Byten, Belarus

Memorial book of Byten
(Byten, Belarus)

52°53' / 25°30'

Translation of Pinkas Byten

Edited by D. Abramowich, M.W. Bernstein

Published in Buenos Aires, 1954

Acknowledgments

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This is a translation from: Pinkas Byten (Memorial book of Byten),
ed. D. Abramowich, M.W. Bernstein, and the Former Residents of Byten in Argentina, 1954 (Pages 593, Y)

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

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

The Fall of the Jewish Town Byten (Yizkor)	Dodl Abramovitsh	1
Our Shtetele [Little Town]	Shimeon Rodel	5
To the History of the Jewish Community in Byten	Mordekhai Bernshteyn	7
Memories of My Former Home	Sh. Z. Vilentshik	39
Memories from the Beginning of the 20th Century	A. Z. Jablok	58
Byten, My Shtetele [Little Town]	Y. M. Rabnovitsh	61
Rabbi Mordekhai	M. Mishkin	71
A Rabbi, A Glazier	A. Litvin	77
Reb Leibe the Shoykhet [Ritual Slaughterer]	Yitzhak-Ahron Hurvits	80
Yakov-Shaua Bulonski	M. Zeldyn	83
Shadows From My Childhood	Reyzl Glas-Fenster	88
Beyond the Stream	Aba Kogan	94
Memories of Byten	The Rabbi Tafeld	97
Byten During the War Years 1914-1920	D. Abramovitsh	109
Vatsevitsh (Iwacevicze)	Y.L. Abramovitsh	115
Though I Walk in the Valley of the Shadow of Death	Perl B. Davidovski	141
Economic Relations in Jewish Byten	Avraham Abramovski	147
American Support	M. Bytenski	153
A Cultural Institution with a 40-Year Lineage	"	163
And Thus We Built	Y. L. Abramovitsh	175
My Bytener Melamdim [Teachers]	Sh. Lyubetkin	188
Byten in the 1939 September Days	Dovid Abramovitsh	193
Thus the Jewish Community in Byten Perished	Moshe Pitkovski	207
Ballad of the Years of Annihilation	Y. L. Abramovitsh	318
Destruction and Resistance	Dodl Abramovitsh	321
Puzeviche Camp	Shmuel Ostrometski	413
In Those Times	Y. Yuzhelevski	431
Between the Agony of Death and Death	Meir Yafe	443
In the Forest	Yudl Berkner	467
What I Saw	Mordekhai Minkovitsh	477
The Last Farewell	Zelda Goldin-Bernshteyn	488
My Path of Suffering in the Ghetto and the Forest	Dvoshe Neshkes-Abramovitsh	498
Instead of a Matzevah [Headstone]	Meir Yafe	523
Chaim Yudkovski	"	528
Nachum Yuzhelevski	"	534
A Candle to the Soul of My Mother	Dodl	535
The Ravitski Brothers	D. A.	538
Michal Ahron Kushnirovski	Y. L. A	541
Sonia Tshemelinski-Novogrodzki	Tsile Yesshor	542
Sana Pripshtein	"	545
Our Friend Roza	Shloma Yudkowski	546
Reb Ahron Abramovitsh	"	549
The Dead Speak	"	550
Memorial Lists a) Those Who Perished During the Three Slaughters and in the Fields and Forests b) Byteners Who Perished in Our Cities and Shtetlekh [Towns] c) Refugees from Poland who Perished in Byten		553
You Are With Us!…	Shimeon Rodel	591
Our Survivors - Surviving Partisans and Others		593
Letters From Survivors		597
And We Still Will	Shimeon Rodel	607

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