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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-'ayarot Rafalowka ha-yeshenah,
Rafalowka he-hadashah, Olizarka, Zoludzk veha-sevivah
Edited by: Pinhas and Malkah Hagin
Tel Aviv 1996
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This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-'ayarot Rafalowka ha-yeshenah, Rafalowka he-hadashah, Olizarka, Zoludzk veha-sevivah
(Memorial book for the towns of Old Rafalowka, New Rafalowka, Olizarka, Zoludzk and vicinity),
Editors: Pinhas and Malkah Hagin, Tel Aviv 1996 (H,Y, 530 pages).
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Hebrew translated by Sara Mages
Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund
Eternal Flame | ||
Map of the region | ||
The editors, the planning team, the names committee, and the final setting | ||
With the publication of the book | Arye Pinchuk | א I |
Words from the editors | Pinchas and Malka Hagin | ג III |
A Vow | Avraham Shlonsky | ז VII |
These I will remember and for these I will yearn | ט IX | |
Words from a commemoration event | Yaakov Wiener | יא XI |
Words from the unveiling of the monument at Kiryat Haim | Mordechai Menin | יב XII |
Testimony | Leah-Lilli Rog | יג XIII |
Testimony | Malka Lederman | יד XIV |
Protocol, the Rafalovka Area Committee | טו XV | |
A Ukrainian journalist wrote about the murder of the Jews of the Rafalovka ghetto | Shlomo Efrat | |
The Visit | ||
Rafalowka of 1988 | Aryeh Pinchuk | 3 |
The visit | Yehudit Mutznik | 10 |
That Hill | Ada Sidelman | 12 |
One day in Rafalovka, and a few words to its lovers | Yael Yisraeli | 14 |
The visit to Stara-Rafalovka | Shmuel Efrat | 16 |
A special meeting | Arye Pinchuk | 18 |
My visit to Rafalowka and closing the circle | Penina Shavit | 20 |
Escape In the shadow of the German occupation, in the villages, in the forests and in battle | ||
A ray of light in the darkness | Malka Hagin | 25 |
Survival | A. Schwartzblat Sarid | 27 |
Massacres, resistance and escape in Vohlin, August 1942 (map) | 28 | |
An event engraved in my memory | Sara Amas | 29 |
On the road from Rafalowka's Ghetto to Sopachiv | Avraham Appleboim | 30 |
In the forests and in the villages with people from Rafalowka and the surrounding area, in the years 1942-1944 | Sender Appleboim | 48 |
The story of the rescue | Shmuel Efrat | 54 |
I escaped from Ukrainian policemen | Shmuel Efrat | 59 |
An explosion in the forest | Shmuel Efrat (Appelboim) | 63 |
Bereavement and wandering | Yakov Bas | 67 |
Memories of running away from the ghetto | Haim Ziskin Brat | 93 |
We didn't find a survivor | Meir Goldverin | 95 |
The Escape | Ahuva Hendlsman | 98 |
Fania, My Angel | Masha Wolsptel | 99 |
Memories of Our Stay in the Forests | Chana Windrowich | 101 |
I didn't go to thestation | Arye Weisblat | 106 |
Escape from the forest | Shlomo Weisblat | 107 |
Persecuted | Zipora Zalzman | 108 |
Childhood in the shadow of death | Malka Lederman | 109 |
I parted from my mother | Sheindil Leiserov | 114 |
Wanderings, separation and reunion | Reuven and Leah Portnoy | 115 |
Two orphans in the villages and in the forests | Rachel Fliegelman, Chaya Meshulam | 117 |
In the shadow of the German occupation | Tzvi Kreizer | 119 |
