Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Opening	Yitzhak Alperowitz	7
Foreword	The Book Committee	9
Episodes from the Past
The History of Lomazy		13
The Blood Libel in Rossosz		14
Lomazy in the “Council of the Four Lands” in Lithuania		16
R'Moshe b'Mordechai from Lomazy, the representative and Head Lobbyist of all the Jews of Poland		18
The Rav R'Shaul		20
The Jewish Settlement in Lomazy in the Second Half of the 19th Century		21
Lomazy under Polish Rule until the Outbreak of WWII		23
General Haller's Soldiers “are enjoying themselves”		24
A Jewish Family in the Dukodow Village		25
Following the Press -- Life in Lomazy		28
The “Mizrahi” and “Hashomer Hadati” organizations in Lomazy	Shifra Spokoyny	29
Asher Tzidon (Federhaar)		31
The Drama Group		32
Memories From the Old House	Chaim Spokoyny	33
The General Polish School in Lomazy	Shifra Spokoyny	34
The Rav R'Yitzhak Dov Grinberg - the Last Rabbi of Lomazy		36
The Slaughterer and Cantor Menachem Mendel		37
The Second World War and the Downfall of Lomazy
On the Roads to the East		38
The Roads of Torment During the War Years	Chaim Spokoyny	41
The “Teheran Children"	Chaia Kestenbaum (Koifman)	45
Lomazy during the Tragic Years of Destruction 1939-42		46
Leib Apelbaum - fighter of the Jewish Military Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto		53
Holocaust and Bravery
The Fight Against the Germans	Efraim Apelbaum	61
In a German Prison Camp as a British POW	Testimony of Aharon Goldzweig	68
In the Memory of a Soldier and Fighter who Fell in Battle	Tzipora Chayat (Tennenbaum)	71
The Bitter Summary of the Jewish Lomzy
The Trial of the Nazis who Tortured and Murdered the Lomazy Jews		72
The Activity of the Former Lomazy Residents Organizationin Israel		77
The Former Lomazy Residents Israel		80
Simcha Apelbaum's Speech at the Innauguration of the Monument in Memory of the Lomazy and Rossosz Martyrs in the Holon Cemetery on 6 September 1981		83
Yiddish Section
Lomazy in the Far and Near Past
The History of the Jews in Lomazy		89
Lomazy in the “Council of the Four Lands” in Lithuania		91
R'Moshe b'Mordechai from Lomazy, the representative and Head Lobbyist of all the Jews of Poland		94
Lomazy in the Years 1826-1855		97
The Rav R'Yakov Epstein		100
The Rav R'Elyakim Getzl Noah Somberg, Head of the Rabbinic Court in Lomazy and Ostrow		101
The Lomazy Jewish Community before WWI		102
The Rav R'Yakov-Yosef Batchkowski		105
Lomazy Between the Two World Wars
The Activity of the Lomazy Community Between the Two World Wars		106
Memories From Lomazy	Yitzhak Spokoyny	112
Lomazy, Our Birthplace	Yitzhak ben Daniel	114
The Growth of the Cultural Life in Lomazy	Mendel Berman	116
The Charity Fund in Lomazy		121
The “Cultural League” in Lomazy		124
The Tailors' Union in Lomazy	Mendel Berman	126
The Youngest Councilman in the Biala City Council - a Man from Lomazy		129
The Tragedy of the Split		135
Lomazy in the Mirror of the Press		137
The Second World War
Lomazy at the Beginning of the War		140
A Journal from the Days of War	Yitzhak Schwarz	145
A Soldier in the Red Army and in the PALMAH	Asher Tennenbaum	151
To the Memory of our Brother Berl Apelbaum		154
In the German Prison Camp	Baruch Goldscher	158
The Holocaust
The Song of the Murdered Nation	Yitzhak Katzenelson	166
Driven by Jew-Hate	Peretz Kaufman	167
My Escape from the Murder Site in the Lomazy Forest	Baruch Goldscher	170
My Experiences in the German Concentration Camps	Rivka Schwarz (Wunderbaum)	175
Lomazy During the Tragic Destruction Years 1939-42		184
Lomazy After the Destruction
The Trial of the Nazi Criminals, who have Tortured and Murdered the Jews in Lomazy		197
The Exhuming of the Lomazy Martyrs		201
In the Memory of the Lomazy Martyrs, who Perished in the Years of the Second World War 1939-1945	Mendel Berman	206
The Surviving Remnant of Lomazy in Poland after WWII		207
The Unveiling of the Memorial and the Fence in Lomazy		215
The Speech of the Representative of the Lomazy Organization in Israel, Mr. Efraim Apelbaum		218
Lomazy Jews in Russia		221
The Rossosz Community in Life and Destruction
The Town is on Fire [Dos shtetl brent]	Mordechai Gebirtig	225
The Image of the Town Rossosz	Bunim Silberstein	226
The Way of Life in Rossosz		228
The Rossozs Bet Hamidrash [House of Learning]		233
Rossosz at the Outbreak of WWII		234
The German Occupation in Rossosz		236
The Germans are Burning Torah Scrolls in Rossosz		237
The Rossosz Jews on their Last Road to Treblinka		239
YIZKOR [“Remember” - the Prayer for the Dead]		251
We Remember (List of Martyrs from Łomazy)		253
Łomazy Jews, soldiers in the Red Army who fell in the battle against the Germans in the Polish-German War in September 1939		260
List of Martyrs from the Rossosz, Poland		260
English Section
The Shaping of the Jewish Community in Lomaz		3
Memories from Lomaz	Abraham–Leib Weinstein	22
“The Polish Forests in Lomaz are burning”	Lea Teitelboim	26
The “Bikur Holim” Society in Lomaz		30
The Beit Yaacov School in Lomaz		32
The Municipal Library (from the press)		34
Anti–Jewish events in the neighbourhood of Pod		35
Occupations of the Jews in Lomaz before World War II		36
In the Hands of Fate	Abraham Wunderboim	38
Life in the shadow of death	Rachel Weinstein	44
The Trial of the Nazis who tortured and murdered the Jews in Lomaz		56
The campaign for erecting the fence and the Memorial Monument on the cemetery in Lomaz		63
The Children of Lomaz remember	Mishka Hauser	69

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