Yiddish Section Contents translated by Yocheved Klausner
Foreword		6
Our Lineage Book	The Organization of Radom Natives in Israel	7
Editor's Foreword	Yitzchak Perlow	12
The History of the Jews in Radom
Chapters from the Past	Dr. N. M. Gelber, Jerusalem	17
Three Personalities		24
Pages of History (1815-1830)	Shmuel Bennet	26
Jews in Radom	Leizer Fischman	28
Equal Rights	Judge Josef Bekerman	36
Frankfurt Demands the Return of a Debt from Radom	M. Stashevski	37
The Religious Life
Torah and Hassidism	M. S. Geshuri	41
The Modzhisher Rabbi, R'Israel Taub	M. Sh. Geshuri	41
The Rebbe Rabbi Yaakov Yerchamiel Taub	M. S. Geshuri	42
The Białobrzeger Rebbe, Rabbi Shraga Yair and his son Rabbi Nathan David	M. S. Geshuri	42
The Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Eliezer Rabinowicz	M. S. Geshuri	42
The Rebbe Rabbi Moshe Elyakum Bria Frimer	M. S. Geshuri	43
The Rebbe, Rabbi Eliezer Elimelech Rokach	M. S. Geshuri	43
Torah and Hassidism	M. S. Geshuri	44
The Community and its Rabbis	Leizer Fishman	47
Rabbi Yehoshua Landau	M. Sh. Geshuri	49
Rabbi Gavriel Dancyger	M. Sh. Geshuri	50
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilewer	M. Sh. Geshuri	50
Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Perlmutter	Yisrael Grinetz	50
Rabbi Eliezer Leib Treistman	Leizer Fishman	51
Rabbi Yechiel Kestenberg and his Personal Tragedy	Leizer Fishman	52
From the Press		55
Rabbinical Judges
Rabbi Eliezer Weinsaft	M. S. Geshuri	57
Rabbi Aharon Hakohen Mildman	M. S. Geshuri	57
R'Shraga Feivel Mildman	M. S. Geshuri	58
Rabbi Menachem–Mendel Halevy Kestenberg	M. S. Geshuri	58
Rabbi Menachem–Mendel Weingart	M. S. Geshuri	58
Rabbi Shmuel Teitelbaum	Leizer Fishman	58
Shochtim [Ritual Slaughterers]	Y. L. Cuker, Simcha-Bunim and Yerucham-Fishel	59
Cantors	M. S. Geshuri, Leibel Richtman	62
Yeshivas	Leibel Richtman	65
Chevra Kadisha [Burial Society] and Chesed Shel Emet	Leibel Richtman	66
The End of the Talmud Torah	Melech Guthertz	67
Municipal Activity
The Community [Council]	Moshe Rotenberg	71
The Magistrate [City Council]	Moshe Rotenberg	77
Communal Activists		86
The Three Who Were Hanged	Moshe Rotenberg	90
“Our Equal Rights”		90
A Victim of the Riots	Bunem Zuker	91
The Przytyk Events	Yehoshua R.	93
It Is No More (poem)	Alter Wolf Wertheim	98
The Enlightenment Period; Culture and Education
Reflections of the Jewish Enlightenment	Pinkhas Gal (Fogelman)	101
The First National Educators	Sh. Stravchinsky	103
Pioneers of the Jewish Enlightenment		104
“Pshiatshul Viedzi” Gymnasia		108
The Director H. Hurvitz		109
Yishayahu Goldshteyn; Esther Melkhior		110
“School – Cult”		111
Religious Tutors and Teachers	Leibel Richtman	112
The Student Battalion “Hashomer” (The Guard)	A. Rozenfeld	116
The Jewish Academic Club		117
The “Hazamir” Club (The Nightingale Club)	Dr. Henia Rakotch	117
P. Giser's Music School; Theatre and Art		118
The Dramatic Club		119
Memories of the Drama Club	Khaim Elboym	120
Libraries		121
The Fruits of the Jewish Enlightenment	Kh. L. Huberman	122
My Hometown (poem)	Malka Royzntzveyg – Plotzky	123
Ways and Activities of a National Leader
A Portrait of a Civic and National Leader, Yekhiel Ben Yisroel Frenkel	Collected and adapted by Leibel Richtman	127
My Father's House	Miriam Frenkel Szwarc	130
Commerce, Craft, Industry
Radom – An Industrial Centre	Engineer Tzimerman	133
Jews in the Leather Industry	Moishe Rotenberg	134
Jewish Tannery Workers	Sh. Vaks	137
The Merchant's Association	Aron Merin	137
The Founding of the Merchant's Bank		138
The Zionist Bank		139
Cooperation and Artisanry	Sholem Stravchinsky	141
The Artisan – School Named After Yisroel Frenkel		143
