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The Committee Let Us Remember and Not Forget 8 Simcha Dubiner An Eternal Memorial for Our Town and Our Martyrs 13   List of Committee Members of Kamenetzers in Israel Since Its Founding 14 Professor Shmuel Eisenstadt Editor's Introduction 15   Committee Members 18   History of our Town   Levi Sarid (Laybl Goldberg) Beginnings of the Town Kamenetz–Litowsk and Its Jewish Settlement 21 Yeḥezkel Kotik My Reminiscences 39   Torah Istitutions in Kamenets-Litowsk   David Hakohen Burstein Rabbi Yehoshua Hakohen Blumenthal z.tz.l. 47 Moshe Rabinowitz My Grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Yitzhak of Kamenetz-Litowsk 49 Rabbi Yehuda Gershuni Rabbi Reuven David Hakohen Burstein, May God Avenge His Blood 50 Rabbi Reuven David Hakohen Burstein Rabbi Avraham Aharon Hakohen 55 Rabbi Yakov Bobrowski Rabbi Meir-Tzvi Putchinski, z.tz.l. 58 Yeḥiel Belizowski The Yeshiva of Kamenetz-Litowsk 59 Leah Bobrowski-Aloni The “Knesset Beit Yitzhak” Yeshiva 61 Rabbi Yitzhak Edelstein Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz, Head of the Yeshiva of Kamenetz-Litovsk 64   Public Life in Kamenets-Litowsk   Yehudit Koszczekowicz-Grunt On the Life of the Young People in Kamenetz-Litowsk 71 S. Dubiner HeChalutz (Pioneer Movement) in Kamenetz–Litowsk 73 Chaia Krakovski-Rodnitzki Poalei-Zion (United with Tz.S.) in Kamenetz-Litowsk 74 Pinḥas Ravid-Rudnicki The Gordonia Movement in Kamenetz-Litowsk 77 Bunia Kotik Beitar and HaTzohar [Zionist Revisionist] Movement in Kamenetz-Litowsk 80   Memories before the Holocaust   Leah Bobrowski-Aloni During the Years of the First World War 83 Yehudit Koscikiewicz-Grunt Kamenetz-Litowsk During the First World War 87 Rabbi Yaakov Bobrowski Some of My Memories 90 Pinḥas Ravid-Rudnicki Memoirs from My Home and from the Town Kamenetz–Litowsk 92   Shlomo Zelig and His Sons 98 Pinḥas Ravid-Rudnicki Alterke 99 Yakov Kaminski Memories and Yearning 102 Penina Falayev-Bobrowski Kamenetz, Where I Was Born 103   Comunal Workers, Writers and Teachers in Kamenets-Litowsk   P. Rabi About the Maggid of Kamenetz, Rabbi Ḥaim Zundl Maccoby, of Blessed Memory 107   - Menachem Mendel of Kamenetz–Litowsk 110   - R. Yisrael Ashkenazi 113 Leah Aloni-Bobrowski The Writer Moshe Eliyahu Jacques-Zhernensky, of Blessed Memory 116 Zelda Saperstein Falek Zolf, of Blessed Memory 119 Ḥ. K. Baruch Eisner, of Blessed Memory 121 R.V. Yosef Vigutov and Bendet Winograd 122 Professor Shmuel Eisenstadt It Happened in Kamenetz-Litowsk 124 Pinḥas Ravid-Rudnicki Zelig “the Bookbinder” 127   - Isaac Shostakowski 129   - Ze'ev (Velvl)-Ḥaim Kirschenbaum 130   - Asher Saperstein 131   - Binyamin Bogatin 131 Ḥaya Krakowski-Karabelnik Hershel Zvi Sapirstein 133 Asher Glezer Leibl (Arye) Pomaranchik 135 Asher Glezer R. Nuske the Melamed 135 Baruch Mordechai Kotik Efraim Kotik, Sr. 137   Committee members of Kamenetz-Litowsk townspeople organization who passed away in Israel   Rabbi Yehuda Gershuni Zahava Gershuni 141 Asher Glezer Yehuda Rappaport 143 Ḥaia Krakovski-Karabelnik Tuvya Savitzki 144 Pinḥas Ravid-Rudnicki Yeshaya Rimon 146 Leah Aloni-Bobrowski Shimon Kotik 147 Dov Aloni Meir Bobrowski 149 Leah Aloni-Bobrowski Yehudit Koscikiewicz 152 Gideon Hausner A Farewell to Leah Aloni, of Blessed Memory 154 Shraga Aloni Leah, My Sister-In-Law—My Sister! 