Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland

Memorial book of Tomaszow Lubelski
(Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland)

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Translation of
Tomashover Lub. yisker-bukh

Publisher: Tomashover Relief Committee

Published in Brooklyn, NY 1965

This is a translation of: Tomashover Lub. yisker-bukh
(Memorial book of Tomaszow Lubelski),
Editor: Tomashover Relief Committee, Published: Brooklyn, NY 1965 (H,Y 912 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Tomaszow-Lubelski (1965)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

YIDDISH
Foreword		11
Photographs of the Yizkor Book committee in New-York		18
Members of the Yizkor Book committee in Israel (photos)		20
Words to the readers	Y. Maskap	21
A memorial in the Martef Hashoa (Holocaust cellar) on Mount Zion (photo)		27
A monument for our town	R. Faust	28
The history of the Jews in Tomaszow	Mordechai W. Bernstein	30
The holy man R'Pinchas of Tomaszow		53
The holy martyr woman	S. Lamed	56
The synagogue	S. Licht	57
The synagogue Pinkas (register)	S. A. Braner	65
My grandfather R'Pinchas and the Kise Eliyahu (“Elijah's chair”)	Rey Faust-Lehrer	67
The synagogue and the Bet Hamidrash [House of learning]	Y. Silberman	69
Nachum the Shamash [attendant, helper]	S. Licht	72
The Hevra Mishnayes [Mishnah learners] in the Great Beis Hamedresh	A. Pitlock	73
The Beis Hamedresh Jews	S. A. Braner	75
The Belzer Shtibl [Hasidim's synagogue]	A. Reiz	77
The Zans-Tzieshonow Shtibl	Y. Niedergang	84
The Chelem Shtibl	Z. Kaventchok	90
The Chevra Kadisha [burial society]	Y. Maskap	92
Memories from Tomaszow	M. Weinblatt	97
The Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes fund	S. Leibowitch	98
Tomaszow rabbis	S. Licht	99
The Tzieshnover Rav	I. Weintraub	103
The Tashlich lake	R. Faust-Lehrer	106
Facts about my family	Y. Bashewitz	108
My town, in the beginning	R. Faust	113
Tomaszow before World War I	M. Gazitchanski	114
Spring in Tomaszow	E. H.	152
The Jewish way of life	Y. Maskap	154
The violin factory	R. Faust	168
My father's factory	R. Faust	172
The Bulak Balachowitz pogroms	M. Seldin	177
The new revived Poland	S. Shiflinger	190
Chalutzim [pioneers] in Tomaszov	P. Hammer	194
The struggle at the birth of Tze'irei Zion	Faust	201
The Bund movement	D. Geier	211
The Tze'irei Mizrahi organization	N. Ratzimer	233
The appearance of the Hashomer Hatza'ir branch	D. Loewenfuss	237
A short overview of the “working Eretz Israel”	A. Herbsman	241
The Aguda, its establishment and development	Y. M. Gurtler	250
The Aguda movement	S. Licht	255
A memorial for unforgettable friends	A. Kraz	259
David Yudel Schor	S. Licht	263
The Aguda	S. Licht	264
The left-wing movement	L. Friedlander	266
The Jewish youth in Tomaszow	P. Ehrlich	270
The Yavne School	A. Arbesfeld	286
The leaders of the Mizrahi	Ch. Y. Lehrer	293
The Yeshiva in Navordok	I. Friedlander	300
The Lechem Aniyim [bread for the poor] organization	I. Feldsen	304
The Taharat Yisrael voluntary organization	S. Licht	308
The economic structure of the Jewish community	W. Nay	310
Livelihoods (poem)	E. H.	345
This was Tomaszow	S. Leibowitch	351
Characteristics of our town	S. Licht	357
Memories of a Tomaszower	P. Hoyt	368
Our town	I. Laneyel	369
Tomaszow Lubelski - my home town	M. Ehrlich	375
Elections in town	S. Licht	384
By The Way	N. Eisen	390
The spiritual situation	S. Licht	394
The special Jewish clothing	S. Leibowitch	402
The preparations for Shabat and holidays	S. Leibowitch	407
The black pole	I. Shepsils	415
A theater performance on Shabat	Ch. Reiz	418
Tomaszow on Shabat and Holidays	Ch. I. Biederman	421
The great wedding	A. Reiz	441
Remembrances from the years of youth	A. Kraz	446
Medication for a sick person	S. Leibowitch	448
Memories from my childhood	L. Erdinatzki	455
Unforgettable impressions	I. Minkovski	459
An elegy for Tomaszow [H]	I. Herbsman	465
The life and death of our town	I. Schwartz	472
Jewish snows (poem)	E. H.	483

