Falenica, Poland

Falenica Book
(Falenica, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer Falenica

Editor: D. Shtokfish

Published in Tel Aviv 1967

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This is a translation of: Sefer Falenica (Falenica Book),
Editor: D. Shtokfish, Former Residents of Falenica in Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1967 (H,Y 478 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Falenica (1967)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Foreword [H]		5
Foreword [E]		7

Yiddish Section

a. History, Way of Life, Images
The history of Falenica		11
The beginnings of the town	Mordechai Ben-Gil (Wengel)	13
A famous little town	Shlomo Adivi (Shlomek Friedman)	14
Falenica in my memory	Chaitche Gurfinkel	16
A long road	Hershel Greenboim	19
Renimiscences from the years of youth	Moshe Schechter	22
Memories, images, figures	Eli Solnitzki	24
Warsaw is not far from Falenica	Yakov Domb	48
Reminiscences from First World War	Simcha Solnitzki	52
Reminiscences from First World War	Mania Myodowski	58
Falenica, my Falenica	Hershel Goldfinger	60
A walk through town	Avraham Ring	67
Wyonzhovne, a beautiful and poor town	Yankel Pontchek	73

b. Parties, Organizations and Institutions
Yiddish and nationality	Ch. Myodowski	81
The Community, its files and its employees	Sofia Goldberg	82
A center of ideals and culture	Yankel Byalobrode (Byaler)	84
Hassidic, Zionist and Communist	Mordechai Ben-Gil	88
Parties in Falenica - and documents	Esther Mark	93
The Communist Party and professional associations	Eli Solnitzki	98
A Bundist's memories	Melech Pascalinski	106
Labor Union and Sport Clubs	I. Zhebrak	108
Torah and Charity institutions	Chanina Stern	111
Professional Associations	Simcha Solnitzki	112
The Sports - Club Orchestra	Avraham Ring	114
The Bakers Union and its leaders	Shmuel Kamienkowski	116
The first objective: an 8-hour workday	Aharon Suchman	117

c. Personalities, Figures, Types
Rav Pinchas Finkelstein, head of the religious court	M. S. Geshuri	121
Shlomo Leitman, one of the organizers of the Sobivor uprising	A. Petchorski	122
Chaim Ankerman	Prof. B. Mark	142
Shimon-Hersh Shochet [ritual slaughterer]	I. Djebrak	144
The Yabblonowitz Family	Batia Chermoni	146
They must be remembered	Mania Yellen- Myodowski	146
Some of the personalities in town	Ch. Goldberg	149
Melamdim [Torah teachers] and artisans	Yakov Domb	153
Leibishel Gleizer and Mendele Stavski	Melech Pascalinski	156
My Father Hillel Katz, of blessed memory	Raizel Katz	157
Mordechai-David Brown	Yosef Brown	158
The “community- doers”	Michael Yitzchaki (Gelbtrubk)	159
Families of bakers in Felnica	Shmuel Kamyenkowski	161
My father's home	Gila Ben-Gil (Greenfas)	162
The Brown Family	Shoshana Brown-Suchman	162
My friend Avreimel's blue twilight hours	Gershon Segal	163
Rabbis, community workers and just ordinary Jews in Falenica	Mordechai-Chaim Ben-Gil (Wengel)	165

d. Holocaust and Struggle
Impossible to forget you	Tzipora Stalik (Fela Silberstein)	183
The destruction of Falenica	Various sources	185
23 documents are telling a story…	D. Stokfisch	187
The tragic fate of the Falenica ghetto	Mietchislav Chotzhko	199
In the ghetto and in the death camps	Shlomo Dorfman	202
Memories from the Days of War	Guta Goldstein-Friedman	203
In the Falenica ghetto	Chana Yellen	207
The days of destruction	Pola Trebnik (Nissenboim)	208
A Jewish community in ruins	Hersh Goldstein	212
A diary of wandering	Dov Wengel	215
The first days of World War Two	Yitzhak Millstein	220
Wandering and struggling	Chaim Goldberg	222
I escaped from Treblinka	Yakov Ackerman	230
Falenica Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising	The tale of Simcha Korngold	239
In the ghetto and in the “Aryan Side”	Baruch Goldstein	246
A Jewish town was destroyed	Shmuel Kamienkovski	273
During those terrible days	Hinda Bezpoyasnik	277
The Base of the Jewish partisans	Prof. B. Mark - Michalin	285
The attempted murder of SS General Fischer in Falenica		287
Falenica Jews in France during WWII	Eli Solnitzki	290
Falenica Jews in Paris during the German occupation	Yankel Klimberg	291
The first day of Freedom	Chaim-Itzel Goldstein	292
On the “Line”	Dr. Ch. Shoshkes	295

e. Falenica Jews in Israel and in he World
Activity of the former Felnica Residents Organization in Israel, 1948-1965	Chaim Goldberg, Yechezkel Finkelstein	301
The Atwotzk-Falenica-Kortchew Society in France	Shalom Goldstein, Eli Solnitzki	308

Hebrew Section

a. People and Events
“The Oak of Weeping” [Gen. 35:8]	Avraham Friedman	315
Hassidic and Zionist life	Mordechai Ben-Gil	406
The Hechalutz [Pioneer] Chapter in Falenica	Chaim Myodovski	409
The blood covenant (Beitar organization in Falenica)	Gershon Segal	411
Hashomer Hatza'ir movement	Rania Arnon-Miller	413
“The Blue Box”	Penina Bern	417
The Bet-Ya'akov School	Devora Rozhe-Shedeltzki	417
At School	Lea Krauthammer-Lieberman	420

Personalities
Rav R'Pinchas Finkelstein z”l	Yitzhak Levine	420
Rav R'Pinchas Finkelstein z”l, AB”D in Falenica	M. S. Geshuri	424
The Yablonowitz Family		425
Alter-Israel Lieberman	A member of the family	426
My brother Eliezer	Miriam (Steinberg) Beiglman	427
Israel Goldberg z”l	Zvi Greenfas, Yosef Greenfas	427
Sheindel Shedlitzki z”l		428
My father Yona Steinberg	Eliezer Steinberg	428

b. Holocaust and Rebellion
The tragic fate of the Falenica ghetto	Mietchislav Chotzhko	433
In the ghetto and in the death camps	Shlomo Dorfman	434
Falenica Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising	The tale of Simcha Korngold	435

c. Necrology
List of Martyrs		443
Obituaries		451

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