Tuchin, Ukraine

Tuczin-Kripa, Wolyn;
In Memory of the Jewish Community
(Tuchin, Ukraine)

50°42' / 26°34'

(Goryngrad, Ukraine)

50°39' / 26°31'

Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Tuczin-Kripa

Editor: B. H. Ayalon

Published in Tel Aviv 1967

This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Tuczin-Kripa (Tuczin-Kripa, Wolyn; in Memory of the Jewish Community),
Editor: B. H. Ayalon, Tuczin and Kripa Relief Society of Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1965 (H,Y 387 pages)

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Hebrew TOC translated by Sara Mages

Yiddish TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner

	Chapter 1: Title Page

I	Introduction	The Editor	14
II	Our Intention	The Book Committee	15
III	Members of the Book Committee		18
IV	Tuczin-Kripa^[1] in the heart of Wolhyn	Map	19
V	Table of Contents		22
VI	List of communal photos		27
VII	Former residents of Tuczin-Kripa^[1] in the memorial meeting		31

	Chapter 2: Tuczin-Kripa^[1] and the Surrounding Area

1	The District of Wolyn and Wolyn's Jews		38
	Tuczin-Kripa and the surrounding area	Dov Neger, Yakov Katz, David Sade, David Petizer
	a. General review		46
	b. The history of Tuczin		50
	c. Ancient Kripa		51
	d. The village of Antonowka		51
	e. Tuczin in the folktales		54
3	Memories from before World War II [Y]	David Petizer	55
4	The History of the Jewish community of Tuczin	H. Halperin	59
5	Memories from my youth and adulthood	Avraham Sade (Schenfeld)	62
6	Memories from Kripa	Pinchas Arest	66
7	From my memories of Tuczin to the year 1920	N. Gilad (Glatstein)	67
8	Tuczin's natives talk about their city
	a. The city, its residents and their livelihood	Dov Neger	69
	b. My town Tuczin	Zushia Rotelman	69
	c. From 1928 to 1935	Yisrael Gurfinkel	72
	d. Mix memories	Yitzchak Gilberg	73
	e. Childhood memories	Luba Arye-Katsav	74
	f. Childhood days in our town Tuczin	Sara Greler	75
	g. Memories from Tuczin	Batya Kentor- Halperin	75
9	The Jewish home and “Hanoar Hatzioni” [Zionist Youth]	Ester Schecniok	78
10	Tuczin-Kripa and the surrounding area [Y]	Dov Neger, Yakov Katz, David Sade, David Petizer
	a. General overview [Y]		79
	b. The history of Tuczin [Y]		83
	c. The old Kripa [Y]		85
	d. The village Anatowka [Y]		87
	e. Tuczin in folktales [Y]		88

	Chapter 3: Tuczin's Jews and their activities

11	Jewish Tuczin and its way of life	David Sade (Schenfeld)
	a. The livelihoods of Tuczin's Jews		97
	b. Educational Institutes, Melamdim and Teachers		97
	c. Public institutions and public activists		102
	d. The Drama Club - “Lubitelski theater”		105
	e. The transportation in town - the first bus		105
	f. The town's book seller		106
12	The town at work	Dov Neger
	a. Movements and Streams		107
	b. “HeHalutz” [the pioneer movement]		108
13	The first buds of the workers movement		110
14	Movements and Projects	Avraham Sade (Schenfeld)
	a. The Zionist Movement		111
	b. Youth Movements		115
	c. The Library		115
	d. Teachers and Melamdim		116
	e. Mutual aid		116
	f. Medical aid		117
	g. Miscellaneous		118
15	The little Cossak synagogue [Y]	Motl Libertov
16	“Hashomer Hatzair”^[2] Federation in Tuczin	David Sade (Schenfeld)	119
17	“Hashomer Hatzair” Chapter in Tuczin	Zushia Rotelman	126
18	The first leaders of “Hashomer Hatzair”	Batya Kentor- Halperin	127
19	Memories from the “Gordonia”^[3] Movement	Sima Adamowicz-Chait	127
20	A brick for the memorial monument	Yitzchak Neri (Lichtesach)
	a. The Yeshiva named after Shmuel Schatz of blessed memory		131
	b. “Hashomer Hadati”^[4]		132
	c. The “Hakhshara”^[5] Kibbutz in Drozdov		133
21	A wedding in town [Y]	Rivka Chamut	135
22	The towns and its residents	Nasia Sade (Zinger)	138
23	Jewish homes in Tuczin [Y]	Yehudah Rotenberg
	a. Education among Jews [Y]		143
	b. Scholars in Tuczin [Y]		144
	c. Holidays among Jews [Y]		146
24	At the edge of the social life	Yehudah Rotenberg, David Sade
	a. “Chevrah Kadisha” – True Loving Kindness		147
	b. The Fire-Brigade – “Požarna Komanda”		147
	c. Simchat Torah - The drunken holiday		148
	d. The Taverns		149
	e. The Police		149
	f. The recruitment week – a week of trouble		150
25	The first Tuczin health care organization, founded in New York in 1900 [Y]	Matel Libertow	151
26	Tears of pain - tears of joy [Y]	Rachtzi Weiner-Dines	154
27	For the heroes of Tuczin [Y]	David Petizer	159

