Biezun, Poland

Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Biezun
(Bieżuń, Poland)

52°58' / 19°55'

Translation of
Sefer ha-zikaron le-kedoshei Biezun

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This is a translation of: Sefer ha-zikaron le-kedoshei Biezun (Memorial book of the martyrs of Biezun),
Ed. by the former residents of Biezun, Tel Aviv, 1956 (H, Y, 186 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Biezun

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Sefer ha-zikaron le-kedoshei Biezun

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

			Page
1	List of the martyrs		4
2	Foreword	Yigal Karmi (Weingarten)
3	From Biezun to Israel	Yeshayahu Yechiel Levinsohn (America)
4	* * * * *	Mordechai Carmel
5	My Town Biezun (a poem)	Mordechai Carmel
6	Biezun	Yosef Mittelsbach (Gevat)
7	Memories	Chanoch Binyamini
8	The destruction of Biezun	Nathan Pesse
9	* * * * *	Chaim Hertzig (America)
10	From hot beatings to the cold Siberia	Avraham Rabina
11	Memories	Devora Rosen
12	* * * * *	Mindze Kirschenbaum
13	Hasidism and Hasidim in Biezun	Yakov Nathan Levine
14	Memories from the town	Raza Yachimowitz
15	In the hell called Auschwitz-Birkenau	Eliyahu Shimon Hipka (Henyek)
16	An overview and memories	Yehuda Kelman (Gevat)
17	The name Biezun	Yosef Mondry (Afula)
18	My dream, which has not come true	Yakov Cohen (Ra'anana)

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