Chapter 1 - History
Katowice in Polish Sources	Joseph Chrust	3
German Katowice (1865-1922)	Zygmunt Karski	4
German Jews (1865-1922)	Zygmunt Karski	6
The Jewish Community of Katowice	Dr. Rolf P. Schmitz	10
Communal Organizations During the Nineteenth Century	Joseph Chrust	16
The Jubilee of the Katowice Conference	Joseph Chrust	20
The Goldstein Villa on Plac Wolnosci	Joseph Chrust	23
The World Council of Zionist Revisionists	Joseph Chrust	24
The Community's Official Newspaper	Joseph Chrust	27
Chapter 2 - Between the Two World Wars
A Vibrant Small Community	Aaron Eshel-Kaufmann	37
Community Life in the 1930's	Joseph Chrust	41
The Great Synagogue	Joseph Chrust	47
Cantors	Joseph Chrust	49
Steinitz the Conductor and the Temple Choir	Dr. Natan Greenbaum	52
Chosen to be in Charge of a Holy Place	Dobka Buchstein (Krotman)	53
The Jewish Cemetery	Dobka Buchstein (Krotman)	54
Economic Life in the 1930's	Joseph Chrust	56
Anti-Semitism	Joseph Chrust	59
Anti-Semitism is Absorbed from Birth	Joanna Lefkowitz (nee Siegman)	62
The Refugees from Germany	Joseph Chrust	63
Culture and Art	Joseph Chrust	64
“Little Paris”	M. S. Geshuri	66
“Little Berlin”	Dr. Chaim Shoshkes	67
Land of Wealth	Israel Cohen	68
Katowice in a Kaleidoscope	Dr. Nathan Greenbaum	70
The Jewish Community of Katowice	Magister Jakow Tajtelbaum	74
Chapter 3 - Educational Institutions
The Berek Joselewicz Elementary school	Sara Diler	98
My Childhood Years	Miriam Djamant	101
The Joselewicz School Parents' Committee	Josef Chrust	104
The Beith-Yaakov school for girls	Cila Katriel	105
The Talmud-Torah	Jakow Tajtelbaum	106
High school Memories	Aleksander Rakower	108
Chapter 4 - Organizations
The Zionist Federation	Josef Chrust	113
The Revisionist Movement	Josef Chrust	115
Women's Organizations	Josef Chrust	117
Various organizations	Josef Chrust	119
Chapter 5 - Youth Organizations
Sports Clubs	Josef Chrust	123
HaShomer HaTzair	Szalom Salo Barber	126
Beitar Movement	Michael Goldman-Gilad	128
The Regional Beitar	Dawid Jutan	130
The “Zionist Youth” Group		132
Religious Youth Groups	Josef Chrust	136
Chapter 6 - The Chief Rabbis of the Community
Katowice's Rabbinical figures between the World Wars	Magister Jakow Tajtelbaum	141
Rabbi Dr. Kalman Chameides (1902-1943)	Dr. Leon Chameides	145
Rabbi Dr. Mordechaj Fogelman	Rabbi Israel Meir Lau	149
A Jew of Vigor	Rabbi Iser Frenkel	152
A Unique Rabbi	Att. Israel Tajtelbaum	152
A synthesis of a scholar and a researcher	Dr. Naomi Goldfeld-Fogelman	153
Chapter 7 - People and Personalities
Elyahu Abrahamer	Josef Chrust	157
Bruno Altman	Josef Chrust	159
Szmuel Hoppen	Cila Katriel Hoppen	161
Otto Sztern – a Nobel Prize Recipient	Chana Engelhart-Goldfeld	162
Heinrich Margalit	Josef Chrust	162
Franz Landsberger	Josef Chrust	162
Chapter 8 - Words of Contemplation
The land of Israel, and the State of Israel	Rabbi Mordechaj Fogelman	165
To Live – means to take action	Rav Kalman Chameides	168
Chapter 9 - Memories
Katowice	Nomi Goldfeld-Fogelman	173
My childhood Memories	Cila Katriel Hoppen	173
Days of Old	Mosze (Zigfrid) Tichauer	178
From Katowice to Kiryat Motzkin (Israel)	Bella Fogelman	179
Through Siberia and Iran, to Israel	Meir Ohad	186
Making Aliyah as a Tourist	Karola Silver	187
After 20 Years Apart	Henri Kronberg	187
I spent the war years in France	Fela Milschtein-Szikman	188
Illegal Aliyah	Chanoch Rosemarin	189
A Zionist home	Mina Pizak Szif	190
Happy Teenage Years	Sara Sofer-Szrojer Majtlis	192
One Great Summer	Zehawa Grinberg-Szojer	193
