Briceva, Moldova

Memorial Book of Brichevo
(Briceva, Moldova)
48°07' / 27°39'

Translation of
Pinkas Brichevo

Edited by: K. A. Bertini

Published in Tel Aviv, 1970

Acknowledgments

With thanks to Ayana Kimron for intitiating this translation project.

This is a translation from: Pinkas Brichevo, Memorial book of Brichevo,
ed: K. A. Bertini, Tel Aviv, Former residents of Brichevo (Bessarabia) in Israel, 1970 (H,Y)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Brichevo

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Note: The articles are the same in Hebrew and Yiddish, printed page facing page: right page (even numbers)
Hebrew, left page (odd numbers) Yiddish, continuing on the next pair of pages, accordingly.

		Hebrew Page	Yiddish Page
Foreword		10	11

Once upon a time, there was...

Chapters from the past	K. A. Bertini	16	17
Our town	Z. Shtchiglik	180	181
From our cultural past	P. Goldenberg z”l	198	199
A play and courage	L. Gulirgant	208	209
My Bricheva	Dr. Yechiel Eisenstein	218	219
A few memories	Mendel Schichman	230	231
Excerpts from letters	Moshe Aharonson z”l	234	235
Memories from my father's home and from my town	Dvora Gold Gurewitz	244	245
Memories from my childhood in my father's home	Hinda Blank (Litwin)	256	257
Several moments	Henia Gelman (Presman)	264	265
Helping others -- how?	Mordechai (Motika) Kestelman	268	269
One year in Bricheva	Zev Igeret	274	275
A band of musicians in town	Moshe Master	284	285
An attempted pogrom in our town	Ida Gulirgant (Loewenthal)	286	287
Lashes	Mendik Friedman, z”l	290	291
The “Culture League” in Town	Asher Woldman	302	303
Sons and their fathers	Shimon Parnas	306	307
That Youth	Sheindl Kestelman (Yaffa Butnik)	318	319
My town	Shprintza Blank (Balaban)	326	327
The generation of our parents	Riva Forer (Yannai)	330	331
What preceded the Holocaust	Efraim Kestelman	340	341
Memories from my youth	Rahel Cohen	346	347
A Bricheva sense of humor	Asher Woldman	350	351
A Walk Along the Streets of Bricheva - A List of Residents	Meir Tendler	362	363

For these things I weep [Lamentations 1:16]

The Scroll of Tears	Rabbi Avraham Schlapid	380	381
With the Jews of Bricheva	Rabbi Dov Yechiel	430	431
From Hell	David ben Shlomo Gulirgant z”l	436	437
Dark days	Mirl and Leah Parnass	442	443
During the War and the Holocaust	Mara Zonis	448	449
We survived by a Miracle	Esther Shtiglitz (Tarnirider)	454	455
How my parents perished	Ita Zimmerman (Yehudit Grinberg	462	463
The Siberian exile	Hinda Sandelman	466	467
What we endured	Bella Gutman	470	471
Far Away and Back	Lea Gandelman-Lerner	474	475
The community that disappeared	Baruch (Buzi) Gorodetzki	476	476
To my Mother (poem)	Avraham Balaban	482	483

Yizkor: List of names of the martyrs		487	487

The story of this book		516	517

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