Memorial book of the community of Aleksandria (Wolyn)

Memorial Book of the
Community of Aleksandria (Wolyn)
(Oleksandriya, Ukraine)

50°44' / 26°21'

Translation of
Pinkas ha-kehila Aleksandria (Wolyn); sefer yizkor

Editors: Shmuel Yizreeli, Natan Libneh, Aleksandria Society

Published in Tel Aviv, 1972

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This is a translation of: Pinkas ha-kehila Aleksandria (Wolyn); sefer yizkor
(Memorial book of the community of Aleksandria (Wolyn)),
Editors: Shmuel Yizreeli, Natan Libneh, Tel Aviv, Aleksandria Society, 1972 (H, 314 pages).

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

“Alexandria of Heaven”	Nathan Livne	7
We shall always see them, longing for a life of light and freedom		10
My Alexandria	Shmuel Yizre'eli	12
My heart goes out to Alexandria	Arie Avatihi	15
The greatness of little Alexandria	Zev Eisenman	16

The Story of a Town

The rule of the spirit	B. Elimelech	23
Memories and way-of-life	Shmuel Yizre'eli	28
We are going to Eretz Israel	Chana Ironit	50
The pogroms of 1919	Yeshayahu Bargad	57
False accusation	Pesach Golani	59
Education in Alexandria - memories	Chana Ironit	61
The school was imprinted on my heart	Shabetay Vogel	64
The first Hechalutz Conference	Zahava Birstein - Bat Yitzhak	67
Hashomer Hatzair in Alexandria	Avraham Burstein	69
Two years of teaching in Alexandria	Batya Eisenstein-Keshev	78
Alexandria - the cradle of my childhood and youth	Yeshayahu Bargad	81
Football in Alexandria	Chaim Khiger	86

People and Personalities

Rav R' Chaim Nisan Sachs
My rabbi and teacher	Shmuel Yizre'eli	91
Rav R' Chaim Nisan Sachs	Naftali Toren	93
My Life	Rav R' Chaim Nisan Sachs	97

The teacher R'Elimelech Blei
A man at peace with himself	YANAY	102
R'Yechiel Aharon Blei	Chana Kliger	104

Rav Moshe Sternberg
In his memory	S. I.	105
An exemplary rabbi	Rabbi P. Tkhorsh	106
Rabbi and Friend	I. Bernstein	107
Memories: Rabbi Moshe Sternberg	Yosef Kieper	109
The apple tree	SHIN	110
Rav Sternberg about himself		115
Things that have not been said	Rav Moshe Sternberg	118
From his letters		121
Science and religion in education	Rav Moshe Sternberg	123

Shmuel Rosenhek
A letter to S. I.		127
Shmuel Rosenhek's first position in our town	Noah Ironi	128
The man and his life achievement	Shmuel Yizre'eli	131
Shmuel Rosenhek and we	Meir Ironi	133
Reading Shmuel Rosenhek's articles	Arie Mentcher	135
Jewish education in Wolhyn	Shmuel Rosenhek	143
My father, Noah son of Meir	Meir Ironi	147
Wulf Goldarbeter	Noach Eeroni	150
Leibish Kremer	Noah Ironi	153
My grandfather Dr. Gershon Geri	Chelmers Geri	155
The pharmacist from Alexandria	Noah Ironi	161
R'Elyakum Efraim Goldin	Yakov Benari	166
R'Moshe Eisenman	Shaul Kremerman	168
The last Yom Kippur in my uncle Benya's house in the ghetto	Shmuel Yizre'eli	169
My mother Lea Breindl, may she rest in peace	Shmuel Yizre'eli	171
Aharon Holzer	Shmuel Yizre'eli	173
The Wallis family	Berta Wallis-Shwitz	174
Michael Melamed	Shmuel Yizre'eli	176
Shmaya Kremer	Zvi Luria	177
Eliezer Ross	Shmuel Yizre'eli	178
Yehuda Shindelkraut	Arie Avatihi	179
Shlomo Brea	Shmuel Yizre'eli	180
R'Yankele the cantor	Elimelech Blei	181
R'Binyamin Melamed	M. M.	182
About bridges and young boys	Zev Eisenman	185
Yitzhak Melamed	M. Ahi-Sara	183
My father the SHOV [ritual slaughterer] R'Shabtay Levi	Alter Levi	187
Reb Hirsh Lieb Vinokur	Noach Eeroni	188
The woman Feige-Blume	Noah Ironi	189
Beile Ite the flour-woman	Elimelech Blei	190
Itzik-Wolf the water drawer	Shmuel Yizre'eli	193

The Holocaust

A memorial	Nathan Livne	196
In those days	Alef	197
Alexandria, a diary of the Holocaust	Shalom Golani	200
From ruin to salvation	Rivka Sperberg-Zwik	245
I was a sole remnant	Pinchas Spiewak	257
A light shining in the darkness of the forest	Tzipora	264
How Alexandria was lost…		266
In Alexandria, after the destruction	Chaim Mutzar	268

A Memorial to the Martyrs of the Alexandria Community

Necrology		270
Former Alexandria residents who died in Israel		281
Former Alexandria residents who died in Israel		281
Memorial to the Sons, fallen in Israel		283
Returned to their Land		308

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