Introductory pages		1
Editor's Foreword	L. Losh	5
The History of the Jews of Shtutshin - Vasilishki - Ostrina - Novi Dvor - Rozhanka	Yosef Cohen-Tzedek	7
1. During the Period of the Kingdom of Poland (until 1772)		7
2. The Historical Development of the Aforementioned Cities		12
3. The Period of the Russian Conquest (1772-1914)		14
4. From World War I to the Holocaust		21
The Shtutshin Community
Part A: The Distant Past
The Distant Past	Ben-Zion Levit	27
The First 20 Years of Our Century	Ben-Zion Levit	28
The Generation Whose Road Was Shortened	Shmuel Y. Shneider	36
I Remember the Shtetl of My Youth	Ben-Zion Yaffe	43
The Shtsutsin Yeshiva	Meir Bezowik	47
A Short Visit in Shtutshin in 1913	Yehuda Rubinstein	49
People and Personalities		50
The late Rabbi Leib Chasman	M. Tzinovitz	50
The Journalist and Author Moshe Ben-Eliezer (Glembotski)		54
Teacher and Poet Simcha Schneider	Y.D. Gordon	56
The Editor and Translator, Raphael Chasman	M. C.	56
Part B: Between Two World Wars
Aliya to Palestine in 1936 Thanks to Saving a Polish Soldier in 1920	Yitschak Epstein	59
The Shomer Hatzair Cell	Miriam Kaplan (Milman)	61
The Joseph Trumpeldor Pact - Beitar	Shalom Tzukernik	62
The Public “Beer House”	Isser Tzuckernick	63
The Yiddish Elementary School (Tsisho) Named for Y. L. Peretz	Fayge Berezovsky (Anish), Yisroel Halperin and Yakov Zhmudsky	64
Emergence on the Threshold of Extermination	Liber Losh	69
Part C: Holocaust and Vengeance
A. Slaughter and Holocaust in Souls and Property		83
B. War and Revenge on the Destroyers of a People		89
The Stories of Two Saved Women
I Was in Sobibor and Majdanek	Khaya Stotsky	95
I Was a Christian Woman in the Region of Vilna	Shoshana (Rayzl) Medlinsky	96
Shtutshin Necrology		99
Part D: Addendum
First Survivors in Italy	Isser Tsukernik	105
A Tear and Encouragement from the Son of the City, on His Arrival in Israel	Rabbi Shmuel-Mordechai Katz	108
In Memory of Missing People	Rabbi Shmuel-Mordechai Katz	108
The Vasilishki Community
An Introduction to the Book Vasilishki	Avraham Alpert	117
Before the First World War	Kalman Dagni	119
Memories from the Years 1913-1920	Zvi Deichovsky	129
The Committee of the Society for Jewish Culture (1917)	Dr. A. Foshter	132
The Magnificent Past of Teaching the Torah in Our Dear Village	Rabbi Shimon Ram	133
Self Defense in the Year 1916	Bayrekh Sadovik	138
The Character of the Village	B. Z. Gavorin	138
The Yavneh School	Eliahu Pletovesky and Reuven Mordukovitz	144
The “HeChalutz-Hapoel-Mizrachi”	Reuven Mordokovitz	145
The Young Pioneer Zionists in Unrest and Agony	Moshe Etzmoni (Kushetzinevesky)	146
About the Youth of HaShomer HaTzair	Chaim Reznik	148
The Men and Women of Betar	Avka Kopelman	150
Religious and Secularism in One Place	Mordechai Shvartz	153
The Popular Jewish Bank	Doctor A. Foshter	156
The Amateur Drama Circle	Lizeh Hochstein (Volochinsky)	156
From the Near Past	Dov Koznietz	160
Departing the Town	Rachel Lifdot	161
To the Memory of Dr. Mark Lifshitz	Yosef Bayer	161
A Memorial to Dear People	Ztifra Namyut (Pirach)	163
Reflections of My Youth	Yosef Avni (Boyarsky)	167
A Special Person	Batia Olkenitsky (Rein)	171
Yosef Bier (Boyarsky)	Shlomo Aviel (Berkovitz)	171
