Bilgoraj, Poland

Destruction of Bilgoraj
(Biłgoraj, Poland)
50°33' / 22°42'

Translation of Khurban Bilgoraj

Edited by: A. Kronenberg

Published in Tel Aviv, 1956

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
Moses Milstein

Emerita Coordiantor: Rae Meltzer

This is a translation from:
Khurban Bilgoraj;
Destruction of Bilgoraj, ed. A. Kronenberg, Tel Aviv, 1956.

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TOC translated by Moe Milstein

Introduction	I. D. Mittlepunkt	III
Where There's a Will, There's a Way	Abraham Kronenberg	IV
Modest Words for Great Deeds	Book Committee	VI
My Shteteleh	A. Kronenberg	1
A Monument to My Shtetele	I. Ch. Kronenberg	3
Rabbis of Bilgoraj	I. Ch. Kronenberg	5
HaRav HaGaon, R' Yakov Mordechai zt”l	HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman	8
The Last Bilgoraj Rabbi	Shmuel Feller	9
Bilgoraj	I. Ch. Kronenberg	12
The Synagogue Courtyard	A. Kronenberg	18

Trade and Industry

The Lumber Business	Sh. Y. Shper	29
The Netting Business	M. Tayer	35
The Jewish Printing Shop	A. Kronenberg	39
A Market Day	A. Kronenberg	47
Artisans	A. Karmi	56
Bilgoraj in World War I	Y. Ch. Kronenberg	60

Institutions and Parties

The Kitchen and the Orphanage	Shoshana Lerman	81
The Zionist Movement in Bilgoraj	M. Oberhant, M. Groisman, A. Kronenberg	84
Agudat Israel in Bilgoraj	Sh. Feller	97
The Workers Movement in Bilgoraj	A. Greener, B. Eichenblat	101
Cooperative Banks in Bilgoraj	Sh. Feller	105
Charitable Institutions in Bilgoraj	Ch. Anger	108
Drama Clubs in Bilgoraj	Sh. Atzmon (Wirtzer)	111
Religious Zionism and its activities in Bilgoraj	Tuvia Korenvurcel	115

Memories

The Knocker	Shloime Weinberg	120
The Horrible Murder in Bilgoraj	Yehudeh Leifman	122
The Wedding in the Bilgoraj Cemetery	A. Katari	125
Dream	Shmuel Ben Artzi (Han)	127
At the Markets	Rechl Kronenberg	128
A Visit to my Shtetl, Bilgoraj	M. Rapaport (Australia)	130
Churban Bilgoraj	I. D. Mittlepunkt	133
A Jewish Teacher in Bilgoraj (H)	Y. Hodess	136
The Bilgoraj Feldsher	A. Kronenberg (Katari)	139
If You Ever Want to Know (H)	I. H. Kronenberg	142
The Passion for Eretz Israel	I. Rapaport	143
I Loved You, Bilgoraj (H)	I. H. Kronenberg	148
The Nest of Need	Shmuel Baron	149
The First Days With the Germans	David Brik	167

Melamdim and Cheders

Leibish Melamed	A. Karmi	171
Yekl Melamed	A. Kronenberg	173
Itseleh Melamed	A. Karmi	174
Itzi-Mayer Melamed	A. Katari	175
R' Todieh Melamed	H. Wallach	177

People

R' Shmuel Eliyahu Shwerdsharf	Shmuel Honigboim, Y. Ch. Kronenberg	181
Itzik R' Motl's	Yakov Herman	183
R' Yakov Shleicher, zt”l	HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman	184
R' Shneur Zalman Goldberg	HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman	186
R' Mordechai Yosef Schatz	HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman	187
HaRav Pinchas Mendel Singer zt”l	HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman	188
Figures	Itzchak Bashevis	190
Gnendele	Perl Honigboim	196
Blimele	Shoshana Lerman	198
Gitl Moishe-Itzi's	Rivke Goldstein	199
Chinkele		201
The Man of Faith		202

Biłgoraj Community Activists

Reb Levi Stern, z”l, Reb Yisrael Moshe-Itzis, z”l, Reb Netanel Shier, z”l, Reb Avraham Harman, z”l, Reb Eliezer Buchbinder, called Reb Eliezer Mohel, z”l, Yona Akerman, Tebl Stempel, Yekutiel Fest, Moshe Model, Reb Eliezer Shochet, z”l, Reb Zev (Velvel) Shochet, z”l, Reb Yontshe Kantor, z”l	Sh. P	205
Everything Vanished Like a Dream	Simche Shatz	209

Personalities

Chaim Bruder		211
Yechezkeleh		213
Godl	H. Feigenboim	214
Shimon'le		215
Avremele		216

The Destruction

War Breaks out	Shmuel Bron	219
The Fire	Sh. Atzmon (Wirtzer)	228
Bilgoraj After the Fire	A. Kronenberg	233

Survivors Testify

Bilgoraj Jews Under Occupation	Israel Geist	248
If You Ever Want to Know	I. H. Kronenberg	280
I Survived in Order to Take Revenge	B. Wermuth	281
Shabbes in Bilgoraj	Yoineh Chaim Kronenberg	289
Bilgoraj on the Eve of Destruction	A. Yanower	292
My Surviving the War	Sh. Sussman	302
I Hid in a Bunker	B. Tz. Rosenboim	309
Exhumation	Y. Sharf, B. Rosenboim, Y. Langburd, Ch. Stern	315
Necrology		319
List of the Dead		351
Bilgoraj Jews who Perished in Other cities		365

List of Martyrs extracted from the Necrology

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