ORT		143
Figures in Economic Life	Sh. S.	144
Philanthropic Activities
The Jewish Hospital	Yehoshua Helfant	151
The Old People's Home		154
The Silver Key…	Yehuda Tzuker	155
The Orphanage		155
The Society to Help New Mothers		157
The Society to Spend the Night with the Sick		157
“TOZ”		158
“The Great Charity”		159
“Ezra” (“Aid”)	Leizer Fischman	160
“Akhiezer”		160
“Communal Help for Young Girls Without Resources to Marry”		160
“Communal Hospitality to Guests”		160
Aid for Jews Who Were Arrested		160
Excerpts from a Presentation		161
The Refugee Committee		162
Active Leaders (In various societies)		162
“Interest Free Loan Society”		163
The Mutual Aid Society		163
Philanthropists and Benefactors		164
Movements
Lovers of Zion and the Zionist Movement	Pinhas Gal (Fogelman)	173
Baron Rothschild and the Sons of Radom		174
The Zionist Organization Organizes		175
The Zionist Printing House in Drilzh	Moshe Shadmi (Grosfeld)	177
The General Zionist Organization	Moishe Rotenberg	178
Letters from the Austrian Occupation		179
1911 - 1918	Moshe Shoshani	181
The Aliyot (Immigrations) From Radom	David Tzadkani (Rekhtman)	183
The “Lithuanian Commune”		183
The Beginning of the First Aliyah	Moishe Pomrok	183
Episodes from the Group “105”	Arnold Rozenfeld	185
The Third Aliyah	Yekhiel Ben Yakov (Golembyovsky)	186
The Fourth Aliyah		187
The “Hechalutz” (Pioneer) Farm	Khaim Taykhman	188
Memories of the Farm		189
The “League” for Workers in the Land of Israel”	Moishe Stashevsky	190
The Clubhouse of “Hashomer Hatzair”	Sala Blushteyn (Kimchi)	191
The Labour Zionist Movement (Po'alei Zion), As I Remember It	Sh. Ben – Chaim	192
The Pioneer Movement	Yonah Ben – Yakov	195
“Daughters of Zion”	Dvorah Banker – Grushkvevitch	195
The “Pioneer Fund”		196
Kibbutz Three Vs		196
The Training Kibbutz Named for Reb Shmuel Mohliver	Yisroel Grintz	197
Kibbutz “Breishit” (Genesis)		197
“Masada”	Fela Burshteyn – Kimchi	198
“Mizrachi”	Dr. Y. Grinitz	198
The Revisionist Movement	Yisroel Gertner	200
”Menorah”	Moshe Reichnadel	203
The “Agudas Yisroel”	Yitzkhak Raykhman	203
Active Leaders in the Movements		205
The Strikes in 1905		209
The “Bund” and Professional Unions		210
The Bells Rang…	Samuel Grosfeld	210
Sons of Radom who Fell in the Spanish Civil War	Alfred Grant	212
Radom's Professions (poem)	Yehoshua Lender	214
Writers and their Works
The Pleiad of Radom Writers		217
Yehoshua Perle		218
Perle, the Artist of the Polish Landscape	Yehoshua Lender	218
Everyday Jews	Yehoshua Perle	219
About Leyb Malakh (bio–bibliography)		223
The Road Back (A Short Story)	Leyb Malakh	224
Moishe Dovid Gisser (bio–bibliography)		226
Poems	Moishe Dovid Gisser	227
Moishe Dovid's Continuity		229
A Safe Harbour	Uri Gisser	229
The Mirror and Me (poem)	Tamar Gisser / Ramot Menashe	230
Leo Finkelshteyn (bio–bibliography)		231
The Atmosphere in Poland…	Leo Finkelshteyn	231
Khaim Mordkhai Fligelman	I. L. Zucker	234
Yehuda and Tamar	Kh. M. Fligelman	234
Yehuda Leyb Vohlman	L. Tz.	236
Dr. Yitzkhak Veynberg		237
A. Lerman		237
Tuviya Rutman		238
Not by Might nor by Power (a poem)	Tuvia Rutman	238
Authors and Torah Scholars
Reb Naftali son of Pinkhas –Zev Halevy	M. Sh. Gashori	239
Reb Meir Halevy Bornshteyn	M. Sh. Gashori	239
Rabbi Yehuda (Yudl) Roznberg	M. Sh. Gashori	239
Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Perl	M. Sh. Gashori	240
Rabbi Yishaye Zlotnik	Yisroel Grintz	240
Newspapers and Editors		241
The Artist Avrom Rozenboym	Yekhiel Aronson	243
Artists, Musicians, Writers		244
A City with Jews
The Beautiful Polish – Jewish City	Leah Radomska	247
The Old Garden (poem)	Alter Wolf Wertheim	248
