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Translation of
Sefer yizkor Lask
Editor: Zev Tzurnamal
Published in Tel Aviv 1968
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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
From the Editor [H] | Z. Tz. | |
In lieu of Introduction [Y] | Zeev Tzurnamal | 10 |
Congratulations to the Editor [H] | Organization of Lask former residents | 14 |
Impressions and Memories | ||
Little about everything | Alter Widovski | 15 |
Lask landscapes | Zeev Ahi-Efraim [Efraim's brother] | 24 |
My town of birth | Zeev Tzurnamal | 31 |
Bits of memories | Zeev | 40 |
The religious life | Zeev Tzurnamal | 49 |
At twilight in the old Stiebel | Eliezer Elai | 75 |
The Mikve [the ritual bathhouse] | Yechiel Neuman | 79 |
Small fires and big fires | Zeev | 82 |
The Anti-Semitic scandal | Yakov Levkowitz | 86 |
The unsuccessful attempt | Zeev | 89 |
Memories from the Gymnastics Association | Chaim Byalik | 91 |
The town's water-carrier | Yechiel Neuman | 93 |
When the Holy Sabbath arrives | Eliezer Elai | 100 |
In a few short strokes | Zeev | 106 |
The crazy and the infirm | A Lasker | 114 |
Butchers and carriage drivers | Yechiel Neuman | 120 |
Lasker revolutionaries | Zeev | 124 |
A Jewish Mayor for one day | Yechiel Neuman | 129 |
Figures and Personalities | ||
The Lask scholars | The Editor | 131 |
The treasure (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 142 |
The Rav R'Yakov Meislish | Zeev | 143 |
The Rav and his house [Y] | Eliezer Elai | |
R'Itche Gerzon | Zeev | 162 |
The Rav R'Leibel Eisenberg | Ben Dvora Mirl | 165 |
R'David Eisenberg | David Halachmi | 174 |
R'Heinich Yide Moishe's | Ben-Moshe | 176 |
R'Zelig Kozhmin | Ben-Moshe | 182 |
R'Shalom Brzhezhinski | Avraham Kozhmin | 184 |
R'Moishe'le Bornstein | Ahi-Efraim [Efraim's brother] | 190 |
R'Mordechai Schiratzki | Zeev | 209 |
R'Efraim Bornstein | His brother Zeev | 211 |
R'Mates, cantor and slaughterer [Chazan-Shochet] | Zeev | 217 |
R'Berish Neuman | A pupil | 222 |
R'Kopel Zhitintzki | A pupil | 226 |
R'Shlomo and Efraim Naskowitz | Zeev | 229 |
R'Daniel Plachta | Ahi-Sara [Sara's brother] | 234 |
R'Shlomo Besserglick | Ahi-Michael [Michael's brother] | 238 |
R'Shimon and Avraham Warshaver | Zeev | 243 |
Singer the barber-surgeon [Y] | Welvel Moishele's | 245 |
R'Aba Byalik | Zeev Moishele's | 250 |
Economic Corporations | ||
The economic face of the town [H] | Sharaga Neuman | 256 |
Charitable women | Laskay | 268 |
The Craftsmen's Association [Y] | A Lasker | 274 |
The Loan-Without-Interest Fund | A Lasker | 278 |
Parties, Movements and Society | ||
The Zionist Organizaton | Zeev Tz. | 293 |
The JNF | Chava Bornstein | 316 |
Pioneer Youth, Hanoar Hazioni, Hashomer Hatzair & Hechalutz | Avraham Kuzhmin | 324 |
The Social life [Y] | Zvi Michaeli | 335 |
With the poet Yitzhak Katzenelson | Achi Machtasha | |
Libraries, sports, Drama Club [Y] | W. Moisheles | 351 |
The Revisionists and BEITAR | Yechiel Neuman | 357 |
The Tarbut School [Y] | Machtasha Troiba | 362 |
The Heder Yesodei Tora | A Lasker | 366 |
The Jewish Library [Y] | Shimol Simel | 368 |
The activity of JNF | Avraham Kuzhmin | 373 |
The Holocaust | ||
Israel's victory in 1967 | The Editor | 377 |
The poem about the Rodziner rabbi | Yitzhak Katzenelson | 379 |
Elegy on the ruins of my town (poem) | Z. Tz. | 381 |
In the murderous hands [Y] | Noah Pietrkovski | 384 |
A song for my mother [Y] | Mordechai Elai | |
The Judenrat [Y] | Yekel Levkowitz | 417 |
Ghetto (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 432 |
Rivke'le (poem) | David Lehrer | 433 |
Life in the ghetto [Y] | Rachel Grindler-Korn | 435 |
I mourn and weep [Y] | Yeshayahu Weisselson | 448 |
Surviving all troubles, thank God [Y] | Avigdor Weinberg | 450 |
Ghetto B (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 464 |
My life experiences and survival [Y] | Hinda Moses-Naskowitz | 465 |
It has been 25 years… [Y] | David Lehrer | 473 |
A letter from the Future World [Y] | Chaim Byalik | 477 |
The lament of the hangman (poem) | Avraham Fokatch | 480 |
