Translated by Yocheved Klausner

[Y] = Yiddish
Historical Sources
An Order from Vladislaw IV [Y]		17
“Ha'erev” [Tonight] from Mogielnica [Y]
Jews in Mogielnica in the years 1856-1886 [Y]	Jewish encyclopedia, biographical dictionary	18
Professor of medicine, one of the first Jewish doctors in Poland, born in Mogielnica [Y]	E. Ringelblum	18
A chapter of history, until the end of WWI [Y]	Moshe Chaimowitz	19
The expulsion from Mogielnica in 1915 [Y]	Elimelech Sonder	24
The Jewish community in Mogielnica, the residence of surrounding towns and villages [Y]	Israel Sonder	31
Przibishew is “Judenrein”	I. Sonder	33
The Jews of Mogielnica [Y]	Leon Gudjimerski	34
The Mogielnica rabbi R'Chaim Meir Yechiel, “the Seraph” [Y]	Menashe Ungar z”l	37
The Seraph from Mogielnica	Rav A. I. Bromberg	39
Hasidic stories about the Seraph	Mordechai Buber z”l	52
The fountain of Hasidism, the ADMORs of Poland	A. Steinman z”l	53
The Branches of the Seraph Dynasty
R'Chaim Meir Yechiel z”l		55
The Kidush Hashem [martyr's death] of the Grodjisker rabbi, R'Israel Shapira, may God avenge his blood [Y]	Elimelech Shapira z”l	55
Rav Klonimus-Kalmish, may God avenge his blood		56
Rav Yeshayahu (Shayele) Shapira z”l	Ben Yechiel	57
The Yahrzeit [memorial day] of R'Chaim Meir Yechiel z”l [Y]	Israel Ben-Tzviya	58
Rebuilding the Seraph's Tent [Y]	Elimelech Sonder	59
The last rabbi of Mogielnica	Yitzhak Shapira	61
The tombstone of R'Chaim Meir Shapira	Sefer Plock [Plock Yizkor Book]	64
Messiah's Shofar [ram's horn] (poem)	Peretz Markish, may God avenge his blood	65
Losses - about rabbi Elimelech Shapira z”l		66
The rabbis of Mogielnica	Y. Avidov	67
My father Rav R'Gavriel Zev Osalka z”l	Sara Osalka-Chetz	69
In memory of Rav Pinchas Osalka, may God avenge his blood	Shmuel Fuchs	70
My brothers the rabbis [Y]	Sara Chetz-Osalka	72
The community officers until WWI	Yosef Rochfeld z”l	73
The Bet Hamidrash [house of learning] and the synagogue [Y]	M. Ben Yechiel	74
Chanuka Lights (poem) [Y]	M. Chaimowitz	75
The Bet Hamidrash in Mogielnica [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	76
From childhood years [Y]		80
Religious occupations
Slaughterers, cantors, scribes, melamdim, rebbetzins [rabbi's wife], synagogue attendants	Israel Sonder	85
The mikve [ritual bath] and the bathhouse	Israel Sonder	91
Institutions
Chevra Kadisha [burial society]	Israel Sonder	95
An Eternal Light	Yosef Rochfeld z”l	98
The love for Eretz Israel in Mogielnica	Yosef Rochfeld z”l	99
Charity accomodations for the night Linat Tzedek	Ben Yitzhak	100
Hibat Zion movement - new version	Yosef Rochfeld z”l	102
Visiting the sick	Elimelech Liebster	104
Book repair	M. Margalit z”l	105
Hospitality	M. Margalit z”l	106
Tiferet Bahurim	Yitzhak Rochfeld	107
Mogielnica as a shelter [Y]	Yosef Rochfeld z”l	108
The “Little Bund” in Mogielnica in 1905 [Y]	Avraham Klein	111
How the Mogielnica Jews gave the hooligans a lesson [Y]	Hersch Moshe	113
The year 1905 in Mogielnica [Y]	Itche Lehrman	115
The first Jewish library [Y]	Itche Lehrman	116
Founding the Loan Fund [Y]	Hersch Moshe	119
The Jewish craftsmen's Loan Fund [Y]	Y. Achi-Yosef	119
