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Translation of
Wieruszow; sefer yizkor
Editor: Former Residents of Wieruszow Book Committee
Published in Tel Aviv 1970
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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
| The History of Jewish Wieruszow and Surroundings | ||
| A town on the border; the beginnings of Jewish Wieruszow | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| The rabbis of Wieruszow and Campano during 5450-5705 [1690-1945]: | ||
| Rabbi Moshe from Vilna; Rabbi Israel Yona Landa; his son Rabbi Yosef Shmuel Landa; Rabbi Yosef Simcha Rahfisch; Rabbi Feivel Bressler; the MALBIM; Rabbi Yakov Meir Levy; Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Silberberg; the Rabbi from Litomorsk; Rabbi Naftali Wieruszower; Rabbi Shaul Silberman; Rabbi Avraham Binyamib from Widawa; the ADMOR from Piltz; his son Rabbi Hanoch Gad Yustman; Rabbi Avraham Mendel Ohrenbach; Rabbi Moshe Eliezer Kliger; Rabbi Yakov Shlomo Kovalski; the ADMOR from Komarno; Rabbi Elazar Ohrenbach | ||
| The Wilon region is spreading “Enlightenment” | ||
| Conscription of Jews to the Polish army (according to a Memorandum of a Polish nobleman) | ||
| 91 | ||
| Wieruszow Between the Two World Wars | ||
| Wieruszow at the end of the 19th century | Israel Y. Mukshaki | |
| The economy of Jewish Wieruszow at the end of the 19th century | Kalman Frotzel | |
| The economic situation in Wieruszov at the beginning of the 20th century | Zvi Eliash | |
| The destruction in 5679 [1919] | Yakov Levy | |
| Occupation by the Polish army | Kalman Frotzel | |
| The “Fair Goers” | I. A. Wentchekovski | |
| Wieruszow 1919 - 1925 | Rivka Danieli | |
| The Anti-Semitic Wieruszow | Aliza Dafni | |
| Wieruszow and surroundings under Polish rule | Y. Eybeschitz | |
| Campano in the past generations | Y. Eybeschitz | |
| 127 | ||
| Organizations and Institutions in Wieruszow | ||
| List of Institutions and Organizations | The Editor | |
| Synagogues and Prayer Houses | Y. Eybeschitz | |
| Community workers and leaders | Manush Katriel | |
| Achdut [Unity], the revolutionary movement in Wieruszow | David Domb | |
| The first sprouts of Zionism in Wieruszow | David Domb | |
| ”The Circle” of Hanoar Hatzioni and the Hashomer Haleumi branch | Nachum Yakov | |
| Hanoar Hatzioni in Wieruszow | Reitze Lieber | |
| Zionist activity in Wieruszow | Miriam Shmuelewitz | |
| Agudat Israel; Tzeirei Agudat Israel; Poalei Agudat Israel | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| Benot Agudat Israel; a “training kibbutz” in the name of the Chafetz Chaim | ||
| BEITAR in Wieruszow | Arie Ohrbach | |
| The Mizrahi Movement in Wieruszow | Kalman Frotzel | |
| The Communist Party and the Labor Union in Wieruszow | Berl Shmuelewitz | |
| The Bar-Kochba sports club in Wieruszow | Aharon Yosef Russek | |
| Books, libraries and librarians in Wieruszow | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| Bikur Holim [aid for the sick society] and its founder Shlomo Grossberg | Nachum Yakov | |
| The first Hebrew kindergarten in Wieruszow | Yosef Zelkowitz | |
| 179 | ||
| Community Workers, personalities and Figures in Wieruszow | ||
| Boaz; Mordechai Shmuel Zelkowitz | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| My uncle, Hersh David Gad | Yosef Zelkowitz | |
| How my brother berl became a Zionist | Nachum Yakov | |
| Yakov Shlomo Schulsinger; Gedalia Kerzhak; Yechiel Meir Berkowitz; Nachum Russek; Yitzhak Pankovski; Kalman Frotzel; Shmuel Tuvia Tuviashwitz; Adam Katriel; Tuvia Katriel; Yakov Meir Russek; Yechiel Ring; Berish Lichtenbaum; Nachum Lichtenbaum; Pinchas Kalinovski; Israel'ki Auerbach; Israel David Stern; the Hasid Ziskind Shachor; Aizik Alter; Shlomo Levy; Moshe Finkelstein; Yosef Baruch Glicksman and Nachum Tobiashwitz; Shlomo Levkowitz; Yitzhak Hersch Firnikrazh; Berl Eisner; Yakov Mantel; Motye Bahgen; Yechiel Meir'l Alberstein; Shlomo Koenig; Hersch Wolf Loewenhof and his son Sander; Henich Braun and his son Shlomo Beinish; Anshel Fantel's family; Shimshon “Ofitzir” [officer] | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| My grandfather R'Refael Garbovski | Yitzhak Garbovski | |
