Mlyniv, Ukraine

Mlynov-Muravica Memorial Book

(Mlyniv, Ukraine) (Muravytsi, Ukraine)

50°30' / 25°36' 50°31' / 25°35'

Translation of
Sefer Mlynow-Marvits

Editor: J. Sigelman

Published in Haifa 1970

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Howard Schwartz, PhD

Our sincere appreciation to the Mlynov Family Descendants group for helping to fund the translations.

The Yiddish translations were funded by a number of Mlynov family descendants. See:

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See also: Mlynov Yizkor Book Commentaries:

https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Mlyniv/Mlynov-Yizkor-Book.html

This is a translation of: Sefer Mlynow-Marvits (Mlynov-Muravica memorial book),
Editor: J. Sigelman, Former Residents of Mlynov-Muravica in Israel, Published: Haifa 1970 (H,Y 511 pages)

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

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There Were Two Shtetlekh [towns]
Memorial to the Towns of Mlynov-Mervits [H]	The Editors	7
The Shtetlekh Mlynov–Muravica: A Memorial		8
A paragraph from Slownik Geograficzny, 1885, Warsaw [Polish Encyclopedia]		10
Mlynov and Mervits in Past Centuries [H]		11
“The Mill” [H]	Lipa Halperin	13
Mlynov–A Kehilla for Mlynov and its Surrounding Shtetlekh	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman	16
“The Cologia” [The Swamp] [H]	Aaron (Berger) Harari	25
A Wedding in Mlynov	Sylvia Barditch-Goldberg	27
“My Hill”	Moshe Teitelman (later Moshe Tamari)	30
The Tree That Resembled a Menorah on the Way from Mervits to Mlynov	A. [Eliyahu] Gelman	31
In the presence of Yitzhak Lamdan in Mlynov [H]	Moshe Tamari	32
The Massive Disaster (Shoah)	Asher Teitelman, Haifa	38
Kehilla Mlynov-Mervits: Eradicated	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman	42
Our Small Town Is No More [H]	A [Eliyahu] Gelman, Netanya	44
Prayer for Revenge (a poem) [H]	Yitzchak Lamdan	46

Life and Youth
Bear a Melancholy Blessing (a poem) [H]	Yitzchak Lamdan	51
The Town of Mlynov [H]	Yosef Litvak	53
Mlynov in the Past [H]	Moshe Fishman	60
Shtetele Mlynov	Yisroel (Sol) Berger	63
There Once Was a Shtetl Mlynov	David Fishman	65
Culture, Education, and Social Life in the Small Town [H]	Aaron (Berger) Harari	66
The Youth Movement, “The Young Guard” (Hashomer Hatzair)	Aaron (Berger) Harari	69
Jewish Farmers in Mlynov [H]	Aaron (Berger) Harari	75
Visit to Mlynov in 1938 [H]	Aaron (Berger) Harari	77
Stoliner Hasidism in Mlynov	Sylvia Barditch–Goldberg	80
Selected Poems [H]	Yitzhak Lamdan	83
Impressions and Memories	Moshe Iskiewicz (Isakovich)	88
People in a Shtetl	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman (“SMT”)	90
Different Times in the Shtetl	S.M.T.	99
Sources of Our Existence	S.M.T.	102
Community Buildings in Mervits	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman (“SMT”)	108
Song	Alef Katz	112

This Is How We Lived
An Old Portrait	Aleph Katz	115
Self-defense in Mlyniv [H]	Shmuel Mandelkern	116
My dove [H]	Dr. Shlomo Mandelkern	146
In Pain from the First World War	Helen Lederer	147
A Good Deed (Mitzvah)	Boruch Meren	149
I was a young boy… [H]	Lipa Halperin	153
Our Former Way of Life in Mlynov	G. Goldberg	156
Life in the Synagogue [H]	Aharon Harari	159
Days of Celebration in the Shtetl	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman	161
Joys And Sorrows In Mervits	S. M. T.	167
Baking Matzas	S.M.T.	181
Recruited to the army [H]	Aharon Harari	186
An Event in the Shtetl	Boruch Meren	188
Bread and Wood	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman	195
A True Event in Mlynov from 96 Years Ago	Shirley Jacobs	196
In the Shtetl	David Fishman	198
Khaykl Shnayder's Gramophone	Boruch Meren	199
A young boy writes to his brother in Eretz Israel [H]	Avraham Halperin	202
Poem	Dr. Shlomo Mandelkern	204

