The Memorial Book of Kaluszyn

The Memorial Book of Kaluszyn
(Kałuszyn, Poland)
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Translation of
Sefer Kaluszyn; geheylikt der khorev gevorener kehile

Editors: A. Shamri, Sh. Soroka

Published in Tel Aviv, 1961, Former Residents of Kaluszyn in Israel

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This is a translation from: Sefer Kaluszyn; geheylikt der khorev gevorener kehile (The Memorial Book of Kaluszyn),
Editors: A. Shamri, Sh. Soroka, Tel Aviv, 1961, Former Residents of Kaluszyn in Israel (Yiddish, 545 pages).

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Kaluszyn (1961)

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Translated by Yossi Ziontz and Bill Leibner

(* All text is written in Yiddish, unless otherwise marked (*H) for Hebrew)

Title	Author	Page
From the publishers		9
From the publishers (*H)		11
History of the Kałuszyn Jewish population	Dr. N. M. Gelber	15

Times and Regimes

Kałuszyn - our town	Shalom Soroka	28
The Old Jewish Kałuszyn	Yossef Zisholtz (Tel Aviv)	37
Towards a new Era	Moshe Frucht	42
Under three Systems of Government	Chayim Rayzman	45
Dealing with Restrictions and Persecution	Moshe Tchernitski	49
After the Liberation of Poland	Moshe Frak	53
In the Minsk-Mazovyetsk Prison	Israel Raychenbach	57
In 1920's turmoil	Yakov Palma	60
8 days under the Soviet power	Shmueal Ayzearstayine	68
The Killings at the Bug River	Yonna Elson	70
Memories about (from) a bloody day	Yechieal Grantayvitsh (?)	70
The hatred of Israel (Jewish people)	Zyesha Baravescki	72
Struggle against Antisemitism	By David Felner (Ben-Avraham)	73
The Butchers and the Slaughter-Gzayre	Yechezkel Shtutman	75
Kałuszyn during the Days of the Pogrom in Minsk-Mazovyetsk	Chaim Rayzman	76
My Shtetl Mrozy and the “Kałuszyn Forest”	Brurya Sharfman	77

The Kałuszyn Community

The Kehilla in Kałuszyn	Shalom Saraka	82
Rabbis (*H), rabbis and financial supporters/leaders in the Kałuszyn community	S. Arye	85
The Rov of Kałuszyn	Moyshe Berl Dechnevers	102
The Rebbe Naftole	Yosef Zis'holts	105
Yiddishkayt and Unity	Yakov Zis’holtz	106
Two Societies	Avraham Potashnick	107
Three Benevolent Societies Combined	Shlomo Kuperhand	108
The Achiezer Society	David Felner (Ben Avraham)	109
The ritual slaughterers	Yossef Zisholtz	111
Occupations of the Jews of Kałuszyn	Yitzchok Minski	113
The First Hebrew School	Simcha Sitin	118
Jewish Youth in the Polish (State) Schools	Pola Kaplan	119
The struggle of a Jewish student	Chaim Rayzman	121
The Kindergarten	Rivka Bergman (Abramski)	123
The “Gan-Yiladim”	Miriam Shamri	124

