54°05' / 26°32'
Translation of
Wolozyn;
sefer shel ha-ir-shel yeshivat Ets Hayim
Edited by: E. Leoni
Published in Tel-Aviv, 1970
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Acknowledgments
Translator
Moshe Porat zl
JewishGen, Inc. makes no representations regarding the accuracy of
the translation. The reader may wish to refer to the original material
for verification.
JewishGen is not responsible for inaccuracies or omissions in the original work and cannot rewrite or edit the text to correct inaccuracies and/or omissions.
Our mission is to produce a translation of the original work and we cannot verify the accuracy of statements or alter facts cited.
Part one YESHIVA ETZ HAYIM | |||
Introductions | 2 | ||
1 | Volozhyn | Rabbi Yehuda Unterman | 3 |
2 | The Power of Volozhyn | Rabbi Tsvi Neriya | 7 |
3 | The Book of Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni (Ben David) | 11 |
The History of the town & the Yeshiva Ets Hayim | 17 | ||
4 | The History of Volozhyn Kehila (congregation) | Eliezer Leoni | 19 |
4.01 | The Volozhin Jewish Community Origins | Eliezer Leoni | 19 |
4.02 | Reb Hayim Volozhyner-Great Teacher & Educator | Eliezer Leoni | 23 |
4.03 | The Volozhyn part of BIALIK's Poetry | Eliezer Leoni | 31 |
4.04 | Hashaagass Arye (The Lions Roar) Volozhin's spiritual father | Eliezer Leoni | 35 |
4.05 | Rabbi Zalmele - Rabbi Hayim's brother | Eliezer Leoni | 39 |
4.06 | The DAYAN (judge), R' Shimon Rordenski | Eliezer Leoni | 46 |
4.07 | R' Aron Bunimovitz & the storm in Volozhyn community | Eliezer Leoni | 48 |
4.08 | Volozhyn prodigious scholars | Eliezer Leoni | 51 |
4.09 | Zalman Minkovski - the prodigious | Eliezer Leoni | 52 |
4.10 | R' Eliyahu Naydvill, R' Zalmele's great grand son | Eliezer Leoni | 53 |
4.11 | R' Shlomo Dovid Dinkin-the MASHGIAH (supervisor) | Eliezer Leoni | 53 |
4.12 | Reb Hayim's contribution to establish a settlement of Misnagdim in the Land of Israel | Eliezer Leoni | 54 |
4.13 | Hibat Zion - Starting point of the Zionist Movement in Volozhin | Eliezer Leoni | 56 |
4.14 | The Volozhyn Jews economic, social & cultural situation | Eliezer Leoni | 59 |
5 | Origins for the Jews history in Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni | 66 |
The History of Yeshiva Etz Hayim & its leaders | Eliezer Leoni | 75 | |
6 | Rabbi Hayim Volozhiner | Eliezer Leoni | 77 |
6.1 | Rabbi Hayim's annals | Eliezer Leoni | 77 |
6.2 | Rabbi Hayim & his Teacher R' Eliyahu the genius from Vilna | Eliezer Leoni | 79 |
6.3 | The Yeshiva in its first days | Eliezer Leoni | 82 |
6.4 | The value of Torah Study | Eliezer Leoni | 88 |
6.5 | R' Hayim as Yeshiva Head and great Educator | Eliezer Leoni | 90 |
6.6 | Rabbi Hayims moral personality & wisdom | Eliezer Leoni | 93 |
6.7 | Rabbi Hayim's demise | Eliezer Leoni | 95 |
6.8 | The text engraved on Rabbi Haym's tomb | Eliezer Leoni | 95 |
6.9 | R' Davids from Novaridok funeral oration over R' Hayims grave | Eliezer Leoni | 97 |
7 | R' Itsele's & his son in law R' Eliezer Itshok Freed's Period | Eliezer Leoni | 99 |
7.1 | R' Itsele's personality, his cleverness and sharpness | Eliezer Leoni | 99 |
7.2 | Dr. Max Liliental, his expedition to Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni | 103 |
7.3 | R' Itsele, his journey to the Rabbinic session in Petersburg | Eliezer Leoni | 105 |
7.4 | Rabbi Eliezer Freed | Eliezer Leoni | 108 |
7.5 | The text on R' Eliezer Itshok Freed's memorial in Vol. | Eliezer Leoni | 111 |
8 | The Naziv R' Yosef Dov & R'Haym Soloveytshik's Period | Eliezer Leoni | 112 |
