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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilot Szczuczyn Wasiliszki
Ostryna Nowy-Dwor
Rozanka
Edited by: L. Losh
"Community of Rozanka" edited by Rav Abraham Liss
Published in Tel Aviv, 1966
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Two versions of the same Yizkor book exist. Both are dated 1966 and look virtually identical. The information is essentially indistinguishable but the order of three towns is changed. In one version, the Shtutchin portion is first. In the other version, Ostrina is first. The page numbers herein list the Shtutchin version first and the Ostrina version in brackets. Untranslated words are in italics.
[ Shtutshin ] [ Vasilishki ] [ Ostrina ] [ Novi Dvor ] [ Rozhanka ]
Note: identical in both versions of the yizkor book except for the page numbering
| 1 [-] |
(Yiddish Poem "Once I Had a Life"-- One page)
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| 2 [5] | Foreword |
| 3 [3] |
The book's sections:
First Section - Shtutshin - pp 25-114 [111-200] |
| 5 [5] | Editor's Foreword |
| 7 [7] | Yosef Cohen-Tzedek: The History of the Jews of Shtutshin - Vasilishki - Ostrina - Novi Dvor - Rozhanka (Historical Review) [pages are the same in both yizkor book versions] |
| 7 | 1. During the Period of the Kingdom of Poland (until 1772) |
| 12 | 2. The Historical Development of the Aforementioned Cities |
| 14 | 3. The Period of the Russian Conquest (1772-1914) |
| 21 | 4. From World War I to the Holocaust |
| 24 | Bibliography |
| 27 [112] | Table of Contents |
Shtutshin
[Szczuczyn] - Pages 25-114 [111-200]
| 25 [114] | The First 20 Years of our Memorial "Yarhondert" |
| 32 [118] | My Shtutchin "University" |
| 33 [119] | The "Tziere Zion" |
| 36 [122] | Shmuel I. Shneider: The Dur Was hat geshniten dem Veg |
| 43 [129] | From Thanks the Shtetl of my Yognt |
| 47 [133] | Meir Bezovik: the Stutchiner Yeshiva |
| 49 [134] | A Short Visit in Shtutshin in 1913 |
| 50 [136] | The Late Rabbi Leib Khasman |
| 52 [138] |
The Rabbinical Writings of the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda-Leib Chasman
-- Written in Shtutchin in the Year 1906 |
| 54 [140] | Moshe Ben-Eliezer (Glembotzki) |
| 55 [141] | The Soul of a Journalist |
| 55 [141] | A Passing World |
| 56 [143] | Teacher and Poet, Simcha Shneider |
| 56 [143] | Editor and Translator, Rafael Khasman |
Chapter Two
| 59 [145] | Between the Two World Wars Aliya to Palestine in 1936 thanks to a Polish Soldier in 1920 |
| 60 [146] | The House of My Father-Itzak Menachem (Mendel) Levin |
| 61 [147] | The Shomer Hetzair Cell |
| 62 [148] | Yosef Trumpledor Pact--Betair |
| 63 [149] | The Public "Beer House" |
| 64 [150] | The Yiddish Folks-School (Tzishia) Y. L. Peretz |
| 65 [151] | The General People's Library |
| 66 [152] | Ve azoi M'hot Consistent Need |
| 69 [155] | Origin of Threshold of the Perishing |
Chapter Three
| 83 [169] | Holocaust and Vengeance: Slaughter and Holocaust in Souls and Property/Entrance of the Germans |
| 84 [170] | The Judenrat and the Jewish Police, The First Slaughter and the Closure of the Jews in the Ghetto |
| 85 [171] | Destruction of the Intellegentsia and Religious Leaders, The Last Three Months |
| 87 [173] | The Last Sabbath |