156 M. K. Pinḥas Rabi (Rabinowitz): In His Memory 157   In the Holocaust     Map of Routes from Kamenetz-Litovsk to Death Camps 160 Arye Sarid The Prayer (poem) 163 Dora Galperin The Destruction of Kamenetz 165 Dvora Rudnitzky-Singer My Life in the Ghettos and Extermination Camps 174 Yitzhak Portnoy From the Ghettos to the Concentration Camps 183 Leah Aloni-Bobrowski A Tear for the Loss of My Townspeople 189   After the Destruction   Asher Ben Moshe Kamenets after the Destruction 195 Dov (Bertchik) Shmida A Journey to the Past 200   Fallen in the Homeland     Michael Kotik, of Blessed Memory 211 Baruch Mordechai Kotik My Dear Son, Efraim 212 Leah Bobrowski-Aloni and Ḥaya Krakowski-Karabelnik Activities of the Organization of Former Residents of Kamenetz 216   Commemoration Ceremony for the Community of Kamenetz-Litowsk and Zastavya 225 Meir Bobrowski List of Jews of Kamenetz-Litowsk, Zastavya and the Colonies, Who Perished at the Hands of the Nazis, May Their Memory Be Blotted Out 251   Memorialization 281   Necrologies 281

Kamenets-Litowsk Jews in Israel and in America 342 Yitzhak Katzenelson, may God avenge his blood The poem of the murdered Jewish nation 342 The Committee Let Us Remember and Not Forget 346   Introduction   Avraham Schudroff A monument for our destroyed hometown 349 Professor Shmuel Eisenstadt Introductory Remarks 353   The Past of our Destroyed Home   Levi Sarid (Leybl) Goldberg) History of Kamenetz-Litowsk and Its Jewish Settlement 357 Yeḥezkel Kotik Kamenets-Litowsk 376 Sholom Aleichem Letter to Yehezkel Kotik 386 Velvel Kustin The Jewish Agricultural Colonies 389 Falek Zolf The First School in Zastavya 400   The Religious life in Kamenets-Litowsk   Moshe Rabinowitz Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok Rabinowitz, of Blessed Memory 405 Rabbi Yitzchok Turetz, of Blessed Memory Rabbi Boruch Ber and His Great World-Renowned Yeshiva 408 Ch. Z. Mendelson Rabbi Reuven Burstein, z.tz.l. 409   Rabbi Shlomo Ḥaim, Head of the Yeshiva 411 Ch. Z. Mendelson Yom Kippur in Our Little Town 412   Social Life in Kamenets   Chaya Krakowski-Karabelnik Poalei-Zion (United with Tz.S.) in Kamenetz 419 Pinḥas Ravid-Rudnicki The Gordonia Movement in Kamenets-Litowsk 423   Memories from Kamenets Before the Destruction   Avrohom Shudroff Longing and Grief for the Town of My Birth 429 Simcha Dubiner (Petah Tikva) Our Shtetl 431 Dvora Dolinski-Panski Kamenetz—As I Remember You 435 Malka Kurtchanski-Polyakevitch My Little Shtetl Kamenetz-Litowsk 444 Sarah Hurwitz Once Upon a Time in My Shtetl Kamenetz 446 Chaya Gurvitz-Goldberg The Szkola Powszechna [Polish Public School] 450 Hatzkel Kagan The years of my youth in Kamenets-Litowsk 452 F. Zolf, of Blessed Memory The Revisor [Auditor] 462 Shifra Mazover-Bobrowski Memories of My Town 471 Yitzchok Sheinfeld Prewar Kamenetz 477 Shashke Visotzky Memories 480 Chaya Sara Binder-Rudnitzki A