Education: in the Heder, Yeshiva, Schools and private teachers
In the Heder:
R'Itzhak Meir Noah's heder [Y]	Yechiel Provisor	124
A characteristic of R'Yitzhak Meir Noah [Y]	Moshe Chaimowitz	130
Neta'le melamed [Y]	Tova Anelewitz-Silberberg	130
Talmud Tora in Mogielnica	Yitzhak Rochfeld	131
My melamdim [teachers] [Y]	Elimelech Sonder	132
My rabbi R'Yankel [Y]	Ben-Zion Brucker	133
Pinie Melamed's pupils go on strike [Y]	M. Margalit z”l, Y. Sonder, may he long live	137
R'Avraham Yosef Melamed z”l	M. Margalit z”l	139
My Chumash [Torah] party	Y. Ben-Tzviya	142
Refugees from Pinsk and Mogielnica	Sara Bergman-Alexandrowitz z”l	144
In the Yeshivas:
A “General Heder” - an unsuccessful experiment [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	149
Mogielnica young students in the Piasetchner Yeshiva [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	149
Schools:
Government schools for Jews	Y. Zuta	150
The “Tarbut” Hebrew School	Yitzhak Rochfeld	152
The Bet Yakov School [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	153
Bet Yakov religious school for girls	Y. Ben Eliezer	154
The national-religious school for boys “Yavne”	Eliezer Toren & Shmuel Hoffman	156
Education
Elimelech Merker and his family	Moshe Margalit z”l	158
My Hebrew teacher	Ben-Yechiel	160
Words of thanks to Elimelech Merker z”l	Y. Ben-Tzvia	161
Personalities, Way of Life
The first emigrant from Mogielnica to Eretz Israel	Israel Sonder	165
My Father and Teacher the rav R'Yechiel ben R' Menachem Halevi	Zvi Moshe	168
My Father and Teacher R'Avraham Avush z”l	M. Margalit z”l	169
Our parents R'Eliezer Yitzhak and Yette Zviya z”l	Israel Sonder	172
The Weingart family	Mordechai Karmi	178
My grandfather R'Avraham z”l [Y]	Shmuel Belzberg	180
My grandfather R'Leibele Reiseles z”l [Y]	Binyamin Guttman	182
R'Yehoshua Feldin, may God avenge his blood	Zvi Moshe	184
R'Yehoshua Feldsher, may God avenge his blood [Y]	Sara Bregman-Alexandrowitz	187
R'Eliezer Abramowitz, may God avenge his blood [Y]	M. Margalit z”l	188
Ahre'le Goldsohn z”l [Y]	Moshe Matgalit z”l	192
A poem	Uri Zvi Grinberg	195
Old customs are not kept any more	Serl Chaimowitz	196
How my father Israel Eliezer came to America [Y]	Binyamin Guttman	197
A Mogielnica Hasid makes Teshuva [repentance] [Y]	Reuven Zucker	201
The rabbi R'Moishele brings back a lost Hasid [Y]	Tova Anilevitch-Silberberg	204
What my grandmother Beile taught me [Y]	A grandson of “Folberte”	206
Aharon from Baku [Y]	Binyamin Guttman	208
Types of Mogielnica Jews [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	212
Types in town [Y]	Moshe Chaimowitz	215
Israel Goldberg “Iron Head”	M. Chaimowitz	222
Clowns and nicknames in Mogielnica [Y]	Y. Avi Binyamin	223
More about clowns [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	224
My town Mogielnica [Y]	Binyamin Guttman	225
The First of May [Y]	Zvi Tufman, may God avenge his blood	226
Memories from the old home [Y]	Israel Sonder	227
Yeshayahu Nissels z”l and his right to recite Kol Nidrei	Binyamin Guttman	230
The rebbetzin [rabbi's wife] Rechele Shapira [Y]	Keile Rechtscheid	231
