Map surrounding the city	10
Map of the center of Chortkov	11
Rabbi Meir Ha-Levi Steinberg	23
The first page of the register of the “Peule Tzedik” society	23
A section of the “Document of Privileges” granted to the Jews of Chortkov	32
A section of the “Document of Privileges” granted to the Jews of Chortkov	33
An ancient tombstone	34
View of the city at the end of the 19th century	34
A very old house in the “Vingnanka” quarter	35
A view of the city center before the First World War	37
General view of the “Vignanka” quarter	38
Historic certificated of the “Peule Tzedic” registry	39
City fortress	40
One of the old buildings in Chortkov	41
Old house in Chortkov, House of the barrel maker	42
The tombstone of Rabbi Reb Herschel	43
The tombstone over the grave of Rabbi Reb Herscheli	44
Study house of reb Hersheli	44
An old silver torah shield from the year 5570 (1810)	46
The great synagogue	47
Study house of the “Osei Chesed” society	49
House of Study of the Rebbe	56
A portion of the artistically carved ceiling of the house of study of the Rebbe	57
“The holy arc” of the Rebbe's house of study	59
Our admired teacher Reb David Moshe Friedman of Chortkov	63
Reb Israel Friedman of Chortkov	64
Reb Shlominue Friedman as a youth	66
“Jew with Torah” painting by Monah Katz	68
The old bridge	70
The new synagogue “Yad Harutzim”	73
Proclamation about the building of the study house of Rabbi Israel Meir Shapira	75
Craftsmen - At the laying of the cornerstone of the “Yad Harutzim”	77
Seal of the organization “Yad Harutzim”	79
Synagogue of Rabbi Israel Meir Shapira	80
Two concrete beams remain from the synagogue “Yad Harutzim”	81
The tombstone on the grave of Rabbi Israel Meir Sharpira	82
Dr. Aharon Kone-Schechter	83
The clock tower on the old “bazaar”	84
The theater building of the Polish “Sokol” society	85
Old wooden church connected to a legend of the expulsion of the Jews in the years 408 and 409	85
City council building	85
Pictures of the way of life in the synagogue by Meir Katz	86
The southern road of the market	87
The west side of the market with the “Brystol” Building	89
A stamped document of the Zionist Party	91
Chalutzim departure meeting at the end of the twenties	92
The action committee of the “Zionist Youth” in the winter of 5679 (1919)	94
The “Shomer “group form the year 1919	96
The “Shomer” in the year 1919: Dr. Simka Finkelman with the girls guidance group	97
“Ha Shomer ha Tzair” in the Thirties	99
Ha Shomer in the year 1920	100
Heads of the “Ha Shomer ha Tzair” groups in 1919	101
“Ha Shomer ha Tzair” 1926 outing	102
Stamp of “Ha Shomer ha Tzair “	103
Jewish farmer around Chortkov	104
The “He Chalutz “group headed by Tzvi Madonk	105
The carpenter Ben Tzvi Waldman with Chalutz workmen in the yard of the carpentry shop	107
Departing group of the Zionist Youth movement of Chortkov	109
Stamp of the “Agudat Yisrael” Party	111
“Agudat Yisrael” youth	111
Young people's group of the Zionist Workers for the year 1922	114
Two stamps of the Zionist Workers	115
Member list and stamp of the “Hitachdut” (Union) party	116
“Ha Maochedet” (United) Party for the year 1934	117
Greetings from the President Yitchak Ben Tzvi	118
Meeting of the members of the “Poel Tzion” (Zionist Workers) with President Yitzchak Ben-Tzvi, 1929	119
Stamp of the “Freiheit” organization	120
The “Freiheit” group, 1929	121
The “Freiheit” and “Chalutz” groups	121
“Gordonia” Fitness Group of Chortkov	122
“Gordonia” Women's Group	122
Stamp of the Zionist Revisionist Pact	123
“Betar” cell for the year 1939 with Commander Asher Halad (Meizelman)	123
Dedication of Bet “Hatzahar” of Chortkov	124
The laying of the cornerstone of the new “Bet Ha'Am “	124
“Agudat Israel Daughters” 1932	125
Group of community activists in public	125
“Bet Ha Am” wing of the Hebrew Library	128
Membership Meeting of the I. L. Peretz Association with writer Yoel Mastboim (in the center)	130
Committee of the I. L. Peretz Organization	131
A membership card and a stamp of the I. L. Peretz organization	132
The members journal of the Chortkov Music-Drama Club named after Ansky	136
