Project Notes If you have not seen the original book, you might be interested to know that this treasure of writings, photos and artwork fills a total of 603 pages in all. Each page is divided into two columns, each column with it's own number. When the Table of Contents indicates that an article begins, for example, on page 1000, it is actually found on page 500, column 1000. Also, the Table of Contents in the original book does not list all the articles. I have taken the liberty of adding the missing ones. Transliterations of Yiddish and Hebrew words remain scattered throughout the writings. The first time each of those words is used, the English translation appears after the word in parentheses. We have used Polish spelling for proper names of people and towns. Though the town name is currently Czyzew-Osada, we have kept the same spelling used in Sefer Zikaron Czyzewo to honor the Czyzewo our families knew. Please feel free to contact me for any reason.   Special Thanks   Fifty-two people have contributed financially, enabling us to translate this book into English and three of those people donated translated articles as well. Their generosity is deeply appreciated and has allowed us to keep alive the memory and stories of our loved ones. Arlene Ancona Arlen Hollis Kane of the Kon/Cohen family Thelma Ross Freda Attinson Val Katz Marian Rothstein Gloria Berkenstat Freund Reeva Kimble Hazel Sandow Boon Judy Baston Doris Klein Martin Schwalberg Gila Blume Steven Klein Judith Ceranka Segal Andrea Bolender Adele and Irwin Lipton Pauline Senders Deborah Bornstein Daniel Marks Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Gail and Alfred Bryman of the Lepak family Carole and Abe Mohr Harriet Sepinwall Victoria Cantor Jonathan Mohr Brock Shamberg Sheldon D. and Jacqueline S. Chizever Fanny Moncarz Robert Shlasko Harold Chizewer Jerry Moncarz Martin Silver Julie Chizewer-Weill Lisa Ness Joan Sohn Nicole Czarnecki Gary Palgon Edward Stubin Marcia Sherman El-Baz Jane Prawda David Winter Libby Gurian Morton Rochman Beth Wolfson Rafael Harpaz Chaim Yosef Lepak Rosenblit Moti Zahav Cynthia Ittleman Steven Rosenwasser David Zaremsky Grace Ittleman   Many thanks, also, to the translators who painstakingly translated every last word, allowing those of us who don't read Yiddish or Hebrew to access information about our families.  Judie Ostroff-Goldstein, Gloria Berkenstat Freund, and Jerrold Landau lent their incredible skills and many hours of time to help us complete this project.  Jerrold also, it should be noted, spent many more hours creating a name index, ultimately making it easier for us to find mention of our family members.     Lastly, much appreciation to Yizkor Book Manager, Lance Ackerfeld, and his team of HTMLers for their dedication and technical prowess.  Putting these yizkor books online allows for people all over the world to view them, which is a gift. Jennifer L. Mohr Project Coordinator

