Rozhishche, Ukraine

Rozyszcze, My Old Home
(Rozhyshche, Ukraine)

50°55' / 25°16'

Translation of
Rosyszcze ayarti

Edited by: Gershon Zik

Published in 1976

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This is a translation from: Rozyszcze ayarati (Rozyszcze my old home), Editors: Gershon Zik, Tel Aviv,
Societies in Israel, the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina, 1976 (H,Y,E, 558 pages).

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Geography and History 9

The Jewish Community 15

Religious and Cultural Life 21

Life Under the Soviets

The Soviets Arrive in Rozhishch Daniel Golombka 26

The Great Escape Moshe Grabarski 28

In the Soviet Period Zvi Roiter 29

The Soviet Period in the Surrounding Villages Pnina Korn 29

The Nazis Enter Rozhishch

June 22, 1941, the Germans Come to Rozhishch Berl (Dov) Schneider 31

A Child Watches the Germans Enter Rozhishch Zvi Roiter 32

The Rozhishch Ghetto Berl Schneider 33

In the Ghetto Zvi Roiter 34

Destruction of the Ghetto Berl Schneider 35

The Bitter End Eva Tuzhinska Trauenstein 36

The Last Kol Nidre in Trochimbrod 39

In Hiding 40

Wandering Zipporah Rosen (Faige Sher) 42

Persecution by Ukrainians Sarah Zuckerman 43

My Sister Charna Shoshana Hadash 43

The Extermination of the Jews in the Villages

Kopachivke Moshe Rabin and a lady survivor 45

Chetvertnya Fanya Rosenblatt 45

Berezolup Pnina Koren (Torchiniuk) 49

Last Will and Testament 52

Rozhishchers All Over the World

Rozhishchers Today 53

The Saga of the Peppers Avner Bachmiell 54

Rozhishcher Societies

The Rozhishch Society in Israel 67

The Rozhishch Society in the United States of America 71

The First Rozhishcher Benevolent Association 72

The Rozhishch Society in Canada 73

Rozhishch Society in Brazil 76

Rozhishch Society in Argentina 76

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