Survival | Tzvi Kreizer | 121 |
The escape from the Ghetto | Rivka Rozman née Swarcblat | 125 |
In the marshes and forests of Polesie | Alexander Sarid | 127 |
Testimony | ||
I'm here in Germany | Sara Amas | 141 |
Testimony | Sara Amas | 143 |
Grandma Fanya tells her grandchildren | Fanya Bas | 161 |
Rafalowka, the Ghetto and the escape to the forest A testimony | Gershon Gruber | 176 |
Testimony | Leah Tziger | 179 |
Testimony | Penina Shavit | 187 |
There were towns - Old Rafalowka, New Rafalowka, Olizarka, Zoludsk and the vicinity | ||
Old Rafalowka | ||
Old Rafalowka | Moshe Appleboim | 213 |
Memories from Rafalowka | a recorded conversation with Yaakov Sarid Schnieder, written by Aryeh Pinchuck | 215 |
In memory of the Jews of Bil's'ka Volya | Zev Lufta | 226 |
New Rafalowka | ||
Rafalovka for the day of commemoration (poem) | Moshe Murik | 231 |
The home that was and no longer exists | Ajzik Bret | 232 |
My Rafalovka | Hadassah Avtalion | 233 |
About Rafalovka the Station, when it just began | Michael Gilboa | 234 |
Rafalovka the Station, before and after WWI | Rifka Oyra | 249 |
A few lines to the image of Rafalowka-Station in the period between the two World Wars | Yitzchak Brill | 251 |
The old home the landscape of youth | Yakov Wajner | 257 |
Memories of a Rafalowkian in America | Yosef Barat | 261 |
Education and Culture in Rafalovka the Station | Rachel Gilbo'a | 264 |
I Sang with the Cantor Bulba | Mote'le Hevroni | 265 |
The BEITAR Movement in the Two Republics | Aharon Shavit | 266 |
Rafalovka | Lipa Goz | 268 |
Rafalowka, a Jewish-Hebrew town | Ziskin Chaim Bret | 268 |
The Martyrs of Rafalovka, Zhlotchek and Olizarka | Aizik and Baruch Bart | 270 |
In Rafalovka in the Years 1937-1941 | Sender Appelboim | 271 |
Olizarka | ||
My town and my home | Henya Burko | 277 |
Olizarka | Tamar Zuc | 279 |
My town Olizarka | Sara Rozenfeld | 280 |
Zoludzk | ||
You were pleasant to me Zoludzk | Aharon Goz | 287 |
My town Zoludzk | Arye Galon | 289 |
Figures in Zoludzk | Arye Galon | 290 |
Industrious and Kind | Rachel Tzur | 296 |
Our Families For our children and for future generations | ||
Memories from my father's home | Lipa Goz | 299 |
For my family | Tzila Gorodinski | 300 |
The Gruber family, Meir and Chaya Sara | Rachel Gilboa | 301 |
A warm Jewish home | Rachel Vitas | 303 |
May their memory be blessed | Henya Zlishnik | 304 |
The Reizil Dichter family | Sheindil Leiserov | 305 |
In their memory and for the sake of future generations | Tzvi Lesnik | 306 |
The Lechetz family | Yehudit Mutznik née Lechetz | 308 |
The family of ShlomoYakov and BatyaLeah Gruber | Bella Mendelson née Gruber | 309 |
In their memory | Ada Sidelman | 310 |
Memories | Miriam Plum | 314 |
My family My parents Bracha and Nachman Friedman, my sister, Freidka | Yosef Friedman | 315 |
Our Beloved Ones, May Their Memory Be Blessed | ||
Menachem Sossel zl | Sender Appelboim | 319 |
The Aunt that I didn't Know | Penina Besserglick nee Menin | 320 |
My grandfather Isaac Meir Zuk | Pnina Beserglick | 321 |
In Memory of R'Yitzhak Meir Zhuk | Arie Yadoshlibi | 322 |
Rabbi Isaac Meir builds a 'small temple' | Haim Fikersh | 322 |
In memory of my grandfather Yakov Bass of blessed memory | David Brill | 326 |
