Wyszogrod, Poland

Wyszogrod,
Book to the Martyrs of Wyszogrod
(Poland)

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Translation of Wyszogrod, sefer zikaron le'kedoshei

Edited by: H. Rabin, former residents of Vishogrod

Published in Tel-Aviv, 1971

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator and Translator

Ada Holtzman z”l

This is a translation from: Wyszogrod, sefer zikaron le'kedoshei; Wyszogrod, book to the martyrs of Wyszogrod,
ed. H. Rabin. Tel Aviv, former residents of Vishogrod, 1971 (H,Y,E, 316 pages).

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The English Part Submitted by Lois Jolson; Edited by Ada Holtzman

Vishogrod History, Description and Values
Jewish Vishogrod	H. Rabin	3-6
Vishogrod, Town of "Schools"	N. Sokolov	7-9
The Vishogrod Synagogue	David Dawidowicz	9-11
I Remember	Bella Gutman (Zawierucha)	12-14
A Purim-Day in Vishogrod	Haim Aaron Grodsdorf	15
An episode (Related by David Lipman)	Haim Aaron Grodsdorf	15

The Holocaust

I Fought out my life by myself	Yitshak Pasterniak	16-19
From the diary	Natan Daicz	20-24
With Mengele	G. Zalcberg	24-28
The manager of the Moscow synagogue from Vishogrod	A. Holender	28-29
Haim Joseph Holender of Blessed memory	M. Silbershtein	29

Dynasties and Personages in Vishogrod

The Lipman family	N. Daicz	30-31
The Silbershtein dynasty	N. Daicz	31-32
My grandfather, R. Pinhas Levine of Blessed Memory	H. Levine	33-35
Yoske Levine of Belssed Memory	N. Daicz	35-37
The Last Rabbi of Vishogrod	M. Walfish	37-39
Avraham Meir Krongrad of Blessed Memory	P. Milineck	39-40

Liberation Movements

The Society of Vishogrod in America	M. Zilbershtein	41
The "Zionist Center"	D. Lipman	42
Zionism in Vishogrod	M. Zilbershtein	43-45
Beithar and the Youth Movements in Vishogrod	H. Levine	46-48
The cultural condition in Vishogrod in 1906	G. Lichtenshtein	48

The Hebrew Part Translated and edited by Ada Holtzman

Former Residents of Wyszogrod Organization in Israel (Time of its foundation and its activities)		5
Acknowledgment and a Message by the Editor		6

Wyszogrod the Town (History and Values)

Wyszogrod Sources and in the Wyszogrod Book (History and Data) Notes and an Introduction The beginning of the settlement in Wyszogrod Economic Life and Professions Community, judging and organization Sources	H. Rabin	9
Wyszogrod, Town of "Batei Midrash" Religious Schools (from "The Napoleon in the Ghetto")	N. Sokolov	14
Historical review	A. Pelz	16
The Wyszogrod Synagogue (from: "Synagogues in Poland and their Destruction", Mosad Harav Kook and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1960)	David Dawidowicz	17
The Rabbis of Wyszogrod (collected by A. Pelz) R' Dudl Burstein In Warsaw (R' Naftali Spiwak) The Community The religious personnel Rabbi R' Aszer Kamac Rabbi R' Jakob Dawid Biderman Rabbi R' Jecheskel Biderman Rabbi R' Jakob Dawid Biderman	N. L. Daicz	19

In the Storms of the Holocaust (Survivors' Testimonies)

