Introduction (H)	9
From Generation to Generation
History of the Town – Chaim Dan (H)	15
[Same article in Yiddish]	16
Epochs in the History of the Jewish Community – Baruch Zimmerman (H)	17
[Same in Yiddish]	19
My Town and its Residents – David Tahori (Zuberman) (H)	20
[Same in Yiddish]	22
Our Street – Malka Vered (Palite) (H)	24
[Same in Yiddish]	25
My Hometown – It was dear to me – Nachum Milstein (H)	26
During the First World War – Noam Zacai (H)	26
Self-Defense in Harkhiov – Noam Zacai (Y)	30
Between Rulers – Shlomo Zimmerman (H)	32
Yossi Eisen – Pinkhas Wallach (?)	34
Days of Excitement – Zvi Bar Yesha (H)	35
How Jews Earned a Living – Baruch Zimmerman (H)	36
The Decline in Economic Life – H.L.P. (H)	36
In the Cemetery	37
Father's House
Father's Traditions – Khalya Schechter-Kriss (H)	45
Holidays in Town – Moshe Benyahu (H)	45
Holiday Pleasures – Malka Vered (Palite)(H)	46
Each Holiday with its Aroma – Malka Vered (Y)	47
Synagogues, Prayer Leaders, Chassidim and Men of Good Traits – Chaim Dan	48
[Same in Yiddish]	51
Our Shtibl [Small neighborhood synagogue] – Herzl Zucker, Michael Weizman (Y)	54
The Singing of R. Yekutiel – Noam Zacai (H)	54
[Same in Yiddish]	56
The "Looker" Wakes Up to Psalms Chaim [no last name] (Y)	57
Itzik Mordechai the Tailor and the War for the Rabbinate – David Tahori (H)	58
The Excommunication – Noam Zacai (H)	59
[Same in Yiddish]	61
Family Trees	63
Mothers and Fathers	64
Education and Culture
Teachers, their Assistants and their Livelihoods – Pinchas Wallach (H)	67
[Same in Yiddish]	69
R. Feissy – Teacher of Children – Malka Vered (Palite) (H)	71
Talmud Teacher – Binyamin Schwartzman – Bluma Schwartzman (Cherbatov) (H)	71
The Rebbe and the Cantor – Benzion Tahori (Zuberman) (H)	72
[Same in Yiddish]	73
Young People Travel to a Torah Center – Noam Zacai (H)	74
Yosel Keisar – Director of the First Modernized Heder [Children's School] - Sarah Flumin Berger (H)	75
The Workers' Cultural Association – David Shapiro	75
[Same in Yiddish]	76
First Buds of Hebrew Education – Noam Zacai (H)	77
Simkha Perlmutter, One of the First [Secularist] Teachers in Town - Noam Zacai (H)	80
Moshe Khoshchevotsky, Hebrew Teacher During WWI – Sarah Flumin Berger (H)	80
Sources of our Education – Chaim Dan (H)	80
The Hebrew School – Chaim Dan (Y)	86
The Hebrew School Between 1927-1939 – Rachel Birman Mitavsky (H)	88
The Hebrew School Between 1932-1935 – Aminadav Yisraeli (Yoselvitz) (H)	91
The First Year of Teaching – Menachem Halevi (H)	94
The Final Years of the Hebrew School – Yaakov Berger (H)	95
The Drama Club Gets Organized – Noam Zacai (H)	96
The Drama Club: Its Performances and Actors – Zvi Berger, Yosef Khomesh (H)	97
[Same in Yiddish]	98
The Yiddish Folks School and Library – Rachel Eisen (Y)	100
Molya Bergman – Aminadav Yisraeli (?)	103
Movements and Institutions
The First Zionist Collection Funds – Sarah Flumin Berger (H)	107
Zionist Organizations Before and After WWI – Zvi Berger (H)	107
[Same in Yiddish]	110
Zionist and Public Activities – Yaakov Khomesh (H)	115
[Same in Yiddish]	121
Yosef Khomesh, Community Leader – Baruch Zimmerman (H)	126
Deputy Mayor – David Tahori (Zuberman) (H)	126
The Zionist Collection Funds – Rachel Birman Mitavsky (H)	127
