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Kartuz-Bereza,
Our Town Memorial Book

(Byaroza, Belarus)

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Translation of
Kartuz-Berezah; sefer zikaron ve-edut le-kehilah she-hushmedah

Coordinating editor: Chaim Ben Israel, Organization of survivors of Kartuz-Breze

Published in Tel Aviv, 1993

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This is a translation from: Kartuz-Berezah; sefer zikaron ve-edut le-kehilah she-hushmedah;
Kartuz-Bereza, Our Town Memorial Book, Coordinating editor, Chaim Ben Israel, Tel Aviv, 1993, Organization of survivors of Kartuz-Breze.

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Kartuz-Bereza, Our Town Memorial Book	Front Cover
Holy Community Kartuz-Bereza	Back Cover
Table of Contents		3
Introduction		7

Chapter 1 – Kartuz Bereza, the Town and it's History

Map of the area		10
Bereza, Kartuz Bereza, Bereza Kartuzka and Berioza		11
Chapters of history and memories	Yaakov Gorali	15
Polish concentration camp in K. Bereza	Elyahu Mote Bukshtein	23
1. In my poor house (poem in Yiddish)	Moshe Bernshtein	25
2. In my poor house (poem in Hebrew)	Moshe Bernshtein	26
1. The cry of memorial stones (poem)	Noach Peniel	28
2. When I remember you (poem)	Noach Peniel	29

Chapter 2 – Community Life

Memories of K. Bereza that no longer exist	Nechemia Shtuker	31
Social events in K. Bereza	Nathan Shapira	43
Peretz Markish in K. Bereza	Y. Rottenberg	45
Firemen from K. Kereza	Elyau Mote Bukshtein	50
Education in K. Bereza	Elyau Mote Bukshtein	54
Sanction to the Yiddish school in K. Bereza	Chatke Graievsky-Kaval	58
And those I will remember	Moshe Bernshtein	61
My little Village	Tzipora Brener	62
My Village	Pnina Rab (Goldberg)	67
Folklore from K. Bereza		69

Chapter 3 – Zionist Activity

Development of Zionism in the village		73
K. Bereza for the construction of Eretz Israel in 1911		75
A call to Jewish population in K. Bereza before community elections of July 1928		78
Zionist activity in the town	Eliezer Egozy (Niselboim)	79
Hebrew School "Yavne" in K. Bereza	Pnina Rab (Goldberg)	81
The "Betar" National Zionist Movement	Shmuel Tinary (Tibulitsky)	87
"He'Chalutz Ha'Tzair"	Chava Shmulovksy (Epshtein)	91
Memories of "Ha'shomer Ha'tzair"	Eliezer Egozy (Niselboim)	96
More about "Ha'shomer Ha'tzair" in K . Bereza	Baruch Fisher	100
List of "olim" (immigrants) to Eretz Israel		101

Chapter 4 – Personal Memories

Our house	Tzipora Brener	107
Memories of the town in which I never was	Sara Gachelet	110
Travel to unknown (poem)	Amir Graff	113
Travel to my grandparents house	Yael Chizkiyahu (Heler)	114
Memories of my paternal home	Shmuel Tinari (Tabulitzky)	117
Our emigration to Eretz Israel	Ytzchak Sapir	124
Manie Serlin and Ytzchak Slutzky: Zionism without quotation marks	Chaim Solan (Slutzky) (Dr.)	125
Kartuz Bereza: my native city	Noach Peniel (Falantovsky)	130
Memories of K. Bereza	Chaia Shmerlovsky (Epshtein)	132
K. Bereza of my ancestors	Avram Shatz	134
My town K. Bereza: childhood memories	Chaim Ben Israel (Goldberg)	136

Chapter 5 – Personalities and Images

Rabbis from Kartuz Bereza 1. Rabbi Ytzhak Elchanan Spector 2. Klatzkin family - Rav Eliohu Ben Naftali- Hertz Klatzkin 3. Rav Shloime Fainsilber 4. Rav Yakov Moishe Asherevitz	K. Bereza	147
Aharon David Egoz	Translator of "Duties of Soul" to Yiddish.	153
Tzadok Son Of Reb Itshe	Yakov Goraly	154
Kadia Molodovsky: writer and poet		158
Dov Chomsky: writer and poet		159
1. To Mom (poem)	Dov Chomsky	159
2. Friends (poem)		162
Avram Minkovitz, professor		164
Noach Peniel, educator and poet		165
Farewell Tears (poem)	Noach Peniel	167
Moshe Bernshtein, Painter		173
Bereza Nostalgias (poem in Yiddish)	Moishe Bernshtein	176

Chapter 6 – Destruction of the Village

Annihilation in July and October 1942 according to "Atlas of Shoa"	Martin Gilbert	179
Murder of Jews in Brona Gura	according to Vasily Grosman & Illia Arenburg, (Soviet Union)	181
I survived	Masha Elishiv (Shtuker)	185
The loss of our dear parents, sisters and brothers	Yehuda Vilechik	187
On the Jews of Selcz, K. Bereze and their sad end	David Bekler	190
1. By the Common Grave (poem, Yiddish)	Elizabeta Zilbershtein (Lea Berkovitz)	192
2. By the Common Grave (poem)	(trans. by Noach Peniel)	194
Destruction of K. Bereze	Moishe Tuchman	197
Destruction of K. Bereze, further details	Elyau Mote Bukshtein	201
Brana-Gorie (poem, Yiddish)	Reizel Navi (Tuchman)	202
Brona Gura (poem)	Noach Peniel	204
My home no longer exists (poem, Yiddish)	Masha Shtuker-Paiuk	206
Yizkor (Memorial)		212
Deceased in K. Bereza Ghetto; list of names		213

Chapter 7 – Fallen in War against Nazis

Name list of those from K. Bereza (killed in action)		237

Chapter 8 – Survivors

List of survivors		239
Kartuz Bereza 1939 - 1941	Elie Mote Bockshtein	242
After liberation	Tzipora Brener (Bukshtein)	247
Survival	Moishe Bernshtein	249
About my family, Kartuz Bereza and its Jews, and my sufferings during Second World War	Shlomo Helman	251
Jews from Kartuz Bereza that I Found Over There	Elizabeta Zilbershtein (Lea Berkovitz)	257
Memories of K. Bereza and my suffering in Second World War	Moishe Tuchman	258
In my village K. Bereza 50 years later	Yitzchak Subinsky	267
Escaping from the Ghetto	Zeev Soronovsky	272
How I survived	Noach Peniel	276
I lived and survived Hitler	Yosef Frydman	277
I survived to continue the chain	Kalman Karbachik	278
Name Index		281
About the Book		291

Maps

Section Labels and Street Names for Map
Foldout Map Alphabetized List of Names appearing on the Bereza Map List of Names by Block Label Memorial Plaques

Index

Index of Partisans listed in Bereza Yizkor book

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