Notes: The complete translation of this book is also available here: The Dereczin Memorial Book The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Derechin (1972)

Dedication
Foreword	by Yekhezkiel Raban	i
The Translator's Foreword	Jacob Solomon Berger	iv
A Silent Kaddish for Our Dearest	Abraham-Kadish Feder	vi
To Our Dereczin Brothers & Sisters in The U.S. Greetings & Blessings!	Malka Alper	viii
On the Occasion of the Publication of the Book	David Rabinovich (ז”ל)	ix
Once there was a Town		1
Dereczin of the Past	Chaim Rabinovich	3
They Exalted the Name of Dereczin	Chaim Zvi Miller-Sinai	20
My Grandfather Occupying the Rabbinical Seat of Dereczin	Eliyahu Herenson	24
The Dereczin of My Youth	Shlomo Yudson	26
Three Tales from Dereczin of Yore	Shlomo Yudson	31
The Sinai Colony	Chaim Zvi Miller-Sinai	40
From the Mouth of My Mother, of Blessed Memory	Yaffa Prozbol	48
At the Dawn of the Twentieth Century		49
In the Days of Change and Transformation	Jacob Kobrinsky	51
A Torah Scroll	By Fanny Boyerman-Feder	53
Rabbis, Scholars and Teachers	Malka Alper	56
Our Town at the Beginning of the [Twentieth] Century	Naftali Ben-Dov (Dykhovsky)	58
Haskalah, the Bund, Self-Defense	Chaim Rabinovich	59
Sent Off to Dereczin	Ray Raskin	68
Stormy Years	Joe Silkovich	67
Once Upon a Time…	Feiga-Leah Abramovich	72
Memories from My Father's Tavern	Dvora (Dvosha) Kress-Beckenstein	74
Bitter and Sweet Memories	Nahum Bliss-Blizniansky	75
Jewish to the Last Breath	Moshe Kwiat	75
Those Pious, Upstanding Jews	Esther Nissenbaum-Bricker	78
A Night Ride on the Coach	Malka Alper	79
A Teacher in Dereczin	Hannah Novick	80
From the Last Will and Testament of Simkheh the Storekeeper		82
In the First World War		83
The Years of War & Occupation	Chaim Rabinovich	85
In the Vise of the War	Malka Alper	90
Under the Yoke of the German Occupation	Jacob Rabinovich	92
The Food Committee	Mattityahu (Mottel) Abelovich	94
A Charity Soup Kitchen for the Needy	Malka Alper	95
War Chitchat	Malka Alper	93
Personalities & Their Achievements		97
David Alper		99
My Brother, David	Malka Alper	99
Our Unforgettable Teacher	Liza Katz-Bialosotsky	99
The Alper Family	David Rabinovich	101
David Alper, Our Teacher and Principal	Asher Shofet (Negbah)	102
He Who Is Not Forgotten Is Not Dead	Naftali Ben-Dov (Dykhovsky)	104
Rabbi Chaim Zvi Sinai-Miller		105
Our Father's Way	Khemda & Israel Artzi	105
A Figure of Shining Light	Malka Alper	106
My Mentor and Teacher	Kalman Abramovich	107
I Was Proud to Call Him ‘Uncle’	Gustav Sharon (Johannesburg)	108
Chaim Lansky		109
A Difficult Childhood, A Hard Life	Jacob Rabinovich	109
Lansky In His Town	Malka Alper	111
A Poet Under Duress	Joshua Gilboa	115
My Friend Chaim, The Dreamer	David Rabinovich	117
The Role of Home in Lansky's Poetry	Abraham Kariv	119
The Last Generation		121
I See Her, Dereczin	M. Izaakovich	123
Our Synagogues	Jacob Rabinovich	124
Dereczin In No-Man's Land	Chaim Rabinovich	125
During the Stormy Days	Malka Alper	126
Memories From Those Days	Jacob Rabinovich	129
A Jewish-Polish Kitchen	Malka Alper	131
Planting and the Harvest	Schraga-Fyvel Einstein	130
Between Zion and Revolution	Malka Alper	136
Following Upheavals and Pogroms	Moshe Sedletsky	138
The Tarbut School	As Told by a Group of Students	140
My Father, The Last Rabbi of Dereczin	Meir Bakalchuk	143
The Holy Rabbi, Gaon of Dereczin, Bakalchuk זצ”ל	Rabbi Chaim-Chaikel Grinberg	145
The Yavneh School	Nekha Petrukhovich	146
Betar & Tzahar In Our Town	M. Bakalchuk, A. Beckenstein, K. Abramovich	147
In the Service of the Dereczin Community	Eliyahu Herenson	150
