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Translation of
Sefer Krasnik
Edited by: David Shtokfish
Published in Israel, 1973
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| Forward (H) | Shmuel Goldner | 8 |
| Foreword (Y – copy of Hebrew on page 8) | Shmuel Goldner | 10 |
| My Shtetl Krasnik (Y) | Meir Zylberberg | 12 |
| A. In the Distant Past | ||
| Krasnik in Historical Sources (H) | 15 | |
| Krasnik in Historical Sources (Y – copy of Hebrew on page 15) | 17 | |
| Jewish Life in Krasnik from the 16thto the 19th Century (Y) | Janina Morgensztern | 20 |
| B. Between the Two World Wars | ||
| How Can I Forget Thee, My Town? (H) | Yitzchak Buchbinder of blessed memory | 125 |
| We Wished to Change the Face of the City (H) | Uri Shlomo | 126 |
| The Religious Zionist Movement (H) | Shmuel Goldner | 128 |
| Poale Zion in Krasnik (H) | M. Roshgold, Sh. Kimchi, Yehudit Gelbard | 129 |
| The Activities of Agudas Yisroel and Tzeirei Agudas Yisroel (H) | Menachem Beck | 131 |
| A Hassidic Story from Krasnik (H) | Rabbi Zion | 134 |
| The Dybbuk from Krasnik (H) | Avraham Gothelf | 135 |
| Episodes from Krasnik (H) | Fishel Ciesla (Efraim Charash) | 138 |
| From the Krasnik Way in the Years 1914-1920 (Y) | Rosa Palatnik | 140 |
| Why I Became a Krasniker (Y) | Hershl Weller | 158 |
| The Great Flood (Y) | D. Kleinbaum-Grosman | 161 |
| Memories and Images from the Town (Y) | Eli Perlson | 162 |
| The Reason for Emigrating (Y) | Ezriel Rochman | 165 |
| Memories of My Old Home and of the New Land (Y) | Bela Lederfein | 165 |
| About Communal Life (Y) | Meir Zylberberg | 170 |
| About Religious Life (Y) | Shmuel Brand | 174 |
| Our Shtetele (Y) | Rabbi Yakov Moshe Frajberg | 177 |
| Our Parents Write a Torah Scroll (Y) | Elka Klajnman | 179 |
| The Completion of the Torah Scroll – the Greatest Celebration (Y) | Shlomo Sztajnbok | 183 |
| Khederim, Melamdim, Beis-haMedrash (Y) | Shmuel Goldner | 186 |
| The Yavneh School (Y) | Yakov Ander (Ender) | 192 |
| Thus Did We Work for Zionism (Y) | Nakhum Roznel | 194 |
| About Gordonia – with Love and Longing (Y) | Ruchl Murmiski-Bek | 196 |
| Gordonia in Krasnik (Y) | Yitzhak Goren | 198 |
| The Beginning of the Professional Union (Y) | Jack Goldbaum | 201 |
| Memories of Bund and Tzukunft (Y) | Zelig (George) Gorfinkel | 203 |
| Communal Life in Krasnik – in the Light of the Press (Y) | Y. Sheiner | 207 |
| Krasnik – a City Full of Life (H) | Shimon Chalamish | 214 |
| The Revisionist Zionist Movement (H) | Yaakov Ender | 215 |
| The Beis Yaakov Girls' School (H) | Esther Steinberg (Mendeleil) | 217 |
| The Annals of our Town Krasnik (H) | Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Freiburg | 219 |
| C. The Holocaust and Resistance | ||
| Thus Was a Jewish Town Cut Down (H) | Chaim-Meir Beck | 225 |
| Budzyń (H) | Daniel Freiburg | 233 |
| Jews in Krasnik during the Years of the Hitlerist Occupation (Y) | T. Brustyn-Bernstein | 293 |
| Under the German Regime (Y) | Sholem Goren | 317 |
| “Yedn Dos Zeine” [“Each his Own”] (Y) | Yakov Aryeh Ender | 332 |
| How Krasnik was Left Without Jews (Y) | Motl Brafman | 351 |
| The Fate of a Krasnik Family | Chana Perowoska | 366 |
| Experiences of a Fourteen Year Old Boy (Y) | Yakov Cukert | 368 |
| Saving Myself with my Year Old Son (Y) | Chava Perlson (Erlichster) | 370 |
| Horrors from Hell (Y) | Nisan Zaltz | 371 |
| The Story of Yehezkeil Brotman and Yakov Ender (Y) | 373 | |
| My Living Hell (Y) | Hersh Zuckerman | 377 |
| Helping Others and Saving Myself (Y) | Yitzhak Lamhot | 381 |
| With Krasnik Jews in Bodzyn (Y) | Zev Friedheim | 393 |
| In Hiding, Camps, and “Death Marches” (Y) | Yehoshua Hochrad | 396 |
| Memoirs from a Dark Era (Y) | Shmuel Brand | 411 |
| In Seven Camps In Three Years (Y) | Yitzhak Koptan | 421 |
| Escaping from the Death March (Y) | Avraham Leichter | 424 |
| I Was Twelve Years Old at the Time (Y) | Yeheil Teper | 428 |
| There Also Was Resistance (Y) | Yitzhak Rozenbusz | 431 |
| With the Partisans in the Lublin Region (Y) | Tzvi Broner | 434 |
| Fighting in the Partisan Ranks (Y) | Zalman Lederfejn | 437 |
| Partisans and Resistors (Y) | Feiga Berger-Twardogora | 438 |
| We Waited for the Partisans (Y) | Yehoshua Twardogora | 438 |
