Edited by: Alexander Manor, Itzchak Ganusovitch, Aba Lando
Member of the Editorial Board: Eliyahu Damesek

Published in Tel Aviv, 1970

Note: Letters in parenthesis indicate language each chapter was written in, as follows:
(E) – English     (H) – Hebrew     (Y) – Yiddish

Introduction (E)	IV
My Lida Heritage (E) – Sol Feinstone	V
The German Occupation (E) – E. Damesek	VIII
Lida and its environs
Map of the District	3
Map of the City	4-5
At the Gate of the Book (H)	8
At the Gate of the Book (Y)	9
Introduction (H)	10
Introduction (Y)	11
Lida for Her Generations
The History of the City and Its Jewish Community – Aba Lando	15
To the history of Jewish Lida during the period of restored Poland (H) – J. Ganazowitch	56
Lida and Its Surroundings (H) – Zalman S. Vinogradov	73
Jewish Family Names of Residents of Lida and Its Neighborhood (H) – Itchak Ganuz (Ganuzowitsch)	75
Economic life of Jewish Lida before World War I (Y) – A. Gelman	83
In the days of World War I (H) – Mrs. Y. Guinzburg (Boyarsky)	86
Memories of the First World War (Y) – Moshe Ganuzowitsch	86
Remembrances From the First World War (Y) – Moshe Ganuzowitsch	86
Center of Learning
Rabbis and Religious Teachers (H) – A. Lando	89
Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines, May His Memory Be For a Blessing (H) – Aba Lando	94
Rabbi Aaron Rabinovitz of Blessed Memory (H) – R. Avigdor Tzipershtine	98
The Lida Rabbi Aaron Rabinowitz (Y) – Mrs. Henia Rabinovitch	100
The History of the Lida Yeshivah (H) – M. Tzinovitz	104
The Lida Yeshiva (H) – Shimon Zak	106
One of the Leaders of the Nation (H) – Dr. H. L. Gordon	111
The Ilui Reb Shlomo Poliatzik, May the Memory of the Righteous Be For a Blessing (H) – H.L. Gordon	113
Innovator and Activist (H) – Rabbi Meir Berlin	115
The Little Horoditzche (H) – Rabbi Aharon Rabinovitz	116
Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines – Founder of the Mizrachi (H) – Rabbi Y.L. Cohen (Fishman)	117
The Great Yeshiva (H) – Pinchas Shifman (Ben-Sira)	117
The Restless Man – Moshe Cohen	118
The Sayings of R' Yitzchak Yaakov Reines (H) – Nachum Chinitz	119
The History of the Ilui from Meitzt (H) – Moshe Goldberg	122
The Night of the Ninth of Av in the House of the Yeshiva's Founder (H) – Daniel Vinogradov	125
In the Presence of Rabbi Reines (H) – Dov Aloni	126
The Influence of the Yeshiva on the Life of the City (H) – Yaakov Ben-Sira	128
Students of the Lida Yeshiva Reminisce (Y) – L.G.	130
Rabbi Reb Mordechai Smukler, May the Memory of the Righteous Be For a Blessing (H) – Avraham HaCohain Eliav	134
Folklore, Mode of Living
Memories (Y) – Yakov Ilutovitch	137
Lida in the Works of the Writer Y. Goida (Ben Gurin) (H) Yitzchak Genuzavitz (Ganuz)	142
Lida at the End of the Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (H) – Yosef Yudelevitz	145
Folk Types (H) – Michael Ivanski	149
Lida on Ordinary Days and on Festival Days (H) – Chaim Yosef Argov (Garbovski)	153
In An Atmosphere of Torah and Knowledge (H) – Chaim Amitai	156
Hebrew in Lida (H) – Abba Lando	157
The Hebrew School – “The Creator of the Soul of the Nation” (H) – Liza Ettinger (Slonimtchik)	165
My Teachers, My Rabbis, and My Classmates in the “Tarbut” School (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitz (Ganuz)	166
“A Stage for the Student” The Upper Division Weekly of the “Tarbut” Gymnasia (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitz (Ganuz)	168