The design of Destruction | Avraham Fokatch | 482 |
Through all the Gates of Hell [Y] | Rivtche Weinberg-Griner | 483 |
In the gas-chamber (poem) [Y] | Chaim Lehrer (America) | 496 |
From the Lodz ghetto to Israel [Y] | Esther Karmiol-Zendel | 498 |
The torn coat [Y] | David Lehrer | 506 |
False hopes (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 511 |
The last of a generation [Y] | Golda Kiebel-Katz | 512 |
The hill (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 522 |
A wave of pain [Y] | Hinde Goldhammer-Rechtman | 523 |
Through labor camps to Israel [Y] | David Lehrer | 538 |
The little sidur (prayerbook) [Y] | Golda Kiebel-Katz | 541 |
Ma Nishtana (from the Passover Hagada) | David Lehrer | 544 |
Over masses of graves [Y] | Machtasha Troiba | 546 |
Father mine, Mother (poems) | David Lehrer | 554 |
In the last minute [Y] | Shmuel Friedman | 557 |
Alive out of the blood bath [Y] | Zvi Michaeli | 582 |
A look back [Y] | David Lehrer | 589 |
To the Nations (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 594 |
He wanted to see his father [Y] | David Lehrer | 595 |
Dramatic curiosities [Y] | Sharaga Neuman | 598 |
The concentration camp (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 617 |
From slavery to freedom | Yithak Troiba | 618 |
I am looking for flowers (poem) [Y] | Chaim Lehrer (America) | 621 |
My liberation [Y] | Yaffa Neuman-Korn | 622 |
Beloved places (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 628 |
My worries and doubts | Zeev Ahi-Zvi [Zvi's brother] | 629 |
Remember and never forget [Y] | David Lehrer | 635 |
The boss [Y] | Zeev Tzurnamal | 637 |
To our neighbors (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 640 |
Hans Bibov, the murderer | From the press | 641 |
Hans Bibov to the gallows | Aliza Neuman | 649 |
The survivors | Ben Dvora Mirl | 654 |
With the Holocaust survivors | Avraham Kuzhmin | 657 |
Tidings of Peace (poem) | Mordechai Elai | 670 |
Recognition and thanks for Jews-savers | Zeev Ahi-Yissachar [Yissachar's brother] | 671 |
Organization of Laskers in Israel | Ahi-Sarah [Sarah's brother] | 676 |
The rush to America [Y] | Ahi-Zvi [Zvi's brother] | 683 |
Lasker Association in America [Y] | Yakov Reichbart | 686 |
Lasker Association in England, France & Germany [Y] | Ahi Machtasha [Machtasha's brother] | 690 |
Glowing embers | Moshe Meir's brother-in-law | 695 |
Epilogue: | ||
Monuments in the Chamber of the Holocaust and the Martyrs' Forest | Ahi-Chaia [Chaia's brother] | 697 |
Two monuments in America, dedicated to Lask martyrs | ||
YIZKOR [Hebrew and English] | The Editor | 701 |
List of martyrs (Necrology) | Collected by the Neuman brothers | 705 |
The twenty [Y] | Editorial Board | 722 |
A Mass Grave | Editorial Board | 723 |
On the grave of our fathers | Editorial Board | 724 |
Heroes in the War of Independence | Editorial Board | 725 |
Died or were brought to burial in Israel | 728 | |
R'Moshe Chaim Pshychatzki | Yekl Levkowitz | 729 |
Heinich the blind | Zeev | 731 |
Lask, My Home Town | Zeev Tsurnamal | 1 |
Rabbi Yaacov Meizlech | Zeev Tsurnamal | 11 |
Rabbi Leibel Eisenberg | Zeev Tzurnamal | 18 |
Rabbi Mordechai Shiratzky | Zeev Tzurnamal | 32 |
The Zionist Movement in Lask | Zeev Tzurnamal | 35 |
A person from Lask | 58 | |
Youth that was and is no more | David Lerer | 65 |
The Judenrat in Lask | Yekel Levkovitz | 73 |
Life in thr ghetto | Rachel Grindler-Korn | 90 |
Walking on mass graves | Machtasha Troiba | 102 |
Wanted to see his father | David Lerer | 110 |
The Sidur'l | Golde Katz-Kibel | 113 |
A well of pain | Hinda Rechtman | 116 |
Respect for Jew-savers | Z. Ben-Moshe | |
The survivors | Ben-Dvora Mirl | 129 |
Encounter with survivors from our home-town | Abraham Kozymyn | 134 |
Organization of Lask immigrants abroad | Zeev Tzurnamal | 149 |
The rush to America | Jacob Reichart, N. Y. | 158 |
Lask Association in Paris | Velvel Moshele's | 162 |
Lask Committee in London | Velvel Moshele's | 164 |
Lask Association in Germany | Velvel Moshele's | 165 |
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