Lipnishki, Belarus

Memorial Book
of the Community of Lipniszki
(Lipnishki, Belarus)

54°00' / 25°37'

Translation of
Sefer zikaron shel kehilat Lepnishok

Editor: A. Levin

Published in Tel Aviv 1968

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This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron shel kehilat Lepnishok (Memorial book of the community of Lipniszki),
Editor: A. Levin, Published: Tel Aviv 1968 (H,Y 206 pages)

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

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Editorial	Avner Levin	11

Lipnishki Between Two World Wars

Our town Lipnishki	Avner Levin	15
My town Lipnishki [Y]	Meir Kaplan	25
My little town	Yehuda Ginsburg	47
My beloved town	Chaia Pepe–Rosenberg	53
Lipnishki	Beruria Shkolnik–Kolton	56
Memories	Yehuda Ginsburg	59
The Jewish self–defense in Lipnishki [Y]	Binyamin Singer	64
The big fire in Lipnishki in 1926	Avner Levin	68
The little library		71

Figures in our Town

Figures	Naftali Kretchmer	75
R'Avraham Aba Peikovski HY”D	Rabbi Dov Shkolnik	96
The Lipnishki rabbis	Rabbi Dov Shkolnik	98
The great scholar and Rabbi R'Refael Mordechai Brishanski z”l	Shalom Brishanski	102
The Red Rabbi	I. Even–Chen	106
The pharmacist Meir Krochmalnik HY”D	Yehuda Ginsburg	111
Since you know (poem) [Y]	R'Yosef Balila HY”D	113
Letters	Yosef Levin HY”D	116
Memories of adventures on my way to Eretz Israel	Zvi Yedidia (Bloch) z”l	122

The Times of Holocaust and Destruction

In memory of our town Lipnishki	Chaim Slodovnik	131
Lipnishki under Soviet rule	Yitzhak Levin	133
The beginning of the Holocaust	Chaim Slodovnik	140
Memories from the days of the Holocaust	Yitzhak Levin	144
What I went through [Y]	Rosa Ziskind	152
The years of my childhood [Y]	Tzipora Bergbrind	160
Lipnishki during Second World War	I. Ch. G.	166
Memories from my town of birth [Y]	Shimke Bashist	176
Lipnishki and the Partisans	Chaim Bashist	179
The tragic end [Y]	Meir Levin	184
YITGADAL VEYITKADASH (Kadish)	Meir Kaplan	196

The Lipnishki martyrs who perished in the Holocaust (Necrology)		199

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