My brother, David Bas of blessed memory | Rivka Brill | 327 |
Shaul Katz the preacher at the gate | Yitzchak Brill | 328 |
Yosef Gadish of blessed memory, lines to his image | 330 | |
R' Mates Gayer Sheines from Olizarka | Lipa and Leibel Goz | 331 |
To Chaim Bratt of blessed memory a friend, brother and companion | Yitzchak Gurfinkel | 332 |
My wife | Natan (Neta) Dov Velman | 333 |
The biography of Yakov Shmuel Wiener of blessed memory | Ziva Wiener | 334 |
R' Michel Bebchuk of blessed memory | Yakov Wiener | 336 |
In memory of Yakov-Bar Zalzman | Arye Yedushlivi | 337 |
Words in memory of our father, Yosef Goz of blessed memory | Ma'anit Levinger, Bracha Zilberstein, Nava Spenov | 338 |
My brother Moshe Dichter (Moshka) | Sheindil Leiserov | 339 |
My wife Rachel | Mordechai Menin | 340 |
In memory of Reizil Dichter | Mordechai Menin | 341 |
In memory of my son | Rivka Rozman | 342 |
My brother | Penina Shavit | 343 |
Herzl Dudik of blessed memory | Penina Shavit | 344 |
Leah and Aharon Goz of blessed memory | Zipora Shazar, Sara Friedman | 344 |
Yiddish Section | ||
To the Memory of the Shtetlekh [Towns] Old Rafalovka, New Rafalovka, Olizarka, Zholudsk (Zhelutsk) and Vicinity | ||
Editors | ||
Not Forget, Not Forgive | ||
They Live With Us | Yitzhak Brat | 349 |
The Horrible War Years | Arye Yadushlivi | 353 |
The Excommunication of the Old Rabbi | Arye Yadushlivi | 366 |
What I Have to Tell | Yitzhak Meir Shzuk | 372 |
A Sole Survivor from an Entire Family | Eliezer Schwartzblatt | 376 |
The Chaim Goz Family from Rafalovka | Arie (Leibl) Goz | 378 |
Almost a Last-Will-and-Testament from my Mother zl | Penina Besserglick | 379 |
Jews from Old Rafalovka | Arie Yadoshlivi | 381 |
The Village-Jews Around Old-Rafalovka | Arie Yadoshlivi | 387 |
The Rudi Family from Olizarka | Baruch Smali | 389 |
Olizarka, My Shtetele [Small Town] | Ester Mazor | 392 |
Olizarka in Two World Wars | Ester Mazor | 403 |
Yahrzeit [Anniversary of a Death] | Sara Ams (Burka) | 417 |
Yizkor | ||
And these are the names of our beloved martyrs, residents of our towns - Old Rafalowka, New Rafalowka, Olizarka, Zoludsk and the vicinity, who were annihilated in Rafalowka's Ghetto, murdered and slaughtered in the neighboring villages and forests. | 421 | |
In memory of our heroes, residents of our towns, partisans and fighters in the Red Army and the Polish Army, who fell in the battle against the Nazi enemy and its helpers during the Second World War or passed away after the war | 432 | |
To Safety | ||
From Olizarka to Rishon LeZion | Penina Holland nee Bart | 435 |
Memories | Zipora Goldberg | 436 |
I survived | Motale' Hevroni-Portnoy | 439 |
My Parents and My Sister Did Not Come | Nisan Chizhi | 441 |
Two stories | Arye Pinzuk | 442 |
Photos | ||
People of Rafalowka and the surrounding area | 449 | |
The visit to New Rafalowka | 483 | |
Next to the mass grave | 486 | |
The old cemetery in New Rafalowka | 496 | |
Heder in Old Rafalowka | 500 | |
Tarbut School in New Rafalowka | 503 | |
Pioneer Youth Movement in New Rafalowka and the vicinity | 506 | |
Youth and young people | 512 | |
Buildings and Streets | 517 | |
Fighters | 523 | |
On the way to the land of Israel | 528 |
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