Membership card of the “Hashmonai” sports club	141
Sports club “Hashmonai” Soccer section	141
The teacher Froust and the graduate group of the Hebrew School	142
Class “Zion” of the Hebrew School	143
Meeting of the cultural community activists with the Hebrew writer Alishva	144
Report card of the Hebrew school with the signature of the principal Proust and the teacher Arenstein	145
Stamp of “Tarbut” organization for the dissemination of the Hebrew language	146
Teachers of the “Bet Yaakov” School for the year 1930	147
Grade “Dalet” (4) of “Bet Yaakov” School	148
Girls of “Bet Yaakov “, a great majority killed in the holocaust	148
The Chazan Monish, his wife and grandson Eliyahu	149
Picture of Tzvi Orenstein	154
The committee and community activists of the Orphanage with the pupil group	156
Stamp of the orphanage	157
Managers of the charity (“Gimalut Chasidim“) fund	158
Two rows of tombstones that survived in the cemetery from the days of the War	160
An artistic tombstone from the year 1753	161
Tombstone on a grave of three Jews killed in the pogrom of 1648	161
An artistic tombstone from the year 1759	162
A tombstone from the year 1744	163
A tombstone from the year 1762	163
Structure of the ornamented letters on an old tombstone	164
A tombstone of a Rabbi from the year 1756 in the form of a medallion	164
Two tombstones that have survived in the old cemetery	165
The ruins of the “Ohel” of the “Admorim”	165
An empty field from the old cemetery without tombstone	165
A view of the old cemetery (the destruction in the distance)	165
Food served in a old persons residence	166
The busy cultural group at work preserving on old tombstone	167
Study instructions of “Chevrat Mishniyut”	172
Announcement from the “Shomer Shabbat” organization	173
Stamp of the merchants association	174
A Chortkover robe twister and his helper	175
“Aharele” – typical water carrier	176
Members of the clerk association and commercial works in 1937	179
The eastern road of the market place	180
The zionist youth organization “Gordonia” of Chortkov	185
Jewish villagers in the vicinity of Chortkov	186
Stamp of the rescue committee for betterment of Russian refugees	191
Israel Hoyzer	192
The tombstone on the grave of “the Shotek”	200
The first intelectuals in Chortkov	203
“Chalutz” group of Chortkov on their way to Israel	207
Hebrew Kindergarden of the Hebrew School in the thirties	215
A group of second year female Jewish students from the Chortkov “Gymnasia” before the Holocaust	217
Chalutzim “Chotveh Eitzim” (the Wood Cutter Pioneers) of Chortkov	218
Woman's Chalutz (pioneer) group of Chortkov at the time when they worked to pack eggs for export	218
The “Freiheit” (freedom) organization of Chortkov host Kibutz “Dror” in 1928	219
Kindergarten in Chortkov in the year 1935	220
Sections of trade publications of Czortkiver Jews (photo by Tzvi Cohen)	225
The German-Jewish writer native of Chortkov, Karl Emil Franzos	227
Rabbi of the City, Reb Yitzchak Landau	230
Picture of Reb Yehoshaia Frominger	231
Picture of Yoskah Goldberg	233
Picture of Yitzchak Shapira	238
Picture of David Frenkel	244
Confirmation certificate with the signatue of Kupferman, stamp of the Jewish National Fund Committee	244
Picture of Abush Trayster	244
Dr. Yishayahu Meir Ben (son of) Yakov Rappaport	246
Reb Eliezer (ritual slaughterer and examiner)	248
Reb Mordechai (ritual slaughterer and examiner)	249
Nachum Warman z”l	255
Tzvi Waldman	256
Shlomo Zohar	256
Dov Zaydenberg	257
Michael Trayster	258
Kamiel Lichtenholtz	259
Menachem Fogel	259
The Ghetto by Czortkever artist Levitzski	264
The road leading to the bathhouse in the period of the German conquest	267
The camp in Swiedowa	268
One of the blocks in the work camp in Swiedowa	268
A work camp in Yaglenitza	268
Deborah Dohal	271
The last letter of Deborah Dohal from camp Muchawka	271
One of the last letters to arrive in Israel from the Ghetto sent by Leib Meir Schaechter	272
A work certificate published by the Nazis for distribution amongst the Jews	273
