Mlyniv, Ukraine

Mlynov-Muravica Memorial Book
(Mlyniv, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Sefer Mlynow-Marvits

Editor: J. Sigelman

Published in Haifa 1970

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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Hebrew translated by Yocheved Klausner

Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

There Were Two Shtetlekh [towns]
A memorial to the towns Mlyniv-Mervitz [H]		7
The Shtetlekh [towns] Mlyniv-Mervits, a memorial		8
The Mlyniv-Mervitz towns in past centuries [H]		11
The Mill [H]	Lipa Halperin	13
In Past Centuries		13
Mlyniv - an Intercity Jewish Community	Sonya and Mendel Teitelman	16
The Swamp [H]	Aharon Harari	25
A Wedding in Mlyniv	Sylvia Berditch-Goldberg	27
With Yitzhak Lamdan in Mlyniv [H]	Moshe Tamari	32
The Great disaster	Asher Teitelman	38
The end of the Mlyniv-Mervitz Community	Sonya and Mendel Teitelman	42
Our town that is no more… [H]	A. Gelman	44
A prayer of revenge (a poem) [H]	Yitzhak Lamdan	46

Life and Youth
Sad greetings (a poem) [H]	Yitzhak Lamdan	51
The town Mlyniv [H]	Josef Litvak	53
Mlyniv in the past [H]	Moshe Fischman	60
The Shtetele [small town] Mlyniv	Israel (Sol) Berger	63
There Once Was a Shtetl [town] Mlyniv	David Fishman	65
Culture, education and social life in town [H]	Aharon Harari	66
The youth movement Hashomer Hatza'ir	Aharon Harari	69
Jewish farmers in Mlyniv [H]	Aharon Harari	75
A visit in Mlyniv in 1938 [H]	Aharon Harari	77
Stolener Hasidus in Mlyniv	Sylvia Barditch-Goldberg	80
A collection of poems [H]	Yitzhak Lamdan	83
Impressions and Memories	Moshe Iskowits	88
People in a Shtetl [town]	Sonya and Mendel Teitelman	90
Times in the Shtetl [town]	S.M.T.	99
The Source of Our Existence	S.M.T.	102
Community Structures in Mervits	S.M.T.	108
Poem	Alef Katz	112

This Is How We Lived
An Old Portrait	Alef Katz	115
Self-defense in Mlyniv [H]	Shmuel Mandelkern	116
My dove [H]	Dr. Shlomo Mandelkern	146
The Pain of the First World War	Helen Lederer	147
A Headstone	Baruch Meren	149
I was a young boy… [H]	Lipa Halperin	153
Of the Former Mlyniv Ways of Life	G. Goldberg	156
Life in the Synagogue [H]	Aharon Harari	159
Holiday Days in the Shtetl [town]	Sonya and Mendel Teitelman	161
Joy and Suffering in Mervits	S.M.T.	167
Matzoh Baking	S.M.T.	181
Recruited to the army [H]	Aharon Harari	186
An Occurrence in the Shtetl [town]	Borukh Meren	188
Bread and firewood	Sonya and Mendel Teitelman	195
A True Happening in Mlyniv 96 Years Ago	Shoyrle Jakobs	196
In the Shtetl [town]	David Fishman	198
Cheikl Shneider's Gramophone	Borukh 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 Immigrant to Eretz-Israel in [town]	Borukh Meren	220
My hometown Mlyniv	Yakov Holzheker	226
Poor Lives	Sonya and Mendel Teitelman	229
Two of them [H]	Eliahu Gelman	241
Portraits [H]	Josef Litvak	242
The Golzhekers	Borukh Meren	245
Reb Noah-Moshe	B. M.	246
Home and youth-movement in Mlyniv [H]	Yafa Dayaggi	247
Poems	Sany Weiner	251

Our Own and Closest
My Father, Ben-Tzion, of blessed memory	Borukh Meren	255
Small Shtetlekh [towns] - Large Families	Mendel and Sonya 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
As a Guest at the Grandparents	Sylvia Barditsh-Goldberg	266
The run-out treasure	Borukh 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 Big Hell	Nakhum Teitlman	314
Stories of Death	Mendel and Sonya Teitlman	325
The separation from home [H]	Yechiel Scherman	344
Roaming in Pain and Hunger	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	Sonya 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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