| Escaping from the “Evacuation March” (Y) | Pinkhas Stein | 442 |
| We Were Liberated on August 22, 1944 (Y) | Yakov Erlich | 444 |
| An Inscription on the Mass Grave (Y) | Sonya and Chaim Erlich | 446 |
| List of Confiscated Jewish Houses in Krasnik | 448 | |
| The Participation of Krasnik Jews in the Partisan Resistance Movement (Y) | Jacques Farber | 451 |
| I Was a Victim of Two World Wars (Y) | Leibche Tafel | 460 |
| Some Experiences of the Resistance (Y) | Henry Weller | 463 |
| In Drancy and in the “Free Zone” (Y) | George (Yosl) Lederfejn | 466 |
| How Cheitl Flam (Lederfejn) was Shot (Y) | Max Zylberberg | 470 |
| Five Years in German Captivity (Y) | George (Zelig) Gorfinkel | 471 |
| Krasniker Martyrs in France Who Were Murdered During the Deportations | 485 | |
| D. Personalities | ||
| Reb Mordechai Ben Yakar of holy blessed memory (H) | Yitzchak Buchbinder | 489 |
| The Torbiner Rebbe of holy blessed memory (Y) | Shmuel Brand | 489 |
| The Last Moments of the Krasnik Rabbi (Y) | Nakhum Rozengel | 490 |
| The Holy Admor Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Freiburg of holy blessed memory (H) | Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Freiburg | 490 |
| Reb Yitzchak Buchbinder of blessed memory (H) | Shmuel Goldner | 491 |
| My Father Reb Mordechai Buchbinder may G-d avenge his blood (H) | Azriel Buchbinder | 491 |
| From Our Personalities (Y) | Shmuel Goldner | 492 |
| Hershele Treger (Y) | Shmuel Brand | 499 |
| In Memory of Yisrael ben Chaim Ender may G-d avenge his blood (Y) | Dov Goldstein | 500 |
| Reb Nechemia Steingus (H) | L. and Ch. Druckman (Steingus), Elimelech and Rachel Livneh (Steingus) | 501 |
| Chemyele Ciesler of blessed memory (H) | Fishel Czelser (Efraim Charash) | 501 |
| Reb Alter Moshe Malka's (Alter Reuven Azriel Zisberg) may G-d avenge his blood (H) | Shlomo Gelbard | 502 |
| Leibel Brafman of blessed memory (H) | Sh. G. | 503 |
| In Memory of Shalom Winer (Y) | Ruchl Murmiski | 503 |
| From the Personalities of the Shtetl (Y) | Avraham Brauer | 504 |
| My Home and Family (Y) | Hela Gutlerner-Furstman | 505 |
| My Four Teachers (Y) | Yitzhak Buchbnder | 506 |
| My Grandfather Hirsh-Leib Grinapel (Y) | Mordechai Shapiro | 507 |
| My Father Yakov Gorfinkel (Y) | Zelig (George) Gorfinkel | 508 |
| In Memory of my Grandparents (Y) | Yitzhak Lamhut | 510 |
| My Grandfather and Parents (Y) | Bela Weis (Nordman) | 510 |
| The Writer Roza Palatnik (From the book “Collected Stories”) (Y) | 511 | |
| Innkeeper in Krasnik (H) | Yisrael Yaakov | 512 |
| Yankl Yanover from Krasnik (Y) | Sholom Aleichem | 514 |
| E. Memorial Candle | ||
| List of Martyrs | 545 | |
| The First Seventeen Victims in Krasnik | 559 | |
| In Memoriam (H and Y) | 562 | |
| In Memory of the Heroes of Krasnik in Occupied France (H) / In Memory of the Heroic Fighters in France (Y) | 563 | |
| Our townspeople who fell in the defense of our Jewish Homeland (mainly H, some Y) | 565 | |
| Memorial Notices (H and Y) | 569 | |
| F. Krasnikers in Israel and the Diaspora | ||
| From the Town of Krasnik to “Heichal Krasnik” in Tel Aviv (H) | Asher Avigdor (Sambor) | 613 |
| Dates and Events in Activities of the Organization of Krasnik Natives (H) | 617 | |
| From the Town of Krasnik to “Heichal Krasnik” in Tel Aviv (Y copy of H on page 613) | Asher Avigdor (Sambor) | 619 |
| The Krasnik Landsleit Organization in the Land of Israel from 1942-1959 (Y) | Ruchl Murmiski | 623 |
| Important Dates and Events in the Lives of the Krasnik Landsmanschaft in Israel (Y) | 627 | |
| The Spirit of the Martyrs Will Always Be With Us (Y) | Shmuel Goldner | 630 |
| The “Friends of Krasnik” Society in Paris (Y) | Jack Weintraub, Berl Zeifman | 633 |
| With Krasnik Jews in Paris (Y) | David Stockfish | 642 |
| Krasnikers in America (Y) | Shlomo Zelinger | 646 |
| My First Days in the Society and Later Achievements (Y) | Moshe Freiman | 651 |
| A Survey of Krasnik Relief (Y) | 652 | |
| Compliments for the Krasnikers in America (Y) | Shmuel Goldner | 655 |
| Krasnikers in Rio, Brazil (Y) | Shlomo Steinbok | 657 |
| Krasnikers in Brazil (Y) | Eli Perlson | 665 |
| List of Survivors (Krasnik, 1944) | 667 | |
| Krasniker in Various Armies | 671 |
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