People and Landscapes
To my town [H]	Eliahu Gelman	207
Yakov-Yosi goes to Eretz Israel [H]	Shmuel Mandelkern	208
The First Aliyah from the Shtetl	Boruch Meren	220
My Hometown Mlynov	Yankev Holtzeker	226
Poor Lives	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman	229
Two of them [H]	Eliahu Gelman	241
Portraits [H]	Josef Litvak	242
The Goldsekers	Boruch Meren	245
Reb Noyekh-Moyshe	B. M.	246
Home and youth-movement in Mlyniv [H]	Yafa Dayaggi	247
Poems	Sunny Veiner	251

Those at Home and Nearby
My Father Ben-Tzion z”l	Boruch Meren	255
Small Shtetls, Large Families	Mendel and Sonia Teitelman	256
Reb Avraham-Shlomo Teitelman [H]	Eliahu Gelman	259
Memories from home [H]	Josef Gonen	261
The house that was lost [H]	Bat-Sheva Ben-Eliahu (Ribatz)	263
Visiting My Grandparents	Sylvia Barditch-Goldberg	266
The Treasure That Ran Out	Boruch Meren	272
Chana Klapetch - a Mlyniv tragedy [H]	Reuven Raberman	277
A Mlyniver Page		280

Destruction and Death
The Mlyniv Community at the start of the Soviet occupation [H]	Y. Litvak	283
The Holocaust - a collective testimony of Yehudit Mandelkern (Rudolf), Fania (Mandelkern) Bernstein, David Bernstein [H]		287
Mlyniv after its liberation by the Soviet Army [H]	Fania (Mandelkern) Bernstein	310
In the Depths of Hell	Nokhum Teitelman	314
Tragic Tales	Mendel and Sonia Teitelman	325
The separation from home [H]	Yechiel Scherman	344
I Wandered Hungry and in Pain	Liza Berger	347
The Pain of Regret	Alef Katz	351
Ruin	Shaulik Halperin	352
A Family Survives	Itzik Kazik	354
In the Horror of Death	Mendl (Anshel's) Steinberg	358
Where Do We Go?	Miryam Barber (Blinder)	370
A Child in the Storm	Batya Kuptshik (Blinder)	374
From the Past	Ruchl Teitelman	380
In Fear and Pain	Leah Weiner-Lichter	382
Death of the Sakaliker Refugees	Frida Kuperberg	384
During the Holocaust [H]	Gedalia Lahav	386
Wandering in Great Misfortune	Bunya Opstein	387

In Memory and Sorrow
In Memory and Sorrow	Sonia and Mendel Teitelman	405
At Yad Vashem	N.D. Karman	405
A memorial candle [H]	Yochanan Wiener	406
Now [H]	Yitzhak Lamdan	407
My Book of Lamentations	Yitzhak Mohl	408
A Family Perished	Y. Mohl	410
The Litvak home [H]	Josef Litvak	413
A memorial candle [H]	Y. L.	414
The Sherman-Gulisk Families [H]	Yehiel Sherman	415
My Ester and Nachman, of blessed memory	Mendel Teitelman	416
In Memory [H]	Rachel Giv'on	418
My family [H]	Chaia Moses (Fischer)	418
In Memory of my beloved ones [H]	Holzhacker Bila	420
In Memory [H]	Bella Halevi (nee Fischer)	422
In Memory of a family [H]	Miriam Fischer	423
In Memory of ten Jews in Permilowka [H]	Tova Wahrman	425
A Ballad of a Tree	Dvora Mohl-Yarnicki	427
List of the Mlyniv martyrs		431
List of the Muravitsa martyrs		441
List of the Sokoliki martyrs		445
Martyrs of the neighboring villages		446
Names of our town's residents who passed away in Israel		447
The fallen soldiers		447
Nazi murders in the Wolhyn region	Sara Schichman-Vinokur	449
Photographs of our martyrs		453
Writers and Poets		485
Over the Ocean [H]		495

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(Mlyniv, Ukraine)		(Muravytsi, Ukraine)
50°30' / 25°36'		50°31' / 25°35'