Grajewo, Poland

Grayewo Memorial Book
(Grajewo, Poland)
53°39' / 22°27'

Translation of
Grayeve yisker-bukh

Edited by: Dr. Gorge Gorin, New York 1950

Acknowledgments
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This is a translation from: Grayeve yisker-bukh (Grayewo memorial book), Editor: Dr. Gorge Gorin, New York,
United Grayever Relief Committee, 1950 (Y, E 311 pages).

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

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Translated by Tina Lunson

Foreword	7

First Part: Once, once…
Nakhman Rapp: Midnight (poem)	9
Sh. Y. Fishbeyn: Grayeve from the Past	11
Mayer Vaser: Our Hometown, Grayeve	19
Prof. Shimen Rabidovitsh: Grayeve, the Aspiring and Dreaming	35
Dr. G. Gorin: Images and Figures of Grayeve	47

Second Part: Community and Life-Style
Itsik Gartshitski: The Zionist Movement in Grayeve	71
Sh. Y. Fishbeyn: Workers' Organizations in Grayeve	105
Abutsh Kolko: An Encounter Between Grayevers in Siberia	119
Ari Ibn-Zahav: Grayeve Dzshegtshares [tar sellers]	123
Heyman Blum: Hasidism in Grayeve	147
Haymie and Sol Shiller: Hepner's Suspender Factory	155
Dr. Tsvi Vislevski: Grajewo [In Hebrew]	159

Third Part: The Holocaust
Nakhman Rapp: History of the Grayeve Ghetto	174
Mendel Kayman: A Grayeve Partisan Recounts	215
Khaye Golding-Kayman: Shtutzin – Grayeve to the Last Breath	218
The Violent Death of the Jews of Shtutzin [Szczuczyn] (Document)	223
The Violent Death of the Jews of Kolna [Kolno] (Document)	226
The Pogroms in Radzshilov [Radzilow] (Document)	228

Fourth Part: Grayeve Jews in America
Our Students: A Word from the Chairman of the United Grayeve Aid Committee	238
H. Blum: The Grayever Relief Committee in New York	242
Irving Sapirstein: The United Grayever Relief Committee	250
Heyman Blum: Grayeve Branch 35 of the Workers' Circle	261
Irving Kleynman: The Grayever Branch 56 of The Jewish People's Fraternal Order	268
H. B–M: The Shtutziner and Grayever Shul in New York	270
A. Blushteyn: The Grayever Landsleit in Chicago	274
Letters and Documents from Grayeve	276
From American Joint Distribution Committee, Warsaw	290

Fifth Part: Grayeve Writers and Scholars
Kh. Antshkovski: Grayeve Jews in Erets Yisroel	293
Gershen Svet: The Three Grayevans in Jerusalem	298
Dr. G. Gorin: Avrom Mordkhe Piurko	302
Dr. Emanuel Olshvanger: Memoirs of Avrom Mordkhe Piurko	306
Dr. G. Gorin: Prof. Shimen Rabidovitsh	308
About the illustrations of A. D. Fishbeyn	312
In Holy Remembrance (Necrology)	315

English Section
Dr & Mrs. George Gorin: The Story of Grayevo	III
Nachman Rapp : History of the Grayevo Ghetto	XIX

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