Wysokie-Mazowieckie Sefer Zikaron

Wysokie-Mazowieckie; Memorial Book
(Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland)

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Translation of Wysokie-Mazowieckie; sefer zikaron

Edited by: I. Rubin – Wysikie-Mazowieckie Society

Published in Tel Aviv 1975 (H, Y, E)

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This is a translation from: Wysokie-Mazowieckie; sefer zikaron. Wysokie-Mazowieckie; Memorial Book
ed. I. Rubin, Tel Aviv, Wysokie-Mazowieckie Society, 1975 (H, Y, E)

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Note: nearly every chapter is both in Hebrew and in Yiddish

Contents		Pages

Foreword [Y]	D.K.	8
Foreword [H]	D.K.	9
Notes on the History of Wysokie–Mazowieckie [Y]		11
Notes on the History of Wysokie–Mazowieckie [H]		16
Our Town in 1905–1918 [Y]	Dov Kaspi	19
Our Town in 1905–1918 [H]	Dov Kaspi	31
The Polish Boycott of Jewish Commerce in Wysockie–Mazowieckie	Natanel Zilberstein	48
Pogroms Against the Jews of Wysokie–Mazowieckie in 1920		51
The First Zionist Emigrants to the Land of Israel		53
The Beginnings of the Mizrachi Movement in Wysokie–Mazowieckie		56
Between the Two World Wars		57
Photographs		68
A Town that Has Everything	Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kaplan	84
The Pogrom in Wysokie–Mazowieckie, 1936		86
The Trial		98
Wysokie on the Eve of the Holocaust	Moshe	111
Photographs		118
Fragments of Memory	Ya'akov Nitzevitsh–Nitzan	126
Two Poems	Sarah Tuvia	129
Jablonka My Shtetl	Arie Wajsbord	130
Notable Rabbis and Scholars in Wysokie–Mazowieckie: Rabbi Gaon Meir HaLevi HURVITS Rabbi Gaon Eliezer Shlomo VELER Rabbi Gaon Ayzik Ya'akov VELER Rabbi Aharon Ya'akov PERLMAN (may God avenge his blood) Rabbi and Auxiliary Rabbi Yisr'ael Khayim OLSHA Rabbi Gershon BROIDE (may his memory be for a blessing) Rabbi Ya'akov SLODKI (may God avenge his memory) Rabbi Eliezer (Leyzer) Yehuda BOIMAN (may God avenge his blood) The writer Menakhem Mendel Litevka	Moshe Tsinovitsh	138

Jewish Personalities

Khayim Bar–Nakhum (may his memory be for a blessing)		145
Yeshayahu Kaspi (may his memory be for a blessing)		146
Aryeh Viekha (may his memory be for a blessing), 1906–1974		148
Three who Fell Eliyahu Grinshteyn Yekhezkel Fridman Natan Krupinski		149
The Jewish Community of Wysokie–Mazowieckie	Israel Inbari (Bursztejn)	153

The Holocaust

Testimonies
Under the Nazi Regime in Wysokie–Mazowieckie	Natan Krupinski	164
The destruction of the Jewish Community of Wysokie Mazowiecki	Avraham-Berl Sokol	169
What I Experienced at the Zambrow Concentration Camp and other concentration camps	Avraham-Berl Sokol	174
The Zambrów Camp		185
Evidence	Zelda Katsarevitsh	186
The Destruction of Wysokie	Yaffa Rozenberg, Leah Zolotolov, Reyzl Vaynberg	189
Plowmen have plowed over my back…	Leymka Plishko	195
The Cry “Mommy, Daddy” Still Rings in my Ears	Pesach Segal (may his memory be for a blessing)	218
Like Thunder on a Clear Day	Avraham Hirshfeld	225
The “Miracle” in Moscow	Shimon Kahanovitsh (may his memory be for a blessing)	231
My Town, Wysokie–Mazowieckie	Motl Ptashevitsh	245
Pictures		248

The Martyrs List of the Holy Communities of Wysokie Mazowiecki and Jablonka May God Revenge Their Blood

Wysokie Mazowiecki		251
Jablonka		267

The English Part

Early history		280
Between the two World Wars		277
The Holocaust		275

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