	Chapter 4: Images, Personalities and Families

28	Religious leaders and public personalities	Selva Neger	166
29	The family of Rav [rabbi] Galawa [Y]	HaRav Avraham Galawa	171
30	Dovrish Reitman	Tzvi Gilberg	175
31	a. The Jews of Torah and tradition	Tzvi Gilberg	178
	b. The institutions of “Hapoel HaMizrachi”^[6]
32	About my home that was destroyed	Shechora Silberberg-Frenkel	183
33	The family of Michael Sheinfeld	Yosef Sheinfeld	194
34	The home of my father and mother	David Sade	198
35	In memory of my brother Gedalyahu b. The Weiner family [Y]	Avraham Vinitser	202
36	R' Avraham and Batya Teshabak [Y]	Rachel Klienman (Teshabak)	207
37	About the Silberberg home	Hanoch Halperin	210
38	The family of Sender Galdstein	Yitzchak Chamut	211
39	In memory of Neta Presman/with love from his daughter		214
40	The Goldstein family	Michael Goldstein	218
41	About David Glatstein of blessed memory	Rivka Chamut	218
42	My Family	Luba Arye-Katsav	220
43	A marker to my father's home	Tzvi Gilberg	222
44	In memory of my parents and my family	Yitzchak Gilberg
45	The Kaplan-Glaperin families	Sara Kaplan	226
46	The souls that perished in my family [Y]	Rachtzi Weiner-Dines	227
47	The Turok- Riklis family	Batya Turok- Riklis	227
48	The Resnick family	Chana Resnick (Gladstein)	234
49	The family of Michel Chamut [Y]	Nechama Chamut Piudok	234

	Chapter 5: War, Heroism and Holocaust

50	In the Days of Siege and Distress	David Sadeh	246
51	Under the shadow of the Soviet regime	Avraham Sade	251
52	The Tuczin Ghetto uprising	Mendel Mann	251
53	The Tuchyn chapter	Shalom Cholevski	257
54	The “Judenrat” in Tuchyn	Miriam Shvartzman–Kouts	269
55	From the horrors of the Holocaust	Duba Melamed (Silberberg)	283
56	The aftermath of Tuczin	Ida Fingerhut-Kaplan	287
57	Jewish children in the fields and the forests [Y]	Moshe Schaf	287
58	My visit to Tuczin after the destruction	Yitzchak Gilberg	303
59	My experiences in life [Y]	Avraham Winitzer (Kripa)	306
60	A eulogy for my town [Y]	Rachtzi Weiner-Dines	314
61	A memorial monument		322
62	Yizkor		323
63	List of the martyrs from the communities of Tuczin-Kripa		325
64	Family memory days		383

Translator's Footnotes Note: All articles are in Hebrew apart from those marked with [Y] – Yiddish Kripa – the Yiddish name for Goryngrad, Ukraine Return “Hashomer Hatzair” – The Youth Guard – a socialist-Zionist youth movement Return “Gordonia” – a Zionist Youth Movements. The movement's doctrines were based on the beliefs of Aaron David Gordon Return “Hashomer Hadati” - Zionist religious youth movement associated with “Mizrachi”, the religious Zionist organization Return “Hakhshara” – preparation - agricultural institutes similar to kibbutzim where Zionist youth received their technical skills needed for their immigration to Israel Return “Hapoel HaMizrachi” - religious pioneering and labor movement in Israel Return

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