Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Our Town - our Old Home
The History of our Town
The History of Oshmana [H]	Hosea Soltz	21
The rabbi R'Meir Mechl Kahana; R'Mordechai Rosenblatt (R'Mordche'le)	Zeev Bakst	29-30
The rabbi R'Mordche'le from Karlice	N. N.	33
The rabbi R'Yehuda Leib Fein	Rabiner	35
The rabbi R'Gershon Moshe Gelbard	J. Gelbard	38
Rabbi Menashe Chaim Shmuelsohn; Rabbi Heller; The last Oshmana rabbi, R'Heller	Chaim Berkman	43
Synagogues and Kloizen	Michael Peled	45
The Great Synagogue	Zeev Bakst	48
Education and Culture
Education; Raising children and studying in the old days [Y]	Michael Peled	53-64
Melamdim and their Heder classes [Y]	Yona Livne	75
Aaron David Chadash, may God revenge his blood	Ben-David	78
The Tarbut School and the teacher Aaron David Chadash [Y]	Tzipora Kaplanovich	79
Purim holiday in the Hebrew school Tarbut	Menachem Shogol	80
To the memory of of some of the Tarbut School teachers	Michael Peled	83-87
The Tarbut School and the Hashomer Hatzair movement	Lolik Yoselsohn	92
Schools in Oshmana [Y]	Rivka Spatz	94
The Jewish school [Y]	Pesie Kostin	95
Memories from the orphanage	Ahuva Schewetz	96
The Social Life
There once was a town named Oshmana; The Diaspora was organized; They were idealists; Trifles	Michael Peled	103-114
Visiting the sick and charity accomodations; Fire fighters and fires in Oshmyamy and surroundings; Organizations and institutions; The Hovevei Zion movement	Zeev Bakst	119-124
The activities of The General Zionists	Dov Itzkowitz z”l	128
The Young Hechalutz; In memory of three friends	Moshe Beinisohn	133
The Hashomer Hatzair	Shimon Shibolet	135
The Youth Movement	Rachel Novodvorski	140
The Beitar movement	Zvi Chadash	142
Oshmana 1905-1910 [Y]	Welvel Shogar	149
Way of Life and Memories
The Sabbath-Jews; Sparks rising from the ruins; Old people; The Gallery: in front of the photo-album; When we were children; Hours; “It never happened”; No title; At the end of my writing	Michael Peled	153-216
The town and my street	Zelda Ziskind	218
About a visit in my home-town [Y]	Aaron Borovski	220
My guilt; This is how it looks...; My sorrow	Y. Berkman	228-231
The third tear	Aba Kovner	232
My town	Zvi Chadash	234
My little town [Y]	Henye Sieger-Svirski	235
My town Oshmana [H & Y]	Aliza Gofstein	237-239
Memories	Zvi Chadash	240
Memories	Yitzhak Ben-Cohen	243
Memories	Nechemia Trukel	248
Memories	Yakov Gurewitz	250
Memories	Eliezer Kozlovski	252
In the old home and in Russia [Y]	Pesach Kozlovski	253
A walk around town	Fishel Gaber z”l	260
On the eve of destruction	Yosef Golombo z”l	266
Agricultural Co-operatives
The first agricultural co-operative in Oshmana	Eliyahu Schnitt	269
Jewish farmers in Oshmana [H & Y]	Moshe Becker	272-273
The “Jews of the soil”	M. S.	279
A tiny Jewish village z”l [H & Y]	Michael Peled	281-282
Oshmana and its Surroundings
The town Zhofran: The scholar and writer Philip Kranz	* * *	287-289
Krewe	Yehuda Levine	291
Destruction
The destruction of Oshmana	Hinda Daul z”l	297
Memories from the time of the Holocaust	Moshe Soltz	322
The ghetto in Oshmana	Rivka Levinsohn Shapira	331
The destruction of Oshmana	Shraga Feibushevitz	335
The destruction of Oshmana [Y]	Lea Omanuti-Levine	337
The Oshmana ghetto [Y]	Pesie Kostin	348
During the German Occupation [Y]	Ida Glick-Berman	351
In the claws of death [Y]	Lea Rodaschewski	354
In the ghetto and in the camps [Y]	Rieve Mechanitzki	363
The last time I saw my child [Y]	Sonia Druzgenitzky	369
In the clutch of the Germans [Y[	Hinde Kagan	371
The slaughter [Y]	Rivka Spatz	374
Memories	Tova Longin	376