Convention departing Chortkov in Wroclaw, Poland in 1949	277
A document of the soviet committee confirming that in a mass grave were found 120 people murdered by the Nazis	279
View of an open grave with 120 souls	280
Commendation certificate, which was given to Kurt Kelner, the murderer of the Jews of Chortkov, for his contribution to the extermination of the Jews	280
Rehabilitation of a brother grave of a few hundred Chortkover souls	290
An armband for doctors in the Ghetto	292
Mass grave flooded from the rain	294
“From characters of the Holocaust “, painting by Monah Katz	305
Transfer of bodies to the Israel grave after the liberation	306
Document stamped by the Judenrat of Chortkov	308
Document from the Gestapo with a permit for an “essential” Jew	309
Burned leftover cloths found near a grave	310
Yitzchak Sternshus	311
A memorial board on one of the mass graves of the “Action” of 14 of Alul 5702 (August 27th, 1942)	312
Mass grave on the way to Yaglienitza	314
A mass grave that was discovered through signs of a sinkage in the ground	314
Memorial plack set up over a grave of Chortkover residents killed by the Nazis	314
The plaza of the market center where the first “Action” took place in the ghetto	317
Zosia Nadler-Żmijewska	331
The “Delet-Ha Am” quarter that was used during the Nazi period as part of the Ghetto	331
Bet “Talmud Torah” – the lone surviving building from the ghetto	332
Surviving tombstones in the cemetery in Stari-Chortkov	332
Public faucet in Chortkov near the city hall	333
The drawing circle under the leadership of Yeshayahu Blonder at the swimming beach	333
Self-portrait of the artist, Shaye Blonder	334
Henyek Nusbaum	336
Mundek Nusbaum	337
Chana Greenspan	338
The last purim celebration of Chortkover children in the year 1939 by the “Jewish Intelligentsia club “	343
The “Aron Kodesh” and table from the Chortkover Rebbe's court	345
Detail of the “Aron Kodesh“	345
On the bank of the river Seret	346
Mrs. Uhryńska who gave refuge to two young women at her house during the Holocaust	347
Mrs. Anna Akseńczuk who gave refuge to 3 Jews	348
The Kotowicz family who during the Holocaust sheltered ten Jews in a bunker in their appartment	349
Nachmia Trayster	350
Abush Biterman	352
Aba Hafler	353
Simcha Nusbaum	354
A portion of the letter of Beinish Finkelman from the Majdanek Concentration Camp	354
Shyke Hus	355
Announcement of the valiant death of Shyke Hus at a suburb of Berlin	356
A portion of the last letter and a Picture of Zeev (Willie) Shapira	357
Ms. Rivka Yahav (Feingold) volunteer in the British Army	358
Ms. Shachar volunteer in the British army	358
Yisrael Dubovi fought in the ranks of the French army	358
Leon Batitzki	358
Yosef Schultz fought in the ranks of the Red Army	359
Natan Rutenshtreich, fought in the ranks of the Red Army, lives at this time in Western Europe	359
The platform of honorees at the meeting of former residents of Chortkov	360
At one of the conventions of the Chortkov émigrés	361
Reception at the home of Mr. I. Dobovi for guests from America	362
A group of illegal immigrants, former residents of Chortkov, in Italy on their way to Israel	362
Reception in Haifa for visitors from America by Chortkover landsman	362
Honoree platform at a memorial service	363
Chortkover landsleit in Israel at the annual memorial service “El Male Rachamim “	364
Meeting of the former residents of Chortkov in the United States	369
Sol Shteckel	370
At the planting ceremony in the Martyrs Forest	371
Ceremony for the planting of a grove in the sacred forest for Chortkover martyrs	390
Memorial monument set up by the D. M. Friedman Society of New York	2e
Seal of the Jewish Community Council of Chortkov	9e
Authority of the Jewish Communty of Chortkov	10e
Seal of the Touring and Sightseeing Association of Chortkov	11e
A group of Halutzim in Chortkov in the early 20's engaged in learning carpentry in preparation to go to Eretz-Israel	12e
“Hitachduth” group at the gate of the destroyed palace of the Rabbi of Chortkov	13e

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