Foreword	The Editorial Committee	5
Introduction	Nachman Blumenthal - “Yad Vashem” Administration	9
The Origins and Configuration of Sarny	Prof. Ben-Zion Dinor	13
Between Swamps and Forests
Wolhyn Jewry	Yitzhak Lamdan	19
The Ambience of Sarny	Ber'l Frimer	20
My City, Sarny	Yaakov Tzuk (Kottelczuk)	21
That Was the Sarny of the Past	Aryeh Avtikhi	22
Memories from the First Days	Dr. Jonah Glick	24
Sarny – Its Creation, Existence and Destruction	Shlomo Zandweiss	27
Sarny – Its Creation, Existence and Destruction [Y]	Shlomo Zandweiss	82
From the Beginning to the End	Baruch Raks	155
Pogroms [Y]	Moshe Yuz	157
During the Days of Petlura and the Haidamaks	Moshe Borko	158
With the Changes in Regime	Ari Moor (Moorik)	161
Between One War and the Next	Aryeh Attstein	163
An Emissary to Wolhyn in 1930	Ber'l Lukar	166
My Visit to Sarny in 1935	Ber'l Lukar	170
This Is How We Grew Up, This Is How We Matured	Levi Bikowsky	171
The Way of Life
What I Will Tell My Son	Sarah Turkenitz–Katzman	177
Education and Culture
Teachers & Educators	Yaakov Tzuk (Kotelczuk)	179
My Father, Joseph Nyavozhny [Y]	Tzvetel Nyavozhny	182
My Rabbi	Mordechai Peczenik (Mordechai Edelstein)	183
Education in Polish Wolhyn	Shmuel Rosenhack	183
The Educators of the Young Generation in Sarny	Abraham-Isaac Murik	186
Integration During the Development of Education	Sarah Turkenitz–Katzman	188
The First Hebrew School in Sarny	Yitzhak Idan (Zeldin)	191
In the Tarbut School	Issachar Bestus	192
The ORT School	A. N. Meshorer (Zingerman)	194
Sarny Youth in the Centers of Learning	Moshe Yuz	194
Cultural Activities in Sarny	Moshe Yuz	195
The First Sarny “Spectacle”	Yekhiel Salutsky	198
Movements and Parties
Zionist Sarny	Israel Rituv	198
A Clandestine Zionist Assembly in Czarist Times	Yekhiel Salutsky	201
Zionist Youth Organizations	Ephraim Schneider (Munya)	202
Hashomer HaTza'ir in Sarny	Ephraim Schneider (Munya)	204
The Mizrahi Movement in Sarny	Baruch Rabinovich	206
The Revisionist Movement in Sarny	Asher Miasnik	208
The Jews of Sarny and the Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael (Jewish National Fund)	M. M. Horowitz	209
The Communist Movement in Sarny [Y]	Mordechai Peczenik	211
Torah & Hasidism
The Houses of Worship in Our City	Abraham-Isaac Murik	212
The Synagogue of the Hasidim of Stolin-Karlin	Asher Miasnik	213
The Stolin-Karlin Hassidut	Dr. Zev Rabinovitz	216
Hasidic customs in my father's house	Shlomo Zandveiss	218
How I earned a place for myself in the world to come [Y]	Moshe Borko	220
The dynasty of the Brezne Admorim	HaRav Aharon Pecznik	222
The rabbi from Brezne and his Hassidim in Sarny	Y. L. Yonatan z”l	223
The Admor R' Yosef Pecznik	Mordechai Pecznik	226
The head of the Yeshiva [Y]	E. Kast	227
In a margin of a letter	Dr. Ester Trasi	230
HaRav R' Nachum-Yehusua HaLevi Pecznik	HaRav Aharon Pecznik	231
HaRav R' Chaim-Moshe Hechtman	Yafa Hechtman-Brvado	232
HaRav R' Aharon Kunda	S. Ben-Zadok	233
During Weekdays and Festivals
The Market Day in Sarny	Abraham Murik	234
Czar Nicholas II in Sarny [Y]	Shlomo Zandweiss	235
Tragic Encounters	Yaakov Tzuk (Kotelczuk)	236
Sarny Comedians [Y]	Shlomo Zandweiss	241
Sabbath in the Town	Rachel Tarass–Zuckerman	242
The Night of the Seder in the Home of My Parents	Yaffa Hechtman–Barbado	242
The Day of Judgment	Pua Golomba–Yanait	243
Sarny Youth in France	Nehemiah Gildenhoren	246
From the Memories of One of the First Who Made Aliyah	Penina Glinansky–Barzilai	246
‘The Concealed [Righteous] One’	Mordechai Peczenik	246
In the Neighboring Settlements
Jews in the Villages of the Sarny Area	Meir Walkin	248
From the Way of Life of the Jews in the Villages	Nehemiah Gildenhorn	248
Klesów – The Village, Its People and Fate	Joseph Zuliar	250
How the Kibbutz Was Established in Klesów	Gila Turkowic–Salutsky	251
The Establishment of the Kibbutz in Klesów	Sh. Evven–Zohar	252
A Portrait of the Klesów Man	Yitzhak Tavenkin	254
The Jews of the Village of Karpylivka [Y]	Yentl Burko–Pearlstein	256
The Antonovka Train Station	Aharon Shavit (Stern)	259
How It Was Destroyed
*  *  *	Yitzhak Katznelson	263
