Tarnogród, Poland

Book of Tarnogrod;
in Memory of the Destroyed Jewish Community
(Tarnogród, Poland)
50° 22' / 22° 45'

Translation of
Sefer Tarnogrod; le-zikaron ha-kehila ha-yehudit she-nehreva

Edited by: Sh. Kanc

Published in Tel Aviv 1966

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
Tom Merolla

With thanks to Lorraine Rosengarten who started this project, donated her time to scan
Sefer Tarnogrod, as well as extensive transliterating, editing and formatting.
In memory of Louis Rosengarten, son of Yitzhak and Mali, who immigrated to America in 1913.
In memory of Alan Rosengarten, son of Louis, who presented Sefer Tarnogrod to his children,
encouraging its translation and publication so the perished would not be forgotten.
In memory of Louis and Hannah Strassberg, born in Tarnogrod, married there in 1904,
who left to start a new life in America; and with thanks to their daughter Ruth who started
me on my efforts to remember Tarnogrod and the people who lived and died there.

In memory of Morris Gradel, translator of the Tarnogrod chapter of Pinkas Hakehillot Polin, who died in 2010

This is a translation from: Sefer Tarnogrod; le-zikaron ha-kehila ha-yehudit she-nehreva
Book of Tarnogrod; in memory of the destroyed Jewish community, Editor: Sh. Kanc,
Organization of Former Residents of Tarnogrod and Vicinity in Israel, United States and England, Tel Aviv 1966 (592 pages H,Y)

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BOOK OF TARNOGROD - YIZKOR BOOK

In Memory of the Destroyed Jewish Community

Editor: Shimon KANC

Editorial Board: M. Ringer, N. Krymerkopf, M. Sprung, J. Hering, M. Bornstein, Sh. Futer, Sh. Fefer

Published: Tel Aviv 1966

Organization of Former Residents of Tarnogrod and Vicinity in Israel, United States and England

Table of contents translated by Zvika Welgreen and Martin Jacobs

Edited by Lorraine Rosengarten

	H	Map of Tarnogrod	Shoshana Sprung
	H	Kaddish	B. Mordechai	9
	H	We Will Remember	K. Shimon	10
	Y	Our Gathering at the Chamber of the Holocaust on the Mountain of Remembrance	K. Shimon	11
	H	I Shall Take Up Weeping and Lamentation	K. Shimon	17
	H	Those I Shall Remember	K. Shimon	18
	H	On The Threshold	Book Committee	21
	H	“Remember What Amalek Did to You”	Shimon Kanc	23
	H	Once there was a Tarnogrod Community	Meir Ringer	29
	H	There Once Was a Jewish Community in Tarnogrod	Meir Ringer	31

I	Town History
	H	The History of the Town	Shimon Kanc	35
	Y	The History of the Town	Shimon Kanc	42
	Y	The Jewish Community in Tarnogrod	Nachum Krymerkopf	51
	Y	Prayer Leaders of the Period Between the Two World Wars	Nuchim Krymerkopf	74
	Y	Chol Hamoed	Nuchim Krymerkopf	84
	Y	The Shvartse Khupe at the Cemetery	Nuchim Krymerkopf	95
	Y	The Origins of the Polish State	Nuchim Krymerkopf	99

