Pabianice, Poland

. Memorial Book of Pabianice
(Pabianice, Poland)

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Translation of Sefer Pabianice

Edited by: A. W. Yassni

Published in Tel Aviv, 1956

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This is a translation from: Sefer Pabianice, (Memorial Book of Pabianice),
Edited by A. W. Yassni and the former residents of Pabianice in Israel, 1956 (Hebrew, Yiddish, 419 pages).

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund (Yiddish) and by Sara Mages (Hebrew)

Title Author Page

Foreward III

The Jewish Settlement Until the First World War

“Megilus” Pabiance [Scroll of Pabiance] M. W. Kochman 13

The Jewish Pabiance Engineer D. Dawidowicz 36

First Pabiance Public School for Jewish Children M. W. Kochman 58

Jewish Pabiance at the beginning of this century Josef Bialik 60

Old Wooden School in Pabiance Area Engineer D. Dawidowicz 64

Jewish Weavers Yehoshua Birnbaum 71

Memories of My Childhood Years Fishl Rozensztajn 78

The Religious Life: Hasidim, Rebbes and Charitable Societies

The Religious Life Moshe Jakubowicz 85

The Institution “Or Torah” [Light of Torah] of Pabiance Naftali Krul 93

Lask – the Neighboring “Kehile” [organized Jewish community] Engineer D. Dawidowicz 97

“Bikur Kholim” [Care for the Sick] and “Linas HaTzedek” [assistance for the sick] Dovid Papiernik 105

“Malbish Arumim” [clothing the naked] Society Moshe Kahan 107

Reb Avraham – the “Gemara Melamad” [Talmud teacher] Yitzhak Grynsztajn 109

Tales of Pabiance Avraham Wajz 117

Communal-Party Activity and the Struggle for Workers' Rights

The beginning of the Zionist activity in our town Josef Bialik 127

The Zionist revolution in the “Gerer Shtibel” Moshe Kahan 137

Poalei-Zionist Activity in the Struggle for Worker Rights Moshe Banet 145

In the Years after the First World War Chaim Papiernik 178

In the Last Period of the Second World War Shlomo Szmiali 182

“Hashomer HaTzair” [Socialist Zionist] Movement D. Ben Josef 185

The Revisionist Movement Gershon Rajchman 191

“Keren Hakayemet Le'Israel” [The Jewish National Fund] Battalion Gershon Rajchman 195

Military Liberation for Jews Gershon Rajchman 199

Maccabi [Jewish Sports Movement] Gershon Rajchman 200

The Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank M. Kochman 202

Culture and School Activities

Hebrew High School Engineer Yitzhak Gilin-Z'linski 209

Cultural Institutions and the Pabiancer Zeitung [newspaper] Dovid D. 217

The “HaZamir” [Choral Organization] in Pabiance Wolf Bresler 221

“HaZamir” [Choral Organization] During the Years 1933-1939 Yakov Grynsztajn 223

Personalities from Jewish Pabiance 227

Reb Moshe Adler, Reb Eliyahu Banet, Hersh Josef Giske, Nusan Golas, Shmuel Dovid Grynsztajn. Reb Josef Dawidowicz, Reb Yakov Wigacki, Asher Winter, Reb Yakov Jakubowicz, The Khazan [cantor] Reb Yeramayu Winderownik, Mordekhai Chamora, Gershon Leib Pakin, Reb Henikh Rajchman, Dr. Josef Ben Regn (Szurcuser), Dr. Shmuel Szenker, Dwoyra Szerodzka-Kiak. Followers of the Enlightenment, Artists and Writers H. L. Czitnicki

A “Sefer” [book, usually a religious one] 282

Sons of the Pabiancer Jews and the War of Independence in the Land of Israel

Avraham Ben Henokh (Frajman), Shimon Ahron Grynberg, Ben-Tzion Ariyeh 289

In the “Gehenom” [hell] of Extermination and Death

The Song of Shlomo Czelichowski Yitzhak Katzenelson 301

R’ Mendali from Piabance is going to Treblinka M. Prager 305

The First Months Under the Nazi Occupation Dr. T. Sasna-Lipczic 309

We Survived the German Extermination A testimony 313

From Pabiance to the Zbąszyń Torture Camp Moshe Herszman and A. T. Kochman 328

How I Survived the War Yehoshua Birnbaum 331

People's Kitchen for Pabiancer in Occupied Warsaw Ruchl Abramczyk-Alawieski 343

Pabiance Partisan in the White Russian (Belarus) Forests Yakov Grynsztajn 345

News/Information in the Press of Eretz-Yisroel about the German Extermination of Jews in Pabiance D. Dawidowicz 384

