Book Committee	Introduction
Benyamin Halevi	Forward
The History of our Community Różan
The First Destruction of the Town	Yehuda Kurnik	35
An Escape from a Certain Death (an Episode)	Chaim Raitzik	37
Government Changes But Anti-Semitism Stays	Yecheskel Gelczinski	39
A Blood Libel in Różan	Yechiel Wigoda	42
A Story of Excomunication	Joseph Kwartowicz	44
Joseph Kwartowicz	Zecharia Chanin	46
Death of Jakob Sapirstejn	Natan Wigoda	49
Różan, Nest of Brotherly Love	Bezalel Broide	52
Pictures From the Past	Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	54
A Market Day in Our Town	Lea Broides Kurlender	58
An Episode	Menucha Shultzer	60
Boots (a Story From the Time of the War)	Chaim Plotkin	62
Four Poems	Moishe Przysusker	73
Footsteps of the Past	Alter Rosenfeld	75
Life experiences in Różan	Shalom Perel	77
I see you my Shtetl…	Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	79
Jewish Różan
This Was Our Little Town	Arie Buchner	83
Chapters of Różan	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	85
Różan How Can I Forget Thee?	Natan Wigoda	126
From the Beginning of Childhood Until the Horrible End	Moishe Beilis	127
The Holy Conmmunity Różan	Zecharia Chenin	134
Special Różan	Nute Rogoza	137
Culture Under All Conditions	Lejzer Beilis	142
The Theater in Różan	Chana Holtzman Buchner	143
Memories of the Shtetl	Eliahu Wilgowicz	147
The Last Religious Institutions in Różan	Jehuda Chmiel	152
The Life of the Religious Girls in Różan	F. R.	156
Różan, 1936	Samuel Grushka	158
Memories From Our Little Town	Mendel Burstein	162
Youth Life in Różan Until 1920	Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	172
Youth Movement Life	Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	182
“Poalei Zion Smol” (the Workers of Zion – Left Wing) Movement in Różan	Natan (Noske) Wigoda	187
“Tzeirei Zion” (Youngsters of Zion) Party in Różan	Samuel Rosenberg	194
“Hashomer Hatzair” Movement in Our Little Town	Arje Buchner	197
“Hamizrachi” (Zionist Religious Party) and “Torah Ve'Avoda” (Torah & Labour Movement) in Różan	Mendel Burstein	201
First Football Team in Różan	Arye Buchner	204
Memories of My Shtetl Różan	Nachman Shafran	206
My little Shtetl Różan	Pnina Aharonowitz Katz	209
Różan – Town Landscape and a Dream	Shalom Perel	210
First Immigrants Form Różan to Eretz Israel	Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	213
My Journey to Eretz Israel	Natan Wigoda	218
Personalities and Images
Rabbi Naftali Josef Freund	Bezalel Broide	227
Our Rabbi Naftaly Josef Freund	Yehuda Chmiel	229
Rabbi Shimon Margalit (Margulis)	Yehuda Chmiel	230
Righteousness Women	Yehuda Chmiel	231
The Family Katz (“the Mechanic”)	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	233
Jews in Różan	Yecheskel Gelczynski	235
Henich Buchner and His Wife Chayale	Becalel Broide	237
Arie Buchner – Head of the Youth Movement “Hashomer Hatzair”	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	239
Baruch Bursztayn	Shalom Perel	243
Pessach Bursztayn	Arie Buchner	244
The Ben-Dor (Bender) House	Pessach Mlinek E. B.	246
Jonas Beker	Chaya Losh-Katz	251
Jonas Beker and His Undertakings	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	253
Abraham Szaja Piontnica (the Carpenter)	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	254
Reb Abrahan Segal	Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	256
Różan and Its Typical Characters	Moishe Shultzer	259
Characters of Our Shtetl Różan	Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	266
Types of People and Curiosities of Różan	Zvi Bender	268
Partycular Types of People and Characters	Shlomo Pultusker	273
Tortured And Oppressed…
Memories of the Liberation of Bergen Belsen, 1945	Chana Buchner	284
When World War II Broke Out	Simcha Shafran	286
Testimony of a Child	Itzhak Magnushever	288
That Is How It Began	Moyshe Gruda	289
Notebook of Horrors	Pessach Mlinek	293
From the Horrors and the Miracles of the Holocaust	Bezalel Braide	301
Hardships and Terrors During the Beginning of the War	Mina Mlinek-Magnushever	305
I Cannot Any More…	Moyshe Baran	315
I Was Only Thirteen Years Old	Rachel Viser Nagel	319
From What Was Engraved in My Memory	David Pratz	320
The Boys of Różan Among the Fighters and Resistance (Hebrew)	Mordechai Czechanower	337
The Boys of Różan Among the Fighters and Resistance (Yiddish)	Mordechai Czechanower	340
From the Days of the Holocaust	Rachel Lemberg-Kopecz	344
With the Germans and the Russians	Yecheskel Gelczinski	347
From Różan to Germany and Back	Elyahu Wilgowitz	350