8.01 | Hanatziv (Harav Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin) - history | Eliezer Leoni | 112 |
8.02 | Renovation of the Yeshiva | Eliezer Leoni | 114 |
8.03 | HaNatziv's wonderful devotion to the Yeshive students | Eliezer Leoni | 116 |
8.04 | The Order of Studies | Eliezer Leoni | 119 |
8.05 | The Secret Societies Nes Ziyona and Netsakh Isroel | Eliezer Leoni | 120 |
8.06 | The Pilpul dispute between Hanaziv and Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveytshik | Eliezer Leoni | 124 |
8.07 | The ignoble dilation on the Naziv | Eliezer Leoni | 127 |
8.08 | Rabbi Yehoshua Heshl Levin's rebellion | Eliezer Leoni | 128 |
8.09 | Hanaziv's moral elevation and educational model | Eliezer Leoni | 129 |
8.10 | The big uprising at the yeshiva | Eliezer Leoni | 131 |
8.11 | HaNatziv is heartly sorry | Eliezer Leoni | 133 |
8.12 | The summit years of the Volozhyn Yeshiva | Eliezer Leoni | 134 |
8.13 | The persecutions of the Yeshiva and the minister's decree | Eliezer Leoni | 135 |
8.14 | The Yeshiva Closure The Destruction of the Third Temple | Eliezer Leoni | 138 |
8.15 | Midnight mourning beside the Yeshiva | Eliezer Leoni | 140 |
8.16 | HaNatziv's death and the shocking funeral orations | Eliezer Leoni | 142 |
9 | R' Refoel Shapiro's Period | Eliezer Leoni | 145 |
10 | The Volozhyn Genealogy Chain | Eliezer Leoni | 152 |
11 | Among the Great Ets Hayim Yeshiva disciples | Eliezer Leoni | 160 |
11.1 | Rabbis and Yeshiva leaders | Eliezer Leoni | 160 |
11.2 | Poets, Writers and public figures | Eliezer Leoni | 166 |
12 | Origins for the history of Volozhyn ets Hayim Yeshiva | Eliezer Leoni | 169 |
12.1 | Writings On ets Hayim yeshiva and its leaders | Eliezer Leoni | 169 |
12.2 | Daily press | Eliezer Leoni | 173 |
13 | The Rabinnic School in Volozhyn | Rabbi Shimon Langbert | 188 |
14 | The Yeshiva during Rabbi Refoel Shapiro period | Dr. Hirsh Leyb Gordon | 197 |
The Volozhyn Scholars | 202 | ||
15 | The three Tora pillars in Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni | 205 |
15.1 | Rabbi Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveytshik | Eliezer Leoni | 205 |
15.2 | Rabbi Hayim Soloveytshik | Eliezer Leoni | 209 |
15.3 | Rabbi Hayim Berlin | Eliezer Leoni | 215 |
16 | Hagaon R' Hilel Freed | Haykl Lunski | 221 |
17 | Hagaon R' Refoel Shapiro | Itshok Reevkind | 224 |
18 | Harav Moshe Shmuel Shapiro | Shimon Zak | 230 |
19 | Harav Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin)- The noble of Volozhyn house | Shimon Zak | 233 |
20 | Harav Shmuel Avigdor Derechinski's House | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 238 |
20.1 | In the Cedar shadow of the Volozhyn Rabonim House | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 238 |
20.2 | The Volzhyn Rabonim House remnants | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 239 |
20.3 | My Father Harav Avigdor Shmuel Derechinski | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 239 |
20.4 | The Rabanit Freydele Derechinski, born Freed | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 242 |
20.5 | Moshe Zalman Ben-Sasson - Luntz | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 243 |
21 | Savants Conversations | Eliezer Leoni | 246 |
22 | The Volozhyn graduates - tradition followers | Eliezer Leoni | 277 |
22.01 | The Editor-writer's foreword | Eliezer Leoni | 277 |
22.02 | Mordehay Eliyashberg- Publicist | Eliezer Leoni | 278 |
22.03 | Moshe Mordhay Epstein | Eliezer Leoni | 281 |
22.04 | Yehuda Leyb Don-Yihya | Eliezer Leoni | 284 |
22.05 | Alter Droyanov-Writer, Book of Jewish Jokes author | Eliezer Leoni | 285 |
22.06 | Klonimus Zev Visotski | Eliezer Leoni | 288 |