How We Emptied the JNF Charity Boxes – Moshe Binyahu (H)	128
The Keren Hayesod Appeal in the 1920s – H.L.P. (H)	128
On a Zionist Mission in 1930 – Yisrael Ritov (H)	129
Training and Immigration to Palestine – Shlomo Korekh (H)	130
"The Pioneer" – Moshe Binyahu (H)	131
The History of Hekhalutz [The Pioneer] Movement in our Shtetl – Moshe Binyahu (Y)	133
In Klosovo – Chaim Dan (H)	136
Hekhalutz Hatsa'ir[Young Pioneer Movement] – Chaim Dan (H)	140
The Rise of Hekhalutz Hatsa'ir – Chaim Dan (Y)	140
I Always Remember Them – Chana Kliger-Ravid (H)	142
Leah Fisch – Melekh Noy (?)	147
In Opposition (Collection of Letters) – Leah Fisch	148
Beitar and [abbrev. possibly Revisionist Zionists] – David Tahori (H)	152
[Same in Yiddish]	157
Pinkhas Kriger, Educator of Beitar [abbrev. for Beit Trumpeldor] Youth Movement - Elkhanan Karniel (Kahat) (H)	160
His Place Was In The Warsaw Ghetto – Batsheva Kriger-Mendelson (H)	162
Mizrakhi [Religious Zionists] and Agudath Israel [Non-Zionists] – A Town Resident (H)	162
Back to Myself – Shlomo Einbinder (H)	163
[Same in Yiddish]	166
Communist Underground Members – Devorah Ben-Zvi (H)	171
Chana and Freida Zutler – Sarah Berger Flumin (H)	171
Mutual Credit Institutions – Yosef Khomesh (H)	171
Horkhiov Financial Institutions [probably the same article] – Yosef Khomesh (Y)	173
Branches Overseas
Parting Was Hard For Me – Esther Zuberman (H)	179
Places of Settlement in the USA – Leonora Auerbach-Aryeh (H)	179
Max Auerbach – Charles Wald (?)	181
Brought Up in Horkhiov, Moved to America – Yenta Mishna-Kriger (Y)	181
Horkhiov Society in America – Pinkhas Wallach (Y)	181
The Town of My Parents and Ancestors – Yehoshua Wallach (Y)	184
From Stage to Stage – Noam Zacai (H)	184
From America to Orchards in Herzliya – Zvi Berger (H)	185
Emigrants from Horokhov in Argentina – Alexander Manur (H)	186
[Same in Yiddish]	187
From Argentina to Israel – Yehoshua Gelin (H, Y)	189
List of Horokhov Emigrants in Argentina (H, Y)	191
Horokhov Emigrants in Brazil (H, Y)	191
We Moved to Palestine
Our Town's First Pioneers – Noam Zacai (H)	195
[Same in Yiddish]	197
Pioneers of the Third Aliyah to Palestine – Abraham Hirschfeld (H)	200
This is how the first pioneers traveled – Avraham Khaklay (H)	201
A Pioneer Woman Moves to Palestine – Sheindel Flemeister-Zacai (H)	203
[Same in Yiddish]	206
Emigration to Palestine in the 1920s – Shlomo Zimmerman (H)	208
Parents Following Their Children – Devorah Green-Ben-Zvi (H)	209
Over Mountains, Across Borders – Nakhum Milstein (H)	211
Families Say Goodbye to their Emigrating Children (H)	213
I Was 14 Years Old – Tsila Horowitz (H)	216
In An Illegal Cargo Ship – Duva Dagan (Goyer) (H)	217
Three Generations – Noam Zacai (H)	218
Yitzchak Ze'ev (Itzik Wolf) Zacai – David Tahori (?)	220
From an Ein Harod Diary – The Image of a Pioneer – Zvi Berger, Avraham Khaklay, Noam Zacai (H)	220
Horokhov Emigrants in Israel	224
The Holocaust
Budding Youth Before the Holocaust (H, Y)	229
Before the Destruction – Moshe Rivzis (H)	232
From Before and After the War – Miriam Berger (H)	233
[Same in Yiddish]	249
The First Months of War – Benzion Tahori (Zuberman) (H)	279
Russian Rule at the Beginning of the War – Aharon Greiber (H)	281