A “Skhodke” (“Secret Meeting”) in 1905	Yehoshua Perle	249
People Say…	Moishe Stashevsky	252
Curiosities	Kh. Taykhman	254
The Synagogue Street	Meylekh Guthertz	255
Memories	Yehuda Leybush Tzuker	256
Mordkhai Beynish the Fireman	Yehuda Leyb Tzuker	259
The Life Journey of a Proletarian	Avrom Shtorkh	260
Two Poems	Kh. L. Khuberman	263
The Sabbath Woman	N. D Korman	264
The Sabbath and Holidays	Feyge Rokhl Benet	264
Yosele the Haybam's	Yekhiel Popielnik - Popper	265
Yakov Hershele the Informer	Yekhiel Popielnik - Popper	266
Tales	Sh. Margolis	267
The Cripple	Gitl Rozentzveyg – Farber	272
A Dybbuk – An Evil Spirit	Mordkahi Tzuker	273
About Three Rabbis		274
The Destruction of Radom
September Days–1939		277
The German Army Arrives		278
The Judenrat		279
Kiddush–Hashem		279
Lack of Living Conditions, Forced Labour and Jewish Offices		281
Living – To the Death		282
In Lublin and at the Russian Border		283
The First Expulsion		284
Ghetto; The Jewish Police, the Office for Living Conditions		285
Ghetto Administration		286
It Becomes More and More Difficult		287
An Ordinary Day in the Ghetto		288
Health Conditions in the Ghetto		290
Political Life		292
Cultural Life in the Ghetto		296
Religious Life in the Ghetto		298
Robbery, Murder, Actions in the Ghetto		299
Work-Places		300
Liquidation of the Glinice Ghetto		301
After the Liquidation of the Glinice Ghetto		303
The Liquidation of the Large Ghetto		306
The Evacuation of the Jewish Hospital, Orphanage and Old-Peoples' Home		311
After the Evacuation		312
The number of Jews in the Radomer district in the “General Government”		314
In the Little Ghetto		316
The Jewish Property		317
Daily Life in the Little Ghetto		317
The Ghetto Administration		318
Work Places and Labour Camps		319
The Little Beit Midrash in the Little Ghetto		319
Several Families Travel to Eretz–Israel		320
The Registration for Eretz Israel		320
The Resettlement to Szydlowiec		321
The Murder on New Year's Eve		321
The “Action” of January 13		321
Massacre of Intellectuals, Purim March 21, 1943		323
The Murder in Wolanow		325
The Liquidation of the “Little Ghetto”		326
The Concentration Camp on Szkolna Street		327
The Bloody March from Radom – Tomoshov – Oswiecim		329
The Women in Auschwitz		332
In Majdanek, Plashov, and Vielichki		333
The Fate of the Radomer Women in Majdanek		335
On the Cursed German Soil: The Concentration Camps		336
Radomer Jews executed in the Vaihingen concentration camp, who were brought to be buried in the Radom cemetery		344
List of Radomer Jews in Dachau, who were buried in Leitinberg		345
List of Jews from various towns who were killed along with those from Radom in the Vaihingen concentration camp		345
Radom Martyrs and Rebels	Yishaye Eiger	346
“Kol Nidre” in Auschwitz and the Revenge on a Kapo	Yona Borenstein	350
A Pesach Seder in Vaihingen	Moshe Perl (Hebrew: L. Richtman-Yiddish)	351
The Liberation of a Group of Radomers	Moshe Kirschenblatt	352
Partisans, Heroes and Martyrs	L. Richtman	354
The death of a Brave Partisan	Shmuel Gutman (Gzhegozh)	362
Two Figures in the Ghetto
Rabbi Israel Shapiro	Leibel Richtman	365
Felicia Horowitz	Lea Pines	365
A Child In Hell	Sarah Neidik-Wallach	366
Wandering (Refugees from Radom in the Soviet Union)	M. Stashevsky	366
Jewish Life in Radom after Liberation	Yakov Vayngort	372
The Death of My Sister Reizel	Chana Margalit- Grodzinski	374
People Under Cover	Binyomin Elis	375
The Wedding (poem)	M.D. Gisser	378
The German Exile
The “Radom Center” in Stuttgart	Leibel Rychtman	381
The Stuttgart Events	Leibel Rychtman	392
Shmuel Danziger	Leibel Richtman	393
The Aliya Beth and the Deportation to Cyprus	Sarah Neidik-Wallach	393
