Fehergyarmat, Hungary

Our Former City Fehergyarmat
(Fehérgyarmat, Hungary)
50°33' / 21°10'

Translation of
Ayaratenu leshe'avar Fehergyarmat

Edited by: J. Blasz

Published in B'nai Braq (Israel), 1965

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This is a translation from: Ayaratenu leshe'avar Fehergyarmat (Our former city Fehergyarmat),
Editor: J. Blasz, B'nai Braq (Israel), 1965 (H, Hung 96 pages)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Introduction 3

The Town in the Days of its Pride, its Trials and its Mourning 5

The Jungreis Rabbinic Dynasty 8

The Rabbinate and the Community in Fehergyarmat 10

Winkler Zoltan's Letter 13

Menachem Zemler's Letter 13

Mashke Broyn's Letter 14

This is the Way it happened 15

Past and Present 18

The Time of my Childhood

My Trip to Hungary as an Israeli Citizen and my Impressions

It is Difficult to Choose 21

The Flight

How I Escaped from the Train

Going Home

21

In the War of Independence 25

But the Song Lives Forever [a line from a popular song] 26

Had Gadia [One kid - Pesach song] 27

The Escape from the Mateszalka Ghetto 33

Fehergyarmat and I 34

From an action-packed diary 35

Yizkor 39

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Introduction	3
The Town in the Days of its Pride, its Trials and its Mourning	5
The Jungreis Rabbinic Dynasty	8
The Rabbinate and the Community in Fehergyarmat	10
Winkler Zoltan's Letter	13
Menachem Zemler's Letter	13
Mashke Broyn's Letter	14
This is the Way it happened	15
Past and Present	18
The Time of my Childhood My Trip to Hungary as an Israeli Citizen and my Impressions
It is Difficult to Choose	21
The Flight How I Escaped from the Train Going Home	21
In the War of Independence	25
But the Song Lives Forever [a line from a popular song]	26
Had Gadia [One kid - Pesach song]	27
The Escape from the Mateszalka Ghetto	33
Fehergyarmat and I	34
From an action-packed diary	35
Yizkor	39