| R'Hillel Cohen - my father z”l | Nethanel Cohen | |
| Personalities in Wieruszow | ||
| Hillel Cohen; Avreimel Scarzhinye; Shmuel Yehuda Goldman; David Levy; Nachman Landau | Moshe Waltzman | |
| Wilhelm Rosenblum; Lipman Zelkowitz; Grandfather R'Yosl Mokshaki and his brother-in-law Shmuel I. Goldman; | Yakov Mokshaki | |
| Gita Ben-Menachem (Goldman) | Yosef Zelkowitz | |
| Ritual Slaughterers and Cantors in Wieruszow | ||
| R'Zeinvil the Shochet Shtchektch | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| R'Zeinvil and R'Yitzhak, the slaughterers | Moshe Weltzman | |
| My grandfather R'Zeinvil SHUV (shochet uvodek=slaughterer and examiner) | Yitzhak Garbovski | |
| Avraham Hut; Motel “Stertzawer”; Kalman Meisler | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| 233 | ||
| Folklore, Stories and Memories | ||
| The spiritual Wieruszow | Refael Knop | |
| My family home | Sara Auerbach (Katriel) | |
| Days of yore | Pinchas Goldman | |
| My Aliya to Eretz Israel | Nethanel Cohen | |
| From the land of childhood | Manush Katriel | |
| What made me go to Eretz Israel | Wolf Goldman | |
| Childhood in Wieruszow | Zvi Eliash | |
| A wedding in town | Zvi Eliash | |
| “The wisdom of women builds her house” (Proverbs 14:1) | Zvi Eliash | |
| The story of an “interview” | Zvi Eliash | |
| The Hevra Kadisha [burial society] teaches the rich people a lesson | Zvi Eliash | |
| How I made Aliya to Eretz Israel | Reizl Schlesinger (Bergman) | |
| Our house in Wieruszow | Nachum Yakov | |
| A town that was, and is no more… | Reitze Lieber | |
| Wieruszow - my shtetl | Esther Barkay | |
| My family home | Esther Barkay | |
| Purim festivities in the Jewish kindergarten | Esther Barkay | |
| A murder in the woods: a true story | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| A tale about non-kosher wine; The Wieruszow Jews welcoming the Archbishop of Czenstochow; Jewish “recruits” are having fun; The power of a curse; The priest urges me to learn Hebrew; I am beaten and I return blows; An “invitation” to the “supreme” court; occupations... | ||
| Jewish youth rebels against conventions | Aba Lieber | |
| 277 | ||
| Holocaust and Suffering. In the Ghetto and in the Death Camps | ||
| The Poem of the Murdered Jewish People (fragments) | Yitzhak Katzenelson | |
| The beginning of the destruction of Wieruszow | Leib Bornstein | |
| War, ghetto, concentration camps ane annihilation | Yosef Zelkowitz | |
| Total War | Reitze Lieber | |
| A Memorial to my murdered parents | Devora Seill (Knop) | |
| Freedom (a poem) | Aharon I. Russek | |
| The last “selection” | Z. Bergman (Russek) | |
| The Lodz ghetto | Aharon I. Russek | |
| Jewish youth in Wieruszow under Nazi rule; a discussion | Yitzhak Garbovski | |
| Memories from the time of the Holocaust | Chaim S. Schwarzbart | |
| Mathausen | Avraham Kalushiner | |
| ”The binding of Yitzhak”; a poem | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| Experiences from the Nazi Hell | Efraim Rubinowitz | |
| I experienced the Holocaust in Belgium | P. Braker (Zelkowitz) | |
| I saved a Jewish soul | P. Braker (Zelkowitz) | |
| The “Righteous among the Nations” during the Holocaust - in Belgium | Tova Braker (Zelkowitz) | |
| Nazi cruelty | Tuvia Itzik | |
| Women's camps | T. Kornweiser | |
| Years of suffering and torture | Shmuel I. Langnass | |
| In Auschwitz | Chana Itzik | |
| War and suffering | Glika Moscowitz | |
| Terrible days… | Yitzhak (Aba) Waxman | |
| The German murderers and their Polish helpers | Moshe Leib Yitzchaki | |
| From the death camps - to the War of Independence | Yakov Shimsha | |
| The tragic end of a Jewish family in Wieruszow | Refael Knop | |
