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Remember - do not Forget 11 Simcha Dubiner In eternal memory of our town and its martyrs 13 Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt Editor's Introduction 15   History of our Town   Levi Sarid (Leybel Goldberg) The beginnings of the town Kamenets-Litowsk and its Jewish settlement 21 Yechezkel Kotik My memories 39   Torah Istitutions in Kamenets-Litowsk   David Hakohen Burstein Rabbi Yehoshua Hakohen Blumenthal z.tz.l. 47 Moshe Rabinowitz My grandfather, Rav Moshe Yitzhak z”l of Kamenets-Litowsk 49 Rabbi Yehuda Gershuni Rabbi Reuven David Hakohen Burstein, May God Avenge His Blood 50 Rabbi Reuven David Hakohen Burstein Rabbi Avraham Aharon Hakohen 55 Rav Yakov Bobrovski R'Meir Zvi Putchinski z”l 58 Yechiel Belizovski The Yeshiva of Kamenets-Litowsk 59 Leah Bobrowski-Aloni The “Knesset Beit Yitzhak” Yeshiva 61 Rabbi Yitzhak Edelstein Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz, Head of the Yeshiva of Kamenetz-Litovsk 64   Public Life in Kamenets-Litowsk   Yehudit Gront-Kutchkowitz Life of the young people in Kamenets-Litowsk 71 S. Dubiner Hechalutz in Kamenets-Litowsk 73 Chaia Krakovski-Rodnitzki Poalei Zion (united with Z.S.) in Kamenets-Litowsk 74 Pinchas Ravid-Rodnitzki The Gordonia movement in Kamenets-Litowsk 77 Bunia Kotik BEITAR and HZHR movement in Kamenets-Litowsk 80   Memories before the Holocaust   Lea Aloni-Bobrovski During the First World War 83 Yehudit Kostchkowitz Gront Kamenets-Litowsk during the First World War 87 Rav Yakov Bobrovski From my memories 90 Pinchas Ravid-Rodnitzki Memories from my home and from the town Kamenets-Litowsk 92   Shlomo Zelig and his sons 98   Altharka 99 Yakov Kaminski Memories and yearning 102 Penina Fleib-Bobrovski Kamenets - the town of my birth 103   Comunal Workers, Writers and Teachers in Kamenets-Litowsk   P. Rabbi The Magid of Kamenets, the Rav R'Chaim Zundl Makabi z”l 107   - R'Menachem-Mendel of Kamenets-Litowsk 110   - R'Israel Ashkenazi 113 Lea Aloni-Bobrovski The writer Moshe Eliahu Jack-Jarneski z”l 119 Ch. K. Baruch Eisner z”l 121 R. V. Yosef Vigotov and Bendet Vinograd 122 Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt It happened in Kamenets-Litowsk 124 Pinchas Ravid-Rodnitzki Personalities in Kamenets     - Zelig the bookbinder 127   - Aizik Shostakovski 129   - Zev (Velvel) Chaim Kirschenbaum 130   - Asher Sapirstein 131   - Binyamin Bogatin 132 Chaia Krakovski-Karabelnik Hershel Zvi Sapirstein 133 Asher Glaser Leibel (Arie) Pomerantchik 135   R'Nuske the Melamed 135 Baruch Mordechai Kotik Efraim Kotik the Father 137   Members of the Committee of Former Residents of Kamenets-Litowsk who passed away in Israel   Rav Yehuda Gershuni Zahava Gershuni 141 Asher Glaser Yehuda Rapoport 143 Chaia Krakovski-Karabelnik Tuvia Savitzki 144 Pinchas Ravid-Rodnitzki Yeshaya Rimon 146 Lea Aloni-Bobrovski Shimon Kotik 147 Dov Aloni Meir Bobrovski 149 Lea Aloni-Bobrovski Yehudit Kustchikevitz 152 Gideon Hausner Farewell words to Lea Aloni z”l 154 Shraga Aloni Lea - my sister-in-law - my sister 156 M. K. Pinchas Rabbi (Rabinowitz) 157   The Holocaust     Map of Routes from Kamenetz-Litovsk to Death Camps 160 Arie Sarid The Prayer (poem) 163 Dora Galperin The Destruction of Kamenetz 165 Devora Rodnitzki Singer My life in the ghettos and extermination camps 174 Yitzhak Portnoy From the Ghettos to the Concentration Camps 183 Leah Aloni-Bobrowski A Tear for the Loss of My Townspeople 189   After the Destruction   Asher Ben Moshe Kamenets after the destruction 195 Dov (Bertchik) Shemida (Schmidt) Kamenets after the destruction 200   Fallen in the Homeland     Michael Kotik z”l 211 Baruch Mordechai Kotik My dear som Efraim 212   The activity of the Organization of former residents of Kamenets 217   Memorial Ceremony 331   Memorial Ceremony 251   Hazkarat Neshamot - Memorial Service 281   Necrology 281