R'Hirsch-Aharon Provisor z”l	M. Avi-Miriam z”l	233
My parents Lea and Bendet Siegel	Rivka Siegel- Levin	235
Avraham Bretmesser, may God avenge his blood	Ben-Yechiel	237
A memorial candle for my mother Lea'ke z”l [Y]	Yechiel Provisor	238
My parents R'Nuske and Yentel Stern, may God avenge their blood	Bendet (Beni) Stern	240
Memories from my town [Y]	Bunem Lehrman	241
Memories	Keile Rechtscheid	245
The commotion on Passover eve [Y]	Itche (Yitzhak) Guttman z”l	247
Memories	Rivka Siegel-Levin	248
Bunem Merker, may God avenge his blood - the weaver-philosofer	Y. Ben-Eliezer	252
The community activist Naftali Yosef Sonder, may God avenge his blood		252
Yosef Peltz, may God avenge his blood	Moshe Margalit	255
Another bundle of memories [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	256
My dear parents [Y]	Sarah'ke Sheps-Rochfeld	258
My dear parents Neche and Herschel Ostrovietzki [Y]	Rachel Ostrovietzki-Borenstein	261
My father R'Israel Rechtscheid [Y]	Bunem Rechtscheid	262
R'Bendet Siegel z”l	M. Avi-Miriam z”l	263
An intersting story [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	267
A trip to Mogielnica [Y]	Avraham Merker z”l	275
In memory of my friend Chana Chaimowitz, may God avenge her blood [Y]	Rivka Siegel Levin	302
The Economic Life
[Yiddish]
The economic life of the Jews in Mogielnica		305
The day-by-day occupations of the Mogielnica Jews	Avraham Merker z”l	307
The Jewish craftsmen	Israel Sonder	308
A new trade brings prosperity	Yosef Rochfeld z”l	339
Our factory of soda-water and other drinks	Yechiel Provisor	346
My grandfather's soda-water factory	Moshe Margalit z”l	349
R'Moshe Welvele Blumenkranz's socks factory	M. Margalit	350
My father's oil factory	A. Liebster	352
R'Shlomo Yastshomber	I. Sonder	355
Binyamin Latutnik	Louis Markowitz z”l	356
At the home of Nathan Schuster Winter	A. Sonder	357
An unsuccessful attempt	Yechiel Provisor	358
Parties
Founding the Hashahar [Y]	M. Chaimowitz	363
The beginning of the organized Zionism in Mogielnica	M. Margalit z”l	366
The Association in Mogielnica	Yitzhak Rochfeld	369
The Freiheit [freedom] movement in Mogielnica [Y]	Sarah'ke Rochfeld-Scheps	370
Freiheit brings meaning to the Jewish youth [Y]	Yakov Feifer	372
History of the Jewish labor party, Poalei-Zion Left [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	373
Hashomer Hadati [religious youth movement] in Mogielnica	Shmuel Hoffman	377
Hechalutz movement in Mogielnica	Shmuel Hoffman	378
A training kibbutz near Mogielnica	Chaim Chetz	379
Chana Truks and Leizer Grossman	A. Margalit	380
The Revisionist Zionists [Brit Hazhar]	Yechiel Provisor	381
The “Bund” in Mogielnica [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	382
Zukunft [future], the youth Movement of the “Bund” [Y]	Fruma Grossman	383
The Jewish communist party in Mogielnica [Y]	Tobe Friedman Wolpowitz	384
The foundation of Agudat Israel [Y]	Archives	386
Elections:
Elections to the first Town Council, community and Zionist Congress [Y]	Moshe Chaimowitz	387
Israel Sonder, the first Mogielnica pioneer [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	395