22.07 | Leyb Yaffe - national poet | Eliezer Leoni | 289 |
22.08 | Mordhay Gimpel Yaffe - among Ekron settlement founders (1883) | Eliezer Leoni | 292 |
22.09 | Shmuel Mohaliver - among Ekron settlement founders (1883) | Eliezer Leoni | 294 |
22.10 | Essar Zalman Meltzer | Eliezer Leoni | 298 |
22.11 | Mordehay Nahmani - among Rehovot settlement founders (1902) | Eliezer Leoni | 300 |
22.12 | Itshak Nisenboym - nezah Isroel' society's Chairman (1892-94) | Eliezer Leoni | 301 |
22.13 | Yosef Zundl Salant - ascended Jerusalem ((1837) | Eliezer Leoni | 302 |
22.14 | Shmuel Salant | Eliezer Leoni | 303 |
22.15 | Avraham Itskhok Hakohen Kook - Jerusalem Yeshiva beyt Harav founder | Eliezer Leoni | 305 |
22.16 | Itshak Ryvkind-Volozhyn Yeshiva's history investigator | Eliezer Leoni | 307 |
22.17 | Itshak Yaakov Rayness-Founder off the Mizrahi Movement | Eliezer Leoni | 310 |
22.18 | Origins for the above Graduates chapter | Eliezer Leoni | 312 |
Part two - VOLOZHYN the SHTETL | 316 | ||
23 | A bundle of memories - before the First World War (Yiddish) | Osher Malkin | 317 |
23.01 | Volozhyn Topography | Osher Malkin | 317 |
23.02 | Volozhyn Economics -parnosses | Osher Malkin | 318 |
23.03 | Post and telephone in Volozhyn | Osher Malkin | 321 |
23.04 | Volozhyn barbers | Osher Malkin | 321 |
23.05 | Charity | Osher Malkin | 322 |
23.06 | Shuker's private Zionist organization | Osher Malkin | 323 |
23.07 | Revolutionary circles in Volozhyn | Osher Malkin | 323 |
23.08 | Melamdim, learning institutions and theater | Osher Malkin | 323 |
23.09 | Reb Refoel der Goen ( Rabbi Rafael the genius) | Osher Malkin | 326 |
23.10 | The Perelman Family | Osher Malkin | 327 |
23.11 | Ore Polak | Osher Malkin | 329 |
23.12 | Childhood and boyhood happy years | Osher Malkin | 329 |
24 | Inside Volozhyn - before the First World War | Avraham Halevi | 330 |
24.1 | The yarmolke (The cap) | Avraham Halevi | 330 |
24.2 | Volozhyn Economics -parnosses | Avraham Halevi | 330 |
24.3 | The dispute on the secular school creation | Avraham Halevi | 331 |
24.4 | My last hostelry in Volozhyn | Avraham Halevi | 331 |
25 | The Yeshiva & Town at R' Refoel's period | Aron Zvi Dudman-Duday | 332 |
26 | A look backward | Ihuda-Hayim Kotler | 333 |
27 | The first flour-Mill, Electricity production & cinema in Volozhyn | Michael Vand Polak | 336 |
28 | Estate possessors in Volozhyn | Meir Shif | 338 |
29 | Bread and Tora in Volozhyn | Hayim Zvi Potashnik | 340 |
30 | Market days in Volozhyn | Israel Levinson | 342 |
31 | Volozhin during the First World War | Reuven Rogovin | 343 |
31.01 | Yeshive boys Sophistication talks | Reuven Rogovin | 344 |
31.02 | The Economic situation in Volozhin | Reuven Rogovin | 345 |
31.03 | The war did not conducted accordingly to Vol Strategically Predictions | Reuven Rogovin | 347 |
31.04 | Flow refugees in Volozhyn | Reuven Rogovin | 349 |
31.05 | A terrible event in Volozhyn | Reuven Rogovin | 350 |
31.06 | At the Bolsheviks regime (during the revolution) | Reuven Rogovin | 351 |
31.07 | Self defense | Reuven Rogovin | 353 |
31.08 | Fire Brigade | Reuven Rogovin | 355 |
31.09 | The community committee | Reuven Rogovin | 357 |
31.10 | Founding the Jewish bank | Reuven Rogovin | 359 |
31.11 | A Niekrasov story in Volozhyn – Arrest of an no guilty | Reuven Rogovin | 361 |
32 | Volozhyn at the end of World War One | Sara Perski (Meltzer) | 364 |
33 | Volozhin Memories | Shoshana Nishri Berkovich | 365 |
34 | Recall the memory of Volozhyn | Pesah Berman | 370 |
34.01 | The Volozhyn legend | Pesah Berman | 370 |