| 88 [174] | After the Great Killing |
| 89 [175] | B. War and Revenge on the Destroyers of a People, 13 War Remnants, From Fights Who Died in Battle |
| 90 [176] | Three Daring Brothers |
| 92 [178] | Fighter of the Jewish War |
| 95 [181] | K'ben Geven in Sobibor and in Maidanek |
| 96 [182] | K'ben Geven a Christian in Vilna Sbiba |
| 99 [185] | Szuczyn Necrology |
Chapter Four
| 105 [191] | Tusfit--Tzugob Material "Der Adresat aiz Nito" |
| 106 [192] | Survivors from Italy |
| 108 [194] | A Tear and Encouragement from the Son of the City on his Arrival in Israel; With Hartz and Nshma for Hometown |
| 110 [196] | A Tefila for a Landsman; Kvod the Memory for the Aumgebrakte |
| 112 [198] | Tzugeherikeit , Not Forgotten |
| 113 [199] | Ben-zion Levit, Shmuel-Yakob Sneider: In Memory of the Missing |
| 114 [200] | A Poem signed Smuel Halkin |
Vasilishki
Pages 115-292 [201-378]
Pages 116-176 [203-262]: Hebrew
Pages 177-275 [263-360]: Yiddish
| 115 [201] | title page |
| 116 [202] | section explanation; Holocaust Deaths from Vasilishki, Kadzilon, Misievich, Polasy, Shalevy, Skrebovy, Zabloch |
| 117 [203] | Preface , by Abraham Alpert |
| 124 [210] | HaPoelim-Tarbut 1916 |
| 144 [230] | Hebrew School "Yavna" |
| 145 [231] | Chalutz--Ha Poel-Hamizrachi |
| 162 [248] | The Memory of Dr. Mark Lifshitz , by Yosef Beier |
| 171 [257] | Henya Volochinsky , by Batya Olkenitzki (Reien) |
| 171 [257] | Yosef Beier (Boyarsky) , by Shlomo Avial (Berkowitz) |
| 177 [263] | The Shtetl Vasilishok , by Abraham Alpert |
| 178 [264] | Places Just Outside the Shtetl , by Sara Gitl Boyarsky (Boyar),Tzipora Boyarsky (Avial), Chaya Kravitz(Alpert) |
| 180 [266] | Jewish Livelihoods , by Etl Kravitz and Sara Boyarsky-Boyar |
| 183 [269] | After World War I , by a Vasilishoker |
| 184 [270] | Social and Intellectual Life: Cultural Activities before the First Germans, Library, Tale, Press, Drama Circle, Tzeiri-Zion, The First Polish, Self-Defense, by Mendel Mashevski (America) |
| 189 [275] | Business and Social Institutions ; The Economy: Folks-Bank, Primitive Hospital, by a Vasilishoker |
| 190 [276] | Cheders and Melamdim [Teachers] , by Sara Gitl Boyarsky and Etl Kravetz: R' Shlomo the Melamed and R' Yankel Tzales |
| 192 [278] | The Tarbut School , by Sara Gitl Boyarsky |
| 199 [285] | Surrounding Villages , by Sara Gitl Boyarsky (Boyar) |
| 200 [286] | A Villager's Holiday , by Ruben Mordukovich |
| 201 [287] | Musicians of Vasilishok , by Yosef Boyarsky (Boyar) |
| 202 [288] | The Pozharne Command [Fire Brigade] , by Abraham (Avi) Kopelman |
| 203 [289] | Fires in the Shtetl , by Sara Gitl Boyarsky and Etl Kravetz |
| 204 [290] | Drama Groups , by Tzipora and Chaya |
| 207 [293] | "Sale of Joseph" , by A.B. |
| 208 [294] | A Chapter of a Jewish Kehillah [Community] , by A.B.I. |
| 210 [296] | A Wedding in the Shtetl , by Tzipora Boyarsky and Yosef Boyar |
| 211 [297] | Holidays in the Shtetl ; Erev Pesach, Beim Seder, Sukot, by Rebeka Maevsky-Freidgut |
| 213 [299] | The First Aliyah [1921] , by Yosef and Sara Boyarsky (Boyar) |
| 214 [300] | Yom Kippur in the Forest in 1915 , by Sara Gitl Boyar |
| 217 [303] | Aaron the Feldsher [Barber-Surgeon] , by Yosl Boyarsky |
| 219 [305] | Fredek Krusha -- The Ger Tzadek [Righteous Gentile-Convert] , by Chaya Alpert and Tzipora Berkowitz |