Religious-Court Hearing at the Rabbi's 482 Rachel Sofer-Renkevitch Memoirs 484 Dobbe Halpern Unpleasant Recollections 487 Zlate Timyansky-Gers Unforgettable 490 Aharon Meir Yoffe The Orchestra 492 Ḥ. Z. Mendelson Our Little Town and Its Livelihoods 495 Yakov Aronowicz Life in Kamenetz 499 Yosef Post Kamenetz-Litowsk, where I've never been 500   Persons in Town   Ch.Z. Mendelson R. Yosef Vigutov 505 Zalman Reisen Avrohom Hersh Kotik 507 Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt R. Shepsl Soifer [the Scribe] 509 Leah Aloni-Bobrowski Shlomo Mandelblatt, May God Avenge His Blood 511 N. N. Dr. Ayzik Gorny, May God Avenge His Blood 514 M. Naiman Yankl Zlates 516   Destruction and Ruin   Dora Galpern The Destruction of Kamenetz at the Beginning of the Second World War 521 Yitzhak Portnoy From the Ghettos to the Concentration Camps 534 Dvora Rudnitzky-Singe What I Lived Through in the Ghettos and Concentration Camps 540 Dora Galpern The Kamenetz Ghetto (A Testimony) 550 Mota Montag, Historical Committee Historical Questions and Answers on Kamenetz-Litowsk 557   Kamenets after the Holocaust   Ben–Moshe Kamenetz in 1945 561 Dov (Bertchik) Shemida A Journey to the Past 569   The activity of the Kamenets-Litowsk memorial committee in Israel 579   Kamenetser in America   Meir Mendel Visotzky The Establishment of the Kamenetz-Litowsk Aid Society in America 587   Kamenets-Litowsk Memorial Committee in America   Sarah Hurwitz Kamenets-Litowsk Malbush-Arumim aid Society in New-York 591 Chatzkl Kagan Memorial Day on the 20th Yahrzeit, in New York, of the Destruction of Kamenetz-Litowsk: a Report 593   Perpetuation Ceremony in Tel Aviv     A letter from the school district supervisor Yaakov Niv 603   The Ceremony 605

The Old Home   Abraham Schudroff Foreword 9 Leybl Goldberg (Sarid) The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in Kamenetz 12 Leybl Goldberg (Sarid) A Short History of Kamenetz-Litovsk 26 Yehezkel Kotik My Reminiscences 29   Short Biography of Yehezkel Kotik 38 Sholom Aleichem Letter to Yehezkel Kotik 39 Abraham Shudroff Yearning and Mourning for my Home Town 43 Dvora Dolinsky-Pansky Kamenetz as I Remember You 46 Velvel Kustin The Jewish Agricultural Colonies 56 I. Z. Mendelson The Day of Atonement in our Town 69 Hatzkel Kagan The Years of my Youth in Kamenetz 73 Itzhak Sheinfeld Kamenetz – The Memories of my Youth 85   The Holocaust   Dora Galperin The Tragedy of Jewish Kamenetz 91 Dvora Rudnitsky-Singer My Life in Ghettos and Concentration Camps 105   The "Angel of Belsen" 117   Kamenetzers in the United States   Sarah Hurwitz The Kamenetz Society in America 127 Meir Mendel Visotsky The Establishment of Kamenetz-Litovsk Aid Society in America 130 Charles Raddock The Kamenetzer Yeshivah of America 136 Velvel Kustin The Kokhav Ya'acov Anshey Kamenetz D'Lita Society 143   Kamenetzers in Israel     Bialik School in Tel-Aviv Perpetuates the Memory of the Community 149 Dov (Bertschik) Schmidt My Journey to Kamenetz in 1965 175 Samuel Lipchick Our Heritage 182   To Their Memory 184     Necrology

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