Lodz, Poland

Yiddish Lodz; a Yizkor Book
(Łódź, Poland)

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Translation of
Yiddish Lodz; a Yizkor buch

Published by: Lodzer Center, Melbourne 1974

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This is a translation from: Yiddish Lodz; a Yizkor buch (Yiddish Lodz; a yizkor book),
Published by: Lodzer Center, Melbourne 1974 (H, Y 256 pages).

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Lodz (1974)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Foreword		7
Justification	A. Tzikert	9
The Jewish Lodz	Y. Kersch	11

LODZ BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
My hometown Lodz	Y. Aktroni	21
Literary Profiles	Y. Aktroni	32
Jewish doctors	Dr. H. Rozhaner	47
Lodz - as I remember it	S. Rogozhinski	50
A memorial candle for the second High-School in Lodz	Rav Dr. Y. Rapaport	65
The Lodz Drama Studio “Hazamir” [the nightingale]	M Schlezinger	73
Excerpts from the theater lexicon	M. Silberzweig	76
Jewish printers	Y. Landsberg	78
The Lodz Jewry	A. Zimmerman	81
Do not Ask … (poem)	A. Zimmerman	82
The Jewish press in Lodz	(based on) C. L. Fuchs	83
Jewish journalists in the Polish press	(Stefan Kalos)	86

THE DESTRUCTION OF LODZ
A chronicle from the Lodz Ghetto	M. Eisenbod	89
This is the way we lived	A.Tzikert	106
Children in the ghetto	Sheva Glass-Wiener	124
The cultural life in the Lodz ghetto	M. Byalikover	132
The “radio listeners” in the ghetto	M. Byalikover	136
We must not lose our humanity	A. Biederman	139
The struggle for life	A. Weinberg	140
38 girls from the Lodz ghetto	P. Rosenblum-Perelman	143
A Jew in the Lodz ghetto	H. Bermitz	146
Remarks	Genia Bornstein	148
For the sake of honoring father and mother	Y. Einhorn	154
My memories	A Wischnyewska	157
Even the ruins went up in flame	Y. Rosenberg	159
Two poems	Y. Rosenberg	162
My ruined home (poem)	W. H. Even	163
The fate of two Ghetto writers	Y. Spiegel	164
Two poems	Y. Spiegel	167
B. Wiener; Y. Poznanski	Exerpts from diaries	168
Rain… rain… rain… (poem); music B. Kalusziner	Ch. Rosenfarb	172
David Cholodenko (Neta Isserov)	B. Racheson	176
A memorial candle (poem); music B. Kalusziner	Mordechai Yolis	177

LODZ AFTER THE WAR
After the war….	S. Rogozhinski	187
The history of the monument in Lodz	Ben-Israel	198
A monument to remember the six million martyrs (Melbourne)		201

TO THE MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS
Matityahu (Max) Haber z”l		203
R'Shlomo (Baruch) Hirsch z”l		204
Yizkor		207
“El Male Rahamim” [prayer for the dead]	A. Tzikert	209

LIST OF MARTYRS

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