Voranava, Belarus

Woronow, Voronova
(Voranava, Belarus)

54°09' / 25°20'

Written by Moshe Berkowitz, beginning 1943

Unpublished

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Alan Berkowitz
(grandson of author) - holder of the copyrights

Translations

Adah Fogel (1983)

Edited by

Ellen Sadove Renck

Typed by

Alma Cahn

This is a translation of Woronow, Voronova, by Moshe Berkowitz, beginning 1943. Translated from Yiddish by Adah Fogel.
Unpublished manuscript. Copy of text donated to GGG, Inc. by grandson of the author, Alan Berkowitz.
Also donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.

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(pages numbers of original manuscript)

I	The Jewish Town of Woronowa	1-4
II	Woronow Rabbis in the Last Hundred Years	5-12
III	Woronow Jews and Institutions	13-18
IV	Jewish Types, Customs, Folk Songs	19-37
V	Young People Leave for America	38-44
VI	German Military Occupies Wornowa	45-53
VII	In the Woronow Prison	54-59
VIII	We Work in the Woronow Marketplace	60-63
IX	Spanish Troops March Through Woronowa	64-68
X	Nazi Night Robbers	69-71
XI	Brutal Annihilation in Woronowa of Lithuanian Jews	72-82
XII	"Action" (Roundup) of the Aged and Sick	83-85
XIII	Remaining Jews from Neighboring Towns are Brought to Voronowa	86-88
XIV	Chaim Dublianski – Chaim the Mute's Son	89-95
XV	The Massacre in Woronowa	96-106
XVI	Aussiedlung of Survivors to Lida	107-109
XVII	How the Cantor-Ritual Slaughterer and Family Survived	110-114
XVIII	Full List of Woronow Survivors	115-117
XIX	Gone (Simon Levine)	118-123
XX	On That Terrible Night	124-126
XXI	With the Partisans in the Forest	127-135
	Untitled	136

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