TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner

Introduction		3
Map of Hrubieszow		19
Chapters
History		21-156
Preliminary pages, Pictures		21
Notes on the History of the Jews of Hrubieszow	Dr. N. M. Gelber	25
A Few Dates in the History of Hrubieszow		49
The Town of Hrubieszow and its Rabbis	Tzvi Ha–Levi Ish–Hurvitz	51
Notes on the History of Hrubieszow	Chaim Feifer	55
The Hebrew Printing Press in Hrubieszow	Avraham Ya'ari	57
Two Jews of Hrubieszow in the 16th and 17th centuries		65
Index of Book Titles Printed in Hrubieszow		66
Hrubieszow in the Hebrew Press	Selected by Baruch Yanover	67
Regulations of Four Societies	Selected by Eliyahu Gertel	75
Hrubieszow in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland		79
Hrubieszow in the Great Illustrated General Encyclopedia, Warsaw 1902		89
Jewish Hrubieszow, 1939–1945	Nachmen Blumental	91
“El Male Rachamim”		115
The Martyrs of Hrubieszow, may their memory be for a blessing		117
Martyred Children from the Hrubieszow Orphanage		154
Hrubieszow Fights for the Land of Israel		155
Parties		157-268
Preliminary pages, Pictures		157
Zionist Beginnings	Yankev Kahan	161
The Tseyre Tsiyon Fraction	Excerpt from “Liberation” (Bafrayung)	163
A Holiday in the Week	Meir Hofman	165
Storms and Assaults	Yosef Almogi	173
About HeChalutz	Yehuda Hofman	177
Frayhayt – HeChalutz HaTzair	Yehuda Tsimerman	179
Sparks	Yosef Epshteyn	181
Poalei Tsiyon in Hrubieszow Celebrates May 1st, 1927	Press excerpts and pictures	185
The Group HaOved	Halman Vekerman	189
I Was at a Training Camp in Hrubieszow	Sh. Shayntukh	190
The Youth Movement Frayhayt	Skhora Ben-Moshe	191
The Training Camp in the Village Skryhiczyn	Moshe Frimer	191
My Pioneer Training	Natan Hadas	193
Protest Meeting against the Immigration Decrees of 1930		201
We Provide for the Kibbutz	Hersh Pachter	203
Socialist Zionist Youth	Pictures	207
Po'aley Tziyon – S. Z.	David Tsimerman	211
Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza'ir in Hrubieszow	Matityahu Ayzenkrants and Shemaryahu Mints, Tel Aviv, Israel	216
The Young People of Hrubieszow	Bruria Zilberg	219
Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza'ir in Hrubieszow	Pictures	221
The General Zionists in Hrubieszow	Pictures	225
From the Hrubieszower Lebn		227
Ha-Po'el Ha-Mizrachi	Shloyme-Ber Amper	229
Betar and Revisionist Zionism	Yosef Khrost	231
To the Jewish Population of Hrubieszow	Appeal	235
We Emigrate to the Land of Israel!	Pictures	237
Activities of Agudas-Yisro'el	Borekh Dovid Tsimerman	241
An Episode from Long Ago	Mordekhai Luxenburg	245
I Stand Here, Grinding my Teeth…	Poem	246
The Socialist Artisans' Association	Y. Saler	247
The Life of Artisans in Hrubieszow		248
The General Jewish Labor Bund	Yitskhok Ayzen	249
The Bund in Our Town	Yankev Rays	257
The Communist Party	Leybish Frost	259
Institutions		269-340
Preliminary pages, Pictures		269
The Last Community Elections	Eliezer-Arn Zomer	273
Lists of Candidates for the Council of the Jewish Community of Hrubieszow and its Members		275
Posters of the Parties Standing for the Community Elections of 1936		277
Press Notices of 1927-1930 Concerning Community Activities		281
A Stormy Meeting of the Community		283
We Elect a Town Council	Meir Hofman	287
Commerce Between the World Wars	Yekhezkel Oder	289
