Kamen Kashirskiy Book (Ukraine)

Kamen Kashirskiy Book
(Kamen’-Kashirskiy, Ukraine)
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Translation of
Sefer ha-zikaron le-kehilat Kamien Koszyrski ve-ha-seviva

Edited by: A. A. Stein, et al.

Published in Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Kamin Koshirsky
and surroundings in Israel, 1965 (H,Y)

In gratitude for the work done by Nancy Biederman and her team in Los Angeles

Acknowledgments
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This is a translation from: Sefer ha-zikaron le-kehilat Kamien Koszyrski ve-ha-seviva, Kamen Kashirskiy Book
ed. A. A. Stein, et al., Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Kamin Koshirsky and surroundings in Israel, 1965 (H,Y)

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Translated by Selwyn Rose (Hebrew)
and Archie Barkan and Lazer Mishulovin (Yiddish)

Chapter Title	Author	Page #

Hebrew Section
Map		9
Introduction	Chaim Lazar Litai	13
The Jewish Town That No longer Exists	A. Ramba	21
Foreword	The Editorial Board	25
The Activities in Israel of the Jewish Survivors of Kamin-Koshirski and its Surroundings	Fishel Leizeruk	27
Events and Dates to Remember		31

The Towns as They Were in Their Time and Place
The Beginnings of Kamen-Kashirskiy	Y. Krost / A.M. Orzhitser	37
An Exemplary and Glorious Community	Baruch Melamed	39
My Town – Kamien-Koszyrski	Shmuel Aba Klurman	43
Childhood in the Shadow of Pogroms	Bracha Gazit	45
Childhood and Youth in a Village	Bat-Sheva Rabiner	49
Memories of Kamen-Kashirskiy	Mina Karsh-Soloveitchik	53
The Uniqueness of Our Town	Yosef Gananni	55
The Zionist Movement in Our Town	Yaakov Plot	57
The Beginnings of “Hashomer Hatza’ir” in Our Town	Bracha Ben Yehonatan	61
The “Freiheit” Organization	Ze’ev Vaton	63
The Founding of the School and Its Influence in the Village	D. Kuten	65
The Dayanim Controversy	Abish Klurman	69
The War of Yesterday and Tomorrow	Baruch Stoller	71
My Town Glusha	Berl Greenberg	73
A Visit to the Town after its Destruction	Moshe Paltieli (Plot)	81
Mala Glusha and Wielka Glusha	Reuven Grabov	85
The Jews of Vul'ka Shchityn’ska and Cherche	Yoel Eidess / Iser Oremland	87
Mala Glusha and the Surrounding Area	Reuven Grabov	89

The Holocaust and Heroism
September 1939 – the Beginning of the End	Shmuel Abba Klurman	101
The Holocaust – Outbreak of the War	Avraham Biber	103
Thus was I Saved	Scheindl Buckler	113
Avenged and Paid For	Ben-Zion Malik	122
From the Mouth of Survivors	D. Kattan	125
Rosh Hashanah in the Forest	Moshe Paltieli (Plot)	129
A Little Girl Among Wolves	Masha Wolfstall	131
The Forest Gathered Us	Ze'ev Ingberg	143
Annihilation and Vengeance	Dov Amit (Berish Drug)	145
The Destruction of Pnevno	Mendel Chazan	177
By the Grace of the Rabbi's Kaddish	Moshe Paltieli (Plot)	187
The Jewish Partisan’ War in Eastern Europe	Moishe Kahanowitz	189
About the Village that Was – and is Not	Simcha Lavi	199

People and Personalities
Images	Baruch Melamed	205
The Rabbi Benzion Gynzberg z”l	Eliezer Gynzberg	211
Two Old People	Noah Cohen	213
Reb Yitzhak Ben Shalom Friedmann	Benjamin Barg	215
A Portrait of the Ritual Slaughterer Yitzhak, The Son of Reb Moishe	Yisroel Poznanski	217
Baruch Rubinstein z”l and his Family	Avraham Biber	219
My Father, Mordecai Lehrmann	Bracha Ben-Yehonatan	221
A Portrait of Yosef (Yossele) Segal z”l	Dov Amit (Berish Drug)	223
To The Memory of Our Dear Ones, Deprived of Their Lives at the Hands of the Nazis	Nechama Greenstein	223
My Mother, Malka Gortenstein	Yosef Gananni	225
Hanniah Malik	Frieda Malik	227
Shmuel Wolinietz	Berl Greenberg	229
Lema Klurman	Bracha Ben-Yehonatan	231
Lema – The Builder and Hero	Asher Shofet (z”l)	233
Lema – The Personality	Simcha Lavi	235
Baruch-Asher Shapira	Eliezer Shapira	235
To the Memory of Moishe (Munick) Zeltzer	Moishe Font	243

