Translated by Yocheved Klausner

There Once was a Shtetl [town]
Foreword	The Editorial Board	7
Foreword [Y]	The Editorial Board	8
To our children		11
The mound that turned into a Monument	R. Raverman	12
Targovica my town	I. Zakay (Fierer)	17
The Sabbath in Targovica	A. Rosenfeld	20
A wedding in town	D. Maranz	24
A cry of vengeance (poem)	R. Raverman	26
Remember	Dr. Dvorzhetzki	29
Life and Customs
History of Targovica	R. Raverman	33
Our town Targovica	D. Maranz	38
I miss my town [Y]	I. Riez	46
Jewish life in town [Y]	I. Danyuk	49
My Universities	A. Rosenfeld	56
Jewish festivals and holidays in town	A. Hurwitz	60
A wedding in town [Y]	B. Schreiber	63
Landscapes and figures in Targovica	R. Raverman	66
The rabbi's last road	R. Raverman	93
Danger and self-defense	R. Raverman	101
New times in town	D. Maranz	103
Occupations that have disappeared	R. R.	112
The lake	A. Blovstein	116
Targovica - mountains and mud [Y]	M. Steinkroyn	117
Entertainement on the Hill	A. Blovstein	119
Memories	I. Korotki	121
A story about Rav Itzi-Meir of Trisk	I. Zazola	123
A visit in 1937 [Y]	S. Pressman-Galin	124
On Targovica (poem) [Y]	I. Riez	125
Memorial Days	R. R.	128
Figures and Landscapes
Our great rabbi R'Mordechai-Neta z”l	R. R.	137
My uncle, R'Mordechai-Neta	I. Zakay	139
The last rabbi of Targovica - R'Hershel Ackerman	R. R	141
In memory of R'Meir Feldman	S. Mandelkern	142
Eli Yunitzman's family	D. M. Maranz	142
The Shlomo and Feige Bondik family	D. Maranz	148
I remember Targovica	Feiga Alperin	151
The house on the hill	G. Yakirewitz	152
The Melamed R'Yechiel-Moshe Maranz	B. Shemesh	153
Targovica landscapes [Y]	I. L. Feldman	156
The landscapes of my town	Z. Huarshtock-Hurwitz	159
Figures in town	Sara Ben-Yaakov z”l	161
Portraits in my town:	Reuven	163
a. R'Meir Feldman - cantor, and R'Dudi Misonzhik		164
b. Moshe Felex - teacher and educator		165
c. Nachtzi and Binyamin Bernstein		172
d. Chaim (Munili) Feldman		175
e. Aharon Perlok and Brili Sosies		178
f. The born rebel and his tragic death		179
g. Gitl Sade - the zealous communist		182
h. The death of a converted to Christianity		183
i. The Fidomi Family		185
“Activities” in the Beit Hamidrash	I. Riez	188
Home and Family
Families in town	D. Maranz	191
From a large family [Y]	Bracha Ber	197
My home and my parents	Yehudit Zakay	198
About our home	Hershel Danyuk	205
Grandmother Freide	Adek	208
My family	Binyamin Shemesh	212
The demons' hut	I. Zakay	216
Our family, the Raverman family	Michael and Reuven	217
The Israel and Mia Geller family	A. Blovstein	229
Feivish Schulman and his family	B. Schulman	231
In memory of my brother Leibish and his family	A. Hurwitz	236
At home and Outside	Dudi Kimchi (Melman)	238
In memory of two families	Asher Geller	243
Shaye the blacksmith	Munia Schreiber	249
My parents [Y]	Fishel Bodnik	253
The Yehoshua Yonik family	Esther Green	255
The Yonik family	Sara Ben-Yaakov z”l	256
R'Yakov Yosef and Tobrita Yunik	Arie Ben-Yosef	259
The history of the Krupnik family	Arie Ben-Yosef	263
Holocaust
From Panschina to Sovietization	R. R.	269
The day of the fateful declaration	R. R.	275
Slaughter at dusk and retreat of the Soviets	R. R.	278
The first massacre	R. R.	282
After the first slaughter	R. R.	289
The horror of those days	Peretz Sade	292
We left Targovica	A. Geller	299
Away from Targovica [Y]	P. Bodnik	300
Between life and death	N. Yinitzman	302
Why have we not run away?	Peretz Sade	304
The “Judenrat” and the “Ordnungstdienst”	R. R.	306
Studinka - a labor camp	R. R.	308
A day in the Ostrozhetz ghetto	R. R.	312
Our town as a ghetto	I. Kieperman	317
Like haunted animals in the forest	R. R.	320
Between despair and hope	R. R.	338
Wandering in the shadow of death	R. R.	345
“Penska-Dolina” - a place of refuge	R. R.	349
The annihilation of a family	R. R.	352
In the Holocaust [Y]	Mordechai Kishka z”l	357
The fight for survival [Y]	Sara Kishka	360
From the land of terror to the mass grave	Zvi (Hershel) Danyuk	362
There Are No More Jews in Targovica
Targovica in ruins	Adek	369
With my brother in the destroyed town [Y]	P. Budnik	371
In my town after the destruction [Y]	Yakov Danyuk	373
A Memorial for Those who Died in our Country
R'Bentzi and Bluma Hurwitz		377
In memory of Feiga Yunitzman	Menker Yael	379
A profile of Sara Yunik	Yona Ben-Yaakov Avira	381
Bat-Sheva (Lota) Spodek	Rina Meshy	382
In memory of Nechemia Yunik	Rachel	384
In memory of Moshe Blovstein	A. Blovstein	385
Avraham and Eliahu See	A. Blovstein	387
One who cried in vain for revenge (in memory of M. Kishka)	R. R.	388
Memorial
A memorial	Reuven	393
In memory of he Likwornik family	Ida Fliter	395
In memory of he Eisengart family	Ida Fliter	397
The Ferdman family	Z. Huarstock-Hurwitz	398
In memory of my family	N. Goldberg	399
The Hilel-Zev Brik family	M. Feldman	400
Our beloved [Y]	Peretz (Ben-Itzi) Sade	401
My family [Y]	Itzik Zazola	402
My family in the holocaust [Y]	Meir Lichter	403
My home [Y]	M. Steinkorn	404
Even work did not save from death	Munia and Avraham Geller	405
In memory of my beloved [Y]	P. Budnik	409
The survivor of the slaughter who fulfilled his vow (in memory of Moshe Ben Meir and Perl Wasserman)	Adek	410
Memorial Photographs		414
Memorial Pages		419
Family memorial days		441
Index of photographs		443
Table of Contents		447
Errata		451
To our Children [English]		452

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