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Pabiance Jews in the Wide World (Landsmanschaftn [societies of people from the same town]) 391

Final Remarks. Observations A. Wolf Jasni 414

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Title	Author	Page
Foreward		III

The Jewish Settlement Until the First World War
“Megilus” Pabiance [Scroll of Pabiance]	M. W. Kochman	13
The Jewish Pabiance	Engineer D. Dawidowicz	36
First Pabiance Public School for Jewish Children	M. W. Kochman	58
Jewish Pabiance at the beginning of this century	Josef Bialik	60
Old Wooden School in Pabiance Area	Engineer D. Dawidowicz	64
Jewish Weavers	Yehoshua Birnbaum	71
Memories of My Childhood Years	Fishl Rozensztajn	78

The Religious Life: Hasidim, Rebbes and Charitable Societies
The Religious Life	Moshe Jakubowicz	85
The Institution “Or Torah” [Light of Torah] of Pabiance	Naftali Krul	93
Lask – the Neighboring “Kehile” [organized Jewish community]	Engineer D. Dawidowicz	97
“Bikur Kholim” [Care for the Sick] and “Linas HaTzedek” [assistance for the sick]	Dovid Papiernik	105
“Malbish Arumim” [clothing the naked] Society	Moshe Kahan	107
Reb Avraham – the “Gemara Melamad” [Talmud teacher]	Yitzhak Grynsztajn	109
Tales of Pabiance	Avraham Wajz	117

Communal-Party Activity and the Struggle for Workers' Rights
The beginning of the Zionist activity in our town	Josef Bialik	127
The Zionist revolution in the “Gerer Shtibel”	Moshe Kahan	137
Poalei-Zionist Activity in the Struggle for Worker Rights	Moshe Banet	145
In the Years after the First World War	Chaim Papiernik	178
In the Last Period of the Second World War	Shlomo Szmiali	182
“Hashomer HaTzair” [Socialist Zionist] Movement	D. Ben Josef	185
The Revisionist Movement	Gershon Rajchman	191
“Keren Hakayemet Le'Israel” [The Jewish National Fund] Battalion	Gershon Rajchman	195
Military Liberation for Jews	Gershon Rajchman	199
Maccabi [Jewish Sports Movement]	Gershon Rajchman	200
The Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank	M. Kochman	202

Culture and School Activities
Hebrew High School	Engineer Yitzhak Gilin-Z'linski	209
Cultural Institutions and the Pabiancer Zeitung [newspaper]	Dovid D.	217
The “HaZamir” [Choral Organization] in Pabiance	Wolf Bresler	221
“HaZamir” [Choral Organization] During the Years 1933-1939	Yakov Grynsztajn	223
Personalities from Jewish Pabiance		227
Reb Moshe Adler, Reb Eliyahu Banet, Hersh Josef Giske, Nusan Golas, Shmuel Dovid Grynsztajn. Reb Josef Dawidowicz, Reb Yakov Wigacki, Asher Winter, Reb Yakov Jakubowicz, The Khazan [cantor] Reb Yeramayu Winderownik, Mordekhai Chamora, Gershon Leib Pakin, Reb Henikh Rajchman, Dr. Josef Ben Regn (Szurcuser), Dr. Shmuel Szenker, Dwoyra Szerodzka-Kiak. Followers of the Enlightenment, Artists and Writers	H. L. Czitnicki
A “Sefer” [book, usually a religious one]		282

Sons of the Pabiancer Jews and the War of Independence in the Land of Israel
Avraham Ben Henokh (Frajman), Shimon Ahron Grynberg, Ben-Tzion Ariyeh		289

In the “Gehenom” [hell] of Extermination and Death
The Song of Shlomo Czelichowski	Yitzhak Katzenelson	301
R’ Mendali from Piabance is going to Treblinka	M. Prager	305
The First Months Under the Nazi Occupation	Dr. T. Sasna-Lipczic	309
We Survived the German Extermination	A testimony	313
From Pabiance to the Zbąszyń Torture Camp	Moshe Herszman and A. T. Kochman	328
How I Survived the War	Yehoshua Birnbaum	331
People's Kitchen for Pabiancer in Occupied Warsaw	Ruchl Abramczyk-Alawieski	343
Pabiance Partisan in the White Russian (Belarus) Forests	Yakov Grynsztajn	345
News/Information in the Press of Eretz-Yisroel about the German Extermination of Jews in Pabiance	D. Dawidowicz	384
*
Pabiance Jews in the Wide World (Landsmanschaftn [societies of people from the same town])		391
Final Remarks. Observations	A. Wolf Jasni	414