After Israel Sonder left for Eretz Israel [Y]	M. Chaimowitz	396
Moshe Margalit z”l is leaving for Eretz Israel [Y]	M. Chaimowitz	402
An Antisemite changes, becoming a brave fighter against Anti-Semitism	Moshe Avi-Yechiel	403
From the early 1930s to 1939	Zvi Achi-Yaakov	405
A brave commander in the War of Independence	I. Sonder	409
We were six	Chaim Goldenberg	411
Holocaust and Resistance
Introduction to “Holocaust and struggle” of the Mogielnica Jews [Y]	I. Sonder	415
Documents that tell a story [Y]	(Photostats)	416
The order to assemble the Jews from the villages to the towns	I. A. Maurer	418
The Mogielnica Jews under German rule [Y] [Y]	Yakov Rothbart	418
Fleeing from Warsaw ghetto and wandering from camp to camp [Y]	Israel Zerach Bartmesser	421
Fragment of a report by the Mogielnica Mayor	L. Godzhimerski	424
The Jews in Mogielnica during the German occupation [Y]	Chaim Bitner	425
What I went through [Y]	A. Anelewitz z”l	429
With the Germans in Mogielnica [Y]	Yechezkel Goldscheider	436
What I went through [Y]	Hene Waldstein-Gelbart	439
Warsaw during the first months of the German occupation [Y]	Zvi Gelbart	444
The life of the Mogielnica Jews in the Warsaw ghetto [Y]	Zvi Gelbart	452
The stones in the walls are weeping [Y]	Tzipora Troks-Wasserman	455
With Love [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	460
Testimony of Mogielnica Christians about the murder of Jews	Pola Schewatz-Anelewitz	461
In the attic of a house [Y]	Gute Guterman	463
An interview with Mrs. Charita Herpstein [Y]	Yechezkel Krasovski	464
From Ghetto Lodz to the death camps [Y]	Aharon Rothman	465
The destruction of the small Jewish community in Gastzin [Y]	Account of two brothers	465
Mogielnica Jews under German occupation	I. Sonder	468
Why didn't the young Jewish men try to save their lives?	Pola Schewatz-Anelewitz	480
The route of a young pioneer from Mogielnica	Yosef Wosowitz	482
The Struggle
Anonimous soldiers	M. Chaimowitz	486
The story of Avraham Yitzhak Gelbert z”l	Yehudit Gelbert-Cohen	487
A memorial to the souls of our heroes	Zvi-Moshe Chaimowitz	489
Feivel Reibenbach, may God avenge his soul	Rivka Siegel-Levin	490
My part in the struggle [Y]	Yosef Goldberg-Golan	493
Mogielnica young Jews in the ranks of the partisans	I. Ben-Eliezer	496
Fighters in the Warsaw ghetto: Bretmesser Neta; Truks Leib; Katz Yakov	From “Lochamei Haghetaot” [the ghetto fighters]	499
Fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto
Bendet Ziegelman	Rivka Siegel-Levin	500
Mogielnica Freiheit members who fell in battle in the ghetto uprising: Bartmesser Neta; Traks Leib; Yakov Katz [Y]	From the book “Destruction and resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto”	502
Rav Klonimus Kalmish Shapira z”l		504
Yakov Aharon Chaimowitz, may God avenge his blood	Zvi Moshe	505
In the Labor and Death Camps
Bialobzhek a “sanctuary town” [Y]	Yechezkel Goldscheider	507
In the Skarozhiska labor camp [Y]	Chaim Singer	511
We run to Warsaw [Y]	Chana Chaimowitz- Leizerowitz	518
He taught his trade to the Christian where he lived [Y]	Simcha Bartmesser	521
The mourning train (poem) [Y]	Malka Goldenfahn	526
