Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Map of the Lublin District		2
Foreword		13
Episodes From the Past
The town	M. Wizhnitzer	21
Bychawa – From the special issue of Bychawa residents in Israel		21
What once existed, and does not exist any more…	Dr. Chaim Braver	23
The Town-Plan	Edited by S. Himmelfarb	24
A letter from the priest	Dominik May	30
My little town Bychawa	Arye Reiss	31
My little town Bychawa	Rivka Ackerman	39
Photographs from the burned past	Dr. Chaim Braver	42
My little town Bychawa	Moshe Rieder	46
My memories about life in Bychawa: Education the heder and the melamed / Organizations and institutions / The community committee and its institutions / Rabbis / The shul and the bet-hamidrash / The cultural activity / After WWI / The Joint / The Consumers Organization that was  unsuccessful / “Agudat Israel” in Bychawa	Hilel Moshe Barkay	50
From Bychawa to New York	Dr. Chaim Diamand	62
From the past (types and episodes)	Dr. M. I. Schiffer	76
Reflections	Rivka Melis-Alterman	88
At the light of a lamp	Noah Goldstein	91
Memories	Tzipora Himmelfarb	98
Shabat afternoon in Bychawa	S. Himmelfarb	99
Memories about our town	Israel Erlich	100
My town Bychawa	Malka Glickstein-Reiss	103
Memories	Menashe Erlich z”l	105
Memories	Chaim Zholtak	110
Bichawa my town	Arye Pick	114
Childhood memories	Noah Goldstein	115
Our town is on fire	Moshe Gritz z”l	118
Memories from my town Bychawa	Tova-Anka Makowitzki	119
Memories from my childhood	Moshe Eichenblit	122
“The Stock-Exchange”	Noah Scheingarten	123
Transportation in town	Noah Scheingarten, Moshe Rieder	129
Leaves of a life	I. Zerubavel	133
Health care in Bychawa	N. S.	135
A Town and its Residents, Personalities and Types
The Jewish Bychawa	Moshe Erlich	141
Rabbis – From the book “The Glory of the Jew”		143
The rabbi R'Itzik'l z”l	Yakov Kleiman	152
Episodes	Avraham Licht	157
A quick glance at the house of the Rabbi	Moshe Gritz z”l	159
Avraham'tche Soltis	Yakov Kleiman	160
Types of Jewish craftsmen in Bychawa	Yakov Kleiman	164
My town Bychawa	Bat-Sheva Hurwitz-Grinwald	170
My father, of blessed memory	Arye Reiss	172
My brother Menachem-Mendel Reiss z”l	Arye Reiss	174
My family [lit. “My Father's House"]	Sarah	176
To the memory of Israel Zitman z”l	Simcha Erlich	179
To the memory of Leib'tche Himmelfarb	Noah Scheingarten	181
R'Yechiel Kleiman	Dr. Chaim Braver	183
A memorial to Meir Rieder z”l	Moshe Rieder	185
Figures: Chemia Lehrer, Yechiel SHOV, Chazan and mohel [slaughterer-examiner, cantor and circumciser], Israel-Hirsh Silberstat, Shechnale 2 the cobbler who is grateful for what he has, Alter Himmelfarb, R'Itchele Shohet [slaughterer], R'Baruch the blind	Arye Reiss	187
The personality of Yechiel SHOV z”l	Yakov Kleiman	191
To the memory of the Bychawa water-drawer	N. S.	195
The memorial day (to Moshe Chodik)	Yakov Kleiman	198
The house of my parents	Tzipora Himmelfarb	202
Nachman Seidnover z”l	Arye Reiss	204
Chananya Morgenstern	Ch. Shapira	205
Memorial to the Jews of Bychawa	Avraham Burstein	206
Zionism, Parties, Culture and Education
The history of the Zionist Movement in our town	Chaim A. Shapira	211
The Zionist Movement in Bychawa	S. Ehrlich	215
The Zionist Organization in Bychawa	Arye Reiss	218
The “Hechalutz” and the youth movements	Noah Goldstein	222
“Hechalutz Hatza'ir” in Bychawa	Arye Pick	224
The road-builders	Noah Scheingarten	227
“Po'alei Zion” in Bychawa	Yakov Kleiman	230
The aspiration to education and culture	Chaim Cohen	235
The “heder” and the melamdim in Bychawa	Noah Scheingarten	237
Chaim Yankel the melamed	Noah Goldstein	241
A portrait of a teacher	Noah Scheingarten	243
To the memory of Avraham Zuker	Chaim Zholtak	246
The Way of Life
Fear and Mystery	Noah Scheingarten	253
From the mouths of old people	Shlomo Goldstein	255
A wedding in the town Bychawa	Arye Pick	256
Former Bychawa residents who have passed away
One of the first	Noah Scheingarten	261
Mother	Noah Scheingarten	263
Portrait of Mendel Loewenbaum z”l	Yakov Kleiman	265
Portrait of Menashe Erlich z”l	Yakov Kleiman	267
Shlomo Reiss z”l	Noah Scheingarten	270
Shmuel Erlich z”l	Arye Reiss	272
Freidale Erlich z”l	Noah	273
Zvi (Hershele) Kleiman z”l	Dr. Chaim Braver	274
Yehoshua Olami (Weltman) z”l	Yakov Kleiman	276
Yehoshua Brand (Di-Nur) z”l	M. B.	277
Mordechai Feuereisen z”l	Y. K.	278
Moshe Gritz z”l	Arye Reiss	280
Grandfather and grandmother z”l	Dr. Chaim Braver	281
“You have funds of your own”	Kosovski	283
Sons who fell and died in the prime of their lives
Yakov Goldstein z”l	Esther Goldstein-Opatovski	289
Yakov Turbiner z”l	Arye Pick	290
Yakov Olami z”l	M. R.	291
Yosef Rieder z”l	Y. E.	293
To the memory of Dan (Danny) Scheingarten z”l		294
Zeevi Nechushtan	Noah Scheingarten	295
The Holocaust
While seeing the things to come (a poem)	Noah Goldstein	301