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Article Title Author Page Title Pages   5 Preface to the Book   17 Song Of The Murdered Jewish People Yitzchak Kacenelson 21 Introduction Shimon Kanc 29 Let Us Remember!   37 Remember What Amalek Did To You The Editorial Board 45 So We Started Czyzewer landsmanschaft 49   The History of the Town Once, Once…   69 A Tear For A Generous Friend I. Dawidowicz 74 An Overview of the Development and Growth of the Jewish Community in Czyzewo Dov Gorzalczany 76 A Small Detail Arthur Szrajer 107 The Development and Growth of Czyzewo Dov Gorzalczany 109   Community Life The Jewish Kehila Dov Gorzalczany 129 The Cooperative Bank Dov Gorzalczany 143 Gmiles Khsodim (loans without interest) Dov Gorzalczany 149 Linat Hazedek, Bikur Holim, Hakhnasas Orhim Dov Brucarz 153 “Centos” – The Organization That Helped Jewish Children Dov Abu Szmuel 157   Hasidim Hasidic Shtiblach (prayer houses) Dov Brucarz 181 My Great Father Freidel Levinson 193 The Ger Shtibl Gerszon Gora 215 My Aleksander Shtibl Berl Szajes 225 The Amszynower Congreation in Shtetl Pinchas Frydman 237 The Fire Brigade Yitzchak Bursztajn 241 The Daf-Yomi Ended Yitzchak Bursztajn 243 A Day in Czyzewo Shmuel Abarbanel 245 A Maskil (enlightened man) Among Hasidim Gad Zaklilowski 253 The Great Quarrel Hyman (Anshel) Kowadla 259 The Great Peace A. Wiewiurka 265 Hassidim in the Town aron Jablonka 273 The Gaon Reb Szmuel Dawid of Holy Blessed Memory Rabbi Levinson 281 Rabbi Szmuel Dawid Zabludower of Holy Blessed Memory Gerszon Gora 285 The Rabbinate of Czyzewo Gerszon Gora 293 My Grandfather Gerszon Gora 303 One of the Five Gerszon Gora 307 Reb Zebulun Grosbard aron Tapuchi 313 The Admor Rabbi Boruch of Czyzewo Rabbi Tankhum Rubinsztajn 317   Youth Movements and Political Parties Youth Organizations and the Zionist Movement Yitzchak Szlaski 329 The Mizrachi Organization in Czyzewo Eliahu Gora 355 Memories from the Hachsharah Kibbutz in Czyzewo Aryeh Porat 361 The Zionist Organziations in Czyzewo Yitzchak Szlaski 367 The Movement for “A Working Eretz–Yisrael” Malka Szejman 371 Freiheit Leah Dimentman (Bursztajn) 379 My Father's Agony and Ecstasy When Organizing the Mizrakhi Matisyahu Prawda 383 Agudas Yisrael Gershon Gora 387 I Say Goodbye to the Shtetl Gerszon Gora 395 The First Buds of Communism Yitzchak Gora 400 Communists Dov Gorzalczany 405 Bundists Dov Gorzalczany 412   Theater The First Flash of the Yiddish Theater in Czyzewo Dov Brukarz 421 Days and Nights on the Magic Stage Simcha Gromadzyn 425 The Third and Last Period of Yiddish Theater in Czyzewo Dov Gorzalczany 433 The Library – The Center of Cultural Life Dov Gorzalczany 437 We Build a Beis Am[1]   445   Way of Life Jewish shtetlekh in Poland Chaim Grade 457 Our Guardians aron Jablonka 461 They Come and Demand Their Due aron Jablonka 465 The First Strike Dov Brukarz 471 Khederim, Schools, Teachers and Melamdim Dov Brukarz 473 A Ray of Light from Past Years Dov Brukarz 477 New Winds Dov Brukarz 483 A Regular Market Day Dov Brukarz 489 My Melamdim Dov Brukarz 503 Types in the Shtetl Dov Brukarz 511 Czyzewo's Tzitzis Maker Dov Brukarz 517 Reb Binyamin the Tailor Arya Gorzalczany 531 Yitzchak-aron – the Modest Man Dov Brukarz 535 The Purim Shpiler Dov Brukarz 537 A Visit to the Shtetl After Thirteen Years Dov Brukarz 539 In the Days of the Polish–Bolshevik War Dvora Brukarz (Dwasza) 545 How Cossacks Arrested Me as a German Spy Simcha Glina, Tel Aviv 553 My Good Father Simcha Prawda 559 My Homily Simcha Prawda 567 The Holy Billy Goat Simcha Prawda 571 Czyzewo Klezmorim (musicians) Avraham Yosef Ritholc (New York) 579 Gentle Souls and Kind Hearts of My Little Town Czyzewo Chaikeh Cikrovich (Prawda) 587 Khevra Mishnius Simcha Gromadzyn 593 The Bridge Elihu Gora 597 Bright and Dark Days M. Szczupakiewicz 599 My Shtetele Arya Gorzalczany 611 Chaim–Judel Tracz