Visiting the Sick & Overnight Sick Watch	Nekha Petrukhovich	154
Our Town in the Thirties	Isser Lev	155
Hatred of the Jews on the Eve of Destruction	Malka Alper	156
Memories		158
This Is How We Lived in Our Town	Haya Kreslansky	160
My Grandfather, זצ”ל	Tzirel Kamenetsky	163
Under the Bolsheviks	Mattityahu Abelovich	165
The Budding of Zionist Socialism in Dereczin	Naftali Ben-Dov	166
The Origins of the HeHalutz Branch	David Rabinovich	167
My Grandfather & Grandmother, ז”ל	Dov Gorinovsky	168
The Holy Sabbath In My Father's House	Sarah Basevitz-Slonimsky	169
Festivals and the High Holy Days	Malka Alper	170
How Could One Possibly Forget!?	Dvora Smith-Shelkovich	173
My Birthplace, Dereczin	Shayndl Wilenczyk	174
My Grandmother & Grandfather	Sarah Teichman-Levinger	175
Festival Time in Town	Chaya Beckenstein-Pilzer	176
My Husband's Family	Nekhama Petrukhovich	177
My Scholarly and Enterprising Father	Shimon Abramovich	178
How I Took Leave of My Home	Miriam Pechersky-Slonimsky	179
And This Is How We Emigrated to The Holy Land	Esther Dlugolansky	181
My Last Sabbath in Dereczin	Saul Gorinovsky	182
My Little Town, Halinka	Mina Liebreider	183
Enlivenment in Town - An Autobus	Chaya Beckenstein-Piltzer	185
A Comical Event	Shayndl Kamenitzer	185
A Master of the Tanach	Meir Ziskind	187
A Fire in Town	Leah Eliovich-Yatvitsky	189
I Met With My Very First Teacher	Rachel Alper	190
My Family That Was Wiped Out	Shoshana Shapiro-Nozhnitsky	192
Dereczin No Longer Exists	Dora Birnbaum-Rothstein	193
A Visit to My Hometown	Rukhamah Ziskind-Abelovich	195
I Was a Witness to a False Accusation	Leah Shlechter-Shapiro	197
My Brother Leibeh	Leah Elyovich-Yatwitsker	198
My Father's House on the Schulhof	Liza Katz-Bialosotsky	199
The Pain of Memories	Rivkah Saglowitz-Dykhovsky	200
The Destruction		201
My Town Dereczin	Katya Klebnik-Bialosotsky	202
This Is How the Jewish Community of Dereczin Was Destroyed	Masha & Abraham-Hirsch Kulakowski	203
The Fate of the Feldman Family	Rachel Efrat-Feldman	212
The Germans Have Arrived	Sara Wachler-Ogulnick	213
From the Hideaway into the Forest	Yehudit Yankelevich-Lantzevitzky	214
Barely Escaping with Our Lives to the Forest	Pesha Feinsilber	215
We Were Slaves...	Y. Reich	221
How Tzippel Beckenstein Committed Suicide	Pesha Feinsilber	222
I Was a Refugee in Oppressed Dereczin	Shmuel Bernstein	223
Escaped from the Slaughter	Gutka Boyarsky-Salutsky	243
Out of the Mass Grave	Musha Novitsky-Grachuk	244
The Destruction of the Dereczin Jewish Community	Sh. Nieger	247
The Bloody Tenth Day of Ab	Tsirel Kaminetsky-Friedman	247
From the Memories of a Refugee	Y. Krimolovsky	250
The Fate of My Family	Chaya Levin-Glicksfeld	252
During the Days of Slaughter	Katya Bialosotsky-Khlebnik	255
This Is How I Was Saved On the Day of Slaughter	Sarah Wachler-Ogulnick	258
Remaining the Only One	Avraham-Yitzhak Medvetzky	260
The End of Halinka	Mina Liebreider	261
Tribulation, Torture and Death	Jekuthiel Khmelnitsky	262
Only I Remained from My Entire Family	Chaya Einstein-Osterovitz	266
I Saw All This With My Own Eyes	Nekha Petrukhovich	268
To the Entire World	Regina Rabinovich	269
In the Forests		272
Two Years in the Partisan Forces	Masha & Abraham-Hirsch Kulakowski	273
The Only Imperative – Take Revenge	Jekuthiel Khmelnitsky	280
Hunger and Death in the Forest	Tsirel Kamenetsky-Friedman	286
Dr. Yekhezkiel Atlas – The Partisan Doctor	Dr. Y. Rockover	289
With the Dereczin Fighters in the Forest	Shmuel Borenstein	294
The Whole Family Lost in the Forest	Gutka Salutsky-Boyarsky	305
I Saved Myself Along With My Children	Kayla Azaf	308