II	Known Persons, Characters and Folklore
	H	Shimon Kanc		119
	H	The Rabbis of Tarnogrod		121
	Y	My Great Father	Eliezer Teicher	127
	Y	Our rabbi	Alter Zitz-Tishbi	130
	H	The Rabbi's pipe	Yechiel Muterperl	133
	H	Rabbis and Hasidim of Tarnogrod	Meir Ringer	135
	H	How the Enlightenment and Zionist Movements Arose in Town	Meir Ringer	141
	H	The Home From Which the Haskalah Movement and Zionism Emerged	Meir Ringer	147
	H	Town figures	Meir Ringer	150
	H	Trifling Stories About Prominent Men in Our Town	Moshe Lemmer	160
	H	Town of my youth	S. Chaper	166
	H	Cantors and prayers	A. Zitz-Tishbi	169
	H	During the first world war	A. Zitz-Tishbi	171
	H	The power of the cradle of childhood	A. Zitz-Tishbi	173
	H	Celebrations and children's games	Alter Zitz-Tishbi	178
	Y	Mere figures	Meir Ringer	180
	Y	Schools and Teachers	Meir Ringer	192
	Y	The Song of My Town	Yitzhak Karper	205
	Y	Not the Song They Sang in my Town	Shmuel Eliyahu Puter	213
	Y	The World of our Yesterdays	Shlomo Mantel	226
	Y	The Religious Life	Y. Ben-Efraim (Yechiel Hering)	229
	Y	“Yavneh” School	Y. Ben-Efraim (Yechiel Hering)	233
	Y	Bais Ya'akov	Y. Ben-Efraim (Yechiel Hering)	237
	Y	Tarnogrod Between the Two World Wars	S. Chaper	241
	Y	Days of fasting	A. Tishbi	256
	Y	Sabbath Eve in the Town	Yechiel Muterperl	260
	Y	The Brothers Yakov and Zalke Akerman	Tzvi Rozenson	262
	Y	My Father	Fajwel Kenigsberg	264
	Y	My parents' house	Yosel Schorer	270
	Y	Our former Tarnogrod	Moshe-Naftali Mantel	275
	Y	The Woodbinders of Kneshpol	P. Lumerman	282
	Y	Our Teacher and Friend	Meir Ringer	284
	H	His Great Love	A. Dror	293

III	Death and Destruction
	Y	Cry Out, My Murdered Folk	Yitzhak Katsenelson	296
	Y	The Invasion by the German Hordes	Nuchim Krymerkopf	297
	Y	The Ghetto	Nuchim Krymerkopf	319
	Y	God, Take Revenge	Nuchim Krymerkopf	330
	H	Shabbat Teshuvah 1939	Tzvi Ben Efraim	331
	Y	In the Time of Kiddush Ha–Shem	Tsvi ben Efraim (Yehiel Hering)	333
	Y	Through Inhuman Suffering and Pain	Shlomo-Yitzhak Sprung	335
	H	The beginning of the end	Simcha Statfeld	350
	Y	The Testament of Shmuel Peretz Shprung	Shmuel Peretz Shprung	353
	Y	Documents	Simcha Statfeld	357
	Y	The Study Houses of Tarnogrod	Eliezer Teicher	364

IV	Heroism
	Y	Heroes		367
	H	Acts of Heroism		370
	Y	The heroic struggle of the two heroes, the Adler brothers	K. Shimoni	373
	Y	Through Rivers of Tears and Seas of Blood	Avraham Haler	381
	Y	Annihilation and the struggle for life	Sender Spiegler	464
	Y	In memory of my parents	Yosef Fink	466

V	On The Ruins
	Y	I Walk Upon Ruins	B. T. Boim	468
	Y	On the ruins		469
	Y	Tarnogrod's survivors	Nachum Krymerkopf	470
	Y	Searching for the life that was*	Nachum Krymerkopf	481
	Y	On the Ruins of My Hometown, Tarnogrod	Yekhezkel Agiert	493
	Y	A Word and a Tear	Yekhezkel Agiert	501
	Y	Surviving Auschwitz		503
	H	In the Footsteps of the Town which is No More	Amnon Dror	505
	H	With the Souls of our Holy Martyrs	Zushe Fester	520
	Y	Potok Gorny	Moshe Sprung	524
	Y	Olchowiec	Rafael Wasserman	528
	Y	The Tarnogrod Organization in Israel		531
	Y	And There Was ……	Shimon Kanc	533
	Y	Do Not Sing…		536
	H	These I shall remember	Shimon Kanc	538
	H	Necrology		540
	H	Obituaries		569

* This chapter does not appear in the Table of Contents but was translated in From A Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry. Edited and Translated by Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin. New York: Schocken Books, 1983. 215-216

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