Wislica, Poland

Memorial Book of Wislica;
The Wislica Yizkor Book
(Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer Vayslits; dos Vayslitser yisker-bukh

Edited by: Itzhak Kaziemierski, Association of former residents of Wislica

Published in in Tel Aviv, 1971

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Victoria Mendlowicz

Morton Katz z”l (emeritus)

This is a translation from: Sefer Vayslits; dos Vayslitser yisker-bukh (Memorial book of Wislica; the Wislich yizkor book),
Editors: Itzchak Kazimierski, Tel Aviv, Association of Former Residents of Wislica, 1971 (H,Y,Pol, 299 pages).

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Wislica

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Hebrew translated by Sara Mages

Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

Forward	The Editorial Board	5
In Memory [Y]	Alter	6
Blessed the one who sanctified us	Aharon Zeitlin	7
Our Shtetl [town] [Y]	HaRav Elimelech HaCohen Schwartz	9
The sunrise and sunset of Wislica	Shimon Silberstein	11
The history of the Jews of Wislica	Yitzchak Kazimierski	12
Chapters of History [Y]	Yitzchak Kazimierski	31
The history of the city of Wislica [P]		59
I remember ancient times	Menachem Kazimierski	61
Wislica and its suburbs	Y. Avieli	78

Movements and Organizations
The history of the Zionist Federation	Shimon Silberstein	85
“HeHalutz HaKlal Zioni“^[1]	Shimon Silberstein	93
“HeHalutz HaKlal Zioni” (the central Halutz)	Zev Meller	96
“Betar“^[2] in Wislica	Natan Ben Avner	98
“Poale Zion Left”^[3]	Y.A.	100
“Mizrachi”^[4] – “Hashomer Hadati”^[5]	Y. Avieli	101
“Agudat Yisrael”^[6]	Y.A.	103

Society and Institutions
The Jewish Community	Menachem Kazimierski	107
The Synagogues	Y. Avieli	111
Hebrew and Yiddish	Shimon Silberstein	120
Jews and the Municipal Council	Y. Avieli	122
Melamedim [teachers] and Hadarim^[7]	Yitzchak Kazimierski	124
The Former Wislicer Melamed [teacher] [Y]	Kalman Eisenberg	128
Chevrah Kadisha [the burial society]	Y. Avieli	130
People's Bank [Y]	Shlomo Sheiner	132
Jewish Amateur Circle [Y]	Kalman Eisenberg	136

Figures
Types and Personalities [Y]
My Shtetele [small town] [Y]	Alter Eisenberg	176
I Remember [Y]	Menachem Kazimierski	177

The Holocaust
My Burned Talis [prayer shawl] and Tefilin [phylacteries] [Y]	HaRav Elimelech HaCohen Schwartz	203
Resistance against the Nazis	Avigdor Price	209
The expulsion from Wislica	Yitzchak Kazimierski	213
In the extermination camp Auschwitz	Bella Szidlowski-Tekel	216
In the Village of Stawiszyce [Y]	Ester Miller-Wiesfeld	220
Memories from the bunker	Yitzchak Avieli	222
There Once Was [Y]	Alter Eisenberg	231
I will remember those		236
Back to the Past [Y]	Alter Eisenberg	243
The First Letter [Y]	Y.K.	256
My Road of Suffering [Y]	Dvora Orbach-Guterman	258
How I Became a Partisan [P]	Marjan Bielecki	277
We Polish Jews [P]	Julian Tuwrim	283
Afterward [Y]	M.K.	285
Epilogue	Menachem Kazimierski	287
Bibliography to the history of Wislica's Jews		288
Mameshi – [Mommy] [Y]	Alter Eisenberg	289
Holocaust Memorial List		291

Translator's Footnotes Note: All articles are in Hebrew apart from those marked with [Y] – Yiddish, [P] – Polish. HeHalutz HaKlal Zioni – The General Zionists Pioneer Return Betar - the initials of Brit Yosef Trumpeldor- The Covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor, the educational youth movement of the Revisionist Zionist Organization.. Return Poale Zion Left – Workers of Zion left wing. Return Mizrachi – Religious Zionist party. Return Hashomer Hadati - A Zionist religious youth movement associated with the “Mizrachi” party in Europe. Return Agudat Yisrael - Union of Israel – an anti-Zionist Orthodox movement. Return Heder – room - a religious elementary school. Return

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