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Translation of
Oyf di khurves fun mayn heym (khurbn Shedlets)
Editor: Melech Fainzilber
Published in Tel Aviv, 1952
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A Few Words by Yoel Mastboym | 4 |
A word from the author | 5 |
Returning Home | 7 |
About the Destruction, Devastation | 12 |
Pienke Street | 16 |
Kilinske Street | 23 |
On the Holy Ground | 26 |
The Old Cemetery | 32 |
The Last Hours in the Big Ghetto | 34 |
At the Umschlag Platz | 38 |
Bloody Statistics | 50 |
The Big Ghetto | 52 |
The Staryi Rinek Street in the Big Ghetto | 52 |
Daluga Street | 63 |
The Judenrat | 65 |
Contributions | 68 |
The Tragic End of the Judenrat | 70 |
The Ghetto Hospital | 72 |
Asher Orzhel | 80 |
The Old Town | 85 |
Children for Children in the Ghetto | 98 |
On the Ruins of the Butchers' Bes Hamedresh [Bet Hamidrash=synagogue] | 100 |
Where there Once Was a Mikve [pool for the ritual bath] | 106 |
The Little Ghetto | 111 |
Labor Camps | 118 |
Life and Death in the Little Ghetto | 121 |
Gentche Barki | 129 |
The Last Road | 137 |
Survivors Tell their Story | 140 |
Gentiles Tell the Story | 167 |
Sadism, Ferocity and Brutality | 171 |
Gentiles who Saved Jews, and Gentiles who Murdered Jews | 182 |
At the Graves of our Fathers (a memorial to the Jewish institutions) | 213 |
The Talmud Torah [Hebrew School] | 214 |
Ezrat Yetomim [Orphans' Aid] | 217 |
Hazamir (lit. the nightingale, a library and a collection of musical instruments) | 223 |
The Cultural Life | 227 |
Yitzhak Nachum Weintraub | 232 |
The Lawyer Yosef Landau | 236 |
Dr. Henrik Loebel | 237 |
Hershl Tennenbaum | 239 |
Once there were in Siedlce Three Jewish Cemeteries | 241 |
Dates of the Jewish Martyrdom in Siedlice | 250 |
Index of Names | 255 |
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