Gostynin, Poland

Book of Gostynin
(Gostynin, Poland)
52026' / 19029'

Translation of Pinkas Gostynin

Edited by: J. M. Biderman

Published in New York, 1960

Acknowledgments
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This is a translation from: Pinkas Gostynin, (Book of Gostynin), ed. J.M.Biderman,
New York: Gostynin Memorial Book Committe, 1960 (358 pages, Y)

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

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

Maps
A Word from the Gostyniner Yizkor Book Committee		5
Remarks from the Editor		9

Pages of History
From the “Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland”		13
From the “Jewish Encyclopedia”		16
From the “Judaistic Encyclopedia”		17
From the “Book of Horrors”		17
From Bulletin of the Historical Institute		19

The Gostyniner Rebbe
The Good Jew from Gostynin	Y.M. Biderman	23
The Gostyniner Tzaddik [Righteous Man]	The Esteemed Rabbi M. Aronson	31
The Rebbe's Word		35
A Pamphlet about Behavior		39
Bibliography about the Gostyniner Rebbe		41

Memories
Our Former Gostynin	Josef Keller	45
Jewish Community Life and Jewish Subsistence	Meir Dovid Tremski	76
The First Sprouts of Jewish Cultural Life	The Rabbi Yona Borukh Kohan Tzadek	87
Rabbis and Melamdim	Hershel Leib Leizerowitz	92
Simkhah-Bunim Danciger	Moshe Danciger	94
Yakir Warszawski	Y. Morbid	95
The Gostyniner Khazen [Cantor]	Yoel Miller	98
My Fiddle (Song with Notes)		103
Yisroel Glatsztajn	Mikhel Gelbart	104
“Di Zun Fargeyt In Flamen” The Sun Sets in Flame	Yitzchak Katzenelson	107
Yom-Kippur in Gostynin	Shmuel Keller	108
In the Years 1914–1928	Yisochar Matil	120
The Joint [Distribution Committee] Action	Shlomo Gostynski	141
Our Youth Leaders	Gershon Yudkowski	152
The Poalei–Zion Youth in Gostynin	Shlomo Cwajghaft	156
“Freedom” and the “Red Scouts”	Sh. W. Pinczewski	162
Communistic Youth	Sh. Makowski	163
The Princess, Gostynin	Rose Shoshana	165
Gostyniner Jews	Yitzhak Zandman	170
Cultural and Theater Activities	Yakov Gostynski	177
The History of the Jewish Theatre in Gostynin	Chaim-Sender Zandman	186
How and What We Used to Read	Tuvia Yakobowitz	189
Gostynin, My City	Chana Bagno-Keller	192
Pictures and Types from Gostynin	Meyer and Yakov Gostynski	207
From My Childhood	Florence Keller-Malmeth	225
Memories	Rivka Danziger – Fundak	230
Two World Wars	Sh. B. Bagno	231
The Matil Family	Rivka Matil–Margolit	239

In the Years of Destruction
Years of Suffering and Danger	Moshe Szajewicz	249
Gostynin Jews in the Shadow of the Gallows	Shimon Rumer	279
In Fear and In Pain	Yitzhak Krajcer	289
Those Frightful Days	Avraham Danziger	297
From the Gostynin Ghetto - with the Transport to a Labor-Camp	M. Brustovski	298
The Resistance in the Koniner Camp	Shmulik Ben-Tzion Matil	303
A Tragic Document from the Konin Camp	Avraham Seiff	308
Chelmno	The Esteemed Rabbi Y. M. Aronson	311

There Once Was
Gostynin	Meier Gostynski	317
A Meeting at the Old Cemetery	Josef Keller	320
These Candles Are Holy…	H. Sztern	326
A Letter from my Friend Hans	Ezri Zajf-Etsmun	331

Gostyniner Across the World
The Gostyniner Society in New York	Y. K.	337
The Gostyniner Social Club in New York	Y. K–R	343
The Gostyniner Society in Chicago		347
Organization of Emigrés of Gostynin in Israel	R. M.	349
A Letter from the Other Side of the Ocean	Adela Epsztajn-Leszinski	354
One of the Gostyniner Murderers Is Sentenced to Death	A. Papjerczyk	357

Remember
Yizkor		361
List of Gostyniner, Who Perished in the Years 5700 [1940] - 5705 [1945]