Under Soviet Rule	Chaya Alpert (Kravitz)	172
The Martyrs of Birkenau-Auschwitz	B. Z. Gevorin	173
Moishe'le Foshter the Avenger	Eliahu Volochinsky	175
The Shtetl Vasilishok	Dr. Abraham Alpert	177
Places Just Outside the Shtetl	Soreh-Gitel Boyarsky (Boyer), Tzipora Boyarsky (Wiel) & Chaya Kravitz (Alpert)	178
Jewish Livelihoods	Etel Kravitz & Sara Boyarsky-Boyer	180
After World War I	a Vasilishker	183
The Social and Spiritual Life	Mendel Mashevsky	184
Business and Social Institutions	a Vasilishker	189
Cheders and Melamdim [Teachers]	Sara Gitel Boyarsky & Etel Kravitz	190
The Tarbut School	Sara Gitel Boyarsky	192
Surrounding Villages	Sara Gitel Boyarsky (Boyer)	199
A Villager's Holiday	Reuven Morduchovich	200
Musicians of Vasilishok	Josef Boyarsky (Boyer)	201
The Pozharne Command [Fire Brigade]	Abraham (Aba) Kopelman	202
Fires in the Shtetl	Sara Gitel Boyer & Etel Kravitz	203
Drama Groups	Tzipora & Chaya	204
“Sale of Joseph”	A.B.	207
A Chapter of a Jewish Kehillah [Community]	A.B.I.	208
A Wedding in the Shtetl	Tzipora Berkovich & Yosef Boyer	210
Holidays in the Shtetl	Rivka Mayefsky-Friedgut	211
The First Aliyah	Yosef and Sara Boyarsky (Boyer)	213
Yom Kippur in the Forest in 1915	Sara Gitel Boyer	214
Aaron the Feldsher [Barber-Surgeon]	Yosel Boyarsky	217
Fredek Krusha -- The Ger Tzedek [Righteous Gentile]	Chaya Alpert & Tzipora Berkovich	219
My Brother, the Late Moishe-Gedaliahu	Eda Shapiro Maiyevsky	220
About the Old Home [Country]	Yosef Ben-Abraham	221
My Shtetl of Birth	Chaya Alpert Kravitz	224
A Collection of Memories	Dr. Avraham Alpert	227
Types from the Shtetl	Gershon Silverman	230
Under German Rule	Chana & Eliahu Volochinsky	231
Between Life and Death	Yehuda Shwartz	244
Three Times I Saved My Life	Eliahu Volochinsky	246
I Escape from the Slaughter	Leibke Einstein	250
The Second Small Slaughter	Chaya Alpert (Kravitz)	251
What I Lived Through Outside the Ghetto	Etel Kravitz	256
Vasilishok Partisans	Chana & Lucik Volachinsky, Chaya & Avraham Alpert	259
Life in the Forest	Chaya Kravitz (Mrs. Alpert) & Dr. Avraham Alpert	263
Experiences in the Red Army	Binyamin Statsky	269
After the Liberation	Chaya Alpert (Kravitz)	270
Two Letters from Vasilishok: March 1945 and May 1965		271
Vasilishki Necrology		275
Additional Necrologies for the Vasilishki Region
Sobakince		289
Died in German Captivity		290
Misievich, Polase, Shaleva, Kadzilon, Zakoloch		290
Skribove		290
Died in Partisan Camps		291
The Ostryn Community
A. The Shtetl [Village] of Ostryn		295
B. Religious Life in the Village		296
C. The Chederim for Older Children where Bible and Talmud were Taught		302
The Life and Destruction of Our Town Ostryn		353
Our Town When It Was Alive	Zvi Segalovitch	353
The Cruel Years: 1941-1944	M.M. Yezersky	357
From the Ostryn Ghetto Until the Death Camp Auschwitz	Shloyme Boyarsky	362
Ostryn Necrology		368
The Novy Dwor Community
A . The Shtetl of Novy Dvor		379
B. The First World War		383
Z. Craftsmen		391
Novy Dvor Necrology		428
The Rozhanka Community
Our Town of Rozhanka		437
The Years of the Shoah		443
“Mayn Shtetele Rozshanke”		446
Rozhanka Necrology		447
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