Page
The Certificate – a Word to the Reader	M.	5
The People of the Resistance	Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum z”l	6
From the Near and Far Past
Some Information About the History of the Jews of Koło	Dr. Rafael Mahler	8
Koło Between the Two World Wars	Shloyme Ne'eman (Noyman)	17
Dates in the History of Koło	M. Balinsky	28
Privileges and Discriminations	Mikhal Vitnovsky-Ravitch	31
Pictures of Koło in My Memory	Elyahu Duvdevani	35
The “Achdut” Period	Fishl Rauf	54
My Town	G. Wolkowicz	59
The Simple Sincere Jews	Abel Yarmush	71
Political and Communal Life
The Cradle of the Zionist Organization	Fishl Rauf	80
The Bundist Movement	Henekh Hirshbein	83
The Youth Bund “Tsukunft” (“Future”)	Avrom Hartshik	88
Pictures by Harry Daniels		91
The Beginning of the Poalei Zion	Mordkhai Zalkind	92
The Drama Club of the Labour Zionists	Avrom Kharap	98
Poalei Zion in the 1930's	A. L. Koninsky	100
The Realization of “Hechalutz” [movement]	Members	102
A Photograph of “Tzirei Zion” [“Youth of Zion”]		104
The Youth Movement “Freiheit-Dror”	Members	106
“Hanoar Hazioni” [The Zionist Youth]	Ezriel Rajchert	109
The National Movement	Meir Brand-Urban	112
The Zionist Womens' Organization WIZO	Ruth Reimer	114
The Hassidim in Koło	Yosef Fogel	115
How did the kehila [Jewish community] function?	S. A. Tchorz	118
The Cultural and Educational Institutions
Documents for Summing up of the Year 1932	Zvi Nadir	122
The Yavne School	Aaron Pashedetzki	129
The “Bikurim” Festival [Shavuot] in the Yavne School	Rabbi Yaakov Litman-Avtalion	133
The Public (Government) Elementary School	Sara Butzker-Neumann	134
My Teacher, Reb Meir Zaltzman	Y. Manoch	138
Teachers and Cheders	Henekh Hirshbeyn	142
Amateurs and Theatre	H. Hirshbeyn	145
The Economic Situation of the Jews of Koło
The Economic Struggle	Sal Meyerson	152
The Clothing Branch	Benjamin Stern	162
The Transportation Service Between Cities	G. Tsvikalsky	171
The transport cooperatives	H. A. Shultz	174
The Jews of Koło from Overseas
Koło Jews in the United States	Sol Marisan	176
The Founder of the Koło Society in London	Sh.R.Volf	180
The Story of a “Ma'apil”	Michael Nelken	183
Migration	Mendel Oven Himmel	189
The War Years in Soviet Russia	Hillel Veyman	200
The Jews of Koło in the Warsaw Ghetto	Esther Nashelska-Bendler	202
Great Scholars and Communal Workers
Personalities From My Town	Abraham Avital	206
The Rabbis From Koło	Dr. Aharon Brandt-Orban	212
A Description of Reb Shlomo Pozner	G. Wolkowicz	222
The “Tzadik” [righteous] Teacher Reb Menachem-Mendel Shubinsky z”l	G. W.	224
Our Master, Our Teacher Our Rabbi Shloyme Rotfeld	Binyomin Shtern	225
Harbingers of the Second Aliyah	B. C. Michali	229
The Tribulations of Reb Dov Berish Noyman		234
The Enthusiast (Shlomo Treiber)		238
Enthusaists of Hebrew Culture	(Prof M. D. Goldman) A. Duvdevani	240
Moshe David Goldman	Evel Yarmush	241
The Communal Activists	H. H.	242
The Holocaust Years
Recollections	Tolo Moskal Shultz	248
The Destruction of Koło	Avraham Haraf	249
The Revolt in the Sobibor Extermination Camp	Yehezkiel Mancha	264
Kidnapping of Girls	Tolo Moskal Shultz	269
In the Corridor of the House of Death	Shultz	272
In the Women's Work Camps	Golda Danielovitch-Kaliski	277
The Death of Heitche Stal	G. D. Kaliski	281
Chelmno	Michael Podchlewnik	284
The Chelmno Extermination Camp	Andrzej Miszczak	289
With the Jews of Koło in the Death Camps	Yaakov Shultz	295
Small Indications of Human Compassion	Chaim Eliezer Shultz	302
Years of Grief	Regina Koninska	310
In Izbica Lubelska	Fiszl Rauff	313
Six Years in the Nazi Hell	Yitzchak Shultz	319
“Pour Out Thy Wrath” (poem)	Katriel son of Zev Szaladowski z”l	321
The “Koil” [Kolo] Incident	Rabbi Joshua Moshe Ahronson z”l	322
Koło in the Year 1945	Esther Nashleska-Bendler	326
The Tragedy in Chelmno	Yaakov Waldman	330
My Old Home (poem)	A. Brandt-Orban	331
There Once Was a Jewish Voice	H. H.	333
Dates of Grief	A. D.	335
Notice About the Burial of Bones in the Haifa Cemetery		336
Recollections
The Cholera Plague in Koło	Avraham Gliksman	338
Memories of the Stormy Years	P. Friedland	341
Shot by a Cossack	Evel Yarmush	345
Communing With Those Who Were Incinerated	Dov Avishalom	347
The Last “Gabbai” in the “Beth Midrash”	L. B. R.	349
One of the Humble	A. Porat and L. Abramowicz	351
The Activists Malka Motel	G. W.	352
In a Suburb of Warsaw	M. Brandt	353
“Days” and Years in Koło	Avraham Kempinsky	357
The Triangular Thread		360
Episodes	Pinchas Przedecki	361
He Loved the Torah	M. Ben-Yitzchak	363
Greetings From Afar	Leib Szpajzman	367
The Fallen of the War of Independence		368
Documents
From the Ringelblum Archives		372
Announcements		377
Passages From the “Hatsfira” Newspaper	Avraham Brandt-Orban	379
Pictures by the Painter S. A. Schlezinger		380
Pictures by the Oainter Balbina Nashelska-Rauff		381
Contributions for the Koło Book		381
List of Names of Former Residents of Koło Living in Israel		383
The Holy and Innocent Victims During the Holocaust Years
List of the Koło Martyrs		391
Bereavement Notices		400
At the Completion of the Book		420

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