Naliboki, Belarus

Our town Nalibok,
its existence and destruction
(Naliboki, Belarus)

53°45' / 26°27'

Translation of
Ayaratenu Nalibok, hayeha ve-hurbana

Published by: Former Residents of Nalibok

Tel Aviv 1967

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This is a translation of: Ayaratenu Nalibok, hayeha ve-hurbana (Our town Nalibok, its existence and destruction),
Published by: Former Residents of Nalibok, Tel Aviv 1967 (H, Y 239 pages).

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Translated by Ann Belinsky

Preface		11

The History, Economy, Culture and Social Development of Nalibok

Yaacov Ohel (Nemiot) [Y]	Our Shtetl Nalibok	17
Yaacov Ohel (Nemiot) [Y]	The Library and Drama Club	22
Chayim Shlosberg [H]	The Hashomer HaTsa'ir Organization in Nalibok	25

Aspects

Yaacov Ohel [H]	The Rabbi Ga'on Ayeh Leib Ragaznitsky z”l	29
Rachel Feldman and Avraham Viner [H]	In Memory of the Rabbi Yom–Tov Lipman Guttman z”l	30
Yaacov Ohel [H]	In Memory of the Missing Ones	33
Pnina and Chayim Shlosberg [H}	A Portrait of Chaya Nemiot z”l	35
Perla Schmidt Shlosberg [Y]	Rabbi Itche and Chaya Fraydel Shlosberg	36
Perla Schmidt Shlosberg [Y]	A Yizkor candle for my dear grandfathers z”l	37
Grunia Mordehovitz–Tisnboim [Y]	In Eternal Honor – Without Tombstones	38
Akiva Shimonovitz [H]	Episodes from Childhood	41
Avraham Viner [H]	I Loved You, My Town (Nalibok)	45
Mila Ohel [H]	Hakafot	48
Hirshel (Tzvi) Skaliot	Memories	57
Sula Rubizevsky–Rubin [Y]	A Yizkor Candle for a Whole Family	68
Shula Rubizevsky–Rubin [English]	Hands of Blood	73
Chayim Shlosberg [Y}	Memories	75
Yisrael Shlosberg [Y]	My Experiences	79
Yisrael Bolotnitzky [Y]	Memories and Experiences	85
Tuvia K. [Y]	Nalibok in the First and Second World Wars	91
Akiva Shimonovitz [Y]	A Memorial Candle: In the Forest	91
Chayim Shlosberg [H]	After the Massacre in Dvoretz	101
Yaacov Oshman	Memories	108

Struggle And Resistance

Dr. S. Amarant [H]	The Jews of Nalibok in the Forest of the Partisans	115
Perla Schmidt Shlosberg [Y]	Memories and Experiences	146
Hirshel (Tzvi) Skaliot [Y]	Memories of a Partisan	166
Fania Fisher–Leviatan	Justice: Revenge	177

Gran and Derevna

Nachman Barman [Y]	Gran and Derevna, their Life and Destruction	179

Yizkor

Necrology		208
List of the Martyrs		233

List of Nalibok Townspeople who Survived [H]		239

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