| 220 [306] | My Brother, the Late Moishe-Gedaliahu , by Ida Shapiro-Maevsky |
| 221 [307] | About the Old Home [Country] , by Yosef Ben-Abraham |
| 224 [310] | My Shtetl of Birth , by Chaya Alpert-Kravetz |
| 227 [313] | A Collection of Memories , by Abraham Alpert: the Late Yakob Koifman, the Late Israel Shapiro |
| 231 [317] | Under German Rule: The German Attack on the Soviet Union |
| 232 [318] | In the Grip of the Germans and anti-Semitism |
| 234 [320] | New Bosses--New Tzores [Aggravation] |
| 234 [320] | The Judenrat |
| 235 [321] | The Polish Police Commander |
| 237 [323] | Hard Labor |
| 238 [324] | A New Plague--Gendarmerie |
| 239 [325] | Polish Police Also |
| 239 [325] | Ghetto |
| 240 [326] | The Mass Murders Begin |
| 240 [326] | More |
| 242 [328] | The Last Slaughter [Schichta] , by Chana and Elihu Volochinsky |
| 244 [330] | Between Life and Death |
| 246 [332] | Three Times I Saved My Life - Eliahu Volochinsky; A. In Vileiker Lager [Prison]; B. Yet the Greater Slaughter; C. The Escape from the Ghetto into the Forest |
| 250 [336] | I Escape from the Slaughter , Leibke Einshtein |
| 251 [337] | The Second Small Slaughter , by Chaya Alpert (Kravetz) |
| 256 [342] | What I Lived Through Outside the Ghetto , by Etel Kravitz |
| 259 [345] | Vasilishok Partisans : The Life in the Forest, by Chaya Kravitz and Abraham Alpert, by Chana and Lusik Volochinski; Chaya and Abraham Alpert |
| 263 [349] | A Forest Varein of the Partisans |
| 266 [352] | Escape and the German Army: The Forest Entry to the Partisans |
| 266 [352] | The Last Action and Our Liberation |
| 269 [355] | Experiences in the Red Army , Benjamin Stotzky |
| 270 [356] | After the Liberation , Chaya Alpert (Kravitz) |
| 271 [357] | Two Letters from Vasilishok : March 1945, May 1965 from Moshe Aaron Feigus |
| 273 [361] | Holocaust Necrology for Vasilishki |
| 289 [375] | Holocaust Necrology for Sobakintzy |
| 290 [376] | Holocaust Necrology for Misievich, Polesy, Shalevy, Kadzilon, Zaboloch |
| 290 [376] | Holocaust Necrology for Skrebovy |
| 290 [376] | Umgekomene Als Zelner and German Gefangenshaft |
| 291 [377] | Killed in the Red Army |
| 291 [377] | Killed in Partisan Camp |
| 361 [275] |
[Vasilishki Necrology] |
| 377 [291] | [Vasilishki region Necrology] |
| 377 [291] | [Died in Partisan Camps] (Vasilishki region) |
| 376 [290] | [Died in German Captivity] (Vasilishki region) |
| 376 [290] | [Misievich, Polase, Shaleva, Kadzilon, Zakoloch Necrology] (Vasilishki region) |
| 376 [290] | [Skribove Necrology] (Vasilishki region) |
| 375 [289] | [Sobakince Necrology] (Vasilishki region) |
Ostrina
Pages 293-378 [25-110]
| A. | 295 [27] | Village of Ostrin |
| B. | 296 [28] | Religious Life in the Village |
| 297 [29] | Maggidim [Itinerant Preachers] | |
| 298 [30] | Rabbis | |
| 299 [31] | Teachers | |
| 301 [33] | R' Shmuel the Cantor | |
| 304 [34] | Chevra Kadesha [Burial Society] | |
| G. | 304 [34] | Educational Institutions |
| 304 [34] | Melamed Leibchik from Shtutchin Street, Mordechai Leizer Kaplan The Hunchback, The Chederim for Older Children where Bible and Talmud were Taught, Yoshi Ber the teacher from Vasilishok Street | |
| 305 [36] | The Cheder of Moshe Abraham, Yesheya the teacher from Novi Dvor Street , R'Abraham Yelin | |
