Radomsk Memorial Book

8	Introduction [Hebrew]
8	Introduction [Yiddish]
12	Chaim Goldberg z”l – Initiator & Promoter of this Radomsk Yizkor Book
15	Merciful G-d - El Maleh Rachamin

Chapter One – This is the History

17	The History of Radomsk
29	Portrait of the Town at the Beginning of the 20^th Century
35	The Holy and the Pure
39	The Beginning of the Labor Movement (1905-1920)
43	The History of Radomsk
52	Remembrances of the Past
59	Personalities and Figures
66	The Beginning of the Jewish Workers' Movement

Chapter Two – The Secret of the Hassidut…

75	The Radomsk Dynasty
95	The Pleasant Singer Rabbi Shlomo
100	Great Rejoicing in the Hasidim Tents
104	The Rabbi's Beit Midrash
106	Lessons from Rabbi Tzvi Meir Rabinowicz, My Father of Blessed Memory, My Teacher
109	The “Shtiebel”
110	From the Tales of the Hasidim
111	Rabbi Shlomoh'le Radomsker
112	The Radomsker Dynasty
114	Hasidim – “Shtiblekh” – Minyonim (minions)
124	Reb Abraham'l Kalisz (“The Amszinower”)

Chapter Three – The Past Days

129	Portraits from the Past
131	I Bid Farewell to My Hometown
133	Avoiding a Pogrom
134	Sholem Aleichem Visits the City
135	Victims of the First World War
136	Community (Social Life) Activities in 1914/15
137	Jewish Self-Defense (Organization) in 1919
138	A Proclamation from the German Army During the First World War

Chapter Four – The Way of Life

141	I Remember…
143	Tale of a Keren-Kayemet (JNF) bowl
144	The “Tiferes” Shlomoh off “Kest”
145	Lives and Images
151	Encounters with Noworadomskers
154	A Wedding on the Jewish Cemetery
156	Three Generations of Water Carriers
157	On Our Heimish Stage
159	The Eternal Light of the Great Synagogue

Chapter Five – Economic Life

163	Sources of Livelihood and Employment
167	The Activity of the Artisans Federation
168	The Association of the Retailers
169	The Professional Worker's Union

Chapter Six – The Political-Social Life

173	From the History of the Zionist Movement in Radomsko
176	The Beginning of the Zionist Movement
178	The Creators of “Tze'irei Zion”
179	“Tze'irei Zion” Party
181	The United Party of Poalei Zion with the S.Z.
184	The National Religious Movements
186	The Revisionist Movement
186	The “HeChalutz” Movement
191	About Collective Community Life with Pails on Shoulders
192	The “Hashomer Hatzair's Nest”
193	The “Bazaars” of the Jewish National Fund
195	The people in the training (“Hachshara”) tell stories
200	Zionism and Socialism in 1906
201	“Tzeire Zion” in 1917-1920
201	The Workers Party, “Fareinikte”
202	The “Paole Zion” in 1916-1922
207	The Leftist Party “Poale Zion”
209	The Radomsker Bund
210	The Zionist Worker's Party – “Histadrut”
211	The Activities of “Keren Kayemet Le Yisroel”
214	The “Agudas Israel”
217	The General Zionists of “Hashomer Hatzair”
218	The Division of “Hashomer Hatzair”
219	The Youth Organization – “Freiheit”
222	“Halutzim” Make “Aliyah” to “Eretz Yizroel”
222	The Noworadomsker “Patronet” in New York
224	Arlozorov Work Committee in Radomsk

The material in the above chapter was arranged in the following order: movements and political parties; associations and organizations of the young; general descriptions.

Chapter Seven – The Social Institutions

227	“Justice League” & “Bikur Holim”
228	The “Chevra Kadisha”
229	The Jewish “Kehile”
232	In the General City Managing Committee
235	The Khevra Kadisha and Its Workers
237	Institutions for Social Assistance
240	“Beis-Lekhem” – Bread for the Needy
240	Philanthropic-Construction Aid Activities

Chapter Eight – Culture and Education

245	Sources of Livelihood and Employment
251	Educational and Cultural Institutions
257	The Song of “Hazamir”
259	“Kultura” – Its Goals and Active Workers
263	“Malemedim” – Teachers – Educators
265	“Beis Yakov” School
266	The Sholom-Aleichem Library
268	The Jewish Sports Clubs
270	The Children's Home Named After Dr. Mitelman