Yiddish Section

Foreword	The Editorial Board	249

The Town in Construction
Various Sources about Kamen-Kashirskiy	A.M. Arzhitser / J. Krost	251
Historic Features/Traits of Kamen-Kashirskiy	B. Melamed	255
The Beginning of the Jewish Community In Kamen-Kashirskiy	Y. Plot	257
Our Town and the Neighboring Towns	Yaakov Plot	261
A Pack of Recollections	Yaakov Plot	263
The Creation of the S.S. Organization	Isaac Solomon Plot	279
Saturday and Sunday in Town	Baruch Melamed	281
Fairs and Market Days	Y. Ben-Moshe	285
My Home	Khave Litvinsky Zafran	287
The Yiddish Kamen-Kashirskiy	M. Zafran	289
From Kamen to the Land of Israel	Brokhe Factorovitz	291
The Town and My Father’s House	Mordecai Zafran	297
Under Soviet Rule	Y. Plot	305
A Communist Gathering - A Zionist Elected as Representative	Y. Ben-Moshe	311
My Memories of Home	Dvore Gooz	313
I Recall	Rayzl-Gitl Plot Winograd	315
Two Towns	J. Konishtser	319
The Importance of Lyubeshov	Fishl Layzeruk	327
Memories of Lyubeshov	A. M. A.	329
My Little Town Lyubeshov	Khane Elyavitch De Manker	331
Pnevno	Israel Begun	337
Pnevno My Town	Brurye Freedman-Gebovny	341
Jews of Glusha	Joshua Swartz	343
Memories of Glusha	Joshua Swartz	347
My Birth Town, Mala Glusha	Sawsye Kandel De Shander	351
The Temple Court Near Kamen	Meyer Eisen	353
Khoteshiv	Leybl Bakler	355
Memories of Politsy	Yerachmiel Tsinovich	357

Martyr Anthology and Resistance
Pogroms, Self-Defense and Conflict	Abish Klurman	365
The Bandit Army of Bulak-Balakhovich	Yaakov Plot	397
Describes a Pogrom in Kamen Kashirskiy and Surroundings On Rosh Hashanah 1920	Hillel Zeitlin	405
A Pogrom	Rachel Schechter-Ingber	409
The Pogrom in Kamen-Kashirskiy	Hirsh Leyzer Levinson	409
Kamen-Kashirskiy in the Years of World War I	Yaakov Plot	411

Parties and Organizations
The Beginning of the Zionist Movement in Kamen-Kashirskiy	Yaakov Plot	425
Zionism in Kamen-Kashirskiy: A Folk Institution	Baruch Melamed	441
Zeire Zion (Marxist Zionists) and Poale Zion (Socialist Zionists) in Kamen-Kashirskiy	Yaakov Plot	447
Zionism in Town	Pinches Gorenstein	457
Farewell Banquets of Zionist Organizations	Picture

The Communal (Social)-Cultural Life
Education Up to World War I	Yaakov Plot	473
The School “Hitkhayeh” (?)	Yaakov Plot	479
The “Arlozorov Library”	Yaakov Plot	487
Unions and Institutions	Yaakov Plot	489
The “Food Cooperative”	Y. P.	497
A General Picture of Jewish Economic Life In Kamen-Kashirskiy	Y. Plot	501
List of Settlements Around Kamen-Kashirskiy Where Jews Lived		507

Images, Episodes and Characters
Rabbis and Chasidism	Jacob Orimland	513
The Large Fire in Town in 1904	Yaakov Plot	513
The River in Our Town	Y.P.	517
Our Little Street Adjacent to Kovler Street	Henny Tsinovich-Engel	519
A Wedding in Town	Mina Soloveitchik	523
A Yiddishe Mama	Tsvi Vasoon	525
Sincerity/Cordiality of Kamen-Kashirskiy Jews	Helen and Hirsch Gelfant	529
Images and Experiences of Kamen-Kashirskiy	Israel Cohen-Kasher	529
Nise the Tailor (Dub)	Dov Amit (Berish Drug)	533
Moshe Falafan	Yaakov Plot	535
The Old Cemetery	Yaakov Plot	535
A New Torah Scroll in Town	Y. Ben-Moshe	537
R' Abraham Yankel, the Old Fellow: R'Abraham Yankel, the Old Man	Y. Ben-Moshe	539
Kamen Kashirskiy – My Home Town	Aaron Verba	541