34.02 | Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro and sinhat beyt hshoeva in the yeshive | Pesah Berman | 370 |
34.03 | Bundles-bundles of scholars | Pesah Berman | 371 |
34.04 | The sundial and the yeshive reparation | Pesah Berman | 372 |
34.05 | Harav Yaakov Shapiro's house, his death and funeral | Pesah Berman | 372 |
34.06 | The Volozhyn youth and educators | Pesah Berman | 374 |
34.07 | Zionist movements and Eretz Isroel love | Pesah Berman | 375 |
34.08 | Purim and Pesah in Volozhyn | Pesah Berman | 376 |
34.09 | The food we used to eat in Volozhyn | Pesah Berman | 377 |
34.10 | Bread winning in Volozhyn | Pesah Berman | 377 |
34.11 | Mutual help in Volozhyn | Pesah Berman | 379 |
34.12 | Pleasantry | Pesah Berman | 380 |
35 | Volozhinka the town stream | Yakov Kagan | 381 |
36 | Zabrezhe | Moshe Eliyashkevitch | 382 |
37 | Mijeyki (hamlet) | Barukh Tsivony (Farberman) | 385 |
38 | Yuzefpol Estate | Benyamin Kutshovski | 386 |
39 | Volozhyn stories | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 388 |
39.1 | Complaint of a Jews hater in Volozhyn | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 388 |
39.2 | A story about a Naziv disciple and a rustic Jew | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 388 |
39.3 | The house shall be respected with a besom | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 388 |
39.4 | A Volozhyn subverter | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 389 |
39.5 | Why the Jews do not own a state | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 389 |
39.6 | Din Tora judgement in Volozhyn | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 390 |
39.7 | Volozhyn version Austerity | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 390 |
The Zionist movement | 392 | ||
40 | Tseyirey Zion (Zion's Youngsters) in Volozhin | Shlomo Bunimovits+Z Rogovin | 393 |
41 | The Hakhaluts (Pioneer) in Volozhin | Group of pioneers | 396 |
42 | Hahshara (training) of Pioneers in Yuzefpol | Lea Nahshon (Shif) | 405 |
43 | The Hakhshara group of the Hakhaluts Hamizrakhi | Ariye Haruts | 405 |
44 | Beytar in Volozhyn | Group of Beytar members | 410 |
45 | Shomer Hatsayir Hakhshara in Volozhin | Rachel Knaani (Berman) | 422 |
46 | Keren Kayemet Leisrael (KKL) in Volozhyn | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 425 |
Education & Art | 430 | ||
47 | The Hebrew Tarbut School | Group of graduates | 431 |
48 | Culture war in Volozhyn | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 440 |
49 | The Volozhin Kindergarten | Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg) | 443 |
50 | The library | Fruma Guzman (Yuzefovitz) | 445 |
51 | Religious education in the thirties | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 446 |
51.1 | The great synagogue | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 446 |
51.2 | The Klayzl | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 447 |
51.3 | Tiferert Bahurim (The best guys) society | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 449 |
51.4 | Beyt Yaakov - Religious school for girls | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 449 |
51.5 | The Yeshive schools Committee | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 451 |
51.6 | The daily Guemorra page | Menahem Mendl Potashnik | 451 |
52 | Polish schools in Volozhyn | Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg) | 451 |
52.1 | Primary school Povshehna in the thirties | Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg) | 451 |
52.2 | The commercial high school | Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg) | 452 |
