Glinojeck, Poland

My town Glinjeck...
(Glinojeck, Poland)

52°49' / 20°18'

Translation of
Mayn shtetele Glinovyetsk;
un di vayterdike vandlungen Plotsk-Wierzbnik, zikhroynes

Editor: Shlomo Moskowitz

Published in Paris 1976

This is a translation of: Mayn shtetele Glinovyetsk; un di vayterdike vandlungen Plotsk-Wierzbnik, zikhroynes
(My town Glinjeck...), Editor: Shlomo Moskowitz, Published: Paris 1976 (Y 335 pages)

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

First Part
The Rise of the Jewish Settlement in Glinojeck	19
Meizner Family	27
Reb Yakov's Great Grandfather	39
My Shtetele [small town] Glinojeck	49
My Father, Shimeon Moszkowicz, of blessed memory	67
The Dream about Our Father in 1945	73
Sholom Sokolowski	75
The Great Grandmother Gitele	85
The Fogelman-Sokolowski Family	89
Benyamin Sztromf - the Feldsher [traditional doctor]	93
Reb Zalman-Moshe, the Glinojeck Dayen [religious judge]	99
Shmuel-Yakov, the Dorfs-geyer [village peddler]	105
Tzalel the Shoemaker	109
Menashe Szwarc	114
Reb Yehuda Meir	118
Jews from the Huta [glassworks]	123
Sheyntshe the Shoykhet's [ritual slaughterer's daughter] from Strzegowo	128
Living together with the Christians	131
Reb Avrahamle Ciechanower, may the memory of the righteous man be blessed	135
The Radzyminer Rebbe	142
On a Summer Night in Glinojeck	151

Second Part
My Childhood Years	167
My Rebbe, Reb Dovid	172
The Experiences in the First World War	176
My Friend, Yosef Ejzenstat	207

Third Part
In the Starachowicer Camp	221
The Frightening Kol Nidre Night in Birkenau	233
The Krosniewicer Rebbe from Starachowice	238
The Death of My Brother, Yakov-Arye	247
From Starachowice to Birkenau-Auschwitz	253
Smoke!	266
In Camp “Libe-Roza” and Mathausen	269
The Glinojeck Expulsion	289
The Liberation	297
The Experiences of a Glinojecker Jew on the Ayran Side	310

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