Everyday Life	Chana Szwarz Prister	194
The Youth and the Community	Szlomo Woznica	195
The Friszer family	Chana Berg Friszer	196
Before the Flood	Israel Tajtelbaum	197
A dream of Biro-Bedjzan	Dawid Szcekocinsky	198
Polish Jews Banished from Germany	Josef Chrust	199
An Orthodox Home	Szaul Huterer	200
Grajcer Family	Maria Mitelman	201
Pilcer family	Yehudit Meir	202
Banished to Zbonszyn	Pola Warszawski-Szechter	203
Zidner and Boldes families	Ernest Zidner	204
My grandfather, Dawid-Ber Zigrajch	Helena Goren Zigrajch	205
Icchak Szajnberg and Ester Juker	Pepi Winer (nee Szajnberg)	206
Chapter 10 - Holocaust and Resurrection
Holocaust and Resurrection	Nomi Goldfeld Fogelman	207
Black sunrise in Katowice	Nomi Goldfeld Fogelman	209
First days conquered	Zusman Zwergel	210
The first days	Chana Szwarc	212
Mixed Marriages	An anonymous testimony	213
Two days in Katowice - end of October, 1938	Dr. Jakow Meir Lipszyc	214
The Deportation	Mosze Zeiger	219
In the forests of Siberia - A testimony	Meta Fenster-Nebel	220
In a Czechoslovakia concentration camp	Irena Wygodzki	221
A Rough Road	Cila Katriel Hoppen	223
Thoughts	Cila Katriel Hoppen	226
Loss	Cila Katriel Hoppen	226
The voice of Jacob...	Dr. Leon Chameides	227
In the Nazi beast's maw	Hela Joskowicz	231
From the ghetto to the camps - a testimony	Tonia Zagurski	233
From Katowice to Peterswaldau	Dora Prawer-Orbach	234
Saved under an Aryan identity	Sara Diler	235
Through the Holocaust's nightmare	Ester Wajnsztat –Sztajnkeler	235
Eight Camps	Gershon Meller	237
An Only Survivor	Josef Kaminski	238
I lived as a Christian	Chana Engelhart-Goldfeld	241
One saintly man in Sodom	Joana Lewkowicz	244
Without Looking Back	Michael Goldman-Gilad	256
The 81st strike	Josef Chrust	264
Car number 62	Dr. Nathan Grinboim	265
Days of Unrest	Israel Tajtelbaum	269
Through Wilna and Odessa to Israel	Dr. Moses Salpeter	271
Six Years in Russia	Fela Birenbaum Majtlis	272
10 survivors out of a hundred	Ze'ev Lublinski	273
A History of a Family	Ariyeh and Moshe Druker	274
To Israel via Tashkent	Doba Buchstein-Krotman	277
I returned from Russia as a soldier	Emilia Yarcin (Krebs)	282
Days of Hunger in Khazakstan	Cila Stobiecki Krawczyk	285
Katowicers in the Anti-Nazi resistance underground	Joseph Chrust	288
A struggle of Survival	Manus Djamant	296
He Stood like a Hero	Lezer Waserlauf	308
Attacks after the War	Szimon Bergman	308
Back to Poland after the Holocaust	Israel Tajtelbaum	309
A Jewish Man's Revenge	Menachem Michelson	313
My Polish Parents	Sofia Kuzniew	317
A grave in Libeck	Malka Nojhof (Mingelgrym)	319
Poland's Roads are Mourning (poem)	Chana Zelda	320
Chapter 12 - In Their Memories
A Testimony	Heinosz Krakowski (Henry Kay)	327
Eichner and Tichauer Families	Aaron and Menachem Elad	330
Tzvi Getz z”l	Aaron Rimoni	331
A Testimony- Sara Sofer Schroeur (Majtlis) z”l		332
A Testimony- Shmuel Grundman z”l	Nathan Grosswasser	333
Yehudit Meir (Pilcer) z”l	The Meir Family	334
Aleksander Czerski (Tzirer) z”l	Sara Diller	335
A Distinguished Writer	Cila Katriel	336
Amir Zidner	The Zidner family	336
Boaz Kerby (Bruno Krawczyk) z”l	Krawczyk family	337
Chapter 13 - Survivors Snatched from the Flames
The Organization of Jews of Upper-Silesia in Israel	Erich Szeingut	341
The Katowice memorial's cornerstone laying ceremony	Josef Chrust	343
A day in my life – a closure	Cila Katriel	346
The Memorial	Naomi Goldfeld Fogelman	347
My Home	Cila Katriel	348
45 Years Later	Dr. Nathan Grinboim	348

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