52.3 | The Sale of Yossef show | Reuven Rogovin | 454 |
Figures & types | 463 | ||
53 | Emissaries, Rabbis & Shohat's | 464 | |
53.1 | The Volozhyn Shadar's - Rabbi's emissaries | Eliezer Leoni | 465 |
53.2 | Harav Zvi Namiot Der Sheliver | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 470 |
53.3 | Harav Shmuel Freed | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 471 |
53.4 | My father, Harav Yehoshua Hakohen Kaplan | R' Meir Hakohen Kaplan | 472 |
53.5 | The Volozhyn Shoyhets before World War 2 | Moshe Eliyashkevitsh | 473 |
54 | Rabbi's wives (Rebetsn) | ||
54.1 | Feyga Unterman, Rabbi Unterman's wife | R' Israel Shapiro | 474 |
54.2 | Rayne Bashe Berlin, HaNaziv's First Wife | R' Baruh Hlevi Epsteyn | 475 |
54.3 | Batiya Miryam Berlin, born Epstein, the spouse of Hanaziv, Meyir Bar-Elan's mother | By Meyir Berlin | 476 |
54.4 | My Grand Mother Miryam | Tova Berlin - Papish | 479 |
Teachers & Melamed's | 480 | ||
55 | Reb Bezalel der Melamed & his heyder | Rachel Rogovin (Rubinsteyn) | 482 |
56 | Our Melamdim | Reuven Rogovin | 483 |
56.1 | Reb Moyshe Fayve the Melamed | Reuven Rogovin | 483 |
56.2 | Reb Kalb the Melamed | Reuven Rogovin | 484 |
56.3 | The Melamed and Teacher, Rabbi Avraham Gorellick | Reuven Rogovin | 484 |
57 | My father, Reb Moyshe Shloyme Volkovitz the Melamed | Mendl Volkovitz | 485 |
58 | Yakov Lifshits, The Tarbut school manager and teacher | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 486 |
59 | Noah Perski the teacher | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 487 |
60 | The teacher Reb Eliyahu Shvarzberg | One of his disciples | 488 |
Public Activists | 490 | ||
61 | Avrom Berkovitsh | Fruma Zitrin (Rogovin) | 490 |
62 | Yaakov (Yani) Garber | Lea Baksht (Faygenboym) | 492 |
63 | Reb Isroel Lunin | Shulamit Golovenchitz-Berger | 493 |
64 | My Grandfather Reb Menahem Mendl Potashnik | Hayim Ashlagi | 495 |
65 | Abraham Tsart the Physician | Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz) | 496 |
66.1 | His personality and deeds | Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz) | 496 |
66.2 | Memories related with Avrom Zart & his family | Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz) | 497 |
67 | Shneur Kivilevitsh | Reuven Rogovin | 498 |
68 | Grand Father Rabbi Aharon Rapoport | Miryam Levitan (Rosenberg) | 500 |
Folksy persons | 501 | ||
69 | Reb Avrom Asher Yozer | Yaakov Kagan | 501 |
70 | Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Bunimovitsh | Rabbi Dov-Natan Brinker | 502 |
71 | Rabbi Shlomo Hosid (R' Shlomo Shepsnvol) | David Kohen | 505 |
72 | Figures I knew | Reuven Rogovin | 506 |
72.1 | Eyzer Der Raznoshtshik (postman) | Reuven Rogovin | 506 |
72.2 | Reb Hayim der Shnayder (the tailor) | Reuven Rogovin | 507 |
72.3 | Reb Itshe der Balegole (coachman) | Reuven Rogovin | 508 |
73 | Reb Avrom Hayim Marshak | Israel Ben Nahum (Goloventtsitz) | 510 |
74 | The GrandMa Rohe Reyze | Israel Ben Nahum (Goloventtsitz) | 511 |
75 | Ptsholke - the boarding house owner | A. Litvin | 513 |
76 | Dov Ber Kaplan | Yehuda Hayim Kotlar | 515 |
77 | The Buisness without foundation story | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 517 |
78 | Mere Shnayder - Merke Ele's | Dina & Lea Faygenboym | 519 |
79 | We shall remember them | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 520 |
79.1 | R' Shlomo Brudno & his wife Pesie-Reyzl | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 520 |
79.2 | R' Ishayahu Kahanovitsh | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 521 |
79.3 | R' Avraham Horvitz | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 522 |