Singing, theatrical performances etc. (Y) – A. Lando	170
From the Sites of the City (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitz (Ganuz)	179
Tzedakah Institutions (H) – A. Lando	182
Beit Lechem (H) – Yaakov Levin	185
TOZ (OZE) Institutions (Y) – J. Ganuzovitch	186
TOZ in Lida (Y) – H. Jijemsky	187
Fires and Firemen (Y) – A. Lando	189
The Lida Firemen's Command (Y) – Abraham Gelman	192
The Butchers' Synagogue (Y) – T. Tsigelnitzky	193
Reb Eliyahu Baram, May His Memory Be for a Blessing, the Professional (The Tschechler) (H) – J. Ganuzovitz	194
The Association and the Kleizl “Tiferet Bachurim” (H) – J. Ganuzovitch	195
The Folk (H) – Chaim Amitai	197
Moshe the Orphan (H) – Mark Iliutovitz	199
Melameds and Kheders (Y) – Yehudit Ganuzovitsch	200
Tuvia the Teacher – Tuvia Tzigelnitsky	200
Moshke – The Purim Player (H) – J. Ganuzovitch	201
Lida Drunkards (Y) – A. L.	202
Folklore and Language
Games of Jewish children in Lida (H) – I. Ganuzovitch	203
Regional Expressions from Lida and the Surrounding Vicinity (H) – Yitzkhak Ganuzovitch (Ganuz)	211
Fragments of Poems, Folklore and Humor (Y) – Aba Lande	216
Means and ways of “expelling fright” and an evil eye (H) – I. Ganuzovitch	219
On the Way to Zion and Zion as a Way
“Aliyah” to Eretz-Israel from Lida (H) – A. Lando	221
For the History of the Youth Movement in Lida (H) – Arieh Poltzik	229
The Cell of “HaShomer HaTzair” (H) – Zalman S. Vinogradov	234
The Jewish Youth in Lida (H) – Yonah Vallach	239
The League for the Sake of the Land of Israel (H) – Avraham Gelman	240
“HaShomer HaDati” in Lida (H) – Tziporah Koplevitz (Bilig)	240
The Beitar Movement (H) – Moshe Aharonovitz (Furman)	242
The Beitar Cell in Lida (H) – Shimon Mikolitzki	242
My Father (H) – Zvi Shif	245
“HeChalutz” in Lida (H) – Yosef Bankover	246
The Training Kibbutz (H) – Avraham Gelman	247
The “HeChalutz” Movement in Lida (H) – Micha'el Orzichovski	249
HeChalutz HaTzair (H) – Aba Bassist	252
In the Ranks of HeChalutz HaTzair – Zelda Barsovska (Gluzman)	252
Dying of a City
The Soviet Occupation (H) – Eliahu Damessek	255
The First Underground (H) – Ze'ev Ivanski	256
At the Time of Soviet Occupation (H) – Miriam Yooungman (Slonimtchek)	258
We Did Not Submit (H) – Jaakov Pupko	259
The Damaged Anthem (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitz (Ganuz)	261
Lida, There was Such a City (song) (Y) – Theodore Pupko	263
In the Brikha (Flight) Routes – Israel Solovietchik	264
The Russian Occupation (Y) – S. Shiff (Rubinsvitch)	265
Pages From the Expulsion (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitz (Ganuz)	270
From Lida to Vilna (Y) – Z. Bielig	274
First Flames (H) – Arieh Movshovitz	279
The German Conquest (H) – Eliahu Damesek	281
Chapters of Life In the Ghetto (1941-1943) (H) – D. S. Amarant	288
In the Lida Ghetto (Y) – I. Rubinsvitch	301
How We Saved Ourselves and Remained Alive (Y) – H. Movshovitch (Zafran)	302
Between Life and Death (H) – Fishel Bialovroda	303
In the Fire of Destruction (H) – Naftali Kaminitzki	304
More on the Chapter of March 6, 1942 (H) – by Miriam Yungman Slonimtchik	306
The Murderer of Jews, Leopold Windisch (H) – Dr. S. Remigulsky	306
Memories of the Lida Ghetto (Y) – Nachum Modrick	307
Destinies of a Jewish boy (H) – E. M. Pupko	309
The Story Told By Sioma and Mrs. Pupko	311
