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Translation of
Emesh shoa; yad le-kehilot/gevidmet di kehiles Braslaw...
Edited by Machnes Ariel, Klinov Rina
Published by Association of Braslaw and Surroundings in Israel and America;
Ghetto Fighters House and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House
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[Pages 2-8]
Translated from the Hebrew by Laia Ben-Dov
Donated by Jeff Deitch
| Introduction | 9 |
| From the Editorial Board | 10 |
| Braslav [Braslaw]: Chapters from Her Story | 13 |
| Braslav: Historical Notes, by Yaacov Levin [including a map of Braslav on pages 20-21] | 15 |
| In Memory of Yerachmiel–Mendel Meirson, by Miriam (Mariashka) Rotenberg | 35 |
| The Story of Perke (Perel-Mina) Fisher | 37 |
| The Story of Yehuda Chepelevitz | 43 |
| The Story of Ziska (Reuven) Shmushkovitz | 59 |
| The Community of Braslav during the Holocaust | 63 |
| Deep, Deep Pits and Red, Red Loam, by Shmuel Halkin (poem) | 65 |
| In Memory of My Father, Rabbi Zvi-Hirsh [Valin], of Blessed Memory, by Israel Valin | 66 |
| In Memory of the Rabbi Rav Avraham-Abba-Yaacov Zahorie, of Blessed Memory, by Tuvia Fisher | 68 |
| About Chaim Munitz, of Blessed Memory, by Leyzer Ran | 70 |
| The Story of Masha Maron and Mendel Maron | 72 |
| The Story of Chaim Band | 80 |
| The Story of Yaacov Levin: A Simple Story of Prison Camp, Exile and Struggle | 86 |
| The Story of Mottel-Hirsh Fisher | 90 |
| The Story of Yerachmiel Biliak | 96 |
| The Story of Tuvia Fisher | 108 |
| The Story of Henka (Chana) Fisher | 111 |
| The Story of Yetta (Yentka) Vishkin | 117 |
| Like Arrows in the Hands of a Warrior Are the Children of One's Youth … (poems) | 120 |
| The Story of Anna (Nuita) Zelikman | 124 |
| From the Courtroom: The Indictment of Stanislav Jasinski (report) | 134 |
| The Infamous Stanislav Jasinski, Murderer of the Jews of Braslav (report) | 136 |
| The Story of Boris Ulman | 143 |
| The Story of Moshe Vishkin | 145 |
| The Story of Eliezer Fisher | 155 |
| The Story of Tzipora (Faiga-Tzipka) Toker | 159 |
| The Story of Sara Movshenzon | 164 |
| The Story of Chana Lubovitz and Zusman Lubovitz | 217 |
| The Story of Moshe Milutin | 227 |
| The Story of Rafael Charat | 234 |
| The Story of Avraham Biliak | 239 |
| The Story of Chaim-Eliahu Deitch | 245 |
| The Story of Yerachmiel Milutin | 254 |
| The Story of Yitzchak Reichel | 258 |
| The Story of Liuba Shmidt | 263 |
| The Story of Emma (Esther) Milutin-Korner | 274 |
| The Story of Chaim Munitz (letter) | 280 |
| About Tevka (Tuvia) Biliak | 283 |
| About the Bank Family, by Yaacov Levin | 286 |
| The Story of Chaim Ben-Arieh (Burat): From the Ghetto to the Ranks of the Partisans and the Palmach | 288 |
| About Isser Rabinovitz | 293 |
| The Story of Zalman Charmatz | 297 |
| About Peretz Levin (letters) | 300 |
| About the Three Fighting Veinshtein [Weinstein] Brothers (letters / notes) | 302 |
| About Gershon Yankelevitz, by Yaacov Levin | 308 |
| About Mikhael (Mendel) Sherman, by Bilha Sherman [his wife] | 309 |