79.4 | R' Yakov Tabahovitsh | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 522 |
79.5 | R' Dov Potashnik | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 522 |
79.6 | The midwife Tsviya Zart | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 523 |
79.7 | R' Dovid Itshok Kabtorovitsh | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 523 |
79.8 | R' Sholom Leyb Rubinshteyn | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 524 |
79.9 | R' Yakov Shmuel Ruhamkin | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 524 |
80 | Before the Shoa - Volozhyn in the Shoa shadow | Bela Saliternik (Kramnik) | 525 |
The Soviet regime Period | 527 | ||
81 | Under the Soviet regime | Rachel & Reuven Rogovin | 529 |
82 | Volozhyn Under the Soviet regime | Mendl Goldshmit | 532 |
83 | During the Soviet rule in Volozhyn | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 533 |
The Russians Are Coming | M. Perlman | ||
S H O A | 534 | ||
84 | The destruction of Volozhyn (YIDDISH) | Yosef Shvarzberg | 535 |
85 | The German thunder - from Heinrich Heine | The Editor | 541 |
86 | The Volozhyn ruin | Mendl Volkovitsh | 542 |
87 | Atrocities at the Volozhin Jews extermination | Hesl Perski | 546 |
88 | The big shehite (butchery) (YIDDISH) | Mendl Volkovitsh | 548 |
89 | What I have seen with my eyes | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 550 |
89.1 | The first and second Actions | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 550 |
89.2 | The evasion from Vol' Ghetto to Kaldiki village | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 551 |
89.3 | The noble paysan Kovalski saving the Jewish girls | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 552 |
90 | Pages about the Volozhin Holocaust | Fruma Lifshits (Gapanovitsh) | 554 |
91 | A girl's memoirs on the Shoa | Sonia Puter (Perski) | 561 |
92 | A ballad about Shneur Kivilevitsh (YIDDISH) | Mendl Volkovitsh | 562 |
93 | In the Ghetto and in the forced labor camps | Luba Volkovitsh (Girkus) | 569 |
94 | Franz Karl Hess - The Volozhyn hangman | From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946 | 576 |
94.1 | The judges, prosecutors & accused | From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946 | 576 |
94.2 | Hess's participation in Volozhyn mass slaughter May 42 | From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946 | 577 |
94.3 | The verdict and its application | From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946 | 579 |
95 | In the Volozhin Ghetto and in revenge actions | Yaakov Kagan | 580 |
96 | Nissan Perski's death | Simhe Rogovin | 583 |
97 | On the suffering route | Mendl Volkovitsh | 584 |
98 | Wandering and struggling | Rachel & Reuven Rogovin | 586 |
99 | My life as partisan | Hesl Perski | 588 |
100 | Partisans - Volozhiners who died in battle | Hesl Perski | 589 |
100.1 | Yishayahu Bernsteyn | Hessl Perski | 589 |
100.2 | Miryam Goloventshits | Hessl Perski | 590 |
100.3 | Tsvi (Hirshl) Lunin | Hessl Perski | 590 |
100.4 | Yosef Sklut | Hessl Perski | 591 |
100.5 | Mordekhay Kaganovitsh | Hessl Perski | 591 |
101 | Our post war visiting Volozhin | Rachel & Reuven Rogovin | 592 |
102 | Volozhin as I saw it in 1945 | Moshe Eliyashkevitsh | 593 |
103 | Izkor (remember) - The flames | Sara Shlomovitsh (Rapoport) | 594 |
104 | Calendar dates of World War Two | Eliezer Leoni | 596 |
105 | Calendar Dates of the Volozhyn Shoah | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
103.1 | The Germans entrance in Volozhyn-25/06/1941 | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
