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Translation of
Sefer yizkor shel kehilat Dzialoszyce ve-ha-seviva
Published in Tel Aviv, Hamenora, 1973
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This is a translation from Sefer yizkor shel kehilat Dzialoszyce ve-ha-seviva
(Yizkor book of the Jewish community in Dzialoszyce and surroundings),
Tel Aviv, Hamenora, 1973 (H,Y,E, 423 pages).
| (H=Hebrew; Y=Yiddish) | |
| Forward | 5 |
| Działoszyce: The Town and Its Residents Before World War I | |
| The Beginnings of the Działoszyce Settlement (H) | 11 |
| There Was a Town, and Look, She is No Longer – Izrael Dov Skóra (H) | 16 |
| Sources of Livelihood of Działoszyce's Jews – Shlomo Gertler (H) | 26 |
| Grandmother's House (Now in Ruins) – Yisrael Zerachi (H) | 30 |
| An Obligation to Remember – M. Rafali (H) | 49 |
| The Beginning of the Enlightenment Period in the Town – Josef and Baruch Blat (H) | 56 |
| There once was a town – Chawa Karmioł (H) | 60 |
| From the Mouths of the Elders – Izrael Dov Skóra (H) | 62 |
| Between Two World Wars | |
| The Jews of Działoszyce - Avraham Langer (Y) | 69 |
| From the Old Country – Chaim Szwimer (Y) | 76 |
| A Jewish Island in a Gentile Sea – David Shlomi (H) | 78 |
| Dzialoshitz Jews: How I remember them – Yosef Charif (Ostry) (Y) | 90 |
| Jews with Estates – Chaim Szwimer (H) | 96 |
| Small Businesses in Our Town – Arje Rolnicki (H) | 101 |
| Torah Study and Charity Organizations - Rabbi Yehuda Frankel (H) | 105 |
| The Mizrachi Synagogue – Joshua [Szyja] Wdowiński (H) | 112 |
| The Yavneh School – Joshua [Szyja] Wdowiński (H) | 115 |
| The Hattechija Library – Chaja Chawa (Szulimowicz) (H) | 121 |
| HaNoar Hatzioni [Zionist youth organization] and its activities – Ze'ev Sternfinkel (H) | 126 |
| HaNoar Hatzioni – Izrael Brandys (H) | 129 |
| Hashomer Hatsa'ir [Young Guard] – Moszek Pułka | 135 |
| The Gordonia Movement – Natan Krelman (H) | 138 |
| Agudath Israel (Orthodox non-Zionist) – Leibel Yutchenka (Aryeh Shahar) | 141 |
| Trends of the Zionist Movement – Naftali Szydłowski (H) | 146 |
| Drama Groups and Entertainment Activities – Shoshana Rolnicka (H) | 152 |
| The Flood - Natan Krelman (Y) | 158 |
| Grandfather's House – Chaim Cycowski (H) | 164 |
| My Memories – Menachem Lasker (Y) | 167 |
| Memories – Bracha Pozner (Zając) | 171 |
| Memories from the Old Days – Clara Waks (Y) | 175 |
| From My Memories – Benjamin Włoski (Y) | 178 |
| Memories – Majer Cudzynowski | 180 |
| Stories from the Past – Chaim Jakub Kac (Y) | 182 |
| Customs and Tradition | |
| What the Bet Hamidrash Was – Hayyim Balitzki (H) | 187 |
| Torah and Worship – Dov Ptasznik (H) | 190 |
| Hasidic Shtiblekh – Aryeh Shahar (Lejbel Jutrzenka) (H) | 195 |
| Dedication of Torah Scrolls to the Synagogue – Josef Kac (H) | 197 |
| The Arrival of Shabes In Our Town – Tauba Avni (Szydlowska) (H) | 198 |
| Teachers in Działoszyce – Aryeh Shachar (Lejbel Jutrzenka) (H) | 201 |
| The Rebbe Reb Joskele – Naftali Szydlowski | 204 |
| Reb Kalman Dayan – Alter Horowitz | 206 |
| Ignacy Mann – The Rabbi and his Pupil – Chaim Schwimmer (Y) | 207 |