The Association of Merchants	Yoysef Shvarts	299
The Jews of Hrubieszow Are Being Ruined By the Tax Burden		303
Concerning Institutions in Hrubieszow		305
Hrubieszow Youths in the Military and in Sports		307
The Jewish Hospital	Yekhezkel Oder	309
The Orphanage	Yekhiel Fayer	313
The Orphanage	Arn Glezer	313
Recollections of the Orphanage	Klara Shoshani	317
A General Meeting in the Orphanage		321
A Few Words About the Food Pantry	Eliezer Arn Zamer	323
The Fund to Support the Fallen[1]	Yankl Saler	325
The Y. H. Brenner Library	Eliyahu Gertl	327
Activities to Benefit YIVO	Eliyohu Gertl	329
Notes on Cultural Activity	Yekhezkel Oder	331
Notes on the History of the Drama Clubs	Natan Hadas	337
Some Reminiscences	Malke Krongold-Spektor	339
Schools		341-372
Preliminary pages, Pictures		341
Two Years in the “Hatikvah” School	Yitzchak Blumshtein	349
The Tel–Chai School Was a Corner of Light for Us	Eliezer Poloshko	355
The Tel–Chai School Conquered Our Hearts	A. Richman	357
A Fresh Breeze	Yehuda Tsimerman	359
What a School that was!	Bluma Kirshenfeld–Wasser	361
The Joys and Oys of our Tel–Chai School	Hersh Pachter	363
A School like that is hard to find!	Klara Shoshani	364
An Appeal from the Trustees of the Tel Chai School		365
The End–of–the–Year Party of the Hrubieszow Tel–Chai School		365
Kopl Wertman of the Tel–Chai School Speaks		365
The Jewish Youth of the Gymnasium	Shoshana Gertner–Widerman	367
The Women's Professional School	Golda Ader–Lerer	371
Personalities and Folksy Characters		373-464
Preliminary pages, Pictures		373
Avrom Yakov Stern	Yakov Shatzki	377
History of Avraham Ya'akov Shtern	Shmuel Yosef Fin	387
Rabbi Yisra'el Isser Ya'avetz	S. Z. Ya'avetz	389
The Home of Rabbi Yosef Verthaym	Yosef Chrost	393
The Great Rabbi, Rabbi Yosef Verthaym	Dov Aharoni (Fayngloz)	397
A Memorial Candle for Khayim Verthaym	Dov Aharoni (Fayngloz)	401
Rabbi Aharon Fayngloz	Dov Aharoni (Fayngloz)	403
The Great Rabbi Yochanan Twersky, may he rest in peace	Baruch Dovid Zimerman	407
In Memoriam: My Father, Moyshe Vanderboym	David Vanderboym	409
Ben-Tziyon Aksamit (known as Bentshi)	Eliyahu Gertel	409
Avraham Ber Viner	Tuviya Viner	411
Avraham She-day-li	Natan Hadas	411
Young University Graduates in Our Town	Efrayim Shtikh, Advocate	413
Dr. Shlomo Rapoport	Moshe Rapoport	415
Community Activist David Tenenbaum	Shemaryahu Mintz	417
The Tsertl and David Zinger Family	Yosef Chrost	419
Shlomo Aharon Royter	Shmaryahu Mintz	420
Moshe Yehuda Mernshteyn	Me'ir Holtzer	421
Ya'akov Royter	D. Aharoni	421
My Brother Meir Ader	Golda Ader–Lerer	421
Mechel Gertel	Eliyahu Gertl	423
Avrom Eisen	Anonomous	423
Kopel Vartman	Eliezer Pulushko	424
Noteworthy People of Skryhiczyn	Simkha Dantsiger	425
My Brother, Yitzkhak Fayngloz	Dov Aharoni	426
Zisha and Sorele Roitman	Pearl Lerer–Cohen	427
The Entrepreneur, Yosele Hecht	Yosef Schwartz	427
Characters and Personalities	Shimshon Cohen	429
Hrubieszow's Folksy Characters	Natan Hadas	435
Our Teacher, Traytl		435
Avrom the Long		441
Ephraim Leib, the Shamash		443
Hersh Leib Treger		445
Shiya Kugel the Tailor		446
Dovid Valkavnik		447
Moshe the Jew		447
Noah Zelner		448
Yidele the Dibbuk		448
Azriel Finkelstein	Mendel Korn	449
Moshe Aleinik (the Lonely)	David Bar-Noor	450
Chaya Reizel Shneider	Yekhezkel Korn	451
Reyzele	Nekhoma Goldberg	451