| 306 [37] | The First Buds of Modern Teaching Methods in the Village | |
| 307 [39] | Hanasoin HaRashub of Beim Meirov , The New Cheders , The First Modern School | |
| 309 [41] | The Tarbut School | |
| 310 [42] | A New Building for the Tarbut School | |
| Modern Teaching of Bi. M. Meirov | ||
| D. | 310 [42] | H. Financial life of the Village |
| H. | Financial Life | |
| V. | 316 [48] | Y. During the First World War |
| Z. | 319 [51] | A Transition Period |
| Kh. | 323 [55] | Craftsmen and Professionals |
| T. | 327 [59] | The Zionist Movement |
| 329 [61] | Hechalutz | |
| 329 [61] | Hechalutz HaTzair | |
| 331 [63] | Hashomer HaTzair of Ostrin | |
| Y. | 333 [65] | Public Activitists |
| 333 [65] | Berl Poretzky , Yehoshua Krinsky | |
| 335 [67] | David Mok , Yekhezkal | |
| 335 [67] | David Tkornitzky | |
| 336 [68] | R' Abraham Yellin | |
| 337 [69] | Berl Krinsky | |
| YA. | 338 [70] | YA. frki hvi |
| 338 [70] | Zvi Volfson (Rabbi Dov Ostrin) | |
| 340 [72] | Efraim Blaker | |
| 340 [72] | Ezra Rapoport | |
| 343 [75] | Jewish Coachmen | |
| YB. | 344 [76] | Life Styles |
| 353 [85] | The Life and Ruin of our Shtetl Ostrin -- Yiddish by Tzvi Segalovich , M.M. Yezerski , Shlomo Boyarsky | |
| 357 [89] | 1941-1944 | |
| 362 [94] | From Ostrin to Auschvitz | |
| 367 [99] | Ostrin and Novydvor Memorial Plaque in Jerusalem | |
| 368 [100] | Necrology |
Novi Dvor
Pages 379-434 (Page numbers are the same in both yizkor books)
| 380 | Table of Contents | |
| A. | 381 | The Shtetl Novidvor |
| B. | 383 | The First World War |
| G. | 384 | German Occupation 1915-1918 |
| D. | 385 | Self-Defense Organization |
| H. | 387 | The Economic Life |
| V. | 389 | Craftsmen |
| Z. | 391 | Coachmen |
| Ch. | 393 | The Jewish Community |
| T. | 395 | The Religious Life |
| Y. | 399 | The Zionist Movement |
| YA. | 405 | Education and Culture |
| YB. | 412 | The Social Institutions |
| YG. | 414 | Hospitality |
| YD. | 415 | Medical Care |
| TY. | 416 | Episodes and Facts |
| TZ. | 418 | Figures and Matters |
| 418 | R' Pinchas Starinsky | |
| 419 | Yehuda Berechansky | |
| 419 | R' Efraim Kampinsky | |
| 420 | R' Yakob Berl "the Chasid" | |
| 420 | Raky Shmuel the Tzigelnik ( Berechansky ) | |
| 421 | Our Parents by Bluma Gordon | |
| YZ. | 423 | Novi Dvor Holocaust by Shmuel Kobrovsky |
| 422 | Under Soviet Occupaton | |
| 423 | Under German Occupation | |
| 424 | In the Forest with Partisans | |
| 424 | My Stay in the Destroyed Home | |
| 425 | "Ve Azoi" is our Fatality, the Novy Dvor Jews | |
| 427 | A Witness to the Polish, Yozef Bush | |
| 428-434 | Necrology |
Rozhanka
Pages 435-453 (Page numbers are the same in both yizkor books)
| 436 | Title Page |
| 436 | Table of Contents |
| 436 | The Economic Life |
| 437 | Our Town of Rozanka |
| 437 | General Introduction |
| 437 | The Economic Life |
| 438 | Communal Organizations and Association Life |
| 439 | From the Character of the Community |
| 443 | The Years of the Shoah |
| 445 | The Remainder of the Refugees |
| 446 | Poem: My Shtetl Rozanka-Nechama |
| 447 | Holocaust Necrology (Martyrology) |
| List of pictures | |
| Name Index to Szczuczyn Yizkor Book | [A-G] [H-L] [M-S] [T-Z] |
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