Memorial Book Grabowitz
(Grabowiec, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Grabowiec

Edited by Shimon Kanc

Published Tel Aviv 1975

 

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Translations

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This is a translation from Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Grabowiec (Memorial book Grabowitz)
Shimon Kanc, Tel Aviv 1975 (463 pages H,Y,E)

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TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner

Hebrew
 
Preliminary pages  
We Shall Remember   5
On the Threshold   8
How We Began D. Erlich, Y. Hustik, M. Vald 13
Introduction S. Kantz 18
 
The Town and Its History
History of the Town Shimon Kantz 24
Ancient Times and Memories Avraham Eshkol 33
Our Town Grabowiec in its Prime and its Decline Leibush Glomb 36
On Hasidic Leaders and Their Followers Leibush Glomb 50
 
Jewish Education
Cheyders and Melameds Shmuel Hitter 80
Early Days Mordechai Fink 83
My Childhood Home Mordechai Fink 89
 
Political Parties, Organizations, and Institutions
The Beginnings of the Zionist Movement Mordechai Fink 94
Zionism, Youth Movements, and Zionist Pioneering Yosef Gofer 96
Yehuda Gilboa's Life Story Yehuda Gilboa 99
Memories of Moshkehh Shroyt Mordechai Fink 117
The Mizrachi Party, Its Establishment and Development in Our Town Moshe Vald 119
My Students in the Hebrew-Language School Shlomo Ofir (Shtrasberg) 123
Songs of Immigration Yosef Boym 126
Beitar [Y] David Ben-Zvi Erlich 127
The Bund [Y] Chaya Tsigel-Lerer 132
The Library and Drama Club [Y] Moshe Shek 135
The Charity Hostel [Y] Itta Shtarker 137
Bringing a Torah Scroll into the Synagogue [Y] Clara Reichman-Trug 140
Simple, Kind Jews [Y] Ya'akov Reichman 141
Thanks to the Merit of the Rebbe Hershel Reiz 144
Alleys, Buildings, and People [Y] Yosef Nudel 146
Unforgettable Years [Y] Yeshayahu Heeter 152
In the Quiet Tracks of Fathers and Grandfathers [Y] Moshe Shek 154
Friday Evenings [Y] Esther Shteinberg-Zamuster 157
Familiar People [Y] Sara Zatz 160
The Terrible Tale of a Jew Who Was Shot [Y] Fishel Beinishe 162
Jewish Life [Y] Tuvia Kratman 164
Fairs [Y] David Erlich 168
 
Chapters of Our Past
Chapters of Our Past The Editor 172
The Grabowiec Story Chayim Pinchas Blaff 174
The Town Chana Zilberzweig-Borinsky 178
Through the Eyes of a Visitor Yitzchak Neri-Lichtash 184
People of Grabowiec - Private and Public G. Yosef 187
Youthful Pathways Lisa Hurwitz 191
The Spirit of Idealism Yosef Nudel 192
 
Yiddish
 
Personalities and Ways of Life
Personalities and Ways of Life the Editor 194
It was Only Yesterday Eliezer Eynes 195
The World of Our Past Eliezer Eynes 218
My Years in Grabowiec Efrayim Lerner 224
Crystal-Pure Residents of My Town Chayim Pinches Blaf 234
A Bygone Life Yisrael Hustik 250
Grabowiec, My Beloved Town Yisrael Hustik 262
During Those Years Yosef Boym 263
People and Events Efraim-Zalman (Sam) Kratman 267
Song of Generations Abish Goldfarb (deceased) 278
During World War I Chaya Lerner (deceased) 281
My Father's Home Yosef Nudel 285
My Mother's Heart Moshe Vald 288
The Dispute Avraham Shtarker [deceased] 291
Weekdays and Shabbat Zelde Miller-Dobzhinski 293
Events While Selecting a New Rabbi Avraham Nudel 295
The Jewish Representative in the Polish Municipality Mania Haus-Wielder 297
Chayaleh Lerner (deceased) Chayim Pinchas Blaff 302
 
Destruction and Death
A World Destroyed The Editor 304
Under the Bloodthirsty Regime Ben-Zion Fink (Bentshe) 305
Days and Years of Pain and Destruction [Y] Itta Kaplan-Shisler 317
Days and Nights of Misery [Y] Sara Rosenfeld-Boym 325
On Bloody Roads [Y] Moshe Zilberzweig 330
The War [Y] Zelda Miller-Dobzhinski 347
Document of the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw [Y]   349
The Wanderer Tuvia Kreitman 351
In the Soviet Labor Camp [Y] Leibush Glomb 354
How We Prayed [Y] Leibush Glomb 358
Deep in Russia, in My Grabowiec Outfit [Y] Leibush Glomb 360
 
The Scroll of Valor
With Blood and Fire The Editor 364
Battling the Enemy [Y] David Erlich 365
With Weapons in Hand [Y] Sara Fishman-Shisler 375
Grabowiec Fighters in the Forest and on the Front [Y] Yisrael Hustik 379
Years of Terror and Valor Against the Abyss of Annihilation Chana Silberzweig 382
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Former Grabowiec residents in America Ch. P. Blaff 390
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List of Martyrs (necrology)   398
Obituaries   411
 
English
 
Book Committee   2
Grabowitz – My “Shtedtl” Chayim Pinhas Blaff 3
On Tsadikim and Hasidim Leibush Glomb 7
The Lustre and Decline of Grabowitch Leibush Glomb 12
Under Bloodthirsty Rule Ben Zion Fink 16
My Testimony at the Trials of the Hangmen of the Hrubieszów Area   23
The Activities of the Association of Immigrants from Grabowitz in Israel   25

 

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