Moshe Kaminyar	Dvoyra Gertl	453
Motte	Meir Hoffman	453
They Didn't Make It to Israel	Moshe Moskal	455
Friday Among the Shops	Meir Hoffman	457
Memories		465-564
Preliminary pages, Pictures		465
People and Town	Borekh Yanover	469
Hrubieszow During World War I	Natan Hadas	483
The Chvorniak (Four-Plex)	Meyer Hoffman	503
A Walk Down Shul (Synagogue) Street	Leybish Frost	513
Fifty Years Ago	Max Fire	522
The River	Natan Hadas	523
Shabbat Events	Yidl Zimerman	527
The Warehouses are Burning	Natan Hadas	529
Who Caused the Fire?		531
They Did Not Steal from Jews		535
Greenery for Shavuot		537
Oh, How Nice and Good It Is To Be A Jew!		539
Odds and Ends from Here and There	Yehoshu'a Zomer	541
Engraved in My Memory	Yankev Mayl	547
Conscription in Our Town	Natan Hadas	549
The Criminal World	Shalom Vayner	551
The Fate of a Poster	Natan Hadas	555
The Home of Reb Hirshele Mints	Shemaryahu Mints	557
Hrubieszow at Work and At Play (Pictures)		559
A Visit to Our Town	Yehuda Hofman	563
Hassidism, Stories, and Poems		565-596
Preliminary pages, Pictures		565
How the sheketz t'shoktzeu Drove Away the Demons	Natan Hadas	569
The sheketz t'shoktzeu and the Bal-Shem-Tov	Natan Hadas	571
The Grandfather of Trisk	Yokhanan Tebriski	572
In the Shtiebel of Trisk	Eliyahu Gertl	573
The Third Shabbat Meal (Shalosh-Seudos) in the Trisk Shtiebel	Natan Hadas	577
The Passing of the Trisk Rebbe	Natan Hadas	579
The Katzker Hasidim	Yechiel Gertner	581
The Haunting of Shloyme Regel	Natan Hadas	583
The Story of a Bagel	Avrom Fox	587
The Ostil Rebbe	Natan Hadas	589
He Gives to Whomever He Wants	Poem	589
You ask me, my Friend	Poem	591
Let's Buy a Revolutionary Newspaper	Poem	591
Rukhele was Lying on her Deathbed	Poem	591
True Love	Poem	593
The Angel of Death	Poem	593
A Poem for Purim	Poem	593
I Feel like Something Joyful!	Poem	595
The Father bought for Yosele	Poem	595
Names and Nicknames	Natan Hadas	595
Hrubieszow is Dying		597-707
Preliminary pages, Pictures		597
Chronology of the Destruction of Hrubieszow	Avraham Eizen z”l	601
In the First Weeks of the War	Leibish Prost	607
What we Saw and Lived Through	Moshe Moskol and Avraham Tzimmerman	613
My Father's Last Letter	Eliezer Aharon Zommer	617
I Will Never Forget It	Eliyahu Zilberblech	619
Not to be Written!	Reuven Katz	623
A Bath has already been Prepared	Yaakov Tchechovitch	627
Instead of a Tombstone	Yechiel Feier z”l	627
The Testimony of Tzvi Pachter	From Protocols of the Court	629
The Testimony of Yaakov Biskowitz	From Protocols of the Court	633
I do not Know where the Bones of my Children are	Roza Zilbermintz	641
Of Those Days and Nights	Henia Zilbermintz-Huberman	645
Something from those Days of Destruction	Avraham and Sheindel Goldfarb	649
And I have Remained Alone	Yaakov Tchechovitch	657
What there was and No Longer is	A. A. Zommer	679
How I Saved Myself?	Naftali Myal	681
Life and Death in the Hand of Fate	Natan Gvirtz	683
The Destruction of My Family	Manya Lerech	687
“Let us be Brave like Lions”	The Australian Jewish News	689
A Poem from Treblinka	Sheindel and Avraham Goldfarb	689
The Last Days	Yaakov Rozenblat, Avraham and Leib Lerer	691
We Were Left Two Hundred	Yitzchak Landsberg	691
The Information from Hrubieszow – They didn't Believe it in Warsaw	Chava Folman	693
In the Days of Holocaust and Vengeance	Israel Vis	695