The Calendar of the War and Holocaust in Sarny		264
The Memorial Day [Y]	Joseph Pearlstein	264
From the Beginning of the War to the Nazi Conquest	Mordechai Peczenik	266
The Illusion of the Power of Money to Effect Rescue	Yitzhak Greenbaum	269
In the Ghetto and in the Extermination
The destruction of the city of Sarny	Yitzchak Geller z”l	271
The destruction of the city of Sarny [Y]	Yitzchak Geller z”l	285
The Ghetto – the Beginning of the End [Y]	Zvi Pearlstein	305
A little girl in the ghetto	Yona Burko-Sherman	311
Life in the ghetto [Y]	Yosef Wolf	311
The liquidation [Y]	Avraham Freilach	312
Destruction [Y]	Yisrael Cork	314
In the field of destruction	Yosef Wolf	315
The arson that didn't materialize	Baruch Krimski	316
I was fifteen years old	Arye Turkenich	317
The regional commissar promised	Pinchas Neumann	320
Rescued through a German [Y]	Feiga Sherman	322
Comments to the story of my sister Feiga'le z”l	Yitzchak Schwartz	329
From the ghetto to tha partisans [Y]	Berel Bick	331
In the War for Rescue and Life
How I Was Saved from the Killing Valley in Sarny	Israel Pinczuk	334
The Extermination and the Rescue	Leah Teich–Minkowsky	336
In a Partisan Division [Y]	Zalman Perlmutter	347
In the Soviet Army [Y]	Issachar Bastus	349
My Revenge Against the Exterminators of Sarny Jewry	Meir Walkin	350
Revenge Taken Against the Murderers	Abraham Feinberg	352
A Jewish Partisan	Esther Zolotow-Ivri	353
Like a Pursued Animal in the Forests	Rosa Wachs-Steinberg	354
Saved Jewish Children [Y]	Zvi Olshansky	364
A Doctor in the Forest [Y]	Dr. Chanan Weinberger	366
The Killed and the Saved [Y]	Dr. Shimon Zweiman	368
After the Victory
The Killing Valley in Sarny	Meir Walkin	370
The Mass Grave	Joseph Wolf	372
An Encounter in Central Asia	Raya Kramer–Huberman	373
On the Ruins of Sarny	Bruriah Begun–Zilberg	375
The Rescue of Torah Scrolls	Joseph Fabrikant	375
How Pictures of the Martyrs Were Obtained from the N.K.V.D.	Miriam Bergman	376
From Sarny to the Land of Israel [Y]	Yaakov Niemoy	377
From the University to Siberia	Moshe F.	388
Through the Ponary Pit and Exile to Kolyma	Tzivia Nabozhny–Wildstein	389
Sarny – 1957	Bluma Zweiman	394
From That Inferno [Poem]	Chaim Guri	397
The Candles Dedicated to Memory
Those Who Fell in the Holocaust		401
The Attstein family	Chaya Attstein–Talit
Benjamin Edelstein	Yekhiel Salutsky
Joseph Barzam	Aryeh Barzamy
Pesach & Yehoshua Borko	Shlomo Zandweiss
Yaakov Bryk	Moshe Yuz
The Family of Shmuel Geifman	Shlomo Zandweiss
Esther Goldman	Simcha Banorat (Averbukh)
Yehoshua Glauberman	Boaz Eisenberg
Chaim Glick	Moshe Yuz
Aharon Godel Groszko	Zvi Kahana (Groszko)
Shmaryahu Gerszunok	Shlomo Zandweiss
Abraham Dichter	Shlomo Zandweiss
Chaya Danenberg	Yekhiel Salutsky
Shmuel Walkin	Dr. Yom–Tov Lewinsky
Pinchas Zandweiss	Esther Zandweiss–Fish
Ahar'l Zandweiss and His Wife Rivka	Yekhiel Salutsky
Penina Zandweiss	Moshe Yuz
The Jewish Watchman	P”Z
Mindl and Lejzor Zhuk	Joseph Sharoni (Zhuk)
The Family of Zvi Zuliar	Yaakov Tsuk
Velfl Zinger	Bruriah Zinger–Koren
The Family of Itzia Zinger	Mordechai Piczenik
Mendl Zindl	Moshe Yuz
Chaim Khaniss	Nechama & Pesach Khaniss
Abraham Turkentiz	Israel Karny (Korowoczka)
Aharon Miasnik	Yehudit Miasnik–Dobrowicky
The Nissman Family	Aharon Nissman
Alter Pasman	Sh. Zweiman
Ze'ev Pikman	Shlomo Ben–Tzadok
Tirza Peczenik	Mordechai Peczenik
Chaim & Lyuba Pearlstein	Yekhiel Salutsky
Benjamin Kantorowicz	Adina & Joseph
Reuveni'kheh	Pua Golomba–Yanait
Israel & Chaya Rosenfeld	Yaakov Rosenfeld
Aharon Rosenberg	Relatives in Israel
Yitzhak Raks	Baruch Raks
Ze'ev Szur	Yekhiel Salutsky
Riva Szpanerflieg	Shimon Zweiman
Out of All the Nations [poem]	Natan Alterman	432
The martyrs of the Holocaust in Sarny		433
Fell in the illegal immigration, the “Haganah” and the War of Independence		451
Fell in the front and in the partisans' battles		459
In Memory of the Missing
Passed away in Israel and abroad		465
The association of former residents of Sarny and the surrounding area in Israel	The committee	508

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