Parties and Cultural Associations

In memory of Kałuszyn	Y. Zerubavel	128
Hallowed Names	Yaakov Zaydman	131
Our youth	Miriam Piasecki	131
From Chevres to Trade Unions	Moshe Frucht	132
What I remember from the fifth year	Shlomo Kupperhand	134
Alter Gorzesz in 1905	Israel Reichenbac	135
The righteousness of revolutionaries	Boruch Shtulman	136
Maskilim in Kozhenits Shtibl	Elyahu Kaplan	138
The first Zionists	Yaakow Mendel Gotthelf	140
In the beginning	Yankev Palma	141
The two emissaries	A. Ben Hanoch	144
The first sprouts	Akiva Hendel	145
The First Poppy Sale	Eliyahu Kaplan	147
“Bund” in Kałuszyn	Avrum (Abraham) Goldberg	149
The Sports Association “Morgnshtern”	Yisroel Demshtchak	164
A Bundist Liame during a Marred Holiday	Yaakow Palma	166
Social awakening following the first German occupation	Avrohom Mitlberg	168
The Poalei Tzion in Kałuszyn	Yeshayahu Grodzicki	172
The Poalei Tzion among the Kalusziner workers	Shulem Soroka	185
On May 1st	S. Shulem	190
The “Z.S.- Fareynigte”	Hersh Yosl Sokol	193
The communist movement in Kałuszyn	Welvele Sapirstein	194
MOPR in Kałuszyn	Pesach Finklshtayn	204
The “Promień”	Moshe Frak	205
The Trade Unions	Pesach Finklshtayn	207
The strike of the transport union	Shmuel Eizerstein	209
The pot factory	Yossed Mendel Zisholtz	210
A Strike and a Din-Torah	Chaim Rayzman	212
Zionist movements	Yossed Mendel Zisholtz	213
The Halutz and other Zionist socialist movement	Awraham Mashela	216
Poalei Tsiyon – Right (PoaleiTsiyon – Z.S.)	Y. Tsigler	218
The youth organization “freiheit”	Yona Papowski	220
The Halutz –Shomrim youth movement	Dawid Flener (B. A.)	221
Pioneers build the kaleika of Kałuszyn	Yossef Neiman	224
Friends from my Youth	David Felner	227
Thus lived a shtetl	Gitel Rok-Rosenfeld	229

Behavior and Types

The average Jew	Yehiel Granatowitch	232
From the spark of repentance	Arieh Shimri	234
Individuals and Characters	Israel Raychenbach	239
The kleizmers of Kałuszyn	Shmuel Eizerstein	253
These were my People…	Moyshe Pasklinski	255
As I saw Kałuszyn	Awraham Rosenker	264
Market day in the sthtetl	Shoshana Windicki (Hausman)	272
Reb Itche Meir Perkal	Awraham Potashnik	274
Reb Moshe Mashlanke	Golda Foxman (Mashlanken)	275
Two types	Dawid Flener (B.A.)	277
The love of Palestine by Reb Arieh Chaikes	Arieh Kaplan	279
Reb Yehezkel Hendel the founder of the village Kfar Hassidim in Palestine	Akiva Hendel	281
The sufferings and pains of Welvel Grushka	Melech Yelen	283
Alter, the Village Peddler	Yosl Sukenik	284
The big wedding at the home of Reb. Naphtali	Shlomo Kupperhand	286
My first trip to the rabbi	Yehezkel Kamiel	287
Amongst Hassidim	Chaim Kalushiner	288
Fires and miracles	Chaim Reisenman	292
The two Wilner	Moshe Gline	293
From Jewish life style	Yossef Zisholtz	294
Chanukah in Shtetl	Yechiel Granatovitch	301
Purim in town	Sh. Ben Moshe Aaron	303
Recruits	Moshe Frak	306
Reb Yaakow Tovia and the Amen	Yossef Neiman	307
The Carlsbad box	Itzhak Atzap	308
How much hair does a shtreimel contain	Ben Hanoch	308
It was told	Yaakow Zusman	309
Berl Graptche the treasure	Dawid Flener (B. A.)	311
Their fine manner	Sarah Feige Senalik	312

