Szreńsk, Poland

The Jewish Community of Szrensk and the Vicinity;
a Memorial Volume
(Szreńsk, Poland)

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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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This is a translation of: Kehilat Szransk ve-ha-seviva; sefer zikaron
(The Jewish community of Szrensk and the vicinity; a memorial volume),
Editor: Y. Rimon (Granat), Former Residents of Szrensk in Israel, Published: Jerusalem 1960 (H,Y,E 588 pages)

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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

Chapter One
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

Chapter Two
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

Chapter Three
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

Chapter Four
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

Survivors
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

Chapter Five
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

The Holocaust
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

Radzwanov
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

Appendices
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

ENGLISH SECTION
The Szrensk Martyrs		3

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