Hebrew translated by Sara Mages

Yiddish translated by Yocheved Klausner

[Hebrew]
With Publication of the Book		5
From the Historical Sources		6-7
Maps		8-9
And You Shall Remember (poem)		10
In the shadow of the destruction	The Editor	23
El Male Rachamim		24
The Towns that Were
May My Lot Be with You (poem)	Ch. N. Bialik	26
Dobrzy and Golub on the Drwęca River	Yehudah Rozenwax	28
Dobrzyń, My Town	Dr. Yechiel Lichtenstein	30
My childhood years in Dobrzyń	Yaakov Rimon	41
My town (poem)	Walter Field	44
The town's Rabbi	Mendel Sonabend	51
In My Father's House	Yehuda Rozenwaks	54
Daily Life in the Town	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklanka)	59
The nobility and the inspiration of Dobrzyń's Jews	HaRav Yitzchak Yedidya Frenkel	63
Childhood and Adolescence (Memories)	Zev Lent	65
A few memories…	Dina and Yitzchak Shperling	73
Institutions and Movements
A Vibrant and Active Community	Yehuda Rosenwaks	76
Institutions and Organizations	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklanka)	79
Prayer and Torah institutions and religious ministrants in the town	Yehudah Rozenwax	87
The Jewish education in Dobrzyń-Golub	Shmuel Meiri (Miniwski)	90
The Beginning of the Establishment of the Bund	Yaakov Gorni	94
Hashomer Hatzair	Chaim Lord	95
The Sholom-Aleichem Library	Chaim Lord	102
The Struggle for Education in Our Town	Y. Wrzos	105
Spirit and Vision
On the holidays	Yehuda Rosenwaks	112
A Jewish theatre in Dobrzyń	Avraham Dor (Dobroszklanka)	117
The Idea of Aliya to Israel Strikes Root	Yehuda Rosenwaks	119
The First Dobrzyners in Israel	Yehoshua Eshel (Isaac)	121
From the Horrors of the Holocaust
How Can I Take Pleasure?	Yehuda Halevi	128
The pain in the heart (poem)	Yehudit Golan (Rosenwaks)	129
In the tempest of the war	Zadok Zudkevitz	130
The men left and didn't return	Yehoshua Flusberg	137
Fleeing for Our Lives	Yitzhak Ryż	140
How did we manage?	Yehudit Golan (Rosenwaks)	145
Seven sections of Hell	Gorny Frum	149
In the Extermination Camps	Bracha Rotolski (Goldberg)	161
After the liberation	Gorny Frum	164
Personalities in the Town
Reb Feibush Lipka	Yehezkel Cohen	170
Yosef Chaim Ruda	Eizberg	171
R. Yitzhak Moshe Offenbach	Avraham Dor (Dobroszklanka)	173
R. Ephraim Eliezer Granat (Rimon), of Blessed Memory	Yaakov Rimon	176
My Dear Mother, May She Rest in Peace	Mendel Sonabend	179
My grandfather's house	Shmuel Meiri-Minisewski	180
Chana Chaya Granat-Katcher, of Blessed Memory	Yaakov Rimon	185
Chaya Shifra Bielawski	Yehuda Rosenwaks	187
My Grandmother's Shloshim Memorial Service…	Moti	188
Shmuel Zeinwil Lipka	Minda Lipka Bornstein	189
The Brothers Mendel and Avraham Hirsh Kohn	Avraham Dor	190
The Dreamer Who Did Not Live to See His Dream Fulfilled	Shmuel Meiri–Minivski	193
A Bunch of Memories about My Brother, the Poet Yosef Tzvi Rimon, of Blessed Memory	Yaakov Rimon	200
Why Do You Weep, My Heart (poem)	Yosef Tzvi Rimon	206
My parents' house	Shmuel Meiri-Miniwski	209
R' Yeshayahu the “Great”	Avraham Dor	211
Tzvi Zev (Hirsh Wolff) Laks	Yaakov Rimon	213
To My Girlfriends Who Did Not Merit…	Rivka Shapira (Horowitz)	213
In Memory of My Parents	Yaakov Kohn	216
In Memoriam
Yehoshua Eshel	Avraham Dor	218
Shoshana Vinkor (Offenbach) of blessed memory	Yisrael Lahav	221
Yehiel Bunim Granat-Rimon	Yaakov Rimon	222
Tova Shivek	Shmuel Shivek	224
My Father's House	Shoshana Vinkor (Offenbach)	224
A man's path	Tzadok Tzvi Florman	226