Ghetto, camp and forest [Y[	Henia Sieger-Swirski	379
Details about the Milligan camp [Y]	Yehudit Kuler-Rosenthal	381
The sad total [Y]	Genia Tzeplinski	382
Escape from the camp [Y]	Dvora Kesselgrass-Alperowitz	384
The road of torture [Y[	Michael Davidsohn	385
The end of a home [Y]	Michael Baron	387
Leaving Oshmana; Surviving; The song of the ghetto; A lullaby	* * *	389-394
I saw your figure as through a fog	Dvora Koplowitz-Bedent	395
The ghetto in Oshmana	Lea Gershonowitz	396
Away to the woods	* * *	397
Rivka Yakov	Reuven Leonid	399
Arye Lyuba Sisskowitz	N. N.	400
About three, out of many...	Shulamit Dobrovski	401
Jewish partisans: a transcript	* * *	402-407
Oshmana after the Holocaust
My liberation [Y[	Tzipora Rosenthal-Kozlowski	423
After the liberation [H]	Lea Gershonowitz	430
After the liberation [Y]	Bella Karp-Greenstein	432
A visit to Oshmana after 27 years [H]	Shlomo Ben-Yehuda	435
The last visit to Oshmana [H]	Chana Lubetzki-Wiener	440
Oshmana after the Holocaust	Breina Kozlovski-Borovski	442
A visit to the parents' grave in the home-town [Y]	Y. Shmulevich	444
Figures
Former Oshmaner among the veteran settlers in Eretz Israel; R'Yitzhak Cohen z”l	Zeev Bakst	454-455
Learning	Yona Berkman	457
One who has not succeeded	Zeev Bakst	464
The Oshmana rabbi, R'Mordche'le and other personalities [Y]	Welvel Shogar	467
In memory of Avraham Strogatch z”l [H & Y]	Michael Peled	469-470
About a father and his son	Zvi Chadash	474
R'Lipe the blacksmith	Zelda Ziskind	477
The two brothers	Zvi Chadash	478
Hirshe'le	Pesie Kostin	479
Our Townspeople who Passed away and Those who Fell for the Defense of our Country
Chaim Tziplonski z”l	Michael Peled	483
Lea, the daughter of rabbi Menashe Shmulsohn z”l	Tova Berkman	484
In memory of Eliezer Itzkowitz	Zelda Ziskind	485
In memory of Dov Itzkowitz	Michael Peled	486
The synagogue in memory of R'Dov Itzkowitz z”l	David Weitzfeld	488
On the grave of R'Dov Itzkowitz z”l	Stern	489
In memory of Avraham Ben-Tzur	Michael Peled	490
A few words in memory of Yosef Golomba z”l	Hosea Soltz	491
A few words in memory of Dina Kaplanowitz	Michael Peled	493
Dina Kaplanowitz z”l	Achi Ronit	495
Dina Kaplanowitz z”l	Miriam Schmid	496
Dina Kaplanowitz z”l	Moshe Soroka	498
In memory of R'Eliezer Shmelsohn z”l; Words in memory of Bracha Rosind z”l	Michael Peled	500-501
Dov Schenkman z”l	* * *	502
Continuation
Our townspeople in the wide world and in Israel	Michael Peled	507
The Oshmaner Society in America [Y]	* * *	525
The Oshmaner Society in America [Y]	Aaaron Borowski	529
List of martyrs		533
Necrology		563-659
English Section
Introduction	Moshe Becker	7
Our Home-Town
The history of Oshmana	Hosea Soltz	13
Rabbi Mordechai Rosenblatt	Zeev Bakst	17
To the memory of Rav Gershon Gelbard	J. Gelbard	23
In front of a picture Album; Types of old men in Oshmana; The Gallery; A world of parting	Michael Peled	24-45
My village & my street	Zelda Ziskind	46
Jewish farmers in Oshmana	Moshe Becker	49
Oshmana - my home-town	Aliza Gofstein (Liza Kozlovsky)	54
Destruction of Oshmana
The Holocaust	Hinda Daul	59
Excerpts from “The Book of the Jewish Partisans”	* * *	74
The last time I saw my child	Sonia Druzgenitsky	82
I, too, could have been one of them	Aaron Borowsky	84
A visit to the parents' grave in the home-town	T. Shmulevich	86
Our people in Israel and in America
Our townsmen in the wide world and in Israel	Michael Peled	93
The Oshmaner Society in America		102
United Oshmaner Relief	Aaron Borowsky	106
Index to Names in Oshmana Memorial Book

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