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Translation of
Kehilat Szransk ve-ha-seviva; sefer zikaron
Editor: Y. Rimon (Granat)
Published in Jerusalem 1960
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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
| Foreword | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | VI |
| In Everlasting Memory (poem) | A. Kirschenbaum | XIV |
| Out of distress I called You… [after Ps. 118:5] | M. Nivorski | XV |
| The Chairman of the Organization – on publishing this book | S. Rosenbaum | XVI |
| The beginnings of the Jewish Community in Szrensk | N. Korn | 5 |
| From 1863 to 1900 | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 7 |
| The years of storm 1901 - 1905 | I. L. Pepper z”l | 9 |
| Memories 1906 - 1914 | I. M. Zieman | 17 |
| First World War 1914 - end of 1918 | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 30 |
| The Hechalutz Organization | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 34 |
| The Zionist Library - and an unnecessary fear | I. L. Pepper z”l | 36 |
| Szrensk from 1918 to destruction - 1 September 1939 [Y] | Moshe Nivorski, Y. Rimon | 75 |
| The town where we were born | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 82 |
| The Zionist movement in Szrensk | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 90 |
| A dynasty of prodigies in Szrensk | Rav I. L. Avida (Zlotnik) | 100 |
| The Holy Rabbi Rav Zelig from Szrensk | Printed in Hamodi'a newspaper | 104 |
| Rav R'Issachar Berish Grubert z”l | S.G. - Encyclopedia of Religious Zionism | 106 |
| Prof. David Grubert z”l | A.L. Schwartz (transl. from German N. Dobroshklenka) | 110 |
| Prof. David Grubert z”l | Nachum Sokolov S.G. - Encycl. of Religious Zionism | 113 |
| Rav R'Mendel Grubert z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 117 |
| Rabbis in Szrensk | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 134 |
| Anti-Semitism in Szrensk | Ada Waldman-Lifshitz | 138 |
| My little town | Chitzya Landau Eisenberg | 140 |
| Memories | L. Meged (Reichgut) | 142 |
| Market day and Fair time in Szrensk | S. Soldaner | 144 |
| The Bikur Holim [caring for (lit. visiting) the sick] Society | S. Rosenbaum | 146 |
| The Polish Elementary School - memories of a pupil | P. Shapira-Weiss | 150 |
| My memories from Szrensk [Y] | Nathan Ben Menachem | 173 |
| Memories and facts from childhood years [Y] | Jack Roberts (I. Grubert) | 176 |
| To Parents, Brothers, Sisters [Y] | Zusha Granat z”l | 177 |
| The Szrensk communication [Y] | Yitzhak Meir Grinboim | 178 |
| On the eve of Yom Kippur in Szrensk [Y] | Yitzhak Meir Grinboim | 182 |
| The Tchechanover Tzadik, my father and I [Y] | Ch. I. Marinowitz | 187 |
| My service in the Red Army [Y] | Moshe Nivorski | 195 |
| Miriam Tzifra says farewell to her youngest son [Y] | Moshe Nivorski | 197 |
| Elisheva Zieman and Hashomer Hatzair movement [Y] | Moshe Nivorski | 198 |
| Memories from childhood years [Y] | Zvi Leib Noach | 200 |
| Notes [Y] | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 202 |
| Szrensk - the uniqueness of its people [Y] | A. Kirschenbaum | 206 |
| My uncle R'Moshe Granat | Y. Z. Rimon | 212 |
| In honor of my father Naftali Hirtzka | Rachel-Dvora Zalmans-Granat | 214 |
| The brothers Yitzhak-Meir and Mendel Granat | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 216 |
| R'Moshe Zvi Grinboim z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| R'Mendel Zieman z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| The Holy matryr, the woman Yuta Zieman, nee Koreltchik | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 220 |
| Why grandfather R'M. David z”l has not made Aliya? | Arie Rachum | 222 |
| Sara Ita and Efraim Itzkowitz | Zelig Pepper | |
| David Yom Tov and the Modern Heder | Zelig Pepper | 224 |
| R'Shalom Liep (the cantor in Szrensk) | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| (Avraham Z. Nivorski, may God avenge his blood) | ||
| The Torah Reader | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| The brothers Gedalia and Isser Nivorski | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| R'Yosef Leib Pepper z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 230 |
| In honor of my father R'Yosef Leib Pepper z”l | Tzviya | 234 |
| Letters of recommendation | ||
| R'Leib Fleischer (the Mitnaged) | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 235 |
| Thirty years - time of a generation | Nachman Korn | 241 |