The New Generation (poem)	M.D. Gisser	394
In Our Own Country
Our Town People from the Second Aliya	Our Town People from the Second Aliya	397
Across Borders	M. Stashefski	398
Meetings with A.D. Gordon and Yosef Trumpeldor	David Tzidkuni (Rechtman)	398
The Hut of Malka'le Neidik	Miriam Shir	399
The Virgin Family	Israel Frenkel	401
Concentrated Work-Places in the Land	I.L. Zuker	402
A Letter from Radom	Ben – David (Moishe Zayfman)	402
Three Who Did Not Survive	Yehuda G.	403
Heroes of Israel	Leybl Rikhtman
Nekhemiah Bakman		407
Chaim Ben –David		407
Zvi Ze'ev Zeira		407
Motl Minkovsky		408
Shloime (“Salek”) Sallbe		408
Yitzkhak Smotritch (“Smity”)		408
Menachem Fridman		409
Hillel Fikhtnboym		409
Menachem Koyfman		409
Emanuel Kleynman		409
Yosef (Yoske) Roznboym		410
Yitzchak Meir Rotman		410
Yisrael Shvartzman		410
Fighters and Defenders
Dov Berl Zelker	F. Gal	411
Khaim Birenboym	Shmuel Tzuker	411
Shmuel Noam – Tzuker	Yehuda Tzuker	412
A Soldier had Fallen (sonnet)	Moishe Knapheys	413
Communal Activists who Died in the Land of Israel		414
My Mother	Yehuda G.	421
Kaddish (The Prayer for the Dead) (poem)	M.D Gisser	421
“The Organization of Former Radom Residents in Israel	Leybl Rikhtman	422
The Land of Israel (poem)	M.D. Gisser	426
Radom Jews Throughout the World
1. In America
The First Radom Congregation		429
The “Radomer Culture Center”		430
Forty Years “United Radomer Relief”	Alfred Lipson	432
The History of Relief	Shlomo Lifshitz	433
Employees, Committee Members and Activists in New York		435
50 years of the Radom Workmen's Circle, branch 369	Samuel Grossfeld	435
“The Radom Mutual Society” in New York	Yisroel Glat	436
2. In Canada
Radom Mutual Benefit Society in Toronto		439
The History of the Radom Aid Society in Montreal	Yechiel Popper – Popielnik	440
“Sons of Radom” in Toronto		441
3. In Australia
The Radomer Centre in Melbourne	Shmuel [Samuel] Benett	441
4. In France
Society “Les Amis de Radom” in Paris	Chaim Leib Huberman	442
The “Patronate”		443
After the Holocaust	Moishe Epshteyn	444
Two Trips	Sh. Fishman	446
The Founders of the Society “Friends of Radom”		446
Yizkor – Remember		453
Murdered and Deceased Radom Jews perpetuated their Relatives and Friends in America and Canada		454
Murdered and Deceased Radom Jews perpetuated their Relatives and Friends in France		469
Radom Jews Tortured in Shemberg Nazi Concentration Camp		476
Yizkor [List of victims]		483
Radom in Pictures
English Section
Foreword		III
Introduction		VII
Part I: Creative Years
Pages from the Past		3
Pioneers in Industry and Fighters for Freedom		5
Religious Life in Radom		7
Modern Currents		12
Center of Industry		15
Pioneers in Industry		20
Jewish Education in Radom		22
Radom's Contribution to Literature and Art		27
Yechiel Frenkel – A Portrait of a Civic and National Leader		29
Municipal Affairs		31
Pogrom in Przytyk		33
Part II: The Years of Disaster
Under Nazi Rule		39
The Ghettos in Radom		42
Health Conditions in the Ghetto		47
Cultural Activities in the Ghetto		49
Robbery and Murder		51
Labor Camps		58
K.L. on Szkolna		63
Death Camps		66
A Modern Odyssey		68
Vaihingen and Dachau		70
Journey to Life		72
Part III: Rebellion
Active and Passive Resistance		77
Part IV: Recovery
In the Displaced Persons Center of Stuttgart		85
UNRRA and its Role		90
Part V: Building Anew
Radomers – Pioneers in Israel		95
In Australia		96
In France		98
In Canada		99
In the United States		100
History of the United Radomer Relief		106
In the Service of Their People		113
Who's Who in Literature and the Arts		115
Radom Name Index		116

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