In the Face of Death (H) – A. Bassist	313
The Last Road (Y) – Kalman Ozshechovski (Ortscher)	314
The Last Fight
The Struggle For Life (Y) – I. Kaplan	317
My Sad Journey (Y) – M. Reznik	320
From the Ghetto to the Partisans in the Forest (Y) – Layzer Engelshtern	325
The Battle of the Partisan Reuben Rubenstein (Y) – Yakov Druck	343
My Way to the Forest – Miriam Yungman-Slonimtshik	345
The Wanderings of a Jewish Partisan (H) – David Lipa Berkowitz	347
In the Ranks of the Partisans (Y) – B. Baran	348
“I Will Bring Vengeance Upon My Adversaries” (H) – Fishel Bialobroda	351
A Printing House in the Forest (H) – Eliyahu Damesek	354
David Boyarsky z”l (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitch	357
From the Partisans' War to the War of Independence (H) – David Boyarsky z”l	357
The Partisan Leib Orzechowsky (H) – M. A. Guer	362
My Road to the Partisans (Y) – Yocheved Resnick	363
Battle and Revenge (Y) – Menakhem Resnick	367
At the Front (Y) – Yitskhok Rubinowitz	373
On the Ruins of the City
A Visit to Lida After the Shoah (Y) – Miriam Yungman-Slonimtshik	374
My Return After the Destruction (Y) – Eliahu Demshek	375
Back in My Home Town (Y) – Kayla Spotnitzka (Crier)	377
After the Destruction (Y) – Sarah Shiff (Rabinowitz)	379
Liquidation of the Jewish Cemetery (H) – I. Rubinovitch	381
The Monument on the Mass Grave of Lida's Martyrs (H) – Yitzchak Rubinovitch	382
The Trial
The Murderers Before the Tribunal Twenty-Five Years After the Murder (H) – A. Lando	383
The Trial of the German Murderers (Y) – Z. Arlouk	384
Organizations of Former Residents of Lida
The Organization of Former Residents of Lida in the United States (H) – Kalman Orzechovsky	386
On the Emigration of Jews From Lida to the United States (H) – Abba Lando	387
Michael Iviansky (H) – Ze'ev Iviansky	389
Yakov Dvoretzky (H) – A. Lando	389
In Days of Anxiety and Grief (H) – Abba Lando	391
The Organization of Former Residents of Lida in Israel (H) – A. Lando	392
Men of Mark – In Memory of Personalities
Shmuel Leib Gordon (Shalag) (H)	398
Pinchas Schiffman (Ben-Sira) z”l (H) – Yitzchak Ganuzovitch (Ganuz)	398
David Kopelovich (H) – A. Lando	399
Moshe Gelman z"l	399
R' Yitzhak Yeroukhmanov (H) – A. Lando	399
My teacher, R. Joseph Epstein (“Trikeler”) (H) – A. Bassist	401
Lichtman the teacher (Y) – Paves	401
R. Israel Aron Shelubsky (H) – A. Lando	402
R' Shlomo Podolsky z”l (H) – A. Lando	404
Yosef Darshan z”l (H) – A. Lando	404
Shmuel and Edith Bernholtz z”l (H) – A. Lando	405
Mordecai Dov Yudlevitz of blessed memory (H) – A. Lando	406
Avraham (Abrasha) Steinberg of blessed memory (Y) – A. Guelman	406
In Memory of the Fallen
Reuven Kopelovitch z”l (Y)	407
Help this Person (poem) (Y) – Reuven Kopelovitch z”l	407
Aryeh Tchertok z”l (H)	407
Yitzhak Spokoiny z”l (H)	408
Aryeh Duvkovsky z”l (H)	408
With Shaul Forman z”l (“Galili”- “Arnon”) (H) – Zeev Ivansky	408
Shaul Forman (The Galilean) z”l (H) – Sh. Mikulitzky	409
Omri Ariav z”l (H) – A. Lando	411
Shaul Zahavi z”l (H) – Sara Snovsky-Zahavi	411
Dr. Moshe-Yerahmiel Ben-Sira z”l (H)	412
Moshe Rosenhaus (“Rosa”) (H) – Eli	413
Dubi Eilat z”l – Leah Eilath	413
List of the perished	414
List of former residents who died in Israel	434
List of former residents who died overseas	434
List of Lida residents in Israel	435
List of Photographs

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