Zarki, Poland

The Community of Zarki;
Life and Destruction of a Town
(Poland)

50°38' / 19°23'

Translation of
Kehilat Zarki; Ayara be-hayeha u-ve-khil-yona

Edited by Y. Lador

Published in Tel Aviv, 1959

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Acknowledgments

This is a translation from Kehilat Zarki; Ayara be-hayeha u-ve-khil-yona
ed. Y. Lador. Tel Aviv: Former residents of Zarki in Israel, 1959 (H,Y)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Zarki

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund (Yiddish) and Yocheved Klausner (Hebrew)

Title	Author	Page

HEBREW

With the appearance of this book	The organizing committee	5
One of the burning candles	Yitzhak Lador	7
Yizkor [Remember]	A. Eisenberg	13
The town is on fire	M. Gebirtig-A. Levinsohn	14

The Town in Those Days

Zarki in its traditional ways	Pinchas Weinberg	17


The Town in the Years of its Awakening

“Revolutionary” winds are blowing	Yakov Feiner	69
The Hashomer Hatza'ir organization	Pinchas Lauden	78
Hechalutz and Maccabi	Yechezkel Meitlis	87
November 2, 1917	Lipa Hirsch	97
The awakening town	A. Eisenberg	98
My town Zarki	Israel Meitlis	104

Destruction of the Town

The Holocaust	Yakov Fischer	109
The last days	Asher Lauden	143
Fragments of a diary	Yosef Schibak	160
The end of the Jews in Zarki	Aharon Brandes	164
My visit in Zarki	Chaika Klinger	181
In memory of the martyrs	H. Tzemach	182
A Vow (poem)	A. Shlonski	183

In Memory of the Departed

Zvi Brandes	Aharon Brandes	187
How Zvi has fallen	Chaika Klinger	189
Peretz Frank	A. L.	192
Yehuda Steinbrecher (Chatzav)	Malka	195
Mordechai Sturchein	Elisheva	196
Figures from the town

With my Heart	A. Yosef Stibel	201
Figures from the town	A. Eisenberg	205
Figures and ways of life	P. Weinberg	207
Zarki-Mishkov	Avrashka	213
The Brandes house	A. Eisenberg	215
The Spring in Balishinyov	Yehoshua Ben Zvi	217

YIDDISH

Zarki in Life and in Death

The Shtetl [town] is Burning	M. Gerbirtig	222
The Destruction and Death of Jewish Zarki	Yakov Fiszer	223
Pages from the Sorrowful Past	Tsipora Szporen-Ejzenberg	281
Two Last Letters	Zalman Grinspan	288
Pages from an Old Diary	Avraham Frank	290
My Memories	Sheyndl Preger-Teitelbaum	294
From My Birthplace	Eliezer Riterband	301
A Look Back	Yakov Fiszer	304
My Shtetl [town] (Episodes)	A. Ejzenberg	310
Liquidation	Yakov Fiszer	314
Yehiel Roziner, of blessed memory	A. A.	316
Kadish for our loved ones [H]		317
Necrology		319

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