Wojsławice, Poland

Yizkor Book in Memory of Voislavize
(Wojsławice, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron Voislavitse

Editor: Shimon Kanc

Published in Tel Aviv 1970

Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem
for the submission of the necrology for placement on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron Voislavitse (Yizkor book in memory of Voislavize),
Editor: Shimon Kanc, Former Residents of Voislavize, Published: Tel Aviv 1970 (H,Y 515 pages)

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

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

We shall remember		5
A candle in their memory		6
El Male Rahamim [memorial prayer]		7
Map of Wojslawice		8–9
The book	The Book Committee	10
Wojslawice, my town	Shlomo Ofir	12
“And you shall tell your son”		17

History of the Town
Introduction	Shimon Kanc	23
History of the Jewish settlement in Wojslawice [Y]	Shimon Kanc	33
The blood libel in 1760 [Y]	Moshe Strassberger	52
Spiritual and economic background of Wojslawice	Moshe Sagie–Kleinmintz	66
My sixty years of life in Wojslawice, 1879–1939 [Y]	Mendel Schaffer	69
Assistants
Winter pleasures
In the village
Jewish self–defense
Hevlei Mashiach [pre–Messianic ordeals]
Wojslawice Jews hear about Dr. Herzl
The first Zionist speech
Wrathful winds
Our rabbis [Y]	Arie–Leib Reiz	96
Rav R'David London
Rav R' Baruch Israel
Rav R'Levy
Rav R'Meir Feivel Weinstein
The great dispute
Rav R'Yakov–Yitzhak Tzitrinboim
The Rav appointed by the authorities, R'Yehoshua Kleinmintz

The Synagogue and the Bet Midrash
The Hassidic shtiblech [Y]		108
Trisker, Belzer, Gerer
Cantors		110
Sabbath and Holidays in town		111
High–Holidays, Sukot and Simchat Tora,
Chanuka, Purim, Pesach, Shavuot
The Community		122
From my grandmother's treasure
The town of my parents and grandparents [Y]	Yakov Tennenbaum,	131
In the legendary Kotchyal cellar
Melamdim
Hassidim
Yichus [lineage]
At the fair
Life–wisdom
Weddings

Jewish Education
The Heder, the Melamdim and the Bet Hamidrash	Moshe Sagie–Kleinmintz	163
Learn Torah, my son	Moshe Rab	170
Teachers of little children
The elementary School
Our fight against Christian hatred
Education in my home
My school–years [Y]	Yehudit Eines	184

Movements and Parties
The Zionist movement	Shlomo Ofir	191
Wojslawice, a stronghold of Poalei Zion	Yakov Becker	195
The Poalei–Zion left	Yakov Suessman, Shlomo Zayantz, Shabtay & Leibtche Eines	199
The convention	David Eines	207
The revolutionary funeral	David Eines	208
BEITAR	Shmuel ben Meir–David	213
In the training–camp [Y]	Chaim Avni	219
My political wanderings [Y]	Shlomo Barek	227
Tzeirei Agudat Israel [Young Agudat Israel]	Shlomo Barek
Linat Tzedek [free bed for the needy]	Chaike Weisstop–Schaffer	231
Our Drama–Circle [Y]	Chana Schaffel	233
The loan–fund, professional courses		236

Once Upon a Time…
Horrors of One Night	Sheindel Peichman–Wagenfeld	241
The miracle	Sheindl Fireman–Wagenfeld	242
Nightmares from the World–War [Y]	Mendel Bareck	243
Wild Polish soldiers
Cultural activities
Meir–Yosl's liberation [Y]	Shlomo Zayantz	247
Moshe–Chaim's house
Heroic defenders
The Bath alley [Y]	Yechiel Mittelman	253
Childhood years in my birth town [Y]	Rachel Yogli–Huberman	257
The Wojslawice Landsmanschaft
The jester's rhymes
At the river
Holiday with the modern young people [Y]	Chana Schaffel	263
Wojslawice Jews in Warsaw [Y]	Avraham Hendler	266
Our life during childhood and adolescence [Y]	Rachel Gertz	270
A lost Lag Ba'omer [Y]	Moshe Strassberger	280
The sad tune	Ch. Feivel	286

Personalities and Way–of–Life
Sadness and smiles in my town [Y]	Yehudit Einess	289
The idyllic life
Days of unrest
Aunt Ester'l
David Kupper
Zecharia Rupp
Yosl Petyach
Mendel Yoshes
Perhaps the other way around
Feivel Chaytche Lahke's
Chaim Baruch Abes
Grandma Pessele
Folk sayings in our town	Collected by Yehudit Einess	316
Fairs, thieves and Jewish heroes [Y]	David Einess	324
At the blue well
A pogrom
Various figures [Y]	Yitzhak Rab	336
Uncle Mechl
At the Rebbe's Tish [gathering, lit. table]
The first Halutza [woman pioneer] [Y]	Tzviya Leber–Tzelentchuk	343
The doctor and home–medications [Y]	Leib Pram	344
Brotherliness, in the Manner of Wojsławice [Y]	Yisrael Kelner	347
Wojslawice mood and spirit [Y]	Shimon Kanc	348
Worries
Betzalel Tennenbaum
Enthusiasm and skepticism
Pioneers
Letters
The soul of the town
Baking Matza – The orchestra and the rabbi	Feivel Hochlehrer	362
My journey from Wojslawice to Paris [Y]	David Kupper	367
Our dear town	Grunia Tennenbaum	374

The Horrors of the Holocaust
In the valley of pain and death [Y]	Chaia Eidelman–Blatt	385
The beginning of the end [Y]	Mendel Bareck	402
Fear, hunger and death [Y]	Sara Gerber (Turbiener)	405
From one fire to another [Y]	Esther Tannenbaum–Frumer	413
Wojslawice – Lodz – Auschwitz
Horrible days and nights [Y]	Rachel Gertz	420
On the gloomy roads from Wojslawice to Haifa [Y]	Chaim Avni	428
Wanderings [Y]	Tzirl Shmarek–Leber	440

The Saga of Heroism
Stronger than iron [Y]	Mordechai Kalmanowitz	445
Testimony	Mordechai Kalmanowitz	450
A Kadish for my town [Y]	Yakov Zissman	473
In memory of those who have left us	M. A.	478
The sons that we have lost		485
I remember you, Wojslawice [Y]	Rivka Luden	501
List of martyrs (necrology)		502

Map of Wojslawice	Drawing by Alexandra

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