Memorial book of the community of Chorzel

. Memorial Book of the Community of Chorzel
(Chorzele, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Chorzel

Editors: L. Losh, Association of Former Residents of Chorzele

Published in Tel Aviv, 1967

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This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Chorzel (Memorial Book of the Community of Chorzel),
Editors: L. Losh, Tel Aviv, Association of Former Residents of Chorzele, 1967 (272 pages; H, Y).

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Foreword	M. Carmi	7

Part One [Hebrew]

One Does Not Make a Monument to the Righteous…^[1]	HaRav Efraim Sokolower	11
An Image and an Essence that was Lost	Z. K–N	13
In Memory of the Town and its Residents	Moshe Carmi	20
The Legend of Chorzele…	Simcha Adler	30
Events and Images that are Engraved in my Memory	Yosef Nesher (Adler)	54
How Beautiful is our Heritage	Aharon–Wolf Nafcha (Kowal)	65
The Branch of the Hechalutz Organization	Yaakov Frenkel	70
Rabbi Chaim–Mordechai Bronroth, May the memory of the Righteous be a Blessing	Shimon Rav Yerushalmi	80
The Town's Rabbi and his Community	Avraham Sokolower of Tel Aviv	83
The Gabbai of the Synagogue and his Dream	Avraham Sokolower of Afula	85
My Brother Fishel	Dvora Lachower	86
F. Lachower – Lines about his Life and Personality	Yaakov Fichman	93
The Legendary Sokolow^[2]	Fishel Lachower	100
About Dvora Lachower	Y. Maimoni; S. Or; A. Kalisz	103
About one Association and Two Brothers	Shmuel Lachower	108
My Husband Mordechai Eizenstadt	Elisheva Eizenstadt (Lachower)	111
The Family of Grandfather and Father	Yechiel Nizkin	113
My Dear Father Mordechai Biran (Przysusker)	Naomi	114
My Grandfather's Image	Dov Frenkel	115
The Community and the Individual in the Circles of Life	Matityahu Pater	116
From my Drawer of Personal Memories	Meir Ben–Yosef Bachrach	119
The History of One Family	Yosef Shafran	122
A Visit to the Town on the Brink of its Doom	Reuven Raz (Korzenik)	126
The One and Only Who Survived Auschwitz	David Fiszring	129
My Home that was Destroyed Upon me	Dov (Berele) Fater	135
The Blood Account of my Family	Moshe–Chaim Rostoker	139
Yizkor…	Bella Tykulsker (Walzer)	141
A Memorial Candle for my Revered Father	Chaya Segal (Friedman)	142
About the Holocaust of my Family	Penina Biran	145
I Saw the Town in its Destruction	Henry Adler	147
Two Meetings with Chorzele in Israel	Moshe Baharab	149

Part Two [Yiddish]

Chapters From the Past	Moyshe Koval	153
Last Traces of Life and Death	Gershon Sniadower	168
Two Libraries Before the First World War	Shmuel Lakhower	189
My Annihilated Home	Hagar Hertzog (Adler)	192
People and Events	Menakhem Lanienter	200
Two Poems	Chaim Dovid Kazhitski	203
The Dear Jews of Our Town	Y.M. Niborski	209
The Summing Up of a Family	Henye Niborski	211
Ways of Life and Memories From the Past	Zelik Sniadower	217
I Remember!	Nomi Kahan (Zisl Gershanovitsh)	235
An Encounter in Bukhara	Malke Plishun (Bayshvayger)	236
Before My Eyes	F. (B.) Malka	238
There Once Was a Home, a Town [3]	Rokhl Nives (Tikulter)	239
Natives of Chorzele who Fell Fulfilling their Duty		240

Part Three [Yiddish] Documents and Lists

Bulletin, The Hechalutz Hatzair^[3] of Chorzele, in Chorzele (No. 1. The 25th November 1932)		243
Minutes of the Gemiles Khesed Fund^[4] (22-23 January 1938)		252
A Letter to a Landsman [fellow townsman] (from the 3rd of March 1938)		256
List of Chorzele Martyrs		260
List of Deceased from Chorzele (From the State of Israel and in other countries)		264
List and Chorzele Natives in the World (1966)		265
Chorzele (Choszel)		272

Footnotes “We do not erect monuments for the righteous; their words are their memorial” (Jerusalem Talmud Shekalim 2:5) Return Nahum Sokolow - a Zionist leader, author and Hebrew journalist Return Pioneeer Youth Return Interest Free Loan Return

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