| R'Wolf Koreltzik z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| R'Mendel Krok and his wife Gitel | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| Three “Kantonists” | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| R'Mendel Rosenboim z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | |
| R'Avraham Meir and his wife Pearl | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 249 |
| Grandfather R'Avraham Meir | Aharon Meged | 250 |
| A Memorial on the grave of my mother Pearl z”l | Lea Meged (Reichgut) | 251 |
| My father R'Moshe and my brother Hirtzka Naftali z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 259 |
| Bunem Viroski (the treasure) may God avenge his blood | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 261 |
| In memory of my father Avraham Zalman may God avenge his blood | Moshe Nivorski | 263 |
| R'Mendel Sarnover, my grandfather, may he rest in peace | A. Kirschenboim | |
| Two poems: Yahrzeit, A fresh grave [Y] | A. Kirschenboim | 270 |
| Moshe Rosenberg, composer and Communist activist | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 271 |
| Dr. Binyamin Grubert z”l | Nachman Korn | 274 |
| The tough road of our lives [Y] | Y. Tz. Osman | 277 |
| How I survived [Y] | N. Altos | 279 |
| Memories of a survivor | Scherfski - Gourion | 280 |
| How my family was saved from the Nazis | Nathan Ben Menachem (Dobroshklanka) | 282 |
| Our Martyrs' Road [Y] | Yitzhak Grinboim | 288 |
| The road of affliction [Y] | S. Glassman - Achs | 290 |
| How I survived [Y] | Moshe Nivorski | 293 |
| Reuven Soldaner's way to freedom [Y] | Related by Moshe Nivorski | 297 |
| Four heroes from Szrensk | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 304 |
| One of the Szrensk prodigies | Nachum Sokolov | 309 |
| Szrensk, a town of Hassidism and prodigies | Rav Y. K. Avida (Zlotnik) | 313 |
| The prodigy of Szrensk | Y. Opatoshu z”l | 317 |
| The first Hassidim and the later Hassidim | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 322 |
| The Lady Merchant from Szrensk [Y] | Yosef Opatoshu | |
| The Szrensk Rebbitzin [Y] | Yosef Opatoshu | 330 |
| Moishe'le the only son [Y] | A. Kirschenboim | 333 |
| Szrensk folklore and wise sayings [Y] | Collected by Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 338 |
| YIZKOR | 341 | |
| It is our duty to write [Y] | Nathan Ben Menachem (Dobroshklanka) | 342 |
| The Names of the Martyrs | Moshe Nivorski | 343 |
| The Szrensk Community that was destroyed | Avraham Staviski | 353 |
| The beginning of the destruction | Moshe Nivorski | 362 |
| Survivors tell their stories [Y] | Nachum Altos, R. Soldaner, Z. Osman | 379 |
| Testimonies of four that have miraculously syrvived | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 383 |
| Memories from my home | Miriam Lichtig Seidman | 385 |
| Eulogies for the martyrs (letters Aleph to Nun) | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 432 |
| A candle for Reshie and Matityahu | Tzviya | 434 |
| My Mother Chaia Hodes [Y] | Moshe Nivorski | 436 |
| Eulogies (letters Nun to Samech) | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 438 |
| My home and my Father of blessed memory | Avraham Staviski | 440 |
| Eulogies (letters Samech to Kof) | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 450 |
| My little daughter Meira Korn, may God avenge her blood | N. Korn | 454 |
| Eulogies (letter Shin) | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 466 |
| A candle for the memory of my parents | Yosef Shapira | 469 |
| The victims of the Polish Diaspora | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 476 |
| Dreamers and fighters who died in Eretz Israel | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 480 |
| In memory of my dear sister | Ada Waldman-Lifschitz | 482 |
| Dreamers and fighters | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 488 |
| List of martyrs (necrology) | M. Nivorski | 491 |
| My little town [Y] | Sam Mittgang | 498 |
| The town Radzwanov | A. Parshani (Preshnitzki) | 502 |
| R'Mordechai Yosef Kovashla z”l | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 504 |
| Kodzburg | Yosef Rimon (Granat) | 505 |
| The Szrensker Society [Y] | Chairman of Relief Society Eli Chaim Kronrnblatt | 507 |
| Organization of former residents of Szrensk in Israel | Y. Rimon (Granat) | 508 |
| Kol Nidrei in USSR [Y] | Moshe Nivvorski | 510 |
| An exchange of letters | N. Korn and B. Grubert z”l | 514 |
| Two letters devoted to the events of 1935] | Dobreshklanka - Grinboim | 515 |
| 106 Photographs | ||
| The Szrensk Martyrs | 3 | |
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