Zbarazh, Ukraine

Zbaraz: the Zbaraz Memorial Book
(Zbarazh, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Sefer Zbaraz

Editor: Moshe Sommerstein

Published in Tel Aviv 1983

Acknowledgments

Translations by Yaacov David Shulman
(unless otherwise noted)

Our sincere appreciation to Helen Rosenstein Wolf
for typing up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project.

This is a translation of: Sefer Zbaraz (Zbaraz: the Zbaraz memorial book),
Editor: Moshe Sommerstein, The Organization of Former Zbaraz Residents, Published: Tel Aviv 1983 (H,Y,E 128 pages)

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

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May the Nation of Israel Remember		4
“God, Filled with Compassion”		5

This Book	Moshe Sommerstein	7

To: Our brothers and sisters, compatriots, across the entire world.	The Central Committee of Zbarazh Jews in Israel	8
Federation of Outgoing Zbaraz and Vicinity: To our Brothers and Sisters [English]	Moshe Sommerstein	11
Foreword	Moshe Sommerstein	13
Zbarazh – The Landscape of Zbarazh, District of Tarnopol		19
Velvel Zbarazher – Folk–Poet and Troubadour [Y]		23
The Lonely Person Wishes to Rest (poem) [Y]	Binyamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz	27
Between the Two World Wars		29
The Role of the Federations		34
Activities in the Municipal Arena		34
Network of Hebrew Schools and Hebrew Education		35
The Second World War		38
The Photostat and the Memorial		41
The Holocaust and the Destruction of the Jews of Zbarazh	From the diary of an eyewitness, Yaakov Litner (of blessed memory) (Translated from German to Hebrew by Moshe Sommerstein)	43

On the Path of Suffering
The Tragic History of Zbarazh, Galicia [Y]	Moshe Sommerstein	85
The Yearnings of a Mother (poem)	Sabina Dorfman	89
Where is the Grave of My Dear Mother? (poem) [Y]	Yosef Lilien	91
To the Memory of My Dear Parents, Zbarazh Ghetto 1942 (poem)	Sabina Dorfman	93
I Was the Mother of a Baby	Sabina Dorfman (from the Folk family)	95
A Period of Time	Ida Fink	97
From Recollections of the Nazi Conquest – “Action”	Stella Klinger–Zidenorg (Kiryat Chaim)	105
The Might of the Jews of Zbarazh [Y]	Zalman Rosenberg	109
Israeli Witnesses Face to Face with the Murderer of Tarnopol Jews [Polish]		115
Nazi Criminals Receive Life Sentences		116
Witnesses from Israel at the Trial of the Nazi Laks		117
My Little Town [Y]	Moshe Speiser (New York)	118
Berta–Batka Rosenstraukh–Goldwasser (of blessed memory)		119
The Holocaust (poem)	Moshe Sommerstein	120
Protocol [German]		123
Neftostroi [Y]	Yosef Lilien	125
The Battle for Redemption in the Land of Israel		127
Letter to a Friend	Israel Harodi	129
Chaim Harodi (of blessed memory)		135
In Memory of Dear Chanah	Yosef Blaustein	137
Mother	Your daughter Ruthie	140
To Moshe, best wishes!	Chaveleh	142
Yosef Karni (of blessed memory)	Shmuel Nardi	143
The Wars of Israel (poem)	Moshe Sommerstein	146
Tzvi Segal (of blessed memory)	Moshe Sommerstein (lawyer)	151
Moshe Hindes (of blessed memory)	Moshe Sommerstein	153
List of Israeli citizens from Zbarazh and vicinity, z”l, who died in Israel		157
Kaddish		161
List of Zbarazh former residents living in Israel		163

Photographs		169–178

The Yizkor Prayer – For the Soldiers of IDF		179

English Section

The Holocaust and the Destruction of the Jews of Zbaraz	Yaakov Litner	3

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