| Under Nazi rule | Arie Katriel | |
| The ruin of Wieruszow in the light of historical data | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| Chlemno; testimonies and data | ||
| 389 | ||
| Revolt and Underground: the Struggle against the Nazis | ||
| The struggle: facts about the resistance in France | Ezra Neiman | |
| Activity of the Underground in France | Leib Domb | |
| Notes by a Jewish partisan in France | Avraham Lissner | |
| The proud Jew and the courageous fighter - Leibl Louis Domb | David Domb | |
| 399 | ||
| Israel Wars. Sons who have Fallen for the Independence of Israel | ||
| Amos Danieli, may God avenge his blood, fell on 28 April 1948 | Rivka Danieli | |
| Moshe Lengnass, may God avenge his blood, fell on 20 Tishrei 5709 | Yosef Zelkowitz | |
| Moshe, may God avenge his blood | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | |
| Anshel Shmuelewitz, may God avenge his blood, fell on 29 November 1948 | (Yizkor Book) | |
| The young hero | Beila Holzman | |
| Guliver | Uri Millstein | |
| Friends speak about Guliver | Dorit Geffen | |
| ”The beauty, O Israel, is Slain upon thy High Places” (II Samuel, 1:19) | ||
| In memory of Zvi son of Kalman Frotzel, fell on 4 Adar 5708 | Yakov and Dov Brom | |
| The thinking boy | Chedva Eybeschitz | |
| The greatness of his soul | Yakov Brom | |
| The Sheikh Hussein Bridge explosion | The PALMACH Book | |
| With all their might | Y. Bar-Yosef | |
| The suicide plan | From the newspapers | |
| A night hike (poem) | Bumstein | |
| Two poems in memory of Zvi Frotzel | Zerubavel Gil'ad | |
| About Zvi, may God avenge his blood | Friends | |
| When Zvi fell in battle | Mula Cohen | |
| Introduction | Avraham Kalushiner | 449 |
| History of Jewish Wieruszow | ||
| The beginnings of the Jewish settlement in Wieruszow | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | 465 |
| Jewish Wieruszow by the end of the 19th century | Israel Yakov Mukshaki | 475 |
| Wieruszow during 1898 - 1924 | David Domb | 478 |
| Wieruszow during 1919 - 1925 | Rivka Danieli-Eliash | 485 |
| Personalities and social activity | ||
| My father Rav Shaul Silberman z”l | Sara Silberman-Mandel | 489 |
| Wieruszow personalities from the past | Yakov Mukshaki | 491 |
| The Wieruszow Jews | Moshe Shari | 493 |
| Personalities, types and episodes | Moshe Weltzman | 496 |
| R'Mordechai Shmuel Zelkowitz, may God avenge his blood | Chaim Shlomo Schwarzbart | 502 |
| Visitors in shtetl | Sara Auerbach | 504 |
| Gite Ben-Menachem - Goldman | Yosef Zelkowitz | 505 |
| Types in the shtetl | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | 508 |
| The warm-hearted Jew and active communal worker Avraham Domb z”l | L. Wyessali | 511 |
| Agudat Israel in Wieruszow | Avraham Zelman | 513 |
| Zionist activity in Wieruszow | M. Rosenblatt-Shmuelewitz | 516 |
| BEITAR in Wieruszow | Arie Auerbach | 519 |
| The sports-club Bar-Kochba | Aharon Yosef Russek | 522 |
| Bikur Holim [aid for the sick] Society | Nachum Yakov | 526 |
| On the Wieruszow way-of-life | Sara Auerbach-Katriel | 528 |
| About my family and other memories | Nethanel Cohen | 532 |
| Wieruszow - in the distant past | Kalman Frotzel z”l | 537 |
| The Jewish Labor Movement in Wieruszow | Berl Shmuelewitz | 542 |
| When Jewish Wieruszow was alive | L. A. Weltzman-Sapir | 547 |
| Excerpts from the Jewish Press in Poland | Y. Eybeschitz | 552 |
| Life and Memories | ||
| A walk through town | Noah Russek | 559 |
| Life in the past | Yitzhak Eisner | 561 |
| Anti-Semitism in Wieruszow | Aliza Gafni | 564 |
| Wierszow images | Yosef Zelkowitz | 565 |
| Many years ago | Pinchas Goldman | 570 |
| Memories from the past | Chava Litman-Inbari | 575 |
| A murder in the woods | Yehoshua Eybeschitz | 581 |
| Almost a pogrom | Y. Eybeschitz | 583 |
| Memories from the beloved birth town (Episode) | Manush Katriel | 585 |
| The fair goers | I. A. Wantchkovski | 587 |
