Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
Hebrew translated by Yocheved Klausner

Hebrew
Since it reached me	Zalman Shazar	5
Foreword		17
The Star of Stolpce	David Zakay	18
Steibtz, My Town	Zalman Shazar	19
Zalman Shazar, the president of the State of Israel	(From the Press)	24
The speech of the President upon receiving honorary citizenship of Jerusalem		25
The President, honorary member of the Capital's journalists		26
The visit of the Pope in Israel		26
“The Monthly” - published by Shazar in Stolpce in 1903		35
History of the City
The History of the Jews in Stoiptz	Mordechai Machtey	29
My Town Steibtz	Reuven Levine	31
At the outbreak of WWI	Mordechai Machtey	35
Rabbis
Rabbi Dovid Tevli	M. Cinowitz	38
Rabbi Simcha Shmuel	M. Cinowitz	39
Rabbi Binyamin Ben Shmuel	M. Cinowitz	40
Rabbi Meir Noach Halevi Levin	M. Cinowitz	40
Rabbi Shlomo Mordechai Brodneh	M. Cinowitz	41
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak “Maskil–L'eitan”	M. Cinowitz	42
Rabbi Yoel Carmel Sorotzkin	M. Cinowitz	43
The Rav R'Yoel Carmel Sorotzkin	Josef Dov Lachowitzky	44
The Rav R' A. Y. Maskil Le'eitan	The Rav R'Reuven Katz, of blessed memory	45
Rabbi Yoel Sorotzkin	Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin	48
The Rav R'Yehoshua Dov Lieberman	Zvi Stolowitzki	52
Rabbi Moshe Neifeld	Yitzchak Lungin	54
The Rav R'Yerachmiel Leizersohn	The Rav Elchanan Sorotskin	54
The “Chazon Ish”	Getzel Reiser	55
Collected articles on the personality of the “Chazon Ish”	Tzwi Stolowitsky	56
The great scholar R'Reuven Katz z”l	From “Sha'ar Reuven”	58
Rabbis Born in Stolpce
The Rav R'Yochanan Mirski; the rabbis R'David and R'Moshe Vilentchik; the Rav R'Yakov Vilentchik	M. Tzinowitz	59
Mirrored in the Press
Movements and Parties
In Those Days	Getzel Reiser	66
Memories from the life of the Youth Movements	Dov ben Yerucham	68
The Youth in the Working Zionism	Baruch Aloni	70
The “Hashomer Hatza'ir” movement in Stolpce	Tamar Amarant (Rabinovich)	73
The Dry Bones	Dr. Israel Machtey	73
Institutions
Public Institutions; The cultural life; Schools; The Library	Mordechai Machtey	76
“From all my teachers…” [based on Psalms 119:99]	Zalman Shazar	80
R'Chaim Itze Borsok; R'Moshe Leib Tzorlik; R'Yakov Meir Tzorlik; R'Bunia who taught Talmud in the Mir Yeshiva in Stolpce; The “Hevra Kadisha” [Burial Society]	Mordechai Machtey	89
The “Tarbut” School and its teachers	Eliezer Melamed	90
The school	Tamar Amarant (Rabinovich)	91
The new “Bet Hamidrash”	Mordechai Machtey	92
Religious schools: The Talmud Torah “Horev”; “Bet Yaakov”; The little Yeshiva; The learning circle “Tif'eret Bahurim”	Zwi Stolovitsky	94
Figures in town
Introduction	A.M.	95
“The image of a Kohen” - a memorial to my grandfather R'Eliyahu SHOV [the ritual slaughterer]	Dr. Israel Machtey	95
The teacher Alter	Menakham HaLevi	98
In Memory	Moshe Bar' Natan Akon	99
Nachum R' Elihas	Getzel Reiser	100
R'Israel Yehuda Kaputchevski	The Rabbi Moshe Levin	100
Yitzhak Alter Yoselewitz	Shmuel Epstein	102
R'Meir Chayatowitz	Yitzhak Tunik, attorney	102
Scholars and Torah learners: the Rav R'Shlomo Chari; the Rav R'David Shmuelewitz; the Rav R' Moshe Giteles; the Rav R'Yakov Dominitz; R'Yehuda Leib Stolovitzki; R'Moshe Melamed; R'Yosef Miskov; the Rav R'Yeshayahu Borischanski	Tzwi Stolovitsky	105
Itche Margolin	Getzel Reiser	110
Hillel Akon; Shlomo Yosef Yichel	Mordechai Machtey	111
The model teacher	Dov ben Yerucham	112