Names and Personalities
From the cut-off past		484
Shmuel Meldung	S. Licht	487
David Schwindler	Dov Schwindler	487
Noah Herbsman	A. Herbsman	488
In memory of my son Moshe	Z. Kavenstock	489
Avigdor Eidelsberg	S. Zamoiski	490
Shlomo Goldsamd	S. Zamoiski	490
Moshe Reichenberg	S. Zamoiski	491
Pinchas Goldstein	S. Zamoiski	492
Gershon Brand	S. Licht	492
Arie Heller	S. Licht	493
Yankele Lederkremer	S. Licht	494
Yitzhak Karper	S. Licht	494
Shalom Singer	S. Licht	495
Yakov Mordechai Guthartz	S. Licht	495
Shlomo Akst	S. Licht	496
David Weizman	S. Licht	497
Ben-Zion Faber	S. Licht	498
Binyamin Weinberg	S. Licht	499
Shmuel Futter	L. Friedlander	501
Yechezkel Lehrer	Eliyahu Lehrer	507
My father R'Shabtai	M. Friedlander	512
Gutche the widow	R. Faust	519
The pious Tewil	I. Silberman	521
The Rav Berl Ferstman	S. Licht	524
The Dornfeld family	L. Dornfeld	526
My father R'Tewil Natt	F. Hammer	529
My grandfather and grandmother	F. Hammer	529
My unforgettsble friends - Moshe Sparer, Mechl Reiz, Heinich Koch, Hirtz Feldsehn	S. Leibowitz	535
In memory of my acquaintances - Moshe Weissleder, Elazar Ader, Avraham Steinwurzel, Yakov Arbisfeld, Dr. Schulman	S. Hanowitz	539
Shabtai, good morning to you	S. Licht	541
Adv. Mandeltart, Itche Bornstein, Eliyahu Struzler, Arie Loewenfuss, Yechezkel Kopenbaum, Eliezer Dornfeld, Feivel Halz and Avraham Yitzhak Blonder	S. L.	542
The old people in town - The old Heshel, Yankele and Shmuel Mecheles	S. Licht	545
A monument for friends - The old Stahl, R'Nathan Ney, Shmuel Lubart, Eliyahu Chaim Gershons, Mendele Tepler, Dovid'l Goldstein, Ruvele Chaitches, Pesach Futter, Isroel'ke Lehrman, Anshel Schor and Eliezer Bergenbaum	S. Licht	546
Young people from the Shtibl - Motl Fusch, Yechezke'le Zecharies, Yosele Gelber	S. Licht	552
Sinai Friedlander, Freide Teierschein, Sara Dvora Friedlander	Lea Herzig	554
Meshulam Barg	I. Maskap	556

Types
Yosel the water carrier	S. Licht	557
The matchmaker with the crooked head	F. Hammer	559
The blind Nachum	I. Schwartz	560
The blind Nachum (in verse)	E. H.	564
The crazy Teme'le (in v+A141erse)	E. H.	567

Destruction and Holocaust
Tomaszow Lubelski	I. Schwartz	569
At the outbreak of the War	S. Drilman	571
The first days of war	A. Herbsman	578
The brutalities	Ch. I. Biederman	584
Tha black Saturday	Mordechai Lehrer	596
A model of evil	S. Olrich	600
The destruction of my towm	Sheva Kempinski-Kriger	602
My experiences	Avraham Singer	611
I am the only one left	Chana Rodoler-Kriger	628
The struggle for life	H. and S. Keitel	640
During the fateful years	Rachel Schwartzbaum-Klarman	653
My experiences	Tcharne Koifman-Eilen	679
On the waves of the Hitler storm	Berl Hirschensohn	687
A Christian woman has saved me	Chana Spieseisen-Weissleder	700
Dark days in my life	Feige Pesl Bergman	703
Joel the Jester and his war experiences	I. Schwartz	709
The minutes of the testimony recordings [German]		730
Yiddish translation of the minutes	I. M.	732
From the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw		734
A few words about the Questionnaire	I. Maskap	741
To my hurting brothers and sisters	I. Schwartz	743
The bones are scattered in Belzec	E. H.	745
The sad end of a town	S. Licht	746

Survival
The surviving remnant in Russia	Ch. I. Lehrer	774
Upon the ruins	D. Schwindler	785
In Tomaszow after destruction	M. Tabenblatt	787
Tomaszow residents after the Holocaust	Lea Friedlander	792
The Tomaszow aid-commitee in New-York (photographs)		798
The Free-of-Interest loan fund of the Tomaszow former residents	Z. Kaventchok	801
The members of the Committee (photographs)		802
The Yizkor Book Committee in Israel	I. Herbsman	804
The Aid-Committee	I. Lanayel	810
The Tomaszow Free-of-Interest loan fund in Israel	M. Honigsfeld	812
Tomaszower in Benei-Brak	L. Wermut	815
Grontstein celebration in Kiryat Bobow		817
Memories from Tomaszow	S. Schiflinger	819
The people are taking a stand	I. Maskap	822
Documents from The Jewish Historical Institute		827-828
Yizkor [remember]		833
Names of the martyrs [Necrology]		835-861
Memorial		863-909

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