What I went through and how I was saved in the death camps [Y]	Bendet (Beny) Stern	527
In the open field	Gute Guterman	529
A diary from the end of 1941 to 2 May 1945	Itche Anelevitch	530
How we survived [Y]	Meir Yechiel and Nechemia Rapaport; Bine Trelnik-Kuzminski; Chaia Rosen	536
Grandchildren [Y]	I. Ben Eliezer	538
A letter to my father Avraham Mordechai (poem) [Y]	Nute Guterman	540
My liberation [Y]	Yechezkel Goldscheider	542
Survivors in Mogielnica and Surroundings
A rare episode [Y]	Mordechai Herbstein	544
How Rachel-Lea Schewatz and her husband saved themselves [Y]	Paula Schewatz-Anelewitz	551
In a bunker in the Mogielnica forest [Y]	Aizik Hirsch	552
In the martyrs' forest [Y]	Gute Guterman	556
A young Jewish boy from Warsaw - a sheigetz [Christian] in Mogielnica	Daniel Rupinski	557
The story of a survivor in Russia [Y]	Frumet Winter	559
Mogielnica Without Jews
Three Jewish towns: Mogielnica, Blendow, Grice [Y]	Michael Silberberg	565
Survivors in Mogielnica and surroundings	I. Sonder	567
“A home” again [Y]	Dina Traks-Vogel	586
What the Diamand brothers have seen and heard [Y]	Shmuel Hoffman	588
There once was a town (poem)	Chaim Lanski	590
Kadish (poem)	A prisoner in USSR	590
A visit in Mogielnica in 1957 [Y]	Paula Schewatz	591
Mogielnica Without Jews	Israel Ritov	592
Landsmashaften (Organizations)
Report on the activities of the Organization of former residents of Mogielnica in Israel 1943-1950 [Y]		599
Reorganization of the Organization - spring 1950		603
Members of the Committee and the Council		611
In Memory of those who passed away in Israel
Rechscheid Yosef z”l	Zvi Rechscheid	613
Mordechai my son	Yitzhak Dov Rochfeld	614
In memory of Mordechai Rochfeld z”l	Yitzhak Alexandroni	616
Shoshana Grossman (Reizl Goldberg) z”l	Zvi Chaimowitz	617
Elimelech Koifman z”l	Zvi Moshe	617
In memory of the passed: Riva Borenstein	Ch. M.	618
My sister Rive, may she rest in peace	Hinde Sheinfarber	618
R'Meir Provisor z”l	Z. M. Avi-Yechiel	619
Chana Shmuel Yitzhak's Feifer z”l	Rivka Siegel-Levin	620
A tree was uprooted	Rivka Siegel-Levin	621
Shlomo Blazberg z”l	Zvi Moshe Chaimowitz	622
Dov Sonder z”l - memorial to a pure soul	Zvi Ben-Yechiel	624
To Dov (poem)	Nechama Sonder	624
Avraham and Rivke'le Zorek z”l	I. Ben-Yitzhak	625
Avraham Zelik Goldberg z”l	I. Sonder	626
List of Mogielnica Jews deceased in Israel		627
Members of the Hagana and IDF who fell in battle
Amnon Michaeli	Avraham Merker z”l	630
In the War of Independence
Yosef Grossman	Family and Friends	631
Zvi Tufman - a memorial	Zvi Moshe	633
The story of Zvi Tufman, may God avenge his blood	I. Sonder	634
David Yehuda Liebster, may God avenge his blood	M. Nomberg	636
Scheinfarber Mordechai	Bracha and Yakov Scheinfarber	637
In the Six-Day-War
Our son Gideon Menachem Shraga [Y]	Rachel (Lenga) Shraga	639
In the wars after Six-Day-War
Kuzminski Chaim; Sand Israel; Chetz Shmuel	“DAVAR” newspaper	642
Our pilot fell (poem)	Diary of Kibbutz Kissufim	643
In memory of my son the pilot (poem)	Father - Chaim Chetz	643
Organizations Abroad
Mogielnica Societies in America [Y]	Editor	644
