Siedlce, Poland

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

54°06' / 22°56'

Translation of
Oyf di khurves fun mayn heym (khurbn Shedlets)

Editor: Melech Fainzilber

Published in Tel Aviv, 1952

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
David Aron Mink

Emeritus Coordinator Michael Halber

Translated by

Theodore Steinberg

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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A Few Words by Yoel Mastboym	4
A word from the author	5
1. Returning Home	7
2. In the Ruins	12
3. Pienke Street	16
4. Kilinske Street	23
5. On the Sacred Area	26
6. At the Old Cemetery	32
7. The Last Hours in the Large Ghetto	34
8. At the Umschlagplatz	38
9. Bloody Statistics	50
10. The Large Ghetto	52
11. The Ghetto Hospital	72
12. Asher Orszel and his Heritage	80
13. The Old City	85
14. “Children for Children” in the Ghetto	98
15. At the Ruins of the Butchers' Beis-Medresh	100
16. In the Former Mikveh	106
17. The Small Ghetto	111
A. Labor Camps	118
B. Life and Death in the Small Ghetto	121
C. The New Jewish Council	124
D. The Last Days of the Small Ghetto	126
18. Gensze-Barki	129
19. The Final Road	137
20. Survivors Tell their Story	140
21. Non-Jews Tell their Story	167
22. Sadism, Ferocity, and Brutality	171
23. Gentiles who Saved and Gentiles who Murdered Jews	182
24. At the Graves of our Fathers	213
A. The Talmud Torah	214
B. Ezras-Y'somim [The Orphan Home]	217
C. Ha-Zamir	223
D. Tarbus	227
E. Yitzchak Nachum Weintraub	232
F. Lawyer Landau	236
G. Dr. Henryk Loebel	237
H. Hershel Tanenbaum	239
25. Once There Were in Siedlce Three Jewish Cemeteries	241
Dates of the Jewish Martyrology in Siedlce	250
Index of Names	255
Street Map	261

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