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Translation of
Brzezany, Narajow ve-ha-seviva; toldot kehilot she-nehrevu
Edited by: Menachem Katz, Haifa, Brzezany-Narajow Societies in Israel and the United States
Published in 1978
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Editor's note | Arch. Katz Menachem | 10 |
Introduction | 11 | |
The city's surroundings | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 15 |
A look at the city | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 15 |
Jewish community of Brzezany from it's founding until the 19th century | Dr. N.M. Gelber | 20 |
End of 19th century until 1920 | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 28 |
WWI 1914-1920 | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 32 |
The community Committee | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 36 |
Towards the change | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 37 |
The Zionist Movement | ||
The Zionist movement | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 40 |
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet Le'Israel) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 42 |
United Israel Appeal (Keren Hayesod) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 44 |
Help (Ezra) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 45 |
Zion Youth (Tzeirei Zion) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 46 |
Union of Zionist University Graduates | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 46 |
The Watchman (Hashomer) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 46 |
Union of Miriam's students | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 47 |
Union of the dawn | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 47 |
Workers of Zion Movement (Poaley Zion) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 47 |
The Pioneer (HaChalutz) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 48 |
First group makes Aliyah | Moshe Glaser, Menachem Katz Grad | 49 |
The Youth Guard (Hashomer Hatzair) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 54 |
The first summer settlement | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 57 |
The Revival Group (Hatchia) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 58 |
Memories chapter | Batya Bon'e Frisand | 60 |
The Youth Guard (Hashomer Hatzair) 1926-1932 | Dov Glaser | 62 |
The Youth Guard (Hashomer Hatzair) the Departure | Z. Ostrover | 65 |
HaMizrachi movement in Brzezany | Dov (Dow) Knohl | 66 |
The Zionist Youth | M. Mayblum (Attorney at Law) | 72 |
The Zionist Youth center | Danieli-Feld Bela | 74 |
Betar movement un Brzezany | Bleiberg Shimon, D. Fas, S. Riger | 76 |
Hebrew School | Dr. N. Nezach, Eng. Tishler | 80 |
Mizrachi School | Arch. Katz Menachem | 84 |
Kindergarten | Arch. Katz Menachem | 84 |
Preparation Kibbutzim | Arch. Katz Menachem | 85 |
Between Two World Wars | ||
The Economic situation | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 88 |
The Trade | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 92 |
University Graduates in Government Positions | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 93 |
Physicians | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 93 |
Pharmacists | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 94 |
Lawyers | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 94 |
Engineers | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 95 |
Craftsmen | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 95 |
World War II | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 96 |
Culture and Way of Life | ||
The Drama club Yiddish Art (Yidishe Kunst) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 106 |
The Musical-Drama society Yiddish Art (Yidishe Kunst) | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 107 |
A Purim feast | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 120 |
Brzezany's strange characters | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 123 |
Z.K.S - The Jewish Athletes club | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 126 |
Craftsmen association Diligent Hand (Yad Charuzim) | Arch. Katz Menachem | 128 |
Community center National house | Arch. Katz Menachem | 129 |
The Orphanage | Arch. Katz Menachem | 130 |
Charity and mutual help institutes | Arch. Katz Menachem | 132 |
Educational Institutes | Arch. Katz Menachem | 134 |
Anti-Semitism in the high school, The Zvirski trial | Shlomo Doron-Dorfman | 134 |
Teachers State seminar in Brzezany | Batya Bone Frisand | 136 |
Brzezany | Zvi Sharfshtein | 137 |
Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha) The Bed Carriers | Arch. Katz Menachem | 143 |
The Cemetery | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 144 |
