Sokołów Podlaski, Poland

Memorial Book Sokolow-Podlask
(Sokołów Podlaski, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer ha-zikaron; Sokolow-Podlask

Editor: M. Gelbert

Published in Tel Aviv 1962

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This is a translation of: Sefer ha-zikaron; Sokolow-Podlask (Memorial book Sokolow-Podlask),
Editor: M. Gelbert, Residents of Sokolow-Podlask in Israel and in the USA, Published: Tel Aviv 1962 (H,Y 813 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Sokolow Podlaski (1962)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Editorial Board for the Sokolov yizker-bukh		7
Sokolov Podlaski City Map	Meyshe Zaints	8
Introduction		10
Let us Tell		12

The Old Home
Sokolow Podalski	Ithak Raizman	17
The AMDOR of Sokolow-Podlask	Gad Zaklikovski	29
Rabbi Moshe Zvi Vingerten	Yitzhak Caspi	37
The Sokolov Melody	Khayim Meyshe Mayzlish	39
The Sokolov Rebi's Yeshive	Mordkhe Khayne	45
Our House in the Shul–heyf	Hershl Madanski	51
From the Shtetl	Meyshe Mandlboym	56
Sokolov Between the Two World Wars	Meyshe Zayants	72
The Street of My Childhood Years	Sore Bar–Sholem	91
“Koze” Street	Perets Granatshteyn	96
Our shtetl	Nakhum Zilberman	104
Sokolov Until the Destruction	Avrom Beialilev	109
The Great Conflagration	Hershl Y. Koyfman	117
The Dawn Prayer-group	Yitskhak Rayzman	123
In the Shtetl	Borekh Rozenboym	128
My Shtetl Sokolov	Yisroel Kasher	132
My Grandfather Writes a Seyfer Torah	Mordkhe Reznik	142
The Night Tells	Meyshe Shteyngart	144
I Accompany My Father	Meyshe Shteyngart	145
Of Old-time Sokolov	Gad Zaklikowski	147
Jewish Economic Life in Sokolov	Neta Koyfman (Ekhu)	155
The Jewish Community in Sokolov	Avrom Bialilev, Pinkhas Rafalovitsh	170
The Burial and Psalm Society	Eliezer Rubinshteyn	179
The Jewish Loan Fund	Pinkhas Rafalovitsh	181
Sokolov Craftsmen	Nosn Fademberg	186
The TOZ in Sokolov	A. Rubenshteyn, Kh. Rotshteyn	190
From the Sokolov Hell	Khanina Rotshteyn	197
The Yavne School in Sokolov	Pinkhas Rafelovitsh	200
Hashomer Hadati movement in Sokolow	A. Rubinstein	206
The Russian and the German	Yekhiel Ornshteyn	209
Sokolov Youth	I. Nahari–Mendzshitski	211
The “Frayhayt” Movement in Sokolov	Tsvi Tshekhanovitski	218
The Zionist Organization in Sokolov	Y. Grinberg	223
The Joys of Youth in the Nest of The Young Guard [H]	Adina Yelin-Landoy	227
The Bund in Sokolov from 1900 to 1911	Nosn Fodemberg	229
The Bund Movement in Sokolov	Borekh Roznboym	233
The Bund in Sokolov	Khenina Rotshteyn	236
My Environs	Note Koyfman	241
Houses of Prayer in Sokolov	Pinkhas Rafelovitsh	255
On the Roads to the Familiar Shtetl	Y. Rozenberg	284
Social Struggles in the City-The Pioneers are Coming [H]	Haim Bar-Shalom	287
The First Zionists of Sokolov [H]	Haim Bar Shalom	288
The Last Remembrance	Leah Morgnshtern	289
Sokolov at the Beginning of the Century	Khayim Bar-Sholem (Fridluv)	293
Between hammer and anvil	I. Grinberg	304
The Day of Giving of the Balfour Declaration in Our Town [H]	Mattel Freider-Kaplan	307
Agudat Israel in Sokolow	A Sokolower	310
Sokolov-Podlask - A Stroll over the Jewish Streets	Avrom Shpadl	312