“One Kadish”; the last rabbi of Stolpce	Rav Zalman Fiboschowitz	114
The “Mesharet Moshe” [wrote a book by this name]; the last rabbi; the last slaughterer	Mordechai Machtey	115
Tribute to the image of a dear friend of my youth	Rav Yitzhak Epstein	117
The Rebbetzin [rabbi's wife] Chasia-Miriam Sorotzkin	Rav Eliezer Maskil Le'eitan	118
Memories
A story of a dispute	Zalman Shazar	120
Memories from the days of my childhood	Mordechai Machtey	124
Untitled poem	Yehezkhel Ben Moshe (Plaksin)	127
Memories	Gershon Rabinovich	127
My parents' home	Tamar Amarant (Rabinovitz)	128
My family	Chana Bursuk	129
Our Home	The Prosinevski sisters	129
Between two regimes
The year 1939	Dr. Ahron Machtey	131
A story of Wandering	Avraham Bursuk	132
The Holocaust
My Shtetl Stolpce	Nachman Flaksin	134
My escape to the forest	Shlomo Aginski	135
How I Survived	Zalman Aginsky	137
Going out of the Ghetto	David Levin	139
In Camp and in the forest	Aizik Bercovitch	140
The Shoah	Eliezer Melamed	146
On the death of my brother	Aizik Bercovitch	160
“And you shall tell your son“	David Levin	170
Dreamers and Fighters
Yosef Harkavi; Moshe Zaretzki; Boaz Axelrod; Hirsh Posesorski; Yakov Spiegel	Eliezer Melamed	171
Feiveh Aginsky	Getzel Reiser	176
A. Yehoshua Peker	Dov Ben-Yerucham	176
B. Yaacov Riefler	Dov Ben-Yerucham	176
C. Meirka Machtei	Dov Ben-Yerucham	177
D. Asaf Shachnai	Miriam Shachnai	177
Sarah Gershenovitz	Eli and Miriam Shachnai	178
Tanchum Rabinovitz	M. Neched	178
Elimelech Machtei	Dov Ben-Yerucham	181
Greetings at a party at the President's residence	Mordechai Machtey	182
At the End of the War	E. Melamed	182
Greetings at the Celebration in Beit Hanassi	Mordechai Machtey	185
Yiddish
The Editors		189
Foreword	Zalman Shazar	190
The Town and Its Development
Steibtz of the Past	Motl Machtey	191
A Lifetime With My Little Village	Zvi Hirsh Neyfeld	196
a. Sixty Years Ago	Mendl Machtey	216
b. The Ferry Over the Niemen River	Mendl Machtey	220
c. Designating Borders	Mendl Machtey	223
Movements and Parties
The Political-Social Life	Mordechai Machtey	225
Zionist Organizations	Shachne Shatskin	228
The Founding of Betar	Shachne Shatskin	230
Institutions
Social Activity Before the First War	Mordekhai Machtey	232
Stoibtz Firefighters	Mordechai Mirski, Betzalel Baskin	235
The Gemillut Chesed in Stoibtz – The Benevolent Society in Stoibtz	Getzl Ryser	239
The Bikkur Cholim – Visiting the Sick	Getzl Ryser	243
The Artisan's Association	Getzl Ryser	245
Folklore
My “Shtetle” [small town] Stolpce	Ben Yerucham	246
Wagon Drivers	Mendl Machtey	255
Memories	Shmuel Milcenzon	257
My memories of Shteibtz	Leibel Mirsky	261
a. He Kept His Word; b. My Last Lag Ba'omer in Steibtz	Yitzchak Russak	262
Stolpce My Shtetele	Ahron Chayat	264
A Memory	Roze Dvoretsky	268
The Family of a Village Jew	Yisroel Proshtsitski	269
Gutkele	Rozze Petshenik–Prusinovski	271
Institutions
The Last Rabbi Of Stoibtz – The Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Dov Lieberman	Rabbi Nissen Waksman	272
The Rabbi Reb Yehoshua Dov Lieberman	Yitzchak Isaac Shapiro	278
My Stolpcer Melamdim (Religious Teachers)	Mordechai Machtey	281
A Bundle of Memories	Aharon Chait	283
A. Two Communal Workers; B. Reb Leib Rozowski; C. The Kitayevicz Family	Getzl Ryser	287
Mulye Kaplan	Chana Borsuk	291
Shlomo and Chiene Ruchl Mirski	Arye Leibl Mirski	292
Elegy About Chazon Ishai [Rabbi Avrom Yeshaya Karelitz]	Chaim Gradde	293