103.2 | Establishment of the Ghetto - August 1941 | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
103.3 | The first Mass Slaughter - 28/10/1941 | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
103.4 | The second Mass Slaughter - 10/05/1942 | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
103.5 | The third Mass Slaughter - 29/8/1942 | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
103.6 | Liberation of Volozhyn by the Soviet army - 6/07/1944 | Moshe Porat | 599 |
103.7 | The Hanging of Franz Karl Hess 30/01/1946 | Eliezer Leoni | 599 |
Izkor - Remember | 601 | ||
104 | And those are the holy and pure names of the Volozhyn born | Eliezer Leoni | 603 |
105 | Dear Mother - (YIDDISH) | Yehuda Hayim Kotlar | 604 |
106 | Volozhyn - Martyrs (1275 names) | Editorial team | 605 |
From Generation to Generation and to Eternity | 617 | ||
107 | Bar Elan University & it's President prof. Pinhas Hurgin | Eliezer Leoni | 619 |
108 | The kibbutz Ein HANAZIV | Eli Avisar | 624 |
109 | Israel Rogozin | Itshak Yakobi | 628 |
110 | History of the Irgun Yotsey Volozhyn in Israel (IYVI) | Eliezer Leoni | 630 |
110.01 | The first knowledge about the Volozhyn Shoah | Eliezer Leoni | 630 |
110.02 | The reception of brothers & sisters from Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni | 631 |
110.03 | The establishment of a charity fund | Eliezer Leoni | 633 |
110.04 | Bringing books from the Yeshiva Book Treasure to Israel | Eliezer Leoni | 634 |
110.05 | Yearly Memorial services of the Volozhyn congregation | Eliezer Leoni | 635 |
110.06 | The IYVI integration in the SHOAH Cellar memorial Services | Eliezer Leoni | 649 |
110.07 | A memorial plaque in the Jerusalem Shoah Cellar | Eliezer Leoni | 652 |
110.08 | The Volozhyn literary commemoration | Eliezer Leoni | 656 |
110.09 | The USA Izkor book committee | Eliezer Leoni | 660 |
110.10 | And You Shall Love Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni | 635 |
111 | The fallen Volozhyn sons at the Independence War | Editorial team | 664 |
111.1 | Benyamin Perah - Ind. War | Editorial team | 664 |
111.2 | Hayim Perski- Ind. War | Editorial team | 665 |
111.3 | Eliezer Rogovin - partisan, decorated as USSR Hero-Ind. War | Editorial team | 666 |
111.4 | Eytan Malkin - Yom Kippur war (not included in the book) | Editorial team | 666 |
112 | To Eliezer Rogovin's memory (Yiddish) | Yaffa Abramovitsh | 667 |
113 | Volozhyners in America - In Eng: Page 15 (Left side of the book) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
113.1 | Prologue - in English: Page 15 | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
113.2 | Acknowledgements - In Eng: Page 15 | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
113.3 | Introductions - In Eng: Page 16 | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
113.4 | Commeration - In Eng: Page 17 | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 671 |
113.5 | American Committee - In Eng: Page 25 | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 677 |
114 | Editor Thanking the helping team | Eliezer Leoni | 679 |
115 | The Destruction of Volozhyn (English-p. 30 , Book's left side) | Mendl Volkovitsh | 685 |
116 | I remember Volozhyn (English-p.26 , Book's left side) | Irving Bunim | 689 |
Pictures of Volozhyners killed in Shoah | attachment | 702 | |
117 | Volozhyners dead after the war in Israel, America, Volozhyn | attachment | 728 |
118 | Table of contents (in Hebrew) | Editorial team | 743 |
119 | END | 747 |
Yizkor Book Project
JewishGen Home Page
Copyright © 1999-2019 by JewishGen, Inc.
Updated 3 Jun 2010 by LA