Memorial to the Deceased in USA
Israel Leib (Louis) Markowitz z”l	Max Friedlander	647
Avram'tche Fleischer	Louis Markowitz z”l	649
Yosl Fleischer	Gavriel Weingart	649
Shlomo'le Rechtscheid z”l	Keile Rechtscheid	650
Yakov Schissler z”l	Getzl Guterman	651
Deceased members of the Mogielnica Society in New-York and surroundings		651
List of members of the Mogielnica Society in New-York (English)		653
Blendow, Mogielnica. Biala, Grica in Kansas City	Peretz Lerner z”l	654
Mogielnica Landsleit in Argentina
Interview with the Jewish pianist in Argentina; Chronology of the immigration and occupations of Mogielnica Jews in Argentina [Y]	A. Merker z”l	656
My husband Avraham Herbstein z”l [Y]	Sarita-Feigele Herbstein	658
To Avraham (poem) [Y]	Sarita Herbstein	660
Dishka Siegelman	I. Sonder	660
Yakov Siegelman z”l	Yerachmiel & Rivka Feller	661
Avraham Merker - the perfect person	I. Sonder	662
Heartfelt congratulations		664
Avraham Merker, the person that we have not knowm	Ben-Zion Aminadav	665
List of deceased in Argentina, Brazil, England, France and Russia		667
Mogielnica Landsleit in Paris
The Societies in Paris [Y]	Yitzhak Rochfeld	668
Memories	Neche Bornstein	670
Mogielnica Jews in France [Y]	Rivka Siegel-Levin	671
With friends in Paris [Y]	Israel Sonder	674
32 months in the death camps [Y]	Israel Avraham Klarfeld	677
How we escaped frm the Hitler murderers [Y]	Moshe Ostrowietzki	681
My fight for liberation [Y]	Yechiel Shraga	683
Again with friends in Paris [Y]	I. Sonder	684
Mogielnica Landsleit in Various Countries
In Belgium [Y]		687
In Canada [Y]		689
In Australia [Y]		689
Mogielnica Jews in Russia between the two World Wars [Y]	Rivka Siegel Levin	690
Moshe Margalit z”l - in his memory	I. Sonder	691
His personality	Zvi Moshe	694
How Moshe Margalit became silent [Y]	Rivka Siegel Levin	694
My friend [Y]	Getzl Guterman	695
Mogielnica Landsleit in Argentina honoring the memory of Moshe Margalit z”l [Y]		696
“I remember them” [Eile ezkera]		696
My mother from Mogielnica (poem) [Y]	Yeshayahu Spiegel	697
List of Mogielnica martyrs		701
Blendow our Town
Blendow our Town [Y]	I. Davidowitz z”l, Yehudit Kaspi-Scherman, Fishel Vilner, Mordechai Gleimer	733
The Jews in Blendow [Y]		736
Memories from our home [Y]	Rachel Davidowitz-Lehrman	739
Happy Memories (poem) [Y]	Max Freilech	742
Blendow my town	Meir Schatz	749
Blendow relief in Chicago [Y]	Eichel Tekler	753
		756
Holocaust and Struggle
My experiences [Y]	Mania Schrager-Herzberg	761
Holocaust of the Blendow Jews - testimony for Yad Vashem	Chaia Hammer	768
The Story of my life	Wolf Albert	775
IDF Soldiers who Fell in Battle
In Memory of the Deceased in Israel
How our son Yechiel David Vilner fell in battle [Y]	Fishel Vilner	787
Yechiel David Vilner, may God avenge his blood	Fragments from a booklet	789
Zev Bombard	I. Sonder	789
Zev Zacharin Bombard - one of the 86 [Y]	I. Sonder	790
Yosef Beker is not with us any more	Yehudit Kaspi	791
Yechiel Davidowitz z”l	Zvi Moshe	798
Blendow Jews who died in Israel		798
List of Blendow (Błędów) Martyrs		799

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