| The Town Cantor – Moshe Salomon (H) | 210 |
| My Father, the Community Activist – Moshe Drobiarz (Y) | 213 |
| From Działoszyce Folklore – Dov Bejski (H) | 216 |
| The Holocaust | |
| Days of the Shoah – Dr. Moshe Bejski (H) | 233 |
| The Outbreak of World War Two – Moshe Rozenek (H) | 261 |
| Social Assistance During the Nazi Occupation – Dov Bejski (H) | 267 |
| My First Fear of Death – Avraham Chobeh (Chaba) (Y) | 271 |
| Jews Repent – Chaim Yitzchak Wohlgelernter (Y) | 273 |
| The Horror Has Begun – David Wohlgelernter (Y) | 275 |
| The Evil Decrees – Szulim Szulimowicz (H) | 278 |
| Chapters from the Past – Aryeh Shachar (Lajbl Jutrzenka) (H) | 280 |
| In the Polish Underground – Szlama Leszman (ben Jakub) (H) | 298 |
| The Deportations from Działoszyce, Skalbmierz, and Miechów – Abraham Tennenbaum (Y) | 304 |
| My Own Experience in the Holocaust – Dov Bejski (H) | 307 |
| All Alone In Hiding – Eliyahu Rozdział (Raziel) (H) | 324 |
| Memories – David (Gustav) Rajsfeld | 329 |
| The Tragedy of Działoszyce – David Gelbart (Baltimore) (Y) | 336 |
| Jankielówka and its Jews – Chaim Frajman (New York) (Y) | 343 |
| Years of Pain – Avraham Chobeh (Chaba) (Y) | 349 |
| Under the German Boot – Aszer Rafałowicz (Y) | 357 |
| I Fainted – and Was a Free Man – David Rotam (Rotner) (H) | 361 |
| My Life Underground with the German Cannibals – David Wohlgelernter (Y) | 365 |
| In Działoszyce and in the Camps – Majer Zonenfeld (H) | 374 |
| During and After the War – Abraham Langer (Y) | 380 |
| Town Residents Who Perished in the Shoah, hi”d | 397 |
| The English Section | |
| Foreword - Moshe Bejski | 3 |
| History of Dzialoszyce | 7 |
| Jewish livelihoods before World War I - Shlomo Gertler | 8 |
| A Jewish island in a gentile sea - David Shlomi | 9 |
| The Yavneh school - Joseph Wdowinski | 13 |
| Torah Study and works of Charity - Rabbi Yehuda Frankel | |
| I. The Talmud Torah | 14 |
| II. The Yeshiva | 15 |
| III. Bet Yaakov | 16 |
| IV. The Bikkur Holim Society | 16 |
| V. “Purity of the Family” | 16 |
| The Agudat Israel - Lebel Yutchenka (Aryeh Shahar) | 17 |
| What the Bet Hamidrash was - Hayyim Balitzki | 19 |
| The Jews of Dzialoszyce - Abraham Langer | 20 |
| The Outbreak of World War Two - Moshe Rozenek | 23 |
| My Own Experiences in the Holocaust - Dov Bejski | 25 |
| The Expulsion | 26 |
| On the way to the Camps | 26 |
| At the Prokocim Camp | 26 |
| Firma Richard Strauss | 27 |
| The Plaszow Camp | 28 |
| Dzialoszyce during the Holocaust - Dr. Moshe Bejski | 30 |
| Foreword | 32 |
| The Beginning | 32 |
| Inhabitants and Housing Conditions | 33 |
| Hygiene and Epidemics | 34 |
| Livelihood and Occupations | 34 |
| Relief and Welfare (The Communal Kitchen) | 36 |
| The Judenrat | 37 |
| Faith and Hope | 38 |
| The First Expulsion | 39 |
| The Final Liquidation | 42 |
| Afterword | 44 |
| Names mentioned in the Yizkor book | |
| Photo captions | |
| Addendum - Photographs from Działoszyce | |
| Vocabulary List for Działoszyce Yizkor Book | |
| Style Sheet for Działoszyce Yizkor Book | |
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