Lipno, Poland

Book of Lipno, Skepe, Lubicz and Vicinity
(Lipno, Poland)

52°50' / 19°12'

Translation of
Sefer Lipno, Skepe, Lubicz ve-ha-sevivah

Edited by Shmuel Alon (Domb)

Published in Tel Aviv, 1988

Acknowledgments

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This is a translation from Sefer Lipno, Skepe, Lubicz ve-ha-sevivah; Book of Lipno, Skepe, Lubicz and Vicinity
ed. Shmuel Alon (Domb). Tel Aviv: Society of former residents of Lipno and Vicinity, 1988

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

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Table of Contents

Translated by Sara Mages

Title	Author	Page

Map of Lipno and the vicinity		5
Lipno city plan		6
List of streets, organizations and other sites		8
Introduction		13
Introduction [Y]		15
A Word from the Editor		17
A Word from the Editor [Y]		19

The City and the Jewish Community

Lipno, the city and the community	S. Alon (Domb)	25
A. Introduction to the History of the city and the community		25
B. The city and the community in the 20^th century		40
The Town and the Jewish Community	G. Avigdori	104

Memories and Experiences

Memories from Lipno [Y]	M. Shoenberg	117
Yizkor to my hometown	Z. Borenshtein	135
Poems	Z. Borenshtein	144
A melody of our Lipno [Y]	W. Kovadlo	146
Lipno our Hometown [Y]	Y. Dobzinski	152
School of Commerce	N. Borenshtein	161
My Street	S. Alon	163
The Jewish Community of Lipno	Y. Klodevski	179

Figures

My father my teacher of blessed memory	S. Alon	183
Yehezkel Roznovitch of blessed memory	S. Alon	187
Avraham Levkovitz of blessed memory	S. Alon	190
Arye Gotenberg	Y. Levin	193

Parties and Youth Movements

“Hanoar Hatzioni”	A. Klodevski	197
In memory of the members of “Betar”	Y. Aharoni	203
“Hashomer Hatzair”	G. Avigdori	205
“HeHalutz”	P. Adler	207
In the Lipno’s company	Y. Herbstman	210
“HeHalutz HaMizrachi”	Y. Klodevski	214

War and Holocaust

A Prayer by the Ark of Ashes	Y. Gutterman	222
A Prayer by the Ark of Ashes [Y]	Y. Guttermann	225
The Beginning of the Destruction and Holocaust	G. Avigdori	228
Letters of Isar Eurbach		234
Letters of Moshe Biederka		241
A word about Moshe Biederka and life in Russia	M. Grosman	245
The German rule over our town	Y. Klodovsky	249
Chapters of Horror	T. Goldblum	251
How I survived hell	D. Weiser	255
My brother and I during the war	R. Lubelski	257
Did I go though this?	M. Kribitzky	261
My experiences during the war	Z. Goldberg	275
In the party and the French Army	D. Schwartz	281
How was Memorial Day set	A. H. Pudder	282
The Poles in Lipno tell about Holocaust	S. A.	283
Lipno after the Holocaust	S. A.	287
The Lipno Landsmanshaft in Israel	S. A.	289
The Lipno Landsmanshaft in the US	S. A.	292

In Memory of the Dead

Names of soldiers who fell in the battle over Poland		295
Necrology – Lipno, Skampe and Kikol		297
Businesses in Lipno

The English Section

Table of Contents		I
A word from the editor		II
A prayer at the Ark of Ash	Y. Gutterman	V

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