List of the Deceased before the Holocaust, as Submitted by the Relatives		22
Wyszogroders in the Ghettoes 1.9.1939 06:00 4.9.1939 6.9.1939 8.9.1939 A day after Yom Kippur November 1939 Winter 1939 (the last session with the Rabbi of Wyszogrod) Kislev 20, 5700 (December 2^nd, 1939) Eyar 8, 5700 (May 16^th, 1940) - preparing the Ghetto Av 9, 5700 (August 13^th, 1940) Eve of Yom Kippur 5701 (October 11^th, 1940) 6.3.1941 The Ghetto in Wyszogrod Av 9, 5701 (August 2^nd, 1941) Our Ghetto in Nowy Dwor Summer 1942 Tuesday 26.10.1942 Thursday 9.12.1942 Saturday 11.12.1942 Sunday 12.12.1942 Monday 13.12.1942	Natan Daicz	23-31
On the Way to the Gas Chambers Monday 13.12.1942 Wednesday 15.12.1942 Buna Camp Again Birkenau Purim 1943 The Latrine Group	Natan Daicz	32-36
Cruel also in Dying 18.1.1945	Natan Daicz	36-38
Remember, person of Wyszogrod	Natan L. Daicz	39
A little boy in the days of horrors Again in Wyszogrod In Czerwinsk Birkenau	Abraham Icchak Popowski (the grandson of Chana Itta Knepelmacher)	40-47
Letters without addressee (to Fejgele) Slupia Nowa 10.4/41 Thursday 6.3./41 Slupia Nowa 12.4/41 Wyszogrod June 1941	Herszel (Cwi) Noiman	47-49
With Mengele Gypsies! The monster Dr. Mengele How Jews were burnt The revolt of the Jews in Auschwitz - Birkenau	G. Zalcberg (Nejdet)	50-55
A Bar Mitzva boy fights for his survival Slupia Nowa Wyszogrod again In Nowy Dwor The last deportation	Zecharia Prusak	55-57
Mauthhausen - Auschwitz - Berlin	Z. Bilgoraj	58-59
Wandering with Wyszogroders	Aron Iser Bilgoraj (Paris)	59-61
They do not leave also the dead in peace	From A. Pelz	61
From the first days	A. Pelz (from Neta Puterman)	62

Dynasties and Personages in Wyszogrod

The Life of Nahum Sokolov (parts from an article) Dates in N. Sokolov biography	I. Grinboim	65-67
My grandfather, R. Pinhas Levine of Blessed Memory	H. Levine	68-69
R' Chaim Aharon Ferszt	N. B. Rahim	70
R' Mosze Gurfinkel (R' Mosze Jakob Wolf's)	H. Rabin	71-72
R' Pinchas Hodes's	A. Pelz	72
R' Mosze Jakob Wolf's	A. Pelz	73-74
Avraham Meir Krongrad of Blessed Memory	P. Milineck	75-76
My father of blessed memory, in my memories and my brother	Towa Krinka (Krongrad)	76-77
My father and my grandfather of blessed memory	Abram Wizwieski	77-79
R' Ichel Gerszt	P. Milineck	79

The Paths of Liberation

Beithar and the Youth Movements in Wyszogrod	H. Levine	83-84
"The Mizrachi" in Wyszogrod	P. Milineck	85
"Agudat Israel"	P. Milineck	86-87
The movement of "Tzeirei Agudat Israel" - List of members in the 30s	Natan Yehuda Ben Sinai	90
"Agudat Israel"	A. Pelz	91

Our Dead in The State of Israel

The last from the Buki family (Szmuel who did not fear death)		95
Szlomo Blusztein (Among the first immigrants from Wyszogrod) Szlomo Blustein (from the archive of Kfar Malal)	H. Levine	96-97
Mosze Michal Zychlin (Man) of blessed memory	H. Levine	97
To the personality of Chanoch Blustein of blessed memory	Y. Presman, lieutenant colonel - commander of the military police	98
Chanoch Blustein of blessed memory Born 1927 killed on Tishrei 20,1950 (19.10.1949)	M. S. W.	98
Cwika Mann of blessed memory	Dina	99

Collection (at the end of the book)

A wedding in Wyszogrod	A. Pelz	101-102
A message from the editorial board		103-104
My Uncle S. Jolson	Lois Jolson	104
List of the Holocaust martyrs of the Jewish Community of Wyszogrod, Poland 1939 -1945		298
List of the Deceased after the Holocaust		314
A message from the editorial board		103-104
Captions: Images from Wyszogrod
Lists from Yiddish part Occupations Mlodziszyn - Necrology Yeshivot Bucher Our Wyszogrod Committees		131-135 173 229 243

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