A Day in the Ghetto of Horokhov – Yehudit Schwartzman (H)	282
From the Ghetto Until the Bitter Day – Shlomo Dickstein (H)	283
The Child Saw Everything – Nekhama and Esther Stricker (H)	284
My Pursuers Didn't Catch Me – Sonia Tessler-Zhiroff (H)	285
My Memories of the Nazi Period – Sonia Tessler-Zhiroff (Y)	291
[Both Tessler articles may be the same]
They Were Together in Death and in Life (H)	303
Gorokhov Families Killed in the Holocaust (H)	304
In Forests and at the Front
Escape to Vilna – Abba Meisels (H)	315
[Same in Yiddish]	316
Wandering in the Forest and Meeting Partisans – Yokhanan Kanfer (H)	319
I Took Revenge on the Murderers – Bolek Katko (H)	320
[Same in Yiddish]	323
From Stalingrad to Berlin – Serving in the Red Army – Ephraim Schwartzman (H)	327
[Same in Yiddish]	334
All Roads Led to Palestine – Yaakov Sprakh (H)	342
[Same in Yiddish]	344
With the Polish Army to Palestine – Chaim Ravina (Litvan) (H)	346
Yizkor
Memorial Candle (H)	353
Brothers Zusia and Moshe Blakhman – Aharon Kahane (H)	355
Yosel Hoshchiver (Shargal) – Avraham Hirschfeld (?)	356
Avraham Weitz – Avraham Hirschfeld, Chaim Dan (?)	356
Menachem (Mantzy) Horowitz – Sarah Horowitz Khumesh (H)	357
R. Dov Kliger – Zvi Berger (H)	357
Yeshayahu Hering – Zvi Ben-Yesha (?)	358
Elimelekh Mordechai Eisenstein – Aharon Eisenstein (?)	359
Doctor Margolis – Sarah Flumin Berger (H)	359
Hersh Weizman and his Family – Michael Weizman (H)	360
Yaakov Khumesh and his Family – Yosef Khumesh (H)	360
He Didn't Linger – Eliezer Smolly (H)	362
Miriam Zacai – Noam Zacai, Chaim Dan (?)	362
Meir-Yaakov Kahane – Aharon Kahane (?)	363
Niumke Fisch – Zvi Dan (?)	365
From His Writings - David Fisch (H)	365
Shlomo and Henya-Beila Flumin – Sarah Flumin-Berger, Chana Orly-Flumin (H)	367
Shmuel Flumin and his Family – Zvi Berger, Shoshana Rozen-Flumin (H)	368
Teenage Girls Groups – Chana Orly-Flumin (H)	370
My Family – Dov Zamir (H)	371
Moshelakh, Shlomelakh [affectionate names] (Y)	373
Dashed Hopes and Destroyed Expectations (H, Y)	374
English Table of Contents (Addendum - not in original)
Introduction	3
History of the Town – Chaim Dan	5
Stages (Epochs) in the History of the Jewish Community – Baruch Zimmerman	6
Houses of Worship, Cantors, Chassidim and Men of Good Virtue – Chaim Dan	11
The Hebrew School – Chaim Dan	14
Yiddish Public School and Library – Rachel Eisen	15
The Leader of the Community - Yaakov Chumasch – Baruch Zimmerman	18
The Deputy Mayor – David Tahori (Zuberman)	18
He Halutz – Moshe Binyahu	19
He Halutz, Ha-Tsair – Chaim Dan	21
Beitar and Hatsohar – David Tahori	22
The Jewish Peoples Bank in Horchiv – Chumesh	25
It Was Hard to Leave – Soberman	26
Memories of My Father – Leonora Auerbach-Aryeh	27
My Friend Max – Charles Wald	29
Memories from Horkhiv – Yenta Mishna-Kriger	30
Some Memories of the Old Home – Paul Wallach	31
On Horchiv – Yehoshua Wallach	33
Shalom Friedman – Zvi Berger	35
The First Pioneers From Our Town – Noam Zakai	36
The War – Miriam Berger	39
Memories from the Nazi Period – Sonia Tesler-Gyraph	59
With the Red Army from Stalingrad to Berlin – Ephraim Schwartzmann	68
Horchiver in the USA - 1964	78
Louis Prepon oral history

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