Zgierz, Poland (photo captions)

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Photo captions of the Zgierz Yizkor book

(excluding photos in the necrology section pp. 641-776).

Note: several captions were corrected in the errata at the end of the book.
These corrections are included in this translation, but not separately noted.

[See the enlarged pictures by clicking on the thumbnails]

Caption Picture Page

General view of Zgierz 17

The entrance to the Henryk Sznekiewicz Public Gardens 21

The town hall and the old market 27

The new marketplace 59

The title page of the ledger book of the Jewish community of Zgierz from the year 5679 (1918-1919) 95

The market, the town hall, and the church of Zgierz 98

The deed of purchase of land for the expansion of the Jewish cemetery of Zgierz, March 3, 1885 112

Greetings of Congratulations marking a donation to the Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund) 124

The communal council 140

Page from the protocol book of the ledger of the community of Zgierz 142

Decisions of the communal council after the pogroms in Lvov and Galicia (1918) 154

A photocopied page from the Ledger of Protocols 158

Protocol 1, in German from the Ledger of Protocols of the Jewish Community, August 1, 1915 159

Decisions of the communal council regarding the setting up of a committee to aid the victims of the Lvov pogrom (1918) 163

The free “Council of Cantors” 164

Part of the first page of the one time publication of “The Young Faithful of Israel”, 1924 168

A decree of the mayor from August 11, 1914 to the residents of Zgierz, as they entered into army service for Germany and Austria 171

A portion of the first page of “Zgierzer Blat” 174

Mourning notice from the communal council (in Hebrew and Polish) regarding the murder of Fishel Feldon on June 1, 1925 176

The regulations of the “Yagdil Torah” organization (in Russian), which was authorized by the governor in 1912 183

A decree of the Committee for Assistance of the Jewish refugees of Germany, who were expelled by the Nazis to Zabonszyn in Poland 185

The synagogue in Zgierz 212

The cemetery in Zgierz 214

Jewish young men on a Sabbath stroll 215

The weaver 216

A group of Jewish textile experts in Zgierz during their Sabbath rest 218

Reb Leibel Horen of blessed memory 227

Moshe Hirsch Grand 256

A portion of the signatures on the founding protocol of the Gemilut Chasadim organization in 1900 258

Dov Cincinatus of blessed memory 260

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