My Family | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 146 |
My family's story | Pnina Shaklai | 148 |
I remember Shabbat at home | Rivka Tomarkin Shapira | 150 |
Memories from my parents home | Zipora Rozner | 151 |
In memory of my father, Yossef Kalman, the pioneer | Israel Karmel-Kalman | 153 |
Figures and Personalities | ||
Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Hacohen Shvedron of blessed memory | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 156 |
Brzezany's Rabbis | Rabbi Meir Wonder | 161 |
The family of the Halperin Rabbis | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 168 |
The Nathanzon family | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 170 |
Rabbi Aharon Bar Yehuda HaLevi | Dr. Israel Mehlman | 172 |
The Rabbi, Dr. Margaliot Shmuel Zvi | Dov (Dow) Knohl | 178 |
The Rabbi, Dr. Leo (Leib Hirsch) Berdowicz | Arch. Katz Menachem | 179 |
The Rabbi, Dr. Yehuda Bergman | Arch. Katz Menachem | 180 |
The Rabbi, Yehuda Leibale Roze' | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 181 |
The Prayer possessor Wawa Zeev Direnfeld | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 183 |
Dr. Falk Bernard | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 184 |
Dr. Chaim Edmond Wilner | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 186 |
Dr. Aryeh Feld | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 186 |
Dr. Moshe Shumar | Motek Rozenzweig | 187 |
Dr. Shlomo Glaser | Dov Glaser | 190 |
Ozer Roth The Zionist who fulfills his dream | Rivka Cohen Roth | 192 |
Shlomo Redlich | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 195 |
Binyamin Te'eni | Erica Ilan Te'eni | 198 |
Yoshe (Yosef) Ast The Book-Seller | Moshe Bar-David | 200 |
Yechiel Pelz | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 201 |
Rabbi Moshe Shpizen's doings | Avraham Charap zl | 202 |
Rabbi Efraim Zalman Margaliot | Avraham Charap zl | 204 |
Rabbi Leibush Perlmuter and Rabbi Avraham Lukman | Paulin Lukman | 206 |
Rabbi Shlomo Prisand | Batya Bone Prisand | 207 |
Yosef Ben Meir Yehuda Streisand | Judith Kahn-Streisand | 209 |
Michael Kara (Karon) | Gazit magazine, volume 26 | 211 |
The actor Hersh Tunis | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 213 |
Leon Shpezer | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 213 |
The Teacher (Melamed) Rabbi Yasha Fishlis | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 214 |
Dr. Avraham Helbertal | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 215 |
The Synagogues | ||
The large synagogue | Arch. Katz Menachem | 221 |
Rabbi Yudel's synagpgue | Arch. Katz Menachem | 232 |
The built Torah Study House | Arch. Katz Menachem | 242 |
The Cantor's Torah Study House | Arch. Katz Menachem | 244 |
Old (Alte) Stratyner synagogue (Kloiz) | Arch. Katz Menachem | 245 |
Tschortkower Chasids' synagogue (Kloiz) | Arch. Katz Menachem | 246 |
Diligent Hand (Yad Charuzim) synagogue | Arch. Katz Menachem | 250 |
Rabbi Mendele synagogue | Arch. Katz Menachem | 251 |
Rozolver synagogue (Kloiz) | Arch. Katz Menachem | 252 |
Yair (Jair) synagogue | Arch. Katz Menachem | 252 |
Other prayer places in town | Arch. Katz Menachem | 253 |
The Holocaust | ||
Time of Nazi rule | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 260 |
Blood Libel | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 261 |
The Judenrat | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 265 |
The transfers affair | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 269 |
The Jewish Militia - Ordnongedinst | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 269 |
Working groups for the Krizhouftman | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 270 |
The aktion[1] in Litatin Forests December 1941 | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 271 |
Order to Jews to give away Furs | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 274 |
The Typhus aktion | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 274 |
The employment office - Arbeitsam | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 275 |
Work Camps | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 276 |
Methods of catching people to work camps | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 283 |
Jewish Militia member as a German tool and as a human being | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 284 |
Preparing to the final solution - spring 1942 | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 287 |
Reorganization of the Judenrat | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 288 |
Transferring Jews from the villages to the city | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 290 |
The time of Passover 1942 | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 292 |
Hideouts - bunkers | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 293 |