Arja Gorzalczany 613 Yudel Wapniak Arja Gorzalczany 615 Yitzchak, son of Bunim Arya Gorzalczany 623 The Testament of Leyzer, the son of Yosl Arya Gorzalczany 629 The Nightmare Persecutes Me Malka Lubelczyk-Malinowicz 633 What My Grandfather Said -The Apothecary's Friendship Malka Lubelczyk-Malinowicz 636 Nuska Szejman Yitzchak Szlaski 637 My Mother – the Teacher Yitzchak Szlaski 641 The Light From Our Home Berl and Chantsha 649 The Pogrom in Czyzewo Described in the Yiddish Press of That Time   667 The Scroll of Blood Gerszon Gur 695 Once Upon A Time There Was A Shtetl Yitzchak Bursztajn 699 A Walk Through Czyzewo's Streets Gerszon Góra 713 Water Carriers Dov Brukarz 751 The Dear and Naïve Water Carriers aron Jablonka 755   People and Personalities Meyer Richter Yisrael Wajntraub 763 Reb Yechiel Asher Prawda D. Gorzalczany 765 Reb Alter the Sofer Stam of blessed memory Y. Szlaski 769 The Shofar Blower G. Gora 776 Reb Alter Wolmer Dov Gorzalczany 781 Reb Szmuel Zeev and Lea Kandel Kandel sons 785 The Lithuanian G. Gora 786 The Waker G. Gora 789 The Cantor of the Town G. Gora 795 In the Sukkah of Reb Itzel G. Gora 798 The Prayer Leader G. Gora 804 Shmuele the Walker G. Gora 809 Flocks of Holy Ones G. Gora 812 My Parents Isachar Okon 817 Our Parents Ch. Kirszenbojm 821 Reb Mendel, the Son of Israel–Shlomo D. Gorzalczany 825 Reb Fishl Lubelczyk Bat–Sheva and Shlomo 829   Memories The Jewish Town that Was Destroyed Yerucham HaLevi–Kopiec 833 Czyzewo – One Among Many Pinchas Frydman 836 My Town on Weekdays and Festivals aron Jablonka 838 The Bridge Eliahu Gora 845 The Footsteps of the Early Ones Yerachmiel Eliasz 847 My Small town Dalia Schneiderman 849 Father! Rachel Wengorz (Gorzalczany) 852   Destruction and Holocaust The Death of the Jewish Population in Czyzewo Shimon Kanc 855 During the “Quiet” Days Yitzchak Worona 859 Desolate Days and Nights Yentl Kitaj 863 The Walk Through Every Hell M. Kitaj 891 The Road of Suffering I. Nowinsztern 913 In the Valley of Lament and Fear Etka Cukerman 967 How I Smuggled Food into tho Zambrower Barracks I. Wyprawnik 977 In the Circle of Death's Agony Sz. Moncarz 979 In the Ghetto and On The Way to Auschwitz Shmuel (Wajsbart) Ben Zahavi 989 I Escaped from Auschwitz Sura Ben–Ari 995 In the Abyss of Terrible Death Moshe Rajczik 999 Across Rivers of Tears and Seas of Blood Yisroelke Fenster 1017 In the First Days of Burning Hate Avraham Kandel, Chaim Belfer & Arya Gorzalczany 1021 My Experiences during the Years of the Second World War Mirl Wolmer-Biderman 1029 Through Flames and Smoke B. Bolender 1039 Czyzewo – Siberia – Canada Moshel Blajwajs 1049 Propelled by Fear of the Swastika Freidel Levinson 1063 Years of Banishment Sheva Lubelczyk 1079 Blind Fate D. Saba 1089 Majdanek Gershuni 1095   After the Deluge A Look At My Destroyed Shtetl Ch. Gromadzyn–Gotlib 1099 On the Ruins of Czyzewo Dov Saba 1103 Czyzewo – Today On the Vestiges of a Disappeared Jewish Life Y. Dawidowicz 1121 Czyzewo Jews – Where Are They? I. Dawidowicz 1135 We Will Guard Your Holy Memory in Our Hearts Dov Gorzalczany 1141 Czyzewo Benevolent Association Itsl Kirszenbojm 1147 Activities of the Czyzewo Landsmanschaft in Israel D. Aba Yitzchaki 1149 Dedicated to the Anonymous Donor Editorial Board 1155 Memorial Candles - list   1157 Memorial Candles   1159   Index of Names in the Cyzewo Yizkor Book

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