Writers and Artists

272	Hirsh-Dovid Nomberg
274	H. D. Numberg – The Child Prodigy of Radomsk
275	Two Songs
276	David Kalay (Gold)
280	Khanina-Yosef Koshitski
283	Prof. Isak Zaks
283	The Cantata of Y. Zaks to the Poem, “Mul Hayeshimoon” of A. Szlonski
284	The Art Circle of Prof. Yitzhak Zaks
285	The Painter Natan Szpigel
286	Yakov Cytronowicz
286	A. B. Cerata – Intimate Portrait
288	Old-fashioned Singing

Chapter Nine – Holocaust and Revenge

301	A diary from the period of horrors
309	The Medical Service in the Ghetto
312	The Deceits of the “Swastika” Bearers
319	Chapters of Memoirs of a Ghetto Girl
324	Contacts with the Partisans
325	Glowing Coals
346	The “Megillah” of Suffering
363	The Last Jews in Radomsk
372	In the Ghetto and in “HASAG”
376	The “Aryan”
377	The Shooting at the German Embassy in Paris
379	Herszl Grynszpan
380	Monjek Rayngewirc
381	Mendl Fiszelewicz
381	The Heroic Death of Mendl Fiszelewicz
383	Tuvia Borzykowski

Chapter Ten -- Survivors' Stories

381	First Sign of Life from the Holocaust Survivors
392	Upheavals During the War
395	During the Opening of the Treblinka Mausoleum
395	Scattered and Spread Across the Whole of Europe
398	The First Month of Nazi Rule
400	In the Nightmare of the Bunkers
401	Radomsker Jews in Skarzysker 'Hasag'
405	On the Burning Ruin
406	A Letter to a Friend in “Eretz-Yisroel”
407	The Escape to Russia
407	The Roads and Detours to a New Life
409	How I Survived
410	From Cold Siberia to the Sunny Homeland
413	In the City of our Tragedy
415	A Visit to Radomsk in 1960

Chapter Eleven – Images and Portraits

419	In Memory of the Dry Bones
420	Radomsker “Landsleit” in Israel and in the Diaspora Memorialize the Memory of Our Victims
430	Family Photographs and Appreciations
455	Community Personalities and Concerns
467	Religious Figures and Clergy
472	Party Workers

The above chapter was assembled from material that was received from “landsleit” in Israel and the Diaspora, in response to a general solicitation by the Book Committee to immortalize the memory of family members, relatives, friends and acquaintances in this special chapter. All appreciations and notes were placed here in alphabetical order according to family names, using the language of the source and without changes in the submitted material.

Chapter Twelve – Radomsk Region

485	Brzeźnica (Hebrew)
486	Włoszczowa (Hebrew)
486	Sulmierzyce (Hebrew)
486	Pławno-Gidle (Gidzel) (Hebrew)
488	Przedbórz (Hebrew)
490	The Przedbórzer Dynasty
492	Kleszczów (Hebrew)
492	Kaminsk (Hebrew)
494	Rozprza (Hebrew)
495	Szczulkow-Podszwierk (Hebrew)
495	Rabbi Dovidl Lelewer
496	Gidzel (Gidle)

Chapter Thirteen – Radomsk in the World

499	The Nowo-Radomsker Society in the United States of America
517	The Aid Organization in Los Angeles
519	Radomskers in Argentina
521	The United “Landsmanschaft” in France
524	Nowo-Radomsker Center in Melbourne
527	The History of Radomsker Immigration to Palestine and Landsmanschaft Activities in Israel

The English segments in the first essays [in the above chapter] were assembled by Harry Rudnicki in New York during his visit to Israel in the month of May 1967.

Chapter Fourteen – Radomsk in Israel

538	The History of Radomsker Immigration to Palestine and Landsmanschaft Activities in Israel
550	Radomskers Who Passed Away in Israel
551	In Memory of the Dead in Israel (Hebrew)
565	In Memory of the Sons Who Fell for Israel's Independence (Hebrew)

Chapter Fifteen – Supplemental Material

578	Mr. Yitzhak-Shmuel Rozenblat, of Blessed Memory (Hebrew)
579	Yaacov Eilam (Buchman) z”l (Hebrew)
580	David Konitspoler, of Blessed Memory (Hebrew)
581	Index of the Photographs
585	Index of Names
601	Contents
604	The Last Photograph of May 1967

In each chapter the material first appears in Hebrew and then in Yiddish. The table of contents of each chapter [appears on] its title page (from the second chapter). [The contents] of all its chapters also appear at the end of the book.