Siedlce, Poland

On the Ruins of My Home;
The Destruction of Siedlce
(Siedlce, Poland)

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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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This is a translation of: Oyf di khurves fun mayn heym (khurbn Shedlets)
(On the ruins of my home; the destruction of Siedlce),
Editor: Melech Fainzilber, Tel Aviv, 1952 (Y 260 pages).

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Siedlce (1952)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

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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