Mass Death (Holocaust) and Heroism
Pain, Suffering and Hope	Pinkhes Ormland	557
Slaughter and Death	Shlome Kaganovich	605
Suffering and Holocaust	Shoshana Perchick	637
This is How Jews Were Killed	Jacob Goldstein	649
My Experiences	Fradel Goldstein-Kofler	659
German Murders	Moone Meltzer (Koshar)	683
My Sister, Frume	L. Olitsky	689
Pogroms, Murders and Liberation	Menashe Perchick	691
I was So Young At That Time	Rachel Vinokur	701
The Murdered: Yankel Leyzerik and a Single Gun	Kalmen Rubenstein	709
The Perishing of My Family	Baruch Primack	713
The Judenrat (The Jewish Council)	Ben Tzion Karsh	729
The Destruction of Lyubeshov	Yahfe Plotnick	739
Never Will I Forget	Yehoshua Shwartz	745
Murders in Vul’ka, Zolochiv and Divin	Pesl Perliss	745
Yezerki, Kamen Kashirskiy’s Ghetto	Aryeh Eisen	753
Alone	Yahfe Plotnick	771
A Tragedy of a Kamen-Kashiskiy Family	Baruch Melamed	775
In Memory of the K'doshim (Martyrs) of My Family and of the Jews in Lishe	Yehoshua Shwartz	781
My Road to the Partisans	Abraham Roufa	783
Among the Partisans	T. Berliner	789
The Last Jew of Kamen-Kashirskiy	Chaim Gershnoble	793
A Eulogy For Our Saints	Shlome Kagan	795
The New Century	Y. Plot	797
The Last Trace of Our Saints is Destroyed	Y. Ben-Moshe	799

Personalities and Times
Rabbi Pesakh Aaron Weisman	A. Klurman	805
Rabbi Mordechai Perlin	Baruch Melamed	805
The Last Rabbi in Kamen Kashirskiy	Pinkhes Orimland	809
Eliezer Plot: the First Haskalah Adherent in Kamen-Kashirskiy	A.M.A	813
Reb Asher Ehrlich z”l	Y. Ben-Moshe	815
Tziporeh Ehrlich-Plot	Y. Ben-Moshe	817
David Klurman	Y. P.
R' Yitzhak Barg	Y. P.	819
R' Isser and Leah Layzerik	Y. P.	819
Images	Frahdl Goldstein	821
Shmuel Verbliya	Baruch Melamed	821
R’ Aryeh Leibush Goldstein	Jacob Goldstein	823
R’ Yoel Chaim Kasher	Benjamin Barg	825
R’ Yitzhak Verba: Yitzhak the Teacher	Benjamin Barg	827
The Agony of Destruction	Meyer Rosen	829
They Fell in Battle Against the Hitler Gangs		831
The Young Baruch Shapiro, Fallen for the Land of Israel	A. M. A.	833
An Excerpt of a Letter to America	Yitzkhak Bernholtz	835
A Letter to Friends in Canada		837
Baruch Melamed, of Blessed Memory (z”l)	Yaakov Plot	839

People of Kamen-Kashirskiy Around the World
The Beginning of Kamen-Kashirskiy and Environs’ Jews Gathering in Israel	Fishl Layzerik	845
On the Road to Israel	Pictures	847
Receptions in Honor of American Guests in Israel	Pictures	849
The 27th of Nissan at the Tombstone in the Forest of the Saints	Pictures	853
Characteristics of a Societal Activist	Fishel Layzerik	855
Of the History of Kamen-Kashirskiy’s Countrymen's Organizations	Y. Plot	857
Kamen Kashirskiy Compatriot Society in America	A.M.A.	859
Kaminers in America	Abish Klurman	865
With the Kaminers in America	David Kimmel	867
Townsmen in America	Berel Abel	869
My Arrival in the Kamen Kashirskiy Organization As Secretary	Shmuel Beck	871
Union of Kaminers in Argentina	Mordechai Zafran	871

The Town in Pictures
The Old Generation		881
Celebrations and Pastimes		885
Family Pictures		891
Youth		909
In Military Service		915
Children		917
Pnevno		923
Velika Glusha		925
Mala Glusha		929
Lyubeshov		931

Lists of the Martyrs		937
The 27th of Av – the Yahrtseit of the Martyrs of Kamen Kashirskiy and Environs		967

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Translated by Selwyn Rose (Hebrew) and Archie Barkan and Lazer Mishulovin (Yiddish)

Translated by Selwyn Rose (Hebrew)
and Archie Barkan and Lazer Mishulovin (Yiddish)