Women leave to Yagielnitsa camp | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 299 |
Aktions for converted Jews | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 299 |
Alternatives to hideouts | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 300 |
The news about Belzec | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 301 |
The High Holidays (the terrible days) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 303 |
Yom Kippur of 1942 (5703) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 303 |
The first aktion to Belzec | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 305 |
Testimonies from eye witnesses | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 306 |
The window to life | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 313 |
The destruction after the aktion | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 314 |
The way to the complete extermination and the struggle against it | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 316 |
The Ghetto | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 317 |
The second aktion to Belzec | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 321 |
Towards the winter | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 323 |
My battle for the Typhus sick | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 324 |
Hanukah's aktion - 1942 | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 328 |
Our conditions in the ghetto and our struggle up to the ghetto liquidation | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 329 |
The Milk aktion and others | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 330 |
The last aktion before the ghetto liquidation | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 331 |
The orphan girls and the locked gate | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 333 |
The Gestapo's Divide and conquer method | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 334 |
The Army Base (Ksarktin) | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 335 |
The last dance | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 336 |
The last aktion, the ghetto liquidation, Judenrein | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 337 |
After the ghetto liquidation | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 338 |
The Soviets rule again | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 342 |
The end of the war | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 344 |
I leave town | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 344 |
The last road | Arch. Katz Menachem | 345 |
The will of the Pohoryles family | Peleg Marianska | 365 |
Memories from the ghetto | Dr. Shimon Redlich | 367 |
Two work camps - Kaminka | Meir Taler | 370 |
Remember | Dr. Eliezer Shaklai | 377 |
About the community's memorialisation | Elisha Oren | 378 |
To remember | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 379 |
Izkor | 381 | |
Brzezany's martyrs list | Arch. Katz Menachem | 382 |
List of those who died in Israel | Arch. Katz Menachem | 409 |
List of fallen soldiers in Israel's wars | Arch. Katz Menachem | 420 |
Book's summary in English | 1-30 | |
The Narajow Book | ||
Narajow My town | Zehava Herz-Shmushkin | 424 |
Memories from My town Narajow | Israel Ne'eman | 431 |
The Zionist youth movement in Narajow | P. Zletkes, C. Kvodi | 434 |
To Narajow's character and remembrance | P. Zletkes | 437 |
My Village Narajow | Aryeh Goldschlag | 439 |
The author Moyshe Nadir | Bar-Dawid Moshe | 441 |
Narajow | Moyshe Nadir | 442 |
Homeland, My Homeland | Moyshe Nadir | 443 |
Narajow's Rabbis | Rabbi Meir Wonder | 444 |
About the Rabbinate affair in Narajow | Israel Ne'eman | 446 |
Rabbi Zvi Yehoshua Grosswax | Israel Ne'eman | 447 |
My happenings during the Nazi occupation | Chana Roten (Lushk) | 450 |
The Avenging Jew Yankel (Yankale) Fenger | Rina Zlatkes (Rozenblat) | 452 |
Memories of my life under German rule | Ben Noyman, Chana Kvodi | 454 |
Narajow's martyrs list | 458 | |
List of those who died in Israel | 468 | |
Association of Former Brzezany Residents | Manachem Katz | 5 |
Brzezany, the Town | 8 |
We would like to thank from the bottom of our hearts those who helped, in action or with information, to fulfill this memorialization project.
My appreciation and thankfulness go to our friend Menachem Katz, who donated his time for years to bring this book to a successful completion, and to his helpers: Shimon Katz and Zafna Bekin and to Mr. Oren Elyashiv, principal of Hadera's highschool and Mr. Morris Forkile, for their willingness to give a helping hand to this holy project.
May they all be blessed.In the name of the committee
Dr. Eliezer (WagshaI) Shaklai
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