In the Partisan Camp	Yehudit Yankelevich-Lantzevitzky	311
Two Out of the Entire Family	Moshe Kwiat	313
We Were Saved from a Terrifying Trap	Masha Kulakowski	314
My Life in the Forests	Haya Beckenstein-Pilzer	317
In the Forest With My Brother	Musha Grachuk-Novitsky	321
Anti-Semitism in the Forest	Moshe Kwiat	323
With the Partisans	Abraham-Yitzhak Medvetsky	324
My Sister Ruzha Falls in the Forest	Katya Khlebnik-Bialosotsky	325
The Zionist Dream in the Thickness of the Forest	Masha Kulakowski	326
They Fell With Their Guns In Their Hands		327
Wandering		339
Uprooted with the Maelstrom	Meir Bakalchuk	340
From The Foreign Land to the Homeland	Rivkah Becker	347
Torn Out of the Pulpit at Sinaiska	Rabbi Israel ben Ch. M. Kaplinsky	349
On the Ruins		351
Back in Dereczin	Sarah Wachler-Ogulnick	352
No Where to Return	Chaya Beckenstein-Pilzer	355
On the Ruins of the Dreams of My Youth	Masha Kulakowski	356
From Forest Bunkers to Mass Graves	Malka Bulkovstein	357
Orphaned, Abandoned, and Hopeless	Moshe & Israel Kwiat	358
A Kosher Passover Among the Ruins	Nekhama Petrukhovich	359
Among Ruined Streets and Lanes	Meir Bakalchuk	359
Derecziners in America		343
The Founding of the “Derecziner Society”	Joe (Jonah) Silkovich	363
The Work of the Dereczin Relief Committee in New York	Abraham Kadish Feder	364
In Memory of Our Friend, Nathan Bliss	Jonah Silkovich	367
Derecziners in America	David Rabinovich	369
Sarah Slotnick-Yanofsky, ז”ל	Malka Alper	371
Her Son, Meir, ע”ה		371
Dereczin Kinfolk in Israel		373
Relief-Work of the Dereczin Kinfolk in Israel	Malka Alper	375
From Sinaiska – To the Land of Israel	Esther Dlugolansky (Petakh-Tikvah)	376
Yaakov Izaakovich, A Chess Fanatic Among the Blind	Moshe Guter	377
What I Learned from the Mouth of My Mother	Yitzhak Wachler	378
In Memory of Deceased Dereczin Landsleit		379
Remarks in Memory of David Rabinovich ז”ל	Kalman Lichtenstein	379
My Father, of Blessed Memory	Ilan Rabinovich	380
Elkeh Lichtenstein	Malka Alper	382
At the End of the First Year	Miriam Musikant	382
Elkeh Lichtenstein of the Dykhovsky Family ז”ל	David Rabinovich	383
A Portrait of the Late Chava Sharar ז”ל of the Salutsky Family	Menahem Rahat	383
A Portrait of My Mother, Bluma, ז”ל	Khemda Artzi, of the Sinai-Miller Family	366
In Memory of my Mother Shoshana Gutman ז”ל	Israel Gil-Or (Gutman)	386
A Portrait of My Mother Dina Levitin of the Sinai Family	Naomi Mizrahi	387
Israel Dror-Dereczinsky ז”ל, – The Man of Shfai'im		387
His Home – In His Hometown	Malka Alper	388
In Honor of His Person	David Gutsfurkht	389
Hanan Abelovich ז”ל	Malka Alper	390
To the Memory of Yerakhmiel Edelstein, ז”ל	Dov Gorinovsky	391
Yerakhmiel Edelstein, ז”ל	Malka Alper	391
Isser Lev, ז”ל	Meir Bakalchuk	391
Rachel Eichenbaum-Walansky ז”ל	A	392
Shimon Lusky ז”ל	M. A.	392
In Memory of Reb Mordechai Zolotkovsky	Abraham Baysman	392
Ze'ev Ogulnick ז”ל	M.B.	393
Moshe Izaakovich ז”ל		393
My Sister Shoshana ז”ל	Y. Izaakovich	394
[E]lazar Rosenberg ז”ל		394
Beba, (Nekhama) Wife of Reb Yoshe Rabinovich ז”ל		394
Eliyahu, son of Reb Yoshe (Joseph) Rabinovich ז”ל		394
Ethel (Esther) daughter of Joseph & Beba Herenson-Rabinovich ז”ל		394
Our Sister Rachel Alper ז”ל	Malka Alper	395
Rachel had Many Facets	Amiram	396
With the Memory of Rachel Alper ז”ל	Meir Bakalchuk	397
Rachel Daughter of Dereczin	Y. Raban	398
Liova (Aryeh) Greenwald ז”ל		399
Nachman (Nakheh) Goldenberg ז”ל		399
Alter Lobzovsky ז”ל		399
Memorial Pages		401
Necrology: Martyrs of the Community of Dereczin		415

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