Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

Kazimierz: Memorial Book
(Kazimierz Dolny, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer Yizkor kehilat Kozamyer de-Lublin

Editor: David Shtokfish

Published in Tel Aviv 1970

Acknowledgments

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This is a translation of: Sefer Yizkor kehilat Kozamyer de-Lublin (Kazimierz: Memorial Book),
Editor: David Shtokfish, Former Residents of Kazimierz in Israel and the Diaspora, Published: Tel Aviv 1970 (H,Y 655 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Kazimierz

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Introduction	Shimon Schlaferman-Chalamish	5
Foreword [Y]	Shimon Schlaferman-Chalamish	7

Development of Jewish Kazimierz
Kazimierz, Kuzmir - Reality and Legend	S. L. Schneiderman	12
Kazimierz, Kuzmir - Reality and Legend [Y]	S. L. Schneiderman	48
Impressions from Kazimierz	Pola Eylon-Shenderowitz	110
The beloved town [Y]	Yakov Krystal	113
Childhood and adolescence years in Kazimierz [Y]	Yitzhak Green z”l	115
Six months of activity in Kazimierz	S. Ben-Shimon	132
Images, personalities and life in town [Y]	Moshe-Ber Reichman	136
Zion was their aspiration and hope	Malka Meitin-Goldbaum	146
Zion was their aspiration and hope [Y]	Malka Meitin-Goldbaum	149
The tragedy during the Austrian occupation [Y]	Israel Shmuel	152
Memories from the old home [Y]	Eliezer-Akiva Bornstein	155
The town is alive before my eyes… [Y]	Tcharne Pentchina-Schneiderman	158
Kazimierz folklore	S. Schlaferman	162
Kazimierz folklore and stories [Y]	S. Schlaferman	167
My shtetl [Y]	Tova Lieberman	176
Jewish-Polish relationship in town [Y]	Ch. S. R.	177
Kazimierz 1929-1939	Penina Herzog (Pola Rubin)	180
The activity of Hanoar Hazioni	Esther Yaskil-Weisenberg	183
Hanoar Hazioni and BEITAR [Y]	Naftali Feuerstein	185
The social and religious life [Y]	L. Kevinsohn	190

Kazimierz in Jewish and General Literature
Meetings with Kazimierz	Conrad Beilski	203
Kazimierz in the work of Z. Segalowitz a. In Kazimierz; b. The slaughterer's daughter; c. The last cart owners; d. “There”		210
The cruel winter in Kazimierz [Y]	Leib Rashkin	246
In Kazimierz [Y]	I. I. Trunk	262
Kazimierz [Y]	M. Tzanin	270
Two Jewish old monuments in Kazimierz [Y]		279
The town in old and new sources [Y]		282

Figures and Personalities in Kazimierz
R'Shaul Yedidya Elazar of Miedzyrzec and his tunes	M. S. Geshuri	290
R'Israel the ADMOR of Miedzyrzec and his tunes	M Kipnis	298
Rabbis, Hasidic rebbes, personalities and folkspeople [Y]	Yitzhak (Itche) Green	307
Among our personalities [Y]	L. Levinsohn	312
The Jews of Kazimierz	Shimon Chalamish (Schlaferman)	315
Stanislav Haga [Y]	S. L. Tzitron	331
Shaul Friedman (Leib Rashkin z”l)	A.	338
S. L. Schneiderman [Y]	S.	338
Israel Shmuel Wodnitzki	Abu-Penina	340
The artist Chaim Goldenberg	Yitzhak Ludan	342
Yehoshua Tzioni (Letz) z”l	Yocheved	343
The courtyard of the Fried family	Gisha Moser (Fried)	346
Yosef Fried	S. W.	348
Malka Karlin (nee Fried) z”l	Gissia	350
R'Wevtche Bromberg and his family [Y]	Malka Meitin- Goldbaum	351
My grandfather's home	Shmuel ben Aharon-Meir Edelstein	353
Avraham Bornzweig, may God avenge his blood		356
The Shenderowitz family	Binyamin Omer	357
Shlomo Grossman z”l	I. Grossman	358
Yehoshua Kaplan z”l	The Editor	358
Shimon Silbermintz z”l (R'Shimon Kuzmirer) [Y]	S. Bunem, Shiretzki	360
Grandfather Yakir,A79 the Psalms reciter z”l	Sara Chalamish-Weisenberg	361
Shaul Steinowitz z”l		364
R'Leibish (Arie) Vishniya z”l		365
Elazar Korall z”l	K.	366
Shimon & Lea Ratanovski z”l	Moser	367
Shmuel Letz z”l	W.	368
Pesia Wiener z”l		369
R'Shlomo & Devora Libov	Z. Segalowitz; Chaim Lieberman	370

Jewish Kazimierz in the Holocaust
The Nazi occupation	Sonia Vishniya	375
My experiences under the Nazi occupation [Y]	Sonia Vishniya	393
A little girl struggling for her life	Pola Zuker	427
Brotherly help in the ghetto [Y]	Pola Zuker (Karol)	430
Eva returns to her nation and her family	Dan, Ofra and Shoshana	432
Notes from the Deluge [Y]	Pinye Schneiderman	435
A family on the road to martyrdom [Y]	Esther Rosen	455
In Camp and outside it	Hinda Breitel-Karol	456
From ghetto to ghetto and from camp to camp	Esther Cohen	459
We survived Hitler's Hell [Y]	Esther Cohen	468
In the ghettoes and in the death camps	Shmuel-Leib Wiesenberg	481
In the ghettoes and in the death camps [Y]	Shmuel-Leib Wiesenberg	489
I saved myself living as a Christian [Y]	Tcharne Bornstein	503
A life experience in Warsaw [Y]	Lola Reichman-Byaler	504
On the roads of pain and destruction [Y]	Malka Tierangel	506
Years of tragedy and horror [Y]	Chaim Guttman	515
The tale of a partisan in the French Resistance [Y]	Shmuel Rosenberg	540
My war experiences [Y]	L. L. Lekish	543
My home town - a cemetery [Y]	P. Appelbaum	552
Kuzmir (Kazimierz) 1944 [Y]	Naftali Feuerstein	559
Kuzmir (Kazimierz) 1964 [Y]	Aharon-Asher Kleinman	561
Upon the ruins of my home-town [Y]	S. L. Schneiderman	564
On the life of Kazimierzer in our land	Enar's grandfather	593

The Kazimierz Martyrs
List of martyrs (Necrology)		599
Obituaries		615

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