Destruction
Sokolov Ghetto	Simkhe Poliakevitsh	323
The Annihilation of Sokolov [H]	Pinkhas Rafalovitsh	397
On the Aryan side and in the Forest	Tsipore Rozen-Makhron	431
From the German Hell	Khane Shtutman-Vishny	442
The Bedeviled Circle of Danger	Gedalye Vishny	451
On the Aryan Side	Pola Shvarts	458
Escape from Treblinka	Shimon Greenshpan	465
From Those Days	Shmuel Kohen	469
My Experiences in the German Concentration Camps	Elye Shteynberg	478
In the French Resistance	Hershl Y. Koyfman	518
In a Partisan Soviet Printery	Avrom Farbiarzsh	523
My Wanderings Between Life and Death	Khanetshe Grinberg	530
Return to Sokolov …	Khave Shpadl	536
Sokolov … Without Jews	Shleyme Rotshteyn	540
Sokolov … After the End	M. Tzanin	544
A memorial list of victims		548
Sokolov Landsmanshaft in Chicago	Meyshe Mandlboym	575
Sokolov Landsmanshaft in New York	M. Chayne	588
The Sokolov Aid Committee in Los Angeles	Khanina Rotshteyn	599
The Sokolov Landsmanshaft in Paris	Ayzik Goptarnik	602
Sokolov in Israel	Khayim Bar-Sholem (Fridlub)	614

Saved from the Fire
Shmuel Avrom Bernshteyn		629
Pinkhas Subul	Y. Nakhri	630
Dov Guldshteyn	H. Bar-Sholem	632

Personalities
Mordkhe Grinberg	Itskhok Ben-Aron	635
Mordkhe Halbershtat		637
Khaym Zilberman, Yankev Tikulski, Avrom and Kheytsa Ziunts, Mendl Lushitski, Yankev Lustigman	Khaym Ber-Sholem (Fridluv)	639
Rov Meyshe Dovid Morgenshtern of blessed memory	Rov B. M.	646
Sender Rubinshteyn	Pinkhas Raplovits	649
Yehuda Hirsh Sakez-Yudluber	Pinkhas Rafelovits	650
Rebi Mendl Morgnshteyn May God Avenge His Blood	A Sokolover	652
Henokh Zayants	A Sokolover	653
Dr. Yosef Zilberman	Khayim Bar-Sholem (Fridlub)	655
Dr. Yosef Zilberman	Leyvi	657
Dr. Yosef Zilberman	Dr. M. Dvorzshetski	658
A Key	Dr. Yosef Zilberman	660
Borukh Vinogura	Y. Manitsh	664
Social and Folkish Poetry in the Yiddish Verse	Borukh Vinogura	667
Khane Kovalska	Lili Berger	672
Ayzik Platner [Flatner?] “Folks-shtime”	Lili Berger	675
Poems [“City”, “Snow”, “Dawn”, “Thus am I Happy”]	Ayzik Platner	676
Shimen Vays and Yisroel Morgnshtern	H. Rotshteyn	680
Two People Who Fooled One Another	Shimen Vays	685
Poems [“Late Summer”, “Tamuz Evening”, “I Will Have to Become a Stone”]	Y.Y. Morgenshtern	690
Gad Zaklikovski of blessed memory, Reb Yankev Fridlub of blessed memory, Reb Alter – The Sokolov Village Walker, The Paramedic Aron Vans may God avenge his blood, Yisroel Bram, The Bundle of Hair	Simkha Poliakevitsh	692
Butshe Rubinshteyn's Estate	Perets Granatshteyn	708
Arye Tsibule	Peretz Granatstein	713
Hershl Grinberg	Gad Zaklukovski	718
Alter Ben-Tsion Shuster	Gad Zaklikowski	720
Berl Meter-Boyman	Gad Zaklukovski	722
R'Yitzhak'l Soifer, Alter Chaim Kapawi, Yakov Leib Blumberg, Hershl Lapata, Golde the laundry-woman, Chaim Baruch Wassertreger [water carrier], Shmuel Pasmanter	Avraham Byalilew	726
Chaim Shmuel Rosenbliem, Mordechai Zalmans (Winagora), Israel Yankele, Avraham Yoel Melamed (Hochberg), Chane Sheine Chave's	Yakov Grinberg	733
Der Alter Yakel [old Yakel], Shiye Dvoshes, Yankel Chacham, Mordechai Zalmans, Mordechai Lokaver	Hershel I. Koifman	737
R'Pinye Ashers	Beltche Hendel-Reisman	741
Kalman Yechiel Friedman, Avraham Steinwaks, Chanoch Dagan, Zvi Betzali, Chana di bekerin [Chana the baker woman]	Yechiel Orenstein	744
R'Pintche, R'Moshe Aharon, R'Zelikel	Leibush Rubinstein	749
Chaim Moshe Spielman	Dr. Avraham Spielman	752
Avraham Vierzhbe	Ch. Bar-Shalom	755
Yidele Grinberg	K. Giesser	757
Necrology		759

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