| My Aliya to Eretz Israel | Wolf Goldman | 588 |
| Occupation. Holocaust and Resistance | ||
| When Jewish life was worthless | A. L. Bornstein | 593 |
| Chelmno | Avraham Kalushiner | 598 |
| A Valley of Weeping (poem) | A. Kalushiner | 602 |
| War, ghetto and death camps | Yosef Zelkowitz | 604 |
| Memories from the Nazi Hell | Efraim Rubinowitz | 630 |
| Through the painfull road of suffering | Arie Katriel | 634 |
| Mathausen | Avraham Kalushiner | 640 |
| In the Cemetery (poem) | A. Kalushiner | 644 |
| It seems that it happened now (poem) | A. Kalushiner | 646 |
| The life and the destruction of Jewish Wieruszow | Reitze Lieber-Karlinski | 648 |
| In Auschwitz | Chana Itzik- Markowitz | 657 |
| Years of blood | Yitzhak Aba Wachsman | 659 |
| Wieruszow Jewish youth under the swastika | A talk with survivors | 663 |
| Episodes from the Hitler era | M. L. Yitzhaki (Itzek) | 667 |
| Testimony given at Yad Vashem 81/1 | Yakov Yakobowitz | 669 |
| In the forests of Belarus | P. Waletzki-Aleshinski | 674 |
| Years of pain and suffering | S. I. Langnass | 686 |
| After the last “selection” | Z. Russek-Bergman | 694 |
| Murdered during the last “selection” | 697 | |
| During the occupation in Belgium | Golde Yedow | 699 |
| Memories from the Nazi Hell | Chaim Schwarzbart | 700 |
| ”Righteous among the Gentiles” in Belgium | T. Broker-Zelkowitz | 709 |
| My shtetl Wieruszow (poem) | S. N. Lewkowitz | 711 |
| My experiences in Belgium | P. Broker-Zelkowitz | 713 |
| Heroic acts of Christians in Belgium | P. Freilich-Lewkowitz | 715 |
| We do not forget! [French] | Yosef Zelkowitz | 719 |
| The nun Sister Mary - Mathilda Larott | Y. Zelkowitz | 722 |
| A tragic episode | S. I. Yablonski | 727 |
| Women's camps | Tcharne Kornweiser | 729 |
| Jewish “criminals” | Shlomo Meirowitz | 730 |
| In the Lodz ghetto | A. I. Russek | 731 |
| Freedom (poem) | A. I. Russek | 733 |
| The pogrom in Keltz | Carola Freilich-Manes | 737 |
| In the Czenstochow ghetto | C. Freilich-Manes | 740 |
| From the death camps to the War of Liberation | Shimsha Yakov | 742 |
| War experiences | Glike Moscowitz | 744 |
| Our shtetl after the destruction | Moshe Asher | 745 |
| My escape to Russia | Tuvia Itzek | 748 |
| The tragic end of a Jewish family | Refael Knop | 752 |
| Memories from the murderous times | Ch. Wiebert-Lewkowitz | 754 |
| An episode from the sad times | L. Walgerman-Fliegeltaub | 756 |
| How our shtetl was ruined | Avraham Ragovski | 757 |
| Notes from a Jewish partisan in France | Avraham Lissner | 760 |
| From the “Botwin Company” to the French Underground | Avraham Lissner | 765 |
| In the struggle | Ezra Neiman | 766 |
| In the French Foreign Legion | Mendel Ehrlich | 770 |
| My wanderings in France | Efraim Bercowitz | 771 |
| The proud Jew and resistance fighter Leib-Louis Domb | David Domb | 773 |
| My activity in the Resistance Movement | Leib Louis Domb | 777 |
| Member of the Resistance Avraham Domb | |
780 |
| Landsleit who fell for the Establishment of the State of Israel May God Avenge Their Blood |
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| Yitzhak Ben-Menachem - “Guliver” | Yosef Zelkowitz | 785 |
| Amos Danieli | R. Danieli-Eliash | 788 |
| Moshe Langnass | Yosef Zelkowitz | 789 |
| Zvi Frotzel | Yakov Brom | 792 |
| The young hero Anshel Shmuelewitz | B. Holzman-Grabovska | 794 |
| Anshel Shmuelewitz's road of suffering | P. Waletzki-Olshinski | 794 |
| Landsmanshafts | ||
| Wieruszow Landsmanshaft in Israel | Manush Katriel | 799 |
| Landsmanshaft in France | Yosef Zelkowitz | 805 |
| Landsmanshaft in America | Y. Zelkowitz | 808 |
| The Holocaust in Pictures - pictures telling the story | Y. Zelkowitz Ed. | 811 |
| In Memoriam - People who have lived in Wieruszow | 847 | |
| Names of the Martyrs | 867 | |
| Necrology | 885 | |
| Name Index for the Hebrew Section | Y. Eybeschitz | 951 |
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