Józefów, Poland

Memorial Book to the
Community of Jozefow and its Martyrs
(Józefów, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Jozefow ve-le-kedosheha

Editor: Azriel Omer-Lemer

Published in Tel Aviv 1975

This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Jozefow ve-le-kedosheha
(Memorial book to the community of Jozefow and its martyrs),
Editor: Azriel Omer-Lemer, Jozefow Societies in Israel and the USA, Published: Tel Aviv 1975 (H,Y 426 pages)

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

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Translated by Sara Mages

From the beginning to the outbreak of the First World War
With the publication of the book	The Book Committee	11
In the beginning		15
Sections from the book “Pinkas Vaad Arba Aratzot”		19
Quotations in ancient Polish from “PinkasVaad Arba Aratzot”		20
The sources of income of the first residents	E. Szuker	21
The title page of the book “Leyesharim Tehilla”		25
The first printing press in Jozefow		26
The title page of the book “Toldot Adam”		28
The printing press of Setzer-Rener		29
How to serve a glass of water	Azriel	30
H. N. Bialik and Jozefow's books		31
The Slavita printing house		32
Jozefow's Jews ask for land		34
The “Magid” - R' Solomon Kluger	Prof. Dov Sadan	35
The perennial spring [a fluent scholar]	HaRav N.Z. Fridman	40
The greatest sages of Israel in our city	Eliezer Lerner	42
An innovative scholar	Bezalel Lemer	45
A noble character	Eliezer	51
Ghosts in the ruin of the printing press	Efraim Wermstein	53
HaRav R' Shalom Yosef Herzstark	Zishe Herzstark	55
Bereli the Lamed Vav	E. Emer-Lemer	60
The goat of R' Berish from Zobi (a sotry)	E. Emer-Lemer	63
Stories from memory	M. Printz	69

The Renaissance Period - 1916-1939
The introduction to the Renaissance period		73
The celebration for the Balfour Declaration in our city	A. Talmid	74
The founding of “Hehalutz” and “HaOved”	Yitzchak Wermstein	76
The library	E. A.L.	80
“Keren Ha kayemet Le Yisrael” in our town	Azriel A.L.	83
The first immigrant	Yosef Dror-Dach	87
“Tarbut” School in Jozefow	Bezalel Lemer	91
Woodcutting - “Hechalutz Hatzair”	E.	98
From the Zionist activities	Leibish Klener	101
“Keren Hayesod”	E. A.	103
“Hadarim” and my teachers	E. Ben-Moshe	105
Theater performances in Jozefow	A viewer	111
The loan fund - the “Kasa Po?yczkowa”	Rachel Lemer	116
The Joint's soup kitchen	E. Hindis	117
The “Ragatke” - a source of income	Yosef Spadik	119
A book - a gravestone	Rachel Lemer-Lerner	120
The Yeshiva in our town	Eliezer	121
Craftsmen	E. A. L.	122
My sister Sara	Efraim Wermstein	127
The youth movement - “Beitar”	Bezalel Lemer	129
The founding of “HaMizrachi”	Eliezer Lerner	133
Carters	E. A.	134
The town and its scholars	Eliezer Ben-Shalom and Ita Lerner	137
Hersheli Yakov Moshe's	Y. Wermstein, A. Lerner, R. Nedler, E.L.	138
Jews are being loaded in the train stations	E.L.	141
Shmuklers, Brakazim, and timber exporters	E.L.	143
Shopkeepers, merchants, and stall owners	E. A. L.	145
Butchers, livestock dealers, and horse dealers	E. Hindis	147
My town Jozefow	Eliezer Lerner	149
My town - Jozefow - (memories)	Bezalel Lemer	152

The beauty of Israel is slain…
Klagsbrun Moshe z”l		161
Geist Yehusua z”l		162
Krempf Uri z”l		163
Wegmister Yitzchak z”l		164

The home - the family in our town
My family house	Shoshanna Unterbauch-Dagan	167
The Wermstein family	Efraim	171
Mother (poem)	Yitzchak Wermstein	172
The family of Moshe Naftali and Hindi'li Lemer	Azriel	173
The family of Shalom Lerner (photos)	Chantzi	175
The family of Shmuel and Frida-Malcha Firshat	Moshe and Leah	177
In memory of Elki Wermstein	The family of Y. Wermstein	178
The Spadik family (photos)		180
To the memory of Father and Mother [Y]	Leah Frast, Yehusua Unterbauch	182
Baruch Lemer z”l	The family	184
In memory of the family of Moshe (Cohen) Fersht		185
The family of Yehusua Dach		186
The family of Bezalel Frozer (photo)		187
The Listnberg family (photo)		188
The Kupensztok family (photo)		189
Chana Pesel Schwalb (photo)		190
The Rabbi's family (photo)		191
The Awruch family (photo)		193
The Berger family (photo)		194
The family of Avraham Schwarz (photo)		195
Sashi Schleicherþ (photo)		196
The family of Yakov Schleicherþ (photo)		197
The Fisher brothers (photo)		198

The Holocaust 1939-1945
Bloody trails…	Azriel Amer-Lemer	201
Introduction to the history of our town during the Holocaust		204
Martyrology (from Polish)	T. Berenstein	205
“Reports from the ghetto” (from Yiddish)	Emanuel Ringelblum	206
A letter from the Polish Embassy to Yosef Spadik		207
Remember the Jewish Holocaust!	Dr. M. Dworzecki	208
The annual meeting of the formers residents of Jozefow	Chana Lemer	209
A Jewish soldier from the division named after Tragott	Yosef Kaminsky	210
The first victims of the Nazi Holocaust	Meir Prinz	212
Survivors in Germany (photo)		213
A memorial for Jozefow's martyrs in Mount Zion. Jerusalem	Eliezer	214
Figures in my town	Rafael Nedler	215
I didn’t find Jews in Jozefow	Simcha and Reizil Zamerman	219
The Poles assisted in the murder of Jews	Yosef Lochtefeld	221
May their memory be forever	Eliezer Lerner	226
I remained alone	Sima Honigsfeld (Spudik)	227
A Jewish boy, orphaned from his father and mother - partisan	Yisrael Schleicher	229
Survival	Rachel Lochtefeld	240
Remember what they have done to us!	Eliezer Ben-Shalom and Ita Lerner	247
The horrors of war (from Polish)	Miriam Rak-Steibel	249
23 months in the forest	Sheindil Unterbauch-Kozlovich	256
Longing to my home (poem)	A. Melamed	258
Like sheep to the slaughter (poem)	Y. Wermstein	259
A prayer (poem)	A. Melamed	260

Yiddish Section		261

Pages for supplements		428
We will remember		435
Necrology of the martyrs		437
Pages for the martyrs who weren’t included in the list		454
Kaddish for the town	Eliezer Lerner	460
Corrections		461

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