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Lanovits: sefer zikaron le-kedoshei lanovits she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim
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| Editorial Comment | 5-7 | |
| Chapter 1: | Lanowitz, History and Memories | |
| H. Rabin | Historical Survey | 11-19 |
| Shalom Avital | Lanowitz at the Beginning and at the End | 20-22 |
| Motke Roichman | Man and his Environment | 23-40 |
| Eliezer Zinberg | Our Home in the Stetl | 41-43 |
| Beiril Goldberg | Memories of My Family | 44-47 |
| Bluma Miller | My Stetle, My Family | 48 |
| Bonia Stein-Spitzer | About Your Lanowitz and my Aunt…. | 50-51 |
| Shlomo Pacht | This Event Happened | 52-54 |
| Chapter 2: | Lanowitz-Holocaust and its Aftermath | |
| Moshe Rosenberg | In the Lanowitz Ghetto, from the Beginning until its Liquidation | 56-68 |
| Meir Becker | The Lanowitz Ghetto and my Escape from it | 69-75 |
| Issac Landau | Horror Journal | 76-90 |
| Shlomo Pacht | Lanowitz-Majdanek, 1944 | 91-94 |
| Shalom Segal | How my Daughter was Saved | 95-97 |
| Moshe Rosenberg | About Idis' Daughter | 98 |
| Byya Goldberg | Horror Details | 99 |
| Chapter 3: | In the Soviet Diaspora | |
| Feiril Melamed | Remembering Lanowitz in My Wanderings | 104-106 |
| Aryeh Ginzburg | From Lanowitz to the Soviet Union | 107-112 |
| Batya (Melamed) Taitel | This is How We Lived in Russia | 113-118 |
| Shlomo Taitel | An Addendum to Batya's Report | 119-120 |
| Joseph Viner | My Experience Under the Soviet Regime | 121-124 |
| Mendel Brimmer | Difficult Separations | 125-131 |
| Zvi Meil | I Was in Lanowitz After the Holocaust | 132-136 |
| Editors | Yosef Marder, Caretaker of Our Mass Graves | 137-139 |
| Mendel Brimmer | Moishe Marder | 140 |
| Chapter 4: | In the Thicket of Redemption | |
| Moni | Each Generation and its Zionists | 142-147 |
| Israel Glazer | First Hehalutz Branch in Lanowitz | 148-153 |
| Zvi Brimmer | Hehalutz Hatza'ir in Lanowitz | 154-156 |
| Sonia Shar (Shifman) | My Pioneering Days in Lanowitz | 157-160 |
| Sarah Kitikisher | Beitar Hakhsharah in Lanowitz | 161 |
| Etil Adler Spiler | Redemption that Ended Poorly | 162 |
| Moni | Dramatics in Lanowitz | 163-165 |
| Josef Buchstein | Changes in Class Standing in Lanowitz | 166-168 |
| Shalom Avital | Youth and Its Yearning | 169-170 |
| Cherna Rabin | In Memory of Those Friends that Perished | 171-174 |
| Chapter 5: | Significant Persons and Dr. Zinberg | |
| Hayim Rabin | The Legacy of Lanowitz in the Writings of Dr. Y. Zinberg | 177-182 |
| David K'na'any | The Author and his Project | 183-186 |
| Eliezer Zinberg | In Memory of Yisroel Zinberg | 187-191 |
| D.A. | Zinberg's Heritage and Posterity | 193-197 |
| Ozer Lerner | Our Late Rabbi Motel Speizman | 198-200 |
| Rabbi Aharon Wertheim | Rav Aharon Rabin, Our Last Town Rabbi | 201-204 |
| The Late Reb Yisroel (Srulikol) Rabin | 204 | |
| Lola Friedman Katilansky | Zeida Katilansky | 205-206 |
| Editor | About Shaiky and Zuni (Rabin) | 207-210 |
| Lola Katilansky | Yosef Ozer Shprit | 210-213 |
| Rabbi Y. Opatovsky | Lanowitz and its Notables | 214-216 |
