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Translation of
Sefer Serotsk
Edited by: M. Gelbart
Published in Tel Aviv, 1971
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This is a translation from: Sefer Serotsk (The book of Serock),
Editors: M. Gelbart, Tel Aviv, Former residents of Serock in Israel, 1971 (H, Y, 736 pages).
Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Serock
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Translated by Howard Orenstein
| Our Old Home | ||
| First pages | ||
| History of the Town | ||
| Jews in ancient Serock | Dr. Yakov Goldberg | 21 |
| Jews in Old-Time Serock | Dr. Yakov Goldberg | 30 |
| Jewish Serock (H) | Khanokh Vardi | 43 |
| Jews in Serock from the End of the 19th Century Until the Outbreak of WWII | Khanokh Vardi | 65 |
| Religious Life | ||
| The Serocker Rabbi Yosef Lewinstein, ZT”L | Reb[4] Yakov Henekh Cymerman, Z”L[5] | 99 |
| The Serocker Magid Rabbi Aharon Katzenelenbogen, ZT”L | Reb Yakov Henekh Cymerman, Z”L | 105 |
| Community Life | ||
| Community Life | Khaim Kopec/Kopetch | 123 |
| The Economy Life (Work and rest in the Shtetl) | Moishe Konorek | 139 |
| Serock city of my youth (H) | Aharon Czesner/Tz'esner | 146 |
| Memories of our childhood-years | Sh. Rozental | 150 |
| The Shtetl until WW II | Yakov Brukhanski | 157 |
| Serocker Jews | Yehudah Mendzelewski | 159 |
| Military conscription in Poland between the Two World Wars | Yehudah Mendzelewski | 162 |
| Our former hometown | Elimelekh Hershfinger | 165 |
| My Town (Shtetl) | Yisroel Markewicz | 168 |
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| Figures from my childhood | Kalman Koligowski/Kuligowski | 170 |
| The Serock Self-Education League And Her Activities | Shmuel Brukhanski | 172 |
| The Beginning of the Modern Cultural-Social Activity | Yosef Feynboim | 175 |
| Jewish Serock | Zwi Apelboim | 177 |
| Serock - A Long Time Ago | Refoel Fridman | 178 |
| The first buds of Hebrew education in Serock (H) | Shlomo Rabinowicz/Rabinowitz | 184 |
| The Modern Kheder (Jewish School) | Melekh Mendzelewski | 187 |
| Our Town … | Yosel Grosbard, Z”L | 191 |
| Destruction | ||
| The Destruction of Serock | Moishe Gudes/Godes | 197 |
| In years of terror (H) | Khava Konkl-Kanarek | 231 |
| Help Under All Conditions (H) | Itkah Miedownik | 236 |
| The inquisition in shul | Tzvi Kleinman, Z”L | *247 |
| From Jablonna to Treblinka | Shlomo Sterdiner | 252 |
| The destruction of Serock | Hillel Friedman | 266 |
| Wandering (H) | Miriam Krikah-Kanarek | 274 |
| Experiences During the Second World War | Abraham Spilka, Z”L | 282 |
| War experiences | Rivkah Mendzelewski | 304 |
| At the time of destruction (H) | Arieh Jagoda/Yagoda | 313 |
| In the First Days… | Alter Grinboim | 319 |
| In the Sway of Destruction (H) | Feiga Kanarek–Magid | 327 |
| The Destruction of Serock | Yehudah Mendzelewski | 338 |
| Escape from Death | Nekhemiah Grinboim | 340 |
| Escaped from Nazi hell | Abraham Khaim Pzykorski/Pshikorski | 342 |
| German Inquisition | Brokheh Hadas Pzykorski/Pshikorski | 349 |
| My childhood years | Arieh Mendzelewski | 352 |
| From the Holocaust- to Israel | Pinkhas Kaluszki/Kaluski | 360 |
| From Nazielsk to Biala-Podlask | Tzvi Kleinman | 366 |
| The Road of Pain | Yehoshua Bobek/Babek | 372 |
| The Evacuation of Serock | 375 | |
| Serocker Countrymen in America | Nakhman Feinboim | 577 |
| Serocker Countrymen in Argentina | Shlomo Ashenmill | 586 |
| Liberated by fire | ||
| Yehudah Ben Zev, Z”L (H) | 597 | |
| Tzvika Rosenberg, of blessed memory (H) | Hanoch Vardi | 604 |
| In Memory (H) | A. Turban | 607 |
| List of Martyrs | ||
| In memory of the missing ones | ||
| Necrology | ||
| Calendar of events (H) | Khanokh Vardi | 725 |
| I am Leaving You, Serock, my Town (H) | Yechiel Meir Vardimon | 730 |
| *see page 372 Back |
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| Footnotes | ||
| 1 | Many thanks to Frida Grapa Cielak (Mexico City, Mexico) for her help with the Yiddish translations and transliterations. Back | |
| 2 | Among the Jews of Serock, the name of their 'shtetl' was written in Yiddish as: “Serotsk,” but the contemporary spelling is used here. Back | |
| 3 | Most of the articles were written in Yiddish, but for those written in Hebrew, an (H) is added. Back | |
| 4 | Reb = Mr. Back | |
| 5 | Abbreviations: Back | |
| Z”L | = Zikhroyne Levrokhe = his/her memory shall be blessed | |
| ZT”L | = Zeykher Tsadik Levrokhe = may the memory of the righteous be blessed | |
| HY”D | = Hashem Yinkom Damo = May Hashem avenge his/her blood | |
| A”H | = Alav Hashalom = may peace be upon him/her | |
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