Only Four and a Half Years Old When the War Broke Out	Moyshe Mlinek	358
I Was Fifteen Years Old	Frida Sarig-Weinberg (Aisenberg)	367
In the Ghettos and in the Concentration Camps	Chana Holtzman Buchner	375
From the Holocaust to Exile in Russia	P. R.	385
Rozan – Russia – Różan	Perel Abramowitz Katz	388
Russia – a Sad Chapter in My Life	Chaya Sure Kalmanowitz	393
Bitter Memories	Rachel Kagan Elson	397
From Różan to Russia	Nathan Rzepka	398
The Red Army frees Różan (Hebrew)	Alexander Gurbatov	404
The Red Army frees Różan (Yiddish)	Alexander Gurbatov	405
From Białystok to Exile and Back to Freedom	Pessach Mlinek	407
Struggle for Life	Rachel Glick Wigoda	412
About My Wandering During Years of Holocaust	Arye Albik	418
My Wandering to Eretz Israel	Zorach Rzepka	421
From Leaving Różan to Exodus	Moyshe Malowan	422
Memories of Those Days	Shlomo Pultusker	424
Pages of Yizkor – Remember
We Shall Remember!	Abraham Broides	436
Perished in the Holocaust
Moshe Beilis	Yoel Gru	437
Mother Chana Holcman	Meir Holcman H”YD	439
To the Memory of My Father Chaim-Shlomo Chatzkowicz	Sara Segal Chatzkowicz	438
Remember My family	Pnina Aharonowicz-Katz	440
The Family Piepsz	Icchak Senderowicz	441
To the Memory of My Father and His Family, Rabbi Yosef-Yehuda Freiman ztz”l	Zehava Freiman	443
My Grandmother, My Grandfather, My Father and My Mother – Bela Nudler Feldman	Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	444
In memory of My sister Sarke Wigoda	Chaike Serak Wigoda	446
List of the Jewish Holocaust Martyrs of Różan		447
Commemoration Photographs		462
Died in Israel and in the Diaspora		471
Our Beloved Arie (Recited Near the Open Grave)	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	471
At the End of the Thirty Days of Mourning of Arie Buchners of Blessed Memory	Luba and Itzhak Senderowicz	472
Spoken During the Ceremony of Unveiling the Tombstone	Pessach Mlinek	473
In the End of the Thirty Days of Mourning	Natan Wigoda	474
To the Memory of Tzvi Bender	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	475
Naftali Vilgowicz	Natan Wigoda	477
Another Victim of the Nazi Barbarians	Rzak Brand	478
To the Memory of Chancze Wilogowicz-Wigoda	Lea Broides-Kurlender	479
The Rabbi Chaim Beniamin Wiernik	B. L.	480
My Father Abraham Shaul z”l	Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	481
Shlamek	Shoshana Yatziv-Blum	482
Rabbi Shlomo Platkewicz	M. Platkewicz	483
My Brother Chaim Perel z”l	Shalom Perel	484
To the Memory of Our Friend Beniamin Frenkel	Itzhak Senderowicz	487
A Faithful Friend Since Old Times	Arie Buchner	488
Zehava Krampf Meidenboim	Luba Senderowicz	489
Shmuel Rogoza	Natan Wigoda	490
Rabbi Meshulam Roshiniak	Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	491
Yechiel Rafael Pokshivka	Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	492
List of the Deceased in Israel		493
Fallen in the struggles of the State of Israel
Yehuda Matecki		494
Tuvia Taus	Natan	495
Ilan Ganani	Dan Margalit	496
Yosef Gamer	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	497
Yosef Gamer	Luba and Itzhak Senderowicz	497
Ami Sarig (Weinberg)	Tzvi G.	499
	Yoram	499
Upon Completion of the Book
An Appeal to our Landsleit in Israel and in the Diaspora (1970) (Hebrew)		502
An Appeal to our Landsleit in Israel and in the Diaspora (1970) (Yiddish)		503
Różan Relief Committee in New York	The Committee	504
The Różan Israeli Landsmanschaften and Its Actiivities	The Committee	504
Motel Zamek Celebrates His Four-Score Years	Natan Wigoda	515
The End of the Book	The Editing Board	516
The English Part
Preface	The Editing Committee	5
With this Book	Bejamin Halevy	6
This was Our Little Town	Aryeh Buchner	7
Rozan: An Historical Sketch	Aryeh Buchner	8
On the History of the Town	Aryeh Buchner	14
Rozan, Landscape and Dream	Shalom Perl	16
The Story of Rozan	Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	20
Evidence Given by a Child	Itzchak Magnushever	31
When the War Broke Out	Simcha Shafran (Shaftanovich)	32
I was Fifteen Years Old	Frieda Weinberg-Eisenberg	34
I was Just Thirteen	Rachel Weiser-Nagel	40
What I Remember	David Pratz	43
Troubles and Horrors at the Beginning of the War	Mina Mlinek-Magnushever	59
In the Ghetto and in the Camps	H. H. B.	68
From the Scrap-Book of Horrors	Pessach Mlinek	78
Boys from Rozan Among the Fighters	M. Czechanover	87
I Visited Majdanek	A. Buchner	90
Rozan, Could I Ever Forget You?	Nathan Wyggoda	91
Rozan Relief Committee in New York	Nathan Wyggoda	93

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