Kurenets, Belarus

The Scroll of Kurzeniac
(Kurenets, Belarus)

54°33' / 26°57'

Translation of
Megilat Kurenits; ayara be-hayeha u-ve-mota

Edited by: A. Meyerowitz, Former Residents of Kurzeniec in Israel and in the USA

Published in Tel Aviv, 1956

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This is a translation from: Megilat Kurenits; ayara be-hayeha u-ve-mota; The scroll of Kurzeniac,
Editor: A. Meyerowitz, Tel Aviv, 1956, Former Residents of Kurzeniec in Israel and in the USA.

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Introduction to Megilat Kurenitz	Aaron Meirovich	4-7
The Gate	Baruch Zukerman	8-11
Should You Wish to Know		12-14
A Place of the Torah	Ysrael Isar Katzervitz	15-18
My Hometown	Rabbi Yakov Landau, Av Beit Din, B'nei Brak, a former Rabbi of Kurenets	20-34
Grandma Marisha	Max Alberts	35-38
During those Days	From a Memorial Book to Moshe Eliezer Kremer who died in the US	38-43
Images	David Krivitzky	44-48
The Big Boulder	Yosef Weiss	49-50
Matia, son of Pesach (Zavodnik)	Maris Cohen	51-53
Kurenitz (Poem)	David Krivitsky	53-54
Old Images	Yaakov Alpert son of Eliyau Alperovich	55-73
Impressions	Alter Zimmerman	74-80
A Little Bit From A Lot	Rabbi Itzhak Dov Oshpal	81-83
Self Defense	Levik son of Mendel Alperovich	84-85
From There to Now	David son of Leib Motosov	85-89
Beloved and Unforgettable Kurenets	Dov Benes	90-94
Lost Tunes	Yehoshua Alperovich	95-103
Beloved Person	Avraham Alperovich	104-105
A Few Lines	Tzvia née Cohen Even-Shoshan	106-107
The Tarbut School	Israel Gvint	108-115
Memories, Memories	Pesia née Taubes Norman	116-117
Illustrations	Avraham Dimmenstein	118-122
Dolhinov Street	Chaia Altman	123-124
From the Notebook of a Teenager	Itzhak Arieli son of Moshe Alperovich	125-127
A Miracle of Spring	Chana Alperovich	128-130
A Journey in Your Vistas	Aharon Meirovich	131-138

Part Two: In Your Shining Face

Your Youth and the Loveliness of Your Wedding Will Always be Remembered …
From the Siege I Saw You Soaked in Blood

My Hometown	Aharon Meirovich	141
My Ravished Home	Fayga Alperovich	142-146
Amongst the Fifty-Four	Yente née Dinerstein Rudnitsky Baranovitch	147-154
The Struggle to Survive	Wolf Zev Rabunksi	155-192
One Month	Yosef Zuckerman	193-197
Three Years	Itzhak son of Netta Zimmerman	198-229
A Little Drop	Yosef Friedman	230-233
In the Luben Farm	Nathan Alperovich	234-243
By the Nail of the Eradicator	Rivka Dudik daughter of Sima and Zalman Gvint	244-253
The Day of the Massacre	Tuvya Sosensky	254-255
In the market on the day of the slaughter	Avraham Bergstein	256
In the Vostok Territory	Abraham Aharon son of Naftali Alperovich	257-266
Resistance	Zalman Uri Gurevich	267-296

Part Three: On Hills of Dust

A Small Remnant	David Motosov	299-303
The Broken Limb	Sima Gvint	304-306
After the Liberation	Zev Rabunski	307-311
Bakatz	Aharon Meirovich	312-314

Part Four: A List of the Martyrs

List of the Martyrs

315-335

Part Five: Supplement

The Day the War Started in Grodno	Shimon Zimmerman
The Escape from the Ghetto	Jehoash Alperovich
Memories of Solomon	Shlomo Alperovich
Thus It Began	Nachum Alperovich
Memoir of infancy in the Vileyka camp	Wolf (Zev) Rabunski

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