About Tzvi, For He Is Gone	Yitzhak Sperling	231
To My Very Dear Father…	Chava	232
Chana Rosenwaks	Yehuda Rosenwaks	234
On the Death of Yehuda Sperling	Eliyahu	235
My son, Yehudah, my son	His father, Yitzhak	237
Nisan Fogel	Avraham Dor	240
My husband - Nisan Fogel	Bilhah Fogel	241
Katriel Isaac	Avraham Dor	242
Mordechai Goldberg	Avraham Dor	243
Dov Yalowski	His daughter, Leah	245
Yitzhak Rosenwaks	Ben-Tziyon Epstein	246
Avraham Rosen	Avraham Dor	248
Rosenbaum, Moshe Aharon		249
Personalities and their activities
The poet Yaakov Rimon (Granat)		254
Ask, Jewish people… (poem)	Yaakov Rimon	257
These Days (poem)	Yaakov Rimon	259
The Warshawski Family of New York	Yehuda Rosenwaks	260
[Yiddish]
The Towns that Once Existed
The Synagogue and Shtiebels in Dobrzyn	An unknown rabbi	264
The Grassroots Jews of Dobrzyn	Shlomo Aleksander	270
My town Dobrzyn	Mechele Platnyarz Schlesinger	273
A Glance at Synagogue Lane	Michl'e Plotniarz-Shlesinger	274
The Synagogue in Dobrzyn	Tuvya Tinski	275
Memories of My Hometown Dobrzyn	Avraham Dor (Dobroshklenka)	279
The Community and its Institutions
The religious life in Dobrzyn	Rabbi Nathan Sanger	285
Institutions and Parties in Dobrzyn	Sara Groner–Krantz	292
The active members of the community	Charles L. Graner	295
The Establishment of the Bund in Dobrzyn	Yaakov Gorny	298
The Struggle for Education in the Town	Yaakov Wrzos	300
Our Landsleit in America
The brief history of the Chicago Dobrzyn Organization	Ester Graner Rebbe	307
The First Association of Dobrzyners in America	Shlomo Alexander	312
D e s t r u c t i o n
Memories from the War Years	Michael Cohen	318
The Twenty Who Were Hanged	Mrs. Degala	324
On the Winding Roads	Yehoshua Goldberg	325
Pain and Suffering of a Family	Gavriel Katcher	329
My Bundle of Troubles in the Russian Military	Yitzhak Rosenwaks	332
Pain and suffering in the Second World War	Elya Tzala	354
After the liberation	Gorny Frum	381
Memories	Yosef Dratwa	385
Personalities
R'Yaakov Leib Graner	Ester Graner Rebbe	390
Bunem Zaklikovski	Shimon Yosef Platnerz (USA)	395
The Rabbi of Dobrzyn	Mendel Sonabend	397
My Beautiful, Loving Mother, of Blessed Memory, the Dobrzyn Rebbetzin	Mendel Sonabend	401
Rivka Aleksander	Avraham Dor (Dobroszklanka)	403
Memoirs Dedicated to My Father R. Feibish Lipka	Yeshayohu Nosson Lipka	404
The “Dreamer” Who Did Not Live to See His Dream Fulfilled	Shmuel Meiri–Minivski	439
From Home to Home
From Home to Home		443
List of Those Who Passed Away in Chicago		453
List of Those Who Passed Away in Israel		454
List of Those Who Passed Away in England and in Germany		454
Commemoration of Parents and Relatives		454
Names of members that are no more with us		459
[English]
My Home Town	Walter L. Field	3
My Mother's Legacy	Walter L. Field	8
Those Terrible Days…	Pozmanter H.	11
The Kristal–Brown Family	Samuel Abraham Meiri	13
Isaac Ryz	Yehuda Rozenwax	16
The Jewish Partisans – Objective and Subjective Difficulties	Shalom Cholawski	17
The Relationship Between the Jewish and the Polish Underground in Nazi–Occupied Poland	Michael Borwicz	20
The Yishuv's Traditional Help to Jews in the Time of Holocaust	Yehuda Slutsky	21
The Uniqueness of Jewish Martyrdom During the Holocaust	J. Gottfarstein	24
List of the names extracted from the memorial section
Additions to Holocaust Necrology, Extracted from Articles in Yizkor Book

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