Pillar of Fire	Chaim Grade	294
Morning Stars
a. The protectors of the town; b. The Revenge of the Rebuke; c. Viera Yakovlevna	Zalman Shazar	296
Death
In the Ghetto and in the Concentration Camp	Getzel Reiser	316
With Partisans	Shmuel Leib Aginsky, of blessed memory	325
Fragments from Forest in Flames	Josef Reich	329
From Those Terrible Days	Nakhema Inzelbukh	336
Fear and Pain	Ester Brukhansky	338
A Terrible Day	David Slutsak	339
How I Survived	Shimeon Epstein	341
The Death of the Jews in the Villages	Mendl Machtey	342
Remembrance	Basia Milcenzon	344
I Remember	Betsalel Baskin	345
How Can We Forget	Nakhman Folksin	347
a. Back to Stolpce in July 1944; b. Official Report of the Session of Grief	Getzel Reiser	348
A Letter	Noakh Barsuk	351
The First Letters from Stolpce	Rywka Kantorovitz	353
The First Letters from Stolpce	Azriel Tunik	353
The First Letters from Stolpce	Chava Tunik	354
A letter from a soldier of the Jewish Brigade	Dov Germiza	354
Letters from Africa and Argentina	Bashke (Basia) Milcenzon	355
Letters from Africa	Yehezkel Russak	355
Letters from Argentina	Henie Kushnir	357
Our Organization in Israel	The Editors	358
The bylaws of the Association	The Editors	359
Landsmanschaftn [organizations of people from the same town]
A Short Report of Our Activities	Roze Dvoretsky	362
A Report from Our Committee	Betsalel Baskin	363
The Stolpcer Spiegel [mirror]	From America	365
A Short Overview	Harris Malbin	365
My Memories of 30 Years	Sam Tunik	366
Pictures from Home	Dr. Seifert	369
A Story from the Childhood Years	H. Lempert	370
The History of My Childhood Years	Nakhum Rozovsky	372
Stolpce As I Remember It	Dr. Seifert	373
Stolpcer Landsmanschaft Sent Their Torah Scrolls to Israel	“Forverts“	374
Josl-Shaya the Melamed [religious primary school teacher]	Mordechai Machtey	375
To All Former Stolpcer Jews	The Committee	376
I Return	Zalman Shazar	377
Poems	Nakhman Flaksin	377
Two Stolpcer Golden Weddings	The Committee of the organization	378
The Book of Swerznie
The Book of Swerznie		379
Members of Editorial Board		380
First Memorial Service to the Martyrs of Swerznie	A. D. Sh.	382
Swerznie, the Dear Town of My Birth	Reuven Sperans	385
From the Life of the Town Swerznie As I Remember It	A. Kaplan	387
The Holocaust and Heroism - Memoirs From the Nazi Occupation	Peysekh Epshteyn	454
Rebzevits (Rubezhevichi)	Mendl Machtey	485
The Destruction of Jewish Rebzevits and its Vicinty	Gishke Falayesh	486
From the Press [H]	M. Tsinovitz	488
The Rabbi Leib Pupka, the Son of the Chofetz Chaim, a Resident of Rebzevits		489
My Shtetele Derevna	Ahron Broyda	490
The town Nalibok, its life and its destruction	Chaim Shlosberg	491
Conclusion	The Publishing Committee	494
Alphabetical list of martyrs		495
List of Swerznie martyrs		503
List of partisans who have fallen in the forests and in battle		506
List of former Stolpce residents who died in Israel		507
List of former Stolpce residents who died in Argentina		507
Obituaries - for their holy remembrance		508
Family photographs		517
English Section at the end of the book
Foreword	Zalman Shazar	IV
The History of Steibtz		VIII
A Short Report of Our Activities	Rosa Dvoretsky	IX
A Short Report of Our Activities	Icheskel Russak	XIII
Germiston Pioneers Celebrate Golden Wedding		XIV
How Steibtz Was Destroyed		XV
The Founding of Our Society in Israel		XIX

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