Kamenets-Litowsk Jews in Israel and in America 342 Yitzhak Katzenelson, may God avenge his blood The poem of the murdered Jewish nation The Committee Remember and do not forget! 347   Introduction   Avraham Schudroff A monument for our destroyed hometown 349 Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt Foreword 353   The Past of our Destroyed Home   Levi Sarid (Leybl) Goldberg) The history of Kamenets-Litowsk and its Jewish settlement 357 Yechezkel Kotik Kamenets-Litowsk 376 A letter from Shalom Aleichem to Yechezkel Kotik   386 Velvel Kostin The Jewish colonies 389 Falk Zalf z”l The first school in Zastawie 300   The Religious life in Kamenets-Litowsk   Moshe Rabinowitz The Rav R'Moshe Yitzhak Rabinowitz z”l 405 Rabbi Yitzchok Turetz, of Blessed Memory Rabbi Boruch Ber and His Great World-Renowned Yeshiva 408 Ch. Z. Mendelson Rabbi Reuven Burstein, z.tz.l. 409   R'Shlomo Chaim, the Head of the Yeshiva 411 Ch. Z. Mendelson Yom Kippur in Our Little Town 412   Social Life in Kamenets   Chaia Krakovski-Karabelnik Po'alei Zion (united with Z.S.) in Kamenets 420 Pinchas Ravid-Rodnitzki The Gordonia movement in Kamenets-Litowsk 423   Memories from Kamenets Before the Destruction   Avrohom Shudroff Longing and Grief for the Town of My Birth 429 Simcha Dubiner Our town 431 Devora Dalinski-Panski Kamenets - as I remember you 434 Malka Kortchanski-Polyakewitch My Shtetele Kamenets-Litowsk 444 Sara Horwitz In my town Kamenets, long ago 446 Chaia Gurewitz-Goldberg The “Shkola Powshechna” school 450 Hatzkel Kagan The years of my youth in Kamenets-Litowsk 452 P. Wolf z”l The “Revizor” 462 Shifra Mazover-Bachrovski Memories from my town 471 Yitzhak Schoenfeld Kamenets in War 475 Shashke Wisotzki Memories 480 Chaia Sara Binder-Rodnitzki A Torah scholar at the rabbi 482 Rachel Sofer-Renkewitch Memories 482 Dobbe Halpern Unpleasant Recollections 487 Zlote Timianski-Gersh Unforgettable 490 Aharon Meir Joffe The Orchestra 492 Ch. Z. Mendelsohn Our town and its livelihoods 495 Yakov Aronowitz Life in Kamenets 499 Yosef Post Kamenets-Litowsk - where I have never visited 500   Persons in Town   C. Z. Mendelsohn R'Yosef Vigotov 505 Zalman Reisen Avraham Hersh Kotik 507 Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt R'Shepsel the scribe 509 Lea Aloni-Bobrovski Shlomo Mandelblatt may God avenge his blood 513 N. N. Dr. Aizik Gorni may God avenge his blood 513 M. Neumann Yankel Zlotes z”l 516   Destruction and Ruin   Dora Galpern The Destruction of Kamenetz at the Beginning of the Second World War 521 Yitzhak Portnoy From the Ghettos to the Concentration Camps 534 Devora Rodnitzki-Singer What I went through 540 Dora Galpern The Kamenets ghetto (a testimony) 550   Historical Q & A on Kamenets-Litowsk 557   Kamenets after the Holocaust   Ben-Moshe Kamenets in 1945 561 Dov Bertchik (Shemida) A journey to the past 569   The activity of the Kamenets-Litowsk memorial committee in Israel 579   Kamenetser in America   Meir Mendel Wisnetzki Founding the Support Association in America 587   Kamenets-Litowsk Memorial Committee in America   Sara Horowitz Kamenets-Litowsk Malbish-Arumim aid Society in New-York 591 Hatzkel Kagan Memorial Day in New York on the 20th Yahrzeit of the destruction of Kamenets-Litowsk 593   Memorial Ceremony in Tel Aviv     A letter from the chairman Yakov Ziv 603   The Ceremony 605

The Old Home   Abraham Schudroff Foreword 9 Leybl Goldberg (Sarid) The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in Kamenetz 12 Leybl Goldberg (Sarid) A Short History of Kamenetz-Litovsk 26 Yehezkel Kotik My Reminiscences 29   Short Biography of Yehezkel Kotik 38 Sholom Aleichem Letter to Yehezkel Kotik 39 Abraham Shudroff Yearning and Mourning for my Home Town 43 Dvora Dolinsky-Pansky Kamenetz as I Remember You 46 Velvel Kustin The Jewish Agricultural Colonies 56 I. Z. Mendelson The Day of Atonement in our Town 69 Hatzkel Kagan The Years of my Youth in Kamenetz 73 Itzhak Sheinfeld Kamenetz – The Memories of my Youth 85   The Holocaust   Dora Galperin The Tragedy of Jewish Kamenetz 91 Dvora Rudnitsky-Singer My Life in Ghettos and Concentration Camps 105   The "Angel of Belsen" 117   Kamenetzers in the United States   Sarah Hurwitz The Kamenetz Society in America 127 Meir Mendel Visotsky The Establishment of Kamenetz-Litovsk Aid Society in America 130 Charles Raddock The Kamenetzer Yeshivah of America 136 Velvel Kustin The Kokhav Ya'acov Anshey Kamenetz D'Lita Society 143   Kamenetzers in Israel     Bialik School in Tel-Aviv Perpetuates the Memory of the Community 149 Dov (Bertschik) Schmidt My Journey to Kamenetz in 1965 175 Samuel Lipchick Our Heritage 182   To Their Memory 184     Necrology

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