Hrubieszow Townspeople in the Tuchyn Forests	Leibish Prost	697
Captain Leon Poretski Tells	Leon Poretsk	701
Who is “Gittele” of Hrubieszow?	Chaya Dorembus	701
Farewell Letter from Mottel a Member of Freiheit	Yediot	703
A Light in the Night	Bluma Kirshenfeld-Wasser	705
After the Holocaust		709-724
Preliminary Pages, Pictures		709
Thus Began the Liquidation of the Community of Hrubieszow		713
Each Stone Calls and Screams!	Mordecai Hurwitz	715
Ten Jews Remained in Hrubieszow	Eliyahu Shanl	717
The Same Signs But Different Families	Avrom Kvasovitser	717
The Seven Thousand Jews of Hrubieszow Are No More	M. Tsanin	719
My Home, Hrubieszow, is Destroyed	Dr. Shmuel Ayl	719
The Survivors Organize Themselves	Avrom Tsimerman	721
Natives of Hrubieszow in Israel and Worldwide		725-804
Preliminary pages		725
After the war, the survivors from Hrubieszow organize and seek a way to reach the Land of Israel	Images	729
The Life and Achievements of Shlomo Gartl	Adina Kahana	731
From Hrubieszow to Gymnasiya Herzliya	Dr. Matityahu Shtich	733
I Saw the Cream of the Crop, and They Are Few		737
Our Father, Yehoshua Shifman	The Shifman family	747
Notes on Shimshon Cohen	David Tzimerman	749
In Memory of Shimshon Cohen	Yosef Efraimi	751
Notes on Yekhiel Fayer		753
A Faithful Soldier, Ready for Battle	Dr. Matityahu Shtikh	755
Notes on Meir Holtzer		755
In Memory of Ya'akov Bukhtreger	His Wife	755
Menashe Kahana	Shimshon Cohen	757
In Memoriam, Thirty Days After His Death	A Friend	757
Shmuel Tsigl	Moshe Tsigl	759
In Memory of Shmuel	Shulamit Tsigl	760
In Memory of Shoshana Hofman	Eliyahu Gartl	761
Sarah Frumer – My Sister	Her brother, Moshe	762
The Association of Natives of Hrubieszow, Israel	Avraham Tzimerman	763
From the Steppes of Siberia to the Land of Israel	Adina Lahav	765
Features of the New Immigrants	Leybish Frost	767
Years of Wandering	Yosef Shvarts	769
Our Townspeople in the United States	Beni Kuper	775
The Hrubieszow Ladies' Society	Yekhezkel Korn	777
Grabowice-Hrubieszow Branch 400 of the Jewish National Worker's Union	Yehoshua Pachter, Khayim Pinkhas Blats	779
Regulations of the First Hrubieszow Benevolent Society to Aid the Sick in New York		781
Arn Yoel Family Circle	Motl Shayber	785
The Activity of the Pachter Family	Tzvi Tzvilik	787
Hrubieszow Natives in Australia		789
Hrubieszow Natives in Mexico		789
Letter from Peru	Shmuel Shaffer	791
Hrubieszow Natives in Israel		793
Only the Hrubieszow Memorial Book Remains	Baruch Kaplinski	805
English Section		I-XVIII
Only the ”Pinkas Hrubieshov” Remained	Baruch Kaplinsky	III
Sparks Light the Way	Joseph Epstein	V
Tel Hai School – Ray of Light	Kliezker Polushko	VI
The J.H. Brenner Memorial Library	Eliahu Gertel	VII
How the “Minyan” Drove out Evil Spirits	Natan Hadass	VIII
In the Trisker Shtiebel	Eliahu Gertel	IX
Trade between the two World Wars	Yeheskel Ader	X
The Merchants' Association	Joseph Schwartz	XI
Disaster and Heroism	Israel Weiss	XIII
The Liquidation of Hrubieshov Jewry	Hava Follman	XIV
I Shall Never Forget those Days	Eliahu Silverblech	XV
Who is “Gitele” of Hrubieshov?	Chaia Dorembus	XV
….. And I Remained Alive…	Yankel Tschechowitz	XVI
How I Saved Myself	Naphtali Meil	XVI
The Last Days	Jacob Rosenblatt, Abraham and Leib Lehrer	XVII

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