Yoisef Muchnik OBM	Shloime Muchnik	250
Reb Yosef Iveniecki OBM	Avrom Iveniecki OBM	250
Reb Shoel Kaplinski OBM	Baruch Kaplinski	250
Reb Mendl Mirski OBM	Ruven Mirski	251
Reb Avrom Langbart OBM	Izchok Rabinovich	251
Reb Avrom Nachman Gal OBM	Sore Gal-Bigin	252
Noiach Mikulicki OBM	Chim Ludski	252
Jehuda Ludski OBM	Chim Ludski	252
Jehoshua Ovseevich OBM	Moishe Man	253
Alter Gertzovski OBM	Shmuel Menuskin	253
Motl Man OBM	Moishe Man	253
Reb Yankef Abershtein OBM	Moishe Man	254
In my father’s house	Benyomen Kaplinski OBM	255
Nioma Kaplinski a Bundist and cultural activist	Rishe Kovenski	257
Neighbours, friends, teachers and acquaintances	Yitzchak Epstein	259
Lost talents	Sora Shuer	268
Men of the people	Shabtai Mayevski	269
The tailor of Zhetel	Yankef Intershtain	271
Zeivke	Yankef Intershtain	275
The last wedding celebrant	Yankef Intershtain	276
The family Sielubski from Haleli ?	Moishe Mirski	278
My mother Leye Hinde Meriams	Miriam Davidovski	278
Reb Efraim Bielogolovski OBM	Nachemie Eminuach	279
The writers of Zhetel	Mordechai Dunetz	280
Memories
Why do we have aching hearts?	Baruch Kaplinski	283
There was once a township	Mordechai Dunetz	286
The Seder night	Masha Rozvovski	287
A week in Zhetel	Sore Gal-Bigin	288
My home	Rivke Valdman	293
The market on Friday	Chae Alpert	295
The Slonim Street	Sore Gal-Bigin	296
Memories	Yehudit Ostrovski	297
Famous Zhetel	Shmuel Rabinovich	298
Impressions	Lizi Razvatski	299
The Chasidic Rabbi in our house	Rochl Rabinovich	300
Customs and habits	Mordechai Dunetz	301
My township	Petie Majewski	304
The folklore of Zhetel
The Dzyatlava Folklore	Baruch Kaplinski	305
The Dzyatlava Nicknames	Baruch Kaplinski	306
Dzyatlava folklore	Avraham Iventzki, may his memory be for a blessing	308
Under the Soviet régime
Under the Soviet régime	Efraim Shepshelevich	311
The tailors cooperative	Lize Rostovski	313
The extermination of Zhetel
Under the German oppression	Ezriel Shelovicki	317
Hunger	Pessya Mayevsky	320
The first killings	Miriam Shepshelevich	325
The first 120 victims	Pessya Mayevsky	327
Zhetel at the end of 1941	Sarah Nishmit	329
The first slaughter	Batie Ishir	332
Kiddush	Chaim Vainshtin	333
Back from the ditches	Izchok Rubinshtin	334
How I saved myself	Lize Kaplinski	335
The tragedy of my brother’s family	Mashe Rozvadski	336
A tragic finish	Chana Majewski-Klar	337
Two children fight for their life	Kalmon Minuskin	342
He escaped from his grave	Shifre Miedviedski	347
Zhetel without Jews	Cila Joselevski	349
How I saved my children	Sneinke Minuskin	353
I lost my whole family	Izchok Goldshtain	356
From the synagogue into the forest	Bashe Minuskin	358
In the workshops of the Novogrudok Ghetto	Peshe Majewski	359
The Zhetel glaziers in Novogrudok	Zavl Mordkovski	361
I escaped from the Novogrudok Ghetto	Mojshe Mendl Leizerovich	363
My tragic childhood	Avrom Leibovich	366
The road of my torments	Kalmon Shalkovich	367
The killing of Gypsies in Zhetel	Izchok Epshtain	368
The underground activities in the Ghetto	Leib Sholem Gerling	369
The way we lived in the Zhetel Ghetto	Pessya Mayevsky	373
Remember!	Pessya Mayevsky	375
Kadish	Mortchi Epstein	376
In the forests
People of Zhetel in the Lipiczanski partisans	A group of partisans	379
Revenge for the blood of our people	Eliahu Kovenski	391
We fight	Ezriel Shilovicki	395
The years in the forest	Chana Majewski-Klar	397
Between life and death	Cila Joselevski	401
Ravage for the Maichek murder	Yechiel Joselevich	404
Revenge for the Maltuch murder	Zavl Mordkovski	405
The fight in Dubrovka	Sholem Gerling	406
Four victims	Leia Kalbshtein-Yacham	407
The family camps	Shmuel Minuskin	408
The partisan hospital	Sholim Gerling	412
Partisan heroes	Sholim Gerling	414
Brief biographies of heroic partisans	Group of partisans	420
“Krokes un shachmanies” a song of the partisans	Cilia Joselevski	428
Before the liberation	Lizi Kaplinski	430
The last months in the forest	Sora Ovseievich	431
My last day in the forest	Hinda Mirski	433
Partisans of Zhetel in the Soviet army	Chaim Savicki	434
A man from Zhetel in the red army	Shloime Sharlat	439
In a German prisoner of war camp	Berl Goldberg	439
Zhetel heroic partisans		440
People of Zhetel in the world
People of Zhetel in USA	Efraim Pasaf	443
Citizens of Zhetel in Argentina	Moishe Man	445
From Zhetel to Israel	Baruch Kaplinski	447
Financial assistance for Zheteler in Israel	Shaftai Majewski	451
The Zhetel forest	Yehuda Ostrovski	452
At a memorial service in Tel Aviv	Shimon Berliker	453
From Zhetel to Petach Tikva	Pese Majevski	454
Izkor	Mordechai Dunietz	458
Zhetel in April 1957	Mira Goncharovski	459
Bricks have collapsed, we will build in stone	Baruch Kaplinski	461
List of former Dzyatlava residents living in Israel	Addresses	464
List of former Dzyatlava residents living in the USA	Addresses	467
List of former Dzyatlava residents living in South America	Addresses	469
List of former Dzyatlava residents living in Canada and elsewhere	Addresses	470
Families from Zhetel	Pictures	471

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