Years of Tribulation and bereavement 1937-1942 The year 1942 / Forced labor / The transport to annihilation / In Belzec / In hiding / We are going to the Partisans / At the crossroads – where to? / The year 1943 / Bychawa Jews demolishing houses in Bychawa / Lea's ring / “Catch the Jews, catch the Jew, Hurray!” / Another miracle: we were saved from death / In the Asaba village / After all was finished	Moshe Baron	302
Bychawa my home town	Rivka Ackerman	319
From the days of suffering and torture: The escape from camp back to Bychawa / SS is looking for Jewish tailors – to kill them / The war between Germany and Russia / Escaping to the forest and falling into the hands of Polish murderers / In the Budzin camp	Shmuel Rubin	324
The days of horror: Winter 1939-1940 / They robbed the furs and murdered / The liquidation of the Lublin ghetto and the neighboring villages / Robbery and looting / We fled to the forest and death followed us / Catch the Jews! / With the partisans	Moshe Erlich	330
My troubles and suffering: With the outbreak of War / The big woes begin / Middle-Ages persecutions / The transport to death / Jews demolish Jewish houses in Bychawa / I am wandering in the woods / Fleeing from death / The day of liberation is approaching / On the road to Lublin / After the war	Lea Sochovolski (Kleiman)	336
A short addition	Pinchas Sochovolski	344
September 1939 – October 1942: The “Judenrat” – The Jewish Council / The first restrictions / The SS soldiers / Jewish refugees from other towns / “May the informers have no hope” [from the daily prayer] / The murders / How did the Jews survive – how did they make a living? / The “relocation” – the robberies	Moshe Erlich	345
My Town (a poem)	Zvi Kleiman z”l	352
Short notes from a legacy	Zvi Kleiman z”l	353
Jewish partisans in the Lublin-Bychawa district – From “The Lublin Book” Paris 1952		355
During the war and after it	Chaim Cohen	358
My town that was ruined	Arye Pick	363
A letter from Galeznow village	Alexander Sapost	365
In the hell named Belzec	Slava Neiser	367
On the memorial day	Yakov Kleiman	375
The twelfth memorial day	Feivel Mandelbaum	378
The fifteenth memorial day	Chaim (Dr. Braver)	381
The Organization of the Former Residents of Bychawa in Israel
The first memos of the Bychawa committee		387
A meeting with guests, former residents of the town	Yakov Kleiman	393
The Jewish Bychawa
Foreword		399
From the past (types and episodes)	Dr. M. I. Schiffer	399
My little town Bychawa	Rivka Ackerman	415
Memories	Menashe Erlich	418
From Bychawa to New York	Dr. Chaim Diamand	424
Memories	Chaim Zholtak	462
Bychawa – From the “Special edition” for the World congress of Polish Jews – Landsmanshafts in Israel		468
My town Bychawa	Bat-Sheva Hurwitz-Grinwald	470
My little town Bychawa	Moshe Rieder	472
The rabbi R'Itzik'l z”l	Yakov Kleiman	476
A quick glance at the house of the Rabbi	Moshe Gritz z”l	482
Our town is on fire	Moshe Gritz z”l	482
Leaves of a life	I. Zerubavel	485
The aspiration to education and culture	Chaim Cohen	488
Shabat afternoon	S. Himmelfarb	490
Avraham'tche Soltis	Yakov Kleiman	491
To the memory of Avraham Zuker	Chaim Zholtak	495
“Po'alei Zion” in Bychawa	Yakov Kleiman	500
Types of Jewish craftsmen in Bychawa	Yakov Kleiman	505
My town Bychawa (episodes)	Sima (Goldstein) Furstenberg	513
Memories from my town Bychawa	Tova-Anka Makowitzki	516
Episodes	Avraham Licht	520
The personality of Yechiel SHOV z”l	Yakov Kleiman	522
“Our own funds”	Kosovski	527
Destruction and Ruin
My heart is forever crying	Rivka Ackerman	533
Bychawa my home	Rivka Ackerman	534
Years of Tribulation and bereavement 1937-1942 The year 1942 / Forced labor / The transport to annihilation / In Belzec / In hiding / We are going to the Partisans / At the crossroads – where to? / The year 1943 / Bychawa Jews demolishing houses in Bychawa / Lea's ring / “Catch the Jews, catch the Jew, Hurray!” / Another miracle: we were saved from death / In the Asaba village / After all was finished	Moshe Baron	541
In the lime pit	Rivka Ackerman	565
During the horrible days	Moshe Erlich	568
In the days of suffering and pain	Shmuel Rubin	576
My troubles and suffering: With the outbreak of War / The big woes begin / Middle-Ages persecutions / The transport to death / Jews demolish Jewish houses in Bychawa / I am wandering in the woods / Fleeing from death / The day of liberation is approaching / On the road to Lublin / After the war	Lea Sochovolski (Kleiman)	584
A short addition	Pinchas Sochovolski	595
Jewish partisans in the Lublin-Bychawa district	From “The Lublin Book”	596
On the ruins of my town	Malka Reis	600
In the Belzec hell	Slave Neiser	601
The horrible day	Malka Reis	613
On the memorial day	Yakov Kleiman	616
The twelfth memorial day	Feivel Mandelbaum	619
On the memorial day	Yakov Kleiman	624
The Organization of the Former Residents of Bychawa in Israel
Addressing the Landsleit	Dr. Chaim Diamand	630
A meeting with guests, former residents of the town		633
List of Martyrs		640

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