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Translation of
Ha-ayara be-lehavot; sefer zikaron le-kehilat Olkenik pelekh Vilna
Editor: Shlomo Farber
Published in Tel Aviv 1962
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Our thanks to Sondra Ettlinger for extracting the pictures
This is a translation from: Ha-ayara be-lehavot; sefer zikaron le-kehilat Olkenik pelekh Vilna
(Olkeniki in flames; a memorial book to the community of Olkenik in the Vilna district),
Editor: Shlomo Farber, Tel Aviv 1962, Association of Former Residents of Olkeniki and Surroundings (H, Y 287 pages)
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Hebrew translated by Sara Mages
Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
Editorial | 7 | |
Map of Olkeniki and the surrounding area | 7 | |
Words to be said in the Memorial Ceremony | S. P-R | 9 |
Introduction | S. P. | 10 |
Chapters in history | ||
The origin of the name Olkeniki | S.P-R | 13 |
The town and its daughters | S. P-R | 19 |
Olkeniki from the beginning of the century until the Holocaust | S.P-R | 21 |
Paths (Poem) | Avraham Menachemi | 32 |
Institutions, organizations, societies and personalities | 33 | |
Public institutions | S.P-R | 39 |
Institutions for Torah study | K.P-R | 40 |
Community elections in 1921 | 41 | |
The town, its landscape and stories of the cultural pattern | ||
Topography, landscape, transportation, residents' businesses | S.P-R | 45 |
Chapters of the way of life of the previous generation | S.P-R | 52 |
Hadarim[1] in the town | Shlomo Karpowich | 54 |
R' Zelig the melamed and his heder[1] | S.P-R | 55 |
Gas installation in the House of Study[2] | Sh. P. | 56 |
My Birthplace Olkeniki | Yakov Agami | 57 |
Aliya to Israel | Zahava Menachmi Tanel | 57 |
Matzos' baking (From Mina Bank-Goldberg) | Sh. P. | 58 |
The Bus Appears in the Town | Y. M-N | 60 |
The Fire in the Town; Delay in Reading in Olkeniki | Sh. P. | 60 |
The Weddings of the Yeshiva Members; The City is my Small Temple | K. P-R | 62 |
The old synagogue | ||
A Fire {Poem} | Avraham Farber | 67 |
The old synagogue | Shlomo Ferber | 68 |
Personalities, Houses, Images | ||
A man of vision in the Olkeniki forests (Poem, translated by N. Ginton)) | H. Grada | 87 |
HaRav R' Shmuel, HaRav R' Yakov, HaRav R' A.A. Waldshen | K. P-R | 88 |
Torah scholars in the last generation the commentator R' Zev | S.P-R | 89 |
The Rabbi's son-in-law; R' Avraham Mende | S.P-R | 91 |
R' Avraham Mendel Grinzweig | K. P-R | 95 |
HaRav R' Tuvia Rotberg | HaRav Zalman Rotberg | |
Old families in town (my grandfather's home) | Amma Dworzan-Farber | 96 |
The first immigrants; a senior public activist; the last Gabai [manager of synagogue affairs] | S.P-R | 97 |
My father's home | Simcha Polachik | 99 |
The demolished house | Yosef Karpowich | 99 |
A house in town | S.P-R | 100 |
Three families | Chaim Z-KI | 102 |
A mother in town | S.P-R | 104 |
A female pioneer; in memory of a friend | Yosef Karpowich | 104 |
The town during the last generations | S.P-R | 105 |
One of the activists; the greengrocer | K. P-R | 106 |
The town's folklore | S.P-R | 106 |
A Legendary Man | Zehava Tanal Menachemi | 107 |
The Power of a Handshake | Yosef Karpovitz | 107 |
The Parbelistan (cheap woman) | Binyamin Farber, may God avenge him | 108 |
Napoleon and the Bookseller | Balon | 108 |
The Holocaust | ||
The arrival of the Holocaust | YYosef Meltzman | 111 |
The imprisonment of the first five | S. P-R | 117 |
Trader and dealing with public affairs Lazer Worman, may God avenge him | S. P-R | 119 |
My best friend Binyamin Farber, may God avenge him | Haim Z-Ki | 120 |
To the young (Poem) | Binyamin Farber, May the Lord avenge his blood | 120 |
From the Strait | K. P-R | 121 |
From bad to worse (told by David Rybeck) | S. P-Bar | 128 |
From the Brink of Doom to the Land of Resurrection | Chaim Beit Yosef - Zubiski | 131 |
In the Forests Among the Partisans and in Siberia (photos) | 152 | |
The Survivors of the Atrocities (Recorded from Avraham Taiken) | S. P-R | 153 |
Holocaust survivors (photos) | 157 | |
With the arrival of the holocaust | HaRav Kalman Farber | 158 |
Days of Horror (told by Meir Kinbrom) | K. P-R | 194 |
Meetings with the townspeople in the Soviet army | Y. M-Man | 195 |
These are Your Sons, Olkeniki | K.P-R | 197 |
The Two Sisters | K. P-R | 200 |
The Memorial Candle | K. P-R | 202 |
On the Ponary Hills | K. P-R (translated by S.P-R) | 203 |
And these are the Names of the Townspeople who Survived the Holocaust | 206 | |
Important Dates in the Life of the Town | S.P-R | 206 |
Closure of the Book | S. P-R | 208 |
From the Editor | 212 | |
The Shtetl [town] Until the Holocaust | ||
The History of Olkeniki [Valkininkai] | Sh. PR | 215 |
Olkeniki, a Shtetl [town] of Legends | Cheikl Lunski | 215 |
Olkeniker Youth (poem) | Chaim Grade | 221 |
On the Way to Eretz Yisroel (photographs) | 223 | |
Wedding of the Rabbi's Daughter (poem) | Chaim Grade | 224 |
The Old Synagogue | Shlomo Farber | 225 |
The Legend of the Philantrophist, Reb Yosef | Kh. L-Ki | 228 |
The Old Synagogue at the Merczanke [Merkys] River (poem) | Chaim Grade | 229 |
A Family in Olkeniki | Ruchl Sarduf-Dvortsan | 233 |
Pain and Sorrow | ||
The Death of Olkenik | Layzer Shtrof | 237 |
Where a Day, Where a Night | Miriam Ben-Shamas-Ribak | 238 |
From School into the Red Army | Khonan Berenshtein | 241 |
In the Storm (Told by Berl Lipszic) Recorded by Khaver-Paver | N. Einbinder | 243 |
How I Survived (Told by Levi Lipszic) | Recorded by Khaver-Paver | 256 |
On the Mountain of Ponar | Kalman Farber | 259 |
A Memorial Candle | K. F__R | 262 |
Remembrance | ||
Graves of Parents and Children | 265 | |
Pictures of the Martyrs | 266 | |
The Names of the Martyrs | 279 | |
At the Close of the Book | Sh. F. R | 287 |
Corrections | 288 | |
The English section | ||
In Conclusion | 289 | |
A short history of Olkeniki | Shlomo Faber | 290 |
Editor's Foreword | 291 | |
List of photographs from the Memorial Section | ||
List of names extracted from Memorial Section | ||
Footnotes
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