| The Story of Sara Shmushkovitz | 310 |
| On the Terrain of Braslav, by Yoel Nimnov (poem) | 312 |
| In Memory of the Fallen | |
| I Weep over My Son's Passing, by a father (poem) | 313 |
| Amitai Kort | 315 |
| Chaim Robowitz | 316 |
| Zvi (Yehoshua-Heshel) Zeif | 316 |
| Arieh Levin | 317 |
| Shmuel Berkman | 318 |
| Opsa | 321 |
| Map of Opsa | 322 |
| The Story of Yaacov Aviel (Abelevitz) | 323 |
| The Story of Mordechai (Motke) Rosenberg | 339 |
| The Story of Arieh Munitz | 352 |
| About Melechke the Geroi [Hero], by Arieh Munitz, His Brother, and Zahava Bilogoski, His Sister | 354 |
| Okmenitz [Okmienic / Okmianica] | |
| The Story of Alexander (Shmaryahu) Dagovitz | 356 |
| Dubina [Dubene] | 367 |
| The Story of Sima Moretsky | 369 |
| The Story of Rivka Rukshin | 377 |
| The Story of Mira Lotz | 381 |
| The Story of Zalman Levin | 389 |
| The Story of Chana-Feiga Berkman | 390 |
| Zamosh [Zamosz] | 393 |
| The Story of Chalvina Pinchov | 393 |
| Zarach [Zaracz / Zaracze] | |
| The Story of Shlomo Reichel | 397 |
| Yaisi [Jaisi / Jejse / Jajsy] | |
| The Story of Shneiur Munitz | 399 |
| Yod [Jod / Jody] | 403 |
| The Story of Slava Pinchov | 405 |
| The Story of Zalman Fisher | 427 |
| The Story of Liuba Yanovski | 432 |
| Map of the Region | 438 |
| Partisans in the Braslav Region | 440 |
| Partisans from Yod | 441 |
| Slobodka | |
| The Story of Boris Berkman | 445 |
| Kislovshchitzna [Kislowszczyzna] | |
| The Story of Masha Kapitza | 451 |
| Yizkor [Remembrance] | 457 |
| Let the Nation of Israel Remember . . . | 459 |
| Statement by Polia (Pesia) Kahat | 461 |
| Remove the Shoes from Your Feet . . . | 462 |
| Next to the Monument, by Yaacov Aviel (poem) | 465 |
| Those we'll commemorate....(Lists of Perished) | |
| Braslaw (Belarus) | 467 |
| Opsa (Belarus) | 481 |
| Dubene (Dubinovo, Belarus) | 483 |
| Zamosz (Zamosh'ye, Belarus) | 486 |
| Jaisi (Jejse, Belarus) | 487 |
| Jod (Iody, Belarus) | 488 |
| Slobodka (Belarus) | 492 |
| Plusy Plyussy, Belarus | 493 |
| Kislowszczizna (Kozlovshchina, Belarus) | 494 |
| Rimszan (Rimšė, Lithuania) | 495 |
| My Perished Town; abridged version of the Hebrew text in Yiddish | 497 |
| Picture of Braslav survivors and their family members | 572 |
| List of gentiles who saved Jews in the Braslav area | 572 |
| Darkness and Desolation - abridged version of the Hebrew text in English (paged backward, Hebrew version.) | 644 |
| Map of the Braslaw region | 646 |
| Map of the Braslaw region | 647 |
Translated from the Hebrew by Laia Ben-Dov
Donated by Jeff Deitch
| My contribution to the book is a memorial candle for my family that was killed in the Holocaust with all the Jews of Braslav My father, Zerach Bogomolski My mother, Chasia-Rachel My sister, Sara-Leah And in memory of my good and devoted wife, Clara, of blessed memory, who passed away on 26 Shevat 5743 [February 9, 1983] --- Moshe Bogomolski
Editors: Ariel Machnes, Rina Klinov [Total of 640 pages, comprising 496 pages in Hebrew, a Yiddish summary of 72 pages, and an English summary of 72 pages]
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