Destruction and Struggle

The tears are choking		314
Martyrdom, resistance and destruction	Dr. Yosef Kermish	315
From the Ringelblum material		350
This is how it started	Yaakow Nozalke	352
The Destruction of Kałuszyn	Mendel Berman	356
Germans and Poles in the destruction work	Chaim Reisman	361
Amid Ruins	Nechemia Obfal	365
Children amongst the ruins	Alter Zaydman	367
The Resistance and the Burial	David Felner (Ben Avraham)	370
Refugees in Kałuszyn	Yaakow Kenner	372
A “Guest Performance” in Kałuszyn	Zygmunt Turkow	374
Notices of a refugee	Moshe Zoyere	376
Refugees (a poem)	Nahum Bomze	378
Letter, protocol, and lists		379
The lights reminisces	Moshe Kurtzboim	391
Across the Bug and back	Nathan Borowski	392
Partisans in the Kałuszyn area	The Brothers Shinolentzky	393
Between ruins and forests	Yehiel Granatowitch	395
In Hiding	Laybl and Efraim Shtchapovitch	397
Poems	Arieh Shimri	401
In bunkers and forests	Shlomo Kupperhand	406
With Kałuszyn Landlayt in the Warsaw Ghetto	Sholem Kamienny	411
The Kalusziner commune in Bialystok	Dawid Flener (B. A.)	417
From Kałuszyn to Landshut	Chaim Popowski	418
Auschwitz, (poem)	Charles Dobzinski	428
In the struggle against Nazi-fascism	Yankel Rei	432
The last promenade	Chaim Kapune	433
Songs	Binem Heller	435
With Kuniak in Hiding	Layb Rochman	437
Such was the end of my Shtetl Mrozy	Bruria Sharfman-Kaplan	452
Poems	Moshe Sarah La's	454
Kalusziner residents in France during the Nazi occupation	Israel Engel	456
During the war years in France	Motel Sukne	458
Letter from the camps	&nsbp;	460
German cruelties	Eliyahu Skowrnek	462
Only with Kalusziner	Israel Milgrom	462
From France to Argentina	Awaham Itzhak Nissenbaum	463
The last greetings from the ruins of Kałuszyn	Yehezkel Jossefson	466

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Awraham Gamzu	Dawid Felner (B. A.)	466
Moyshe Kishelnitzky	Sholem Soroka	467
Shmuel Lew	Wewl Sapirtein	469
Moshe Goldberg	I. Granatowich	470
Yeshayahu Grodzshicky	I. Grodzshicky	471
Homesickness	Mordechau Grodzshitzki	473
Light	Shmuel Wolman	474
Our “Gandi” (Baruch Shebicki)	Rachel Auerbach	475
Shmuel Liss	Shulem Soroka	478
Shmul Layzer Sadovski	Avrum Goldberg	479
Leibish Sapirstein	Sulem S.	479
Simche Finkelstein		480
Aaron Kotzki	Shulem Soroka	481
Leibel Rosenfeld	Dawid Plener (Ch. A.)	482
Henoch Rus	M. Kligsberg	483
Yochewed Reisman	Pessah Finkelstein	484
Leiser Borenstein	Itzhak Atzap	486
David Gelibter	Yosef Zis’holts	487
Zisman Zitelni	A. Shem	488
Chaim Torbiner	Paula Kaplan	490
Avraham Felner	David Felner (Ben Avraham)	490
Reb Israel Asher (Felner) the Magid	Yosef Zis’holts	491
Moshe Popowski	Chaim Kalusziner	492
Dawid Rozhe	Yossef Zisholtz	493
Baruch Wieworke	Shulem S.	495
Nute Tenenbaum	Chaim Reisman	496
Hersh Liss	Welwel ben Yossef	497
Moshe Liss	Dawid Plener (Ch. A.)	499
Benyamin Miodownik	A. Bach	500
Israel Milgrom	Moshe Klinberg	501
Yaakow Palma	Arieh Sh.	503
Shlomo Popowski	Meir Treiber	504
Chaim Rayzman	Y. Grodzhitsky	506
Alter Berman	A. Ben Riwka	507
Itche Rosenberg	A. Shem	507
Martyrs of Kałuszyn		509

Kalusziner Landsmanschaften

Kalusziner in Israel	Shulem Soroka	524
The mutual revolving fund named Kałuszyn	Dawid Plener (Ch. A.)	534
The Kaluszyiner society in Paris	Welwel Sapirstein	536
The Kalusziner society in the USA	Shmuel Hershman	540
The Association of Kałuszyn-Minsk in Buenos Aires	Yehezkel Kamiel, Mayer Bayer	543
Necrology		547

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