Memorial to the Ostrow martyrs in the Holon cemetery

Introduction [H]		10
Foreword [Y]		12
Hebrew
1. Development of the Town
History of the town	Dr. Isidore Last	17
The town between fires	Avraham Feuerstein	23
Pogroms, war, emigration	Shlomo Shapira	30
The town in my memory	Yakov Yosef Stern	59
Ther was no future in town	Arie Stern	63
Lineage - a most important thing	Yakov Liebhaber	68
Poverty and distress	Zahava Worzman	72
Bread for the family	Hinda Tunkelkroit	76
The dispersed family	Gina Steinhorn	79
2. The Annihilation of the Town
The town destroyed	Yehuda Beitel	85
In the forest with the partisans	Bronia Rosenzweig	86
The Sabbath candlesticks at the gentile neighbors' home	Moshe Fischman	89
From Ostrow to Siberia	Tova Alkon z”l	92
Through the snowstorm toward the Unknown	Adina Eichenbaum	97
In besieged Leningrad	Rachel Reiss	101
3. Figures
Dr. Bezalel Last z”l	Isidore Last	105
Yakov Yosef Stern	(From his Memorial Book)	107
In memory of a gallant and gracious townsman	Avraham Feuerstein	110
An honest man, faithful to his goal	Arie Shafran	112
R'Arie Alkon z”l	Rav S. Blumenfeld	113
My father R'Arie Alkon z”l	Shmuel Alkon	114
Yechiel Meir Blumenfeld z”l	M. K.	116
The Abarbanel family	Tova Berkman	118
My brother the partisan and my family	Shifra Lev-Liebhaber	120
Types and figures	Yehoshua Kornblum	123
4. The Organization (Landsmanshaft)
The establishment and activity of the Organization of Former Ostrow Residents in Israel	Yakov Liebhaber	129
A letter from the Shiva Medical Center		133
Yiddish
5. Development of the Town
Pogroms, war, emigration	Shlomo Shapira	137
Childhood memories from the First World War	Sara Kuppershmid-Rubin	175
The religious and social life	Mordechai Kornblum	183
The importance of lineage in the town life	Yakov Liebhaber	192
From the old home	Ester Zlote Doman-Rushnievski	198
Schools and youth organizations	Sara Tziporkin-Wasserman	201
Reminiscences from Ostrow	Rivka Freund-Djewitzki	204
This is how I remember my town	Miriam Rubinstein-Shnekel	205
A town of good deeds	Frida Goldstein	208
6. The Destruction of the Town
Documents and letters from the Ostrow Ghetto	David Stockfisch	213
Memories of a Partisan	Moshe Duman	233
The Germans burned the books, as well	Ada Domb	237
Memories from the war years	Bronia Waserman-Eckhaus	238
Living through two wars	Mechl (Misha) Eckhaus	254
Partisans' stories about the attack on Ostrow	Elisha Shapira	267
Under German and Russian rule	Bella Rubinstein	271
War memories	Esther Rushniewski	279
Wanderings during the years 1939-1945	Tova Alkon z”l	283
Living through the war in the Soviet Union	Yitzhak Goldstein	290
A bundle of memories from my family	Henry Duman	293
A visit in town in 1962	Sara Tziporkin-Wasserman	294
A summer-day in Ostrow	Rashe W. Zaladz (Stieglitz)	298
7. Figures
The father of all Ostrower	Eli Shafran	303
In memory of Yakov Millier z”l	Eli Shapira	304
The Abarbanel family	Tova Berkman	306
Types and personalities	Yehoshua Kornblum	309
8. The Landsmanshaft
The Ostrow Landsmanshaft in Israel	Yakov Liebhaber	317
The Landsmanshaft in Israel has given us a friendly welcome	Shlomo Shapira	322
With Ostrow families in Brazil and in Israel	Yehudit Kogut-Shapira	325
Ostrow Jews in Brazil	Eli Shapira	329
Unveiling the Memorial to the Ostrow martyrs	Mechl Eckhaus	333
9. An Eternal Candle
List of Martyrs (necrology)		337
10. English Section
Introduction	Adina Eichenbaum (Alkon)	422 (3)
Ostrow Lubelski	Dr. Isidore Last	419 (6)
Memories from the War Years	Bronya Wasserman-Eckhaus	410 (15)
Living Through Two World Wars	Mechl (Micha) Eckhaus	398 (27)
To remember and to tell	Bronia Waserman-Eckhaus	383 (42)

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