Sokołów Podlaski, Poland

Memorial Book Sokolow-Podlask
(Sokołów Podlaski, Poland)

52°24' / 22°15'

Translation of
Sefer ha-zikaron; Sokolow-Podlask

Editor: M. Gelbert

Published in Tel Aviv 1962

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
Bea Opengart

Alfred Opengart z”l (emeritus)

This is a translation of: Sefer ha-zikaron; Sokolow-Podlask (Memorial book Sokolow-Podlask),
Editor: M. Gelbert, Residents of Sokolow-Podlask in Israel and in the USA, Published: Tel Aviv 1962 (H,Y 813 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Sokolow Podlaski (1962)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Editorial Board for the Sokolov yizker-bukh		7
Sokolov Podlaski City Map	Meyshe Zaints	8
Introduction		10
Let us Tell		12

The Old Home
Sokolow Podalski	Ithak Raizman	17
The AMDOR of Sokolow-Podlask	Gad Zaklikovski	29
Rabbi Moshe Zvi Vingerten	Yitzhak Caspi	37
The Sokolov Melody	Khayim Meyshe Mayzlish	39
The Sokolov Rebi's Yeshive	Mordkhe Khayne	45
Our House in the Shul–heyf	Hershl Madanski	51
From the Shtetl	Meyshe Mandlboym	56
Sokolov Between the Two World Wars	Meyshe Zayants	72
The Street of My Childhood Years	Sore Bar–Sholem	91
“Koze” Street	Perets Granatshteyn	96
Our shtetl	Nakhum Zilberman	104
Sokolov Until the Destruction	Avrom Beialilev	109
The great fire	Hershel I. Koifman	117
Chevrat Hashkama [the Hashkama Society]	Yitzhak Reisman	123
In the Shtetl	Borekh Rozenboym	128
My Shtetl Sokolov	Yisroel Kasher	132
Grandfather is writing a Torah Scroll	M. Resnik	142
The night tells the story	Moshe Steingart	144
Accompanying my father	Moshe Steingart	145
Of Old-time Sokolov	Gad Zaklikowski	147
Jewish Economic Life in Sokolov	Neta Koyfman (Ekhu)	155
The Jewish community in Sokolow	A. Byalilew, P. Rafalowitz	170
Chevra Kadisha [burial society] Tehillim	A. Rubinstein	179
The Jewish Loan Fund	Pinchas Rafalowitz	181
Sokolow craftsmen	N. Fademberg	186
The T.O.Z. in Sokolow	A. Rubinstein, Ch. Rotstein	190
From the Sokolow hell	Ch. Rotstein	197
The “Yavne” School in Sokolow	P. Rafalowitz	200
Hashomer Hadati movement in Sokolow	A. Rubinstein	206
The Russian and the German	Yekhiel Ornshteyn	209
Sokolov Youth	I. Nahari–Mendzshitski7	211
The Freiheit [freedom] movement in Sokolow	Zvi Tchechanovski	218
The Zionist movement in Sokolow	I. Grinberg	223
The joy of youth in the Hashomer Hatzair branch [H]	Adina Yellin-Landoi	227
The Bund in Sokolov from 1900 to 1911	Nosn Fodemberg	229
The Bund Movement in Sokolow	Baruch Rosenboim	233
The “Bund” in Sokolow	Chanina Rotstein	236
My environment	Neta Koifman	241
Prayer-houses in Sokolow	P. Rafalowitz	255
On the Roads to the Familiar Shtetl	Y. Rozenberg	284
Social struggle in Sokolow [H]	Chaim Bar-Shalom	287
Pioneers among the Sokolow Zionists [H]	Ch. Bar-Shalom	288
The last memories	Lea Morgenstern	289
Sokolow during the century	Ch. Bar-Shalom	293
Between hammer and anvil	I. Grinberg	304
The day of the Balfour Declaration [H]	Matel Frieder-Kaplan	307
Agudat Israel in Sokolow	A Sokolower	311
Sokolow-Podalski	Avraham Spadel	312

Destruction
The Sokolow Ghetto	Simcha Palakiewitz	323
The ruin of Sokolow [H]	Pinchas Rafalowitz	397
On the “Aryan Side” and in the forest	Tzipora Rosen-Achron	431
From the German hell	Chana Shtutman-Wishny	442
The Bedeviled Circle of Danger	Gedalye Vishny	451
In the Aryan Side	Fala Schwarz	458
Escaped from Treblinka	Shimon Greenspan	465
From the old days	Shmuel Cohen	469
In the German camps	E. Steinberg	478
With the French “Resistance"	Hershel I. Koifman	518
In a Partisan printing-shop	A. Farbirazh	523
Between death and life	Ch. Greenberg	530
Back in Sokolow	Chava Shpadel	536
Sokolow without Jews	Shlomo Rotstein	540
Sokolow after the end	M. Tzanin	544
A memorial list of victims		548
Landsmanshaft in Chicago	M. Mandelboim	575
Landsmanshaft in New-York	M. Chayne	588
Landsmanshaft in Los Angeles	Chanina Rotstein	599
Landsmanshaft in Paris	Aizik Gaftarnik	602
Landsmanshaft in Israel	Ch. Bar-Shalom	614
Gad Zaklikovski, Yakov Friedlov, Alter Dorfsgeyer, Aharon Vans, Israel Bram	Simcha Palakiewitz	692
Butche Rubinstein's yard	P. Granatstein	708
Arie Tzibola	Peretz Granatstein	713
Hershel Grinberg	Gad Zaklikowski	718
Alter Ben-Zion Schuster	Gad Zaklikowski	720
Berl Meter-Boiman	Gad Zaklikowski	722
R'Yitzhak'l Soifer, Alter Chaim Kapawi, Yakov Leib Blumberg, Hershl Lapata, Golde the laundry-woman, Chaim Baruch Wassertreger [water carrier], Shmuel Pasmanter	Avraham Byalilew	726
Chaim Shmuel Rosenbliem, Mordechai Zalmans (Winagora), Israel Yankele, Avraham Yoel Melamed (Hochberg), Chane Sheine Chave's	Yakov Grinberg	733
Der Alter Yakel [old Yakel], Shiye Dvoshes, Yankel Chacham, Mordechai Zalmans, Mordechai Lokaver	Hershel I. Koifman	737
R'Pinye Ashers	Beltche Hendel-Reisman	741
Kalman Yechiel Friedman, Avraham Steinwaks, Chanoch Dagan, Zvi Betzali, Chana di bekerin [Chana the baker woman]	Yechiel Orenstein	744
R'Pintche, R'Moshe Aharon, R'Zelikel	Leibush Rubinstein	749
Chaim Moshe Spielman	Dr. Avraham Spielman	752
Avraham Vierzhbe	Ch. Bar-Shalom	755
Yidele Grinberg	K. Giesser	757
Necrology		759

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