Zofyuvka, Ukraine

The Tree and the Roots;
The History of T.L (Zofyuvka and Ignatovka)

(Zofyuvka, Ukraine) (Ignatovka, Ukraine)

50°55' / 25°42' 50°54' / 25°48'

Translation of
Ha-ilan ve-shoreshav; sefer korot T”L Zofyuvka-Ignatowka

Editor: Y. Vainer, et.al.

Published in Givatayim 1988

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This is a translation of: Ha-ilan ve-shoreshav; sefer korot T”L Zofyuvka-Ignatovka
(The tree and the roots; the history of T.L* (Zofyuvka and Ignatovka)),
Editor: Y. Vainer, et.al., Published: Givatayim 1988 (H,Y, E 572 pages)

* Previously known as Trochenbrod and Lozisht

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Zofiowka

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

An eternal candle	Yakov Weiner	11

The History of T”L [Trochenbrod–Lozisht]
Introduction	Tuvia Drori	13
Jews in T”L – early generations	Eliezer Barkay	35
My shtetl Trochenbrot [Y]	David Schwartz	113
First World War	Avraham Potash	154
Cultural institutions and youth movements		159
The Zionist Organization	Yakov Weiner	159
Institutions and youth movements in T”L	Tuvia Drori	160
Organizations and youth movements in the last decade	Anshel Spielman	171
Hano'ar Hazioni	Yakov Weiner	176
Hano'ar Hazioni movement	Shmuel and Genia Potash	176
The BETAR branch in Ignatovka	Gad Rosenblatt	178
The Communist party		179
From the book “The man who kept his vow”	Anshel Spielman	180
From the book “Anonymous soldiers”	Yakov Banay	194
Generation follows generation	Tuvia Drori	198
The Holocaust		227
At the light of the memorial candle	Yakov Weiner	229
We shall not forget! [Yiddish]		237
Ashmeday [king of the demons]	I. Beider	238
Two fountains (poem) [Y]	Eliezer Barkay	239
A fragment of a Torah scroll saved from the fire	Gad Rosenblatt	240
A moving letter from Avraham, son of Sara Rivka [Y]		241
“A saved scroll”		242
The war against the Nazi oppressor		248
Feigel the rabbi's daughter [Y]	Yosef Fuchsman	244
“The forest caught fire” (excerpts from a book)	Gad Rosenblatt	249
Motl Blitstein	Moshe Kol	316
The annihilation of the T”L Jews	Heinrich Tzibolski	318
A night in dead Lozisht	Chaim Vatsin	333
The Jewish Partisans Section [Y]	Shlomo Strauss–Marcu	344
From my wanderings [Y]	Wolf Ehrlichgerecht	358
My life with the partisans	Michael Malir	364
One chapter from the tale of my suffering	Devora Boslik	366
The suffering of the Zofiowka Jews in the Nazi period		379
A hiding place in a chimney	Yitzhak Horn Gorenstein	388
Revenge – the story [Y]	Daniel Katz	390
Happenings during the Nazi occupation	Zvi Reuter	392
The shtetl Trochenbrod	Rosa Tcherpak–Suchetzki	395
Experiences and memories		400
“In the tent of the Torah”	Moshe Avrech–Startz	401
In memory of my brother David Startz	Moshe Avrech–Startz	404
Glimmers of memory	Chaia Wechselbaum	406
Memories from an aching heart	Yehudit Zakay (Fierer)	408
Our ancestors, the charity people	David Schuster	409
A darkened childhood	Chana Tziporen (Friedman)	411
Longing for Trochenbrod and Lozisht	Avraham Feldman	416
A noble tradition	Tova Ofek	420
My brother Yakov Burk z”l	Chava Gordin	423
How and Why??	Dov Ben–Tov (Gildin)	425
The “Sirkov Aliya” to Eretz Israel	Ben–Zion Rosenblatt	426
My town and the landscapes of my birth place	Bella Shechori	431
Memories from my family	Chaia Ben–Nun	433
My years of youth in the Diaspora	Baruch Rosenblatt (Raz)	438

Bet Tal [T”L House]
“Burning Embers”	Yakov Weiner	450
The establishment of Bet Tal [T”Lhouse] by former T”L residents		452
The inauguration of Bet Tal		456
Yitzhak Deutch
Eliezer Barkay
H. Ben–Zvi, Mayor of Giv'atayim
Rav H. Rubinstein
Rav Broida
Major Yakov Banay
Gad Rosenblatt
Asher Fishfieder
Chaim Watchin
Assembly of former T”L residents 1974	Anshel Spielman	470
My speech at in the T”L Bet Hamidrash [Y]	Yehoshua Shemesh	472
Eng. Yosef Eisenstat, pioneer of the Israeli industry		476

Memories
The black spot (a story)	Tuvia Drori	478
Yiddish in the land (memories)	I. Beider	482
Our children write essays on T”L (1966)		487
Efrat Ben–Tov
Avi Geller
Tova Bisker
Friman Dov
Chana Shechori
Chana Spielman
Sara Raz

Epilogue		497
An agreement between the Leibush brothers and Ben Zion Rosenblatt, in the handwriting of R'Zalman Schuster		498
Memories	Netanel Rosensohn (Sani)	502
In memory of T”L residents who fell in the Israel wars		513
T”L martyrs who perished in the Holocaust		521
…For these things I weep! [Lamentations 1:16]		532
List of people who passed away in Israel		560

Introduction to the English Section	Yakov Weiner
Introduction to the history of T”L [English]	Tuvia Drori	VI
The Agricultural Settlement of the Jews in the West of Russia [English]	Tuvia Drori	XXIV
Agricultural Settlement in Tsarist Russia [English]	Tuvia Drori	XXXVII

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