Belchatow, Poland - List of Pictures

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List of Pictures

Captions translated by Martin Bornstein

Captions	Page
The seal of the Belchatow town management	0
Section I. The Story of the Jews in Belchatow
The building of the Freitag Factory	23
Section II. Belchatow in Struggle, Work, and Creation
Israel Pitovski	64
Peretz Freitag	75
The factory of Meir Zuchowski	76
A group of Jewish Women Workers in the Freitag Factory in the year 1913	80
The Old Market	84
A wedding in Belchatow in years gone by	108
Abraham Naparstyk, Yitzchak Przybylski, Feivel Yakubovich (Jakubowicz)	109
Right: The Belchatow Synagogue	112
Left: The Talmud Torah (Yeshivah)	112
Alter Naparstyk, Mosheh Bornstein (Borenshteyn) (“king,”), and Yaacov Ostrowski.	131
Yankel Warszawski (Varshavski)	134
Reb Yaacov Elbinger in his younger days	136
A group of young activists from the cultural society	137
Gershon Perkal	139
Top: The first “Tzishoy” School in Belchatow. The children together with Zalman Podlovski and the teacher Rosenband	142
Bottom: Teacher and schoolchildren from the first Jewish World School	142
Top: Yavneh School with the teacher	143
Bottom: Jewish Children from the United Folk School (Allgemeiner Volksschul)	143
The leaders of the Tzeirei-Zion Organization in the year 1913	144
A group of teachers and schoolchildren from the evening courses by Tzeirei-Zion in the year 1915 with the teacher Menachem Brash	147
Bottom: A group (for) Zionist matters	147
Members of the Dramatic Group	158
A group of young activists in the year 1919	159
The way to the woods	175
The bridge has shortened the way to the woods	176
Left: Moshe Eliezer Podlovsky	186
Right: Reb Eli Leib	186
Yaacov Hirsh Stadtlender	187
Reb Michalkeh	188
Right: Reb Hershl Shucht; left: Rachel-Hershl Shucht's wife	189
Abraham Lieberman, Henoch Lieberman Standing: Yechezkiel Birenzweig, Henoch Pigulah, Henoch Grushkah	192
Managing Committee from the Belchatow Talmud Torah (Yeshiva)	198
Top: Participants in (of) the Belchatower evening courses with Aaron Bergman Brash	199
Bottom: A group of school girls from the Beit-Yaacov School. (The sign in the photo says “Beit-Yaacov School Belchatow”)	199
Top: Belchatower Talmud-Torah (Yeshiva)	207
Bottom: Youth committee of “Tzishoy” in Belchatow	207
A group of Jewish women textile workers in Yankel Klug's factory	209
Professional (trade) schooling of Belchatower girls (the signs in Polish in the photo indicate that it is a course in sewing and embroidering on Singer Sewing Machines)	215
Left page top: Members of the “Skeef” (Bund Youth Organization) Committee in Belchatow	216
Right page top: Sign in photo in Polish indicates this is the committee that arranged for the First of May demonstrations	216
Left page bottom: The Lehman's house	216
Right page bottom: Photo of the first of May Manifestos in Belchatow	216
Right page top: [from right to left] Israel Lenkower, Feivel Yaacov Gers, and Zaken Machabansky on the new market on a judicious (impoverished?) day	217
Right page bottom: Reb Kalman Huberman (scar-foot?)	217
Left page: Jewish types from Belchatow	217
The Old Market	219
Surtsheh (Surcze)	225
The Pabianicer Street	231
Members of the Dramatic Group with Nathan Goldberg as director	239
A scene from a production (play) put on by the dramatic group	240
The corner where the firehouse is found	241
Rivkeh Konska	243
Top left: The New Market	245
Top right: The Mikveh (ritual bath)	245
Bottom: The Belchatow Synagogue, in the background the Talmud Torah (Yeshiva)	245
Y. L. Goldstein	247
Section III. Political Movements
Belchatow delegates to the Tzar-eh Tzion (Zion) Conference in the year 1914	272
A group of pioneer-immigrants (olim) in the year 1920	273
The First Zionist (Tzar-eh Tzion) Activists	275
Top: Mizrachi Youth Organization in Belchatow	277
Bottom: A group of Mizrachi Pioneers	277
Reb Yosef Lieb Gelbard	278
Abraham Behr Zylberstein and Yaacov Ehrlich	279
Mendel Lipman	281
The first bazaar of Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael [JNF]	284
The Committee from Betar in Belchatow	286
Right wing Poaleh Tzioin Schmuel Chayim Kelman	287
A group of the right wing Poaleh Tzion	288
Top: A group of youth from the right wing Poaleh Tzion	289
Bottom: Borochow Kibbutz (in the year 1934)	289
Top: Freedom Committee from the right wing Poaleh Tzion	290
Bottom: Sports Organization “Kraft” from the right wing Poaleh Tzion	290
The Party Committee from the left wing Poaleh Tzion in the year 1923	293
A group of activists from the left wing Poaleh Tzion	295
A group of left wing Poaleh Tzion	297
The Belchatow Synagogue	301
Yitzchak Pigulah	306
(no caption)	307
Top: Three Belchatower Youths (students), that had received high honours (in learning Torah)	308
Bottom: A group of Chasidic Students in Belchatow	308
Top: Agudasher Kibbutz-Hachsharah in Belchatow	310
Bottom: A good-bye party (evening) from Belchatower Tza-reh Agudoth Israel to honour the secretary Yitzchak Alfischer for his making aliyah to Israel (Eretz Yisrael) (in the year 1937)	310
no caption but the sign in the photo on top says, “Organizing Committee of the Youth Group”	312
A group of Chasidic students	316
A group from Beit-Yaacov	320
Top: The organizing committee of the daughters of Agudath Israel in the year 1929	321
Bottom: A group of women activists from the daughters of Agudath Israel in the year 1936	321
The organizing committee of the Belchatower Tzar-eh Agudath Israel in the year 1936 together with the guest from Warsaw, Hershel Klepfish	322
Members of the Bundist Party Organization	327
Belchatow Committee from the Bund in the year 1937	329
“Medes” (?) Group	331
The Lichtenstein-Group (the name for an older youth group) of the Bundist Youth Organization	332
A gathering of Piotrkower and Belchatower future activists	333
Peretz Freitag	334
Organizing Committee from “Skeef” (youth organization of the Bund)	339
Summer Camp from “Skeef”	340
A group of sport participants (athletes) from “Storm” with the instructior, Moshe Yoel Yeshzy	342
Sport Celebration from “Morgenstern” (morning-star) with the instructor Hiller (from Lodz)	343
Bundist First of May Manifesto	346
Zalman Podlovsky (Podlowsky)	354
Yehoshua Zsarsky	356
Moshe Grushka	363
A group of left wing women activists	367
Left wing activists as soldiers in the Polish Military	373
Left wing Activists	374
Kalman M. Pzedborsky	380
Mendel Szymkewicz (Shimkevitch)	383
Names – Names of hanging victims in Yiddish	434
The ten people hung in Belchatow on the 19^th of March 1942	435
Jews in Belchatow in forced labor under the watch of the Germans	458
A group of Belchatow Jews in the Poizner Camp	471
Right: Abraham Front	499
Left: Abraham Novak	499
Meir Knop	500
Here was the Belchatow Cemetery	503

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