| Ch. Livne | Feiga, the Bath Attendant | 217-218 |
| B. Harin | Leizer “The Greener” | 219-223 |
| Yeheskel Shmukler | Arenda Holders | 224-226 |
| Chapter 6: | Lanowitz in Legends | |
| Ch. Rabin | Lanowitz Legends | 229-234 |
| Editor | The Original Barons of Our Town | 235-237 |
| Yisrael Glazer | Experiences We Do Not Forget | 238-239 |
| Yizhak Meir Weitzman | Calling Up 4th to the Torah | 240-245 |
| Ch. Rabin | Yizkor for Lanowitz's Martyrs | 246 |
| Chapter 7: | Our Losses in Our Homeland | |
| Ch. Rabin | Feiga Roichman (Nechtelman) | 249-253 |
| Yisrael Glazer | Our First Halutzah, Feril Yishpe-Gilboa z”l | 254-255 |
| H.M. Ran | The Late Zvi Rabin (1913 – 1946) | 256 |
| B. Y. Haran | The Late Shoshana (Rozhya) Stein-Koitel | 257 |
| Moni | Fotsi - Yizhak Gluzstein | 258 |
| Ya'acov Valaizi | The Late Avraham Roichman | 259-260 |
| Y. Glazer | The Late Y. Zingel | 261-262 |
| Y. Glazer | The Late Yizhak Kirshon | 263-264 |
| R. Hadar | The Late Hava (Mirotznik) Taichman | 265-266 |
| Editor | Hayya Fuchs | 267 |
| Ya'acov Fialkov | The Late Hayya Feiga Fleishman | 268-269 |
| Editor | Rav Glazer | 270 |
| Ch. Rabin | Yizhak Shemesh | 271-272 |
| Chapter 8: | Yiddish Section - Lanowitz, History, People & Memories | |
| Ch. Rabin | Historical Survey | 279-283 |
| Yosef Warrach | Lanowitz, a Spiritual Concept | 284-287 |
| Avraham Teichman | Lanowitz, Types and Pages | 288-301 |
| Yosef Warrach | A Visit to Lanowitz | 302-303 |
| Byya Goldenberg | A Few Family Remembrances | 304-309 |
| Chapter 9: | Death and Horrors | |
| Moshe Rosenberg | In the Lanowitz Ghetto- From the Beginning until its Liquidation | 313-328 |
| Meir Becker | My Escape from the Lanowitz Ghetto | 329-338 |
| Byya Goldenberg | How Our Rabbis Perished | 339-340 |
| Ya'acov Kagan | In Our Shtetl and Far Away | 341-343 |
| Aryeh Ginzburg | From Lanowitz to the Soviet Union | 344-351 |
| Batya (Melamed) Taitel | This is How We Lived in Russia | 352-359 |
| Shlomo Taitel (Tamri) | An Addendum to Batya's Report | 360-361 |
| Joseph Viner | My Experience Under the Soviet Regime | 362-367 |
| Yitzhak Weinstein | I Was a Witness | 368-373 |
| Photos | 374 | |
| Chapter 10: | Dr. Yisroel Zinberg | |
| Hillel Alexandrov | Yisroel Zinberg & His Archive | 376-383 |
| H. A. | The Zinberg Archives | 384-385 |
| Avraham Below | The Rich Archives of Y. Zinberg in Leningrad | 387-390 |
| Chapter 11: | People and Types | |
| Moni | Dina Kovkes | 393-394 |
| Moni | Uziel Hayim Mordechis | 395-396 |
| Sarah Fickes | Shalom Weisman | 397-399 |
| Shalom Koitel (Avital) | My Three Sisters | 400-401 |
| Yizhak Weinstein | Regarding Zuni (Azriel) Rabin | 402-404 |
| Moni | El'azar (Lazar) Meil | 405-406 |
| Z. Katz (Rabin) | My Grandfather Akivah | 407-408 |
| Moshe Zak (Mexico) | My Family | 409-410 |
| Yeheskel Shmukler | Arenda Holders | 411-415 |
| Ch. Rabin | The Late Shmuel Fischer | 416-417 |
| Photos | 418-420 | |
| Alphabetical List of those Who Perished | 421-435 | |
| List of Homeowners of Houses Shown on Lanowitz City Sketch | 436-440 | |
| Photo captions from the Lanovtsy Yizkor book | ||
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