The Hebrew section |
Editorial |
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7 |
Map of Olkeniki and the surrounding area |
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7 |
Words to be said in the Memorial Ceremony |
S. P-R |
9 |
Introduction |
S. P. |
10 |
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Chapters in history |
The origin of the name Olkeniki |
S.P-R |
13 |
The town and its daughters |
S. P-R |
19 |
Olkeniki from the beginning of the century until the Holocaust |
S.P-R |
21 |
Paths (Poem) |
Avraham Menachemi |
32 |
Institutions, organizations, societies and personalities |
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33 |
Public institutions |
S.P-R |
39 |
Institutions for Torah study |
K.P-R |
40 |
Community elections in 1921 |
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41 |
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The town, its landscape and stories of the cultural pattern |
Topography, landscape, transportation, residents' businesses |
S.P-R |
45 |
Chapters of the way of life of the previous generation |
S.P-R |
52 |
Hadarim[1] in the town |
Shlomo Karpowich |
54 |
R' Zelig the melamed and his heder[1] |
S.P-R |
55 |
Gas installation in the House of Study[2] |
Sh. P. |
56 |
My Birthplace Olkeniki |
Yakov Agami |
57 |
Aliya to Israel |
Zahava Menachmi Tanel |
57 |
Matzos' baking (From Mina Bank-Goldberg) |
Sh. P. |
58 |
The Bus Appears in the Town |
Y. M-N |
60 |
The Fire in the Town; Delay in Reading in Olkeniki |
Sh. P. |
60 |
The Weddings of the Yeshiva Members; The City is my Small Temple |
K. P-R |
62 |
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The old synagogue |
A Fire {Poem} |
Avraham Farber |
67 |
The old synagogue |
Shlomo Ferber |
68 |
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Personalities, Houses, Images |
A man of vision in the Olkeniki forests (Poem, translated by N. Ginton)) |
H. Grada |
87 |
Rabbi Shmuel, the Son of Rabbi Chaim, Rabbi Yaakov Ben Shmariahu HaCohen Levin, The Rabbi's House, The Last Rabbi of Olkeniki |
K. P-R |
88 |
Bnei Torah in the Last Generation the commentator R' Zev |
S. P-R |
89 |
Reb Avraham Mende (Greenzweig) |
S. P-R |
91 |
Rabbis and Yeshiva Members (Bnei Yeshiva) |
S. P-R |
94 |
The Gaon Rav, Rabbi Avraham Mendel Greenzweig |
K. P-R |
95 |
Rabbi Tobi Rothberg. May God Avenge Him |
HaRav Zalman Rotberg |
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Long-Established Families in the Town |
Emma Dvortzen Farber |
96 |
The First to Immigrate to the Land of Israel |
S.P-R |
97 |
My Family House |
Simcha Polachek |
99 |
A Home that was Ruined |
Yosef Karpovitz |
99 |
A House in the Town |
S. P-R |
100 |
Three Families |
Chaim Z-Ki |
102 |
A Mother in the Town |
S. P-R |
104 |
A Pioneer; In Memory of a Friend |
Yosef K-Vitz |
104 |
One of the Activists; The Greengrocer |
K. P-R |
106 |
The Town in Recent Generations |
K. P-R |
106 |
The Folklore of the Town |
S. P-R |
106 |
A Legendary Man |
Zehava Tanal Menachemi |
107 |
The Power of a Handshake |
Yosef Karpovitz |
107 |
The Parbelistan (cheap woman) |
Binyamin Farber, may God avenge him |
108 |
Napoleon and the Bookseller |
Balon |
108 |
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The Holocaust |
The arrival of the Holocaust |
YYosef Meltzman |
111 |
The imprisonment of the first five |
S. P-R |
117 |
Trader and dealing with public affairs Lazer Worman, may God avenge him |
S. P-R |
119 |
My best friend Binyamin Farber, may God avenge him |
Haim Z-Ki |
120 |
To the young (Poem) |
Binyamin Farber, May the Lord avenge his blood |
120 |
From the Strait |
K. P-R |
121 |
From bad to worse (told by David Rybeck) |
S. P-Bar |
128 |
From the Brink of Doom to the Land of Resurrection |
Chaim Beit Yosef - Zubiski |
131 |
In the Forests Among the Partisans and in Siberia (photos) |
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152 |
The Survivors of the Atrocities (Recorded from Avraham Taiken) |
S. P-R |
153 |
Holocaust survivors (photos) |
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157 |
With the arrival of the holocaust |
HaRav Kalman Farber |
158 |
Days of Horror (told by Meir Kinbrom) |
K. P-R |
194 |
Meetings with the townspeople in the Soviet army |
Y. M-Man |
195 |
These are Your Sons, Olkeniki |
K.P-R |
197 |
The Two Sisters |
K. P-R |
200 |
The Memorial Candle |
K. P-R |
202 |
On the Ponary Hills |
K. P-R (translated by S.P-R) |
203 |
And these are the Names of the Townspeople who Survived the Holocaust |
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206 |
Important Dates in the Life of the Town |
S.P-R |
206 |
Closure of the Book |
S. P-R |
208 |
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The Yiddish section |
From the Editor |
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212 |
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The Shtetl [town] Until the Holocaust |
The History of Olkeniki [Valkininkai] |
Sh. PR |
215 |
Olkeniki, a Shtetl [town] of Legends |
Cheikl Lunski |
215 |
Olkeniker Youth (poem) |
Chaim Grade |
221 |
On the Way to Eretz Yisroel (photographs) |
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223 |
Wedding of the Rabbi's Daughter (poem) |
Chaim Grade |
224 |
The Old Synagogue |
Shlomo Farber |
225 |
The Legend of the Philantrophist, Reb Yosef |
Kh. L-Ki |
228 |
The Old Synagogue at the Merczanke [Merkys] River (poem) |
Chaim Grade |
229 |
A Family in Olkeniki |
Ruchl Sarduf-Dvortsan |
233 |
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Pain and Sorrow |
The Death of Olkenik |
Layzer Shtrof |
237 |
Where a Day, Where a Night |
Miriam Ben-Shamas-Ribak |
238 |
From School into the Red Army |
Khonan Berenshtein |
241 |
In the Storm (Told by Berl Lipszic) Recorded by Khaver-Paver |
N. Einbinder |
243 |
How I Survived (Told by Levi Lipszic) |
Recorded by Khaver-Paver |
256 |
On the Mountain of Ponar |
Kalman Farber |
259 |
A Memorial Candle |
K. F__R |
262 |
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Remembrance |
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Graves of Parents and Children |
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265 |
Pictures of the Martyrs |
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266 |
The Names of the Martyrs |
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279 |
At the Close of the Book |
Sh. F. R |
287 |
Corrections |
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288 |
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The English section |
In Conclusion |
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289 |
A short history of Olkeniki |
Shlomo Faber |
290 |
Editor's Foreword |
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291 |
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List of photographs from the Memorial Section |
List of names extracted from Memorial Section |
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Footnotes
- Heder - an elementary Jewish School in which children are taught to read the Torah and other books in Hebrew. Return
- Beit Hamidrash house of study. Return
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