Translated by Sara Mages

Introduction		11
100 years to Agricultural Mărculeşti	Dr. Meir Kotik
Chapter One – The history of Mărculeşti		15
Chapter Two – Agricultural Mărculeşti in the 20th century		41
Chapter Three – The Cooperative – agricultural and economic factor in the village		67
Bibliography		87
Way of Life
Tracing the glow of the town	Leib Kupershtein	91-173
The beginning / The Răut River / Synagogues / World War One / The Russian Revolution / Zionism             international style / Rabbinate – The “saga” of the Lubish family / The train / Culture and Folklore
A drop of blood	Ada Fishman	174
“Immigration” from Mărculeşti	Tzvi (Hersh) Pekelman	177
The "fair" in town	M. K.	181
Memories from our town	Dr. A. Kupra (Kupershtein)	182
Memories of a Mărculeşti's daughter	Rosa Langman-Antoniak	185
The horse and the village	M. Ben-Dor (Benderski)	188
A stranger and a resident in Mărculeşti	Y. Mishory	190
A collection of experiences from my youth	Meir Kotik	196
Education in town
The Education Poem of Mărculeşti	Leib Kupershtein	203
Primary educational institutions / A miracle in town – a Jewish high school
Memories from Mărculeşti's high school	Yosef Vinokor	225
“Entrance exams” to the high school	Yehudah Mishory	226
Tumarkin and the high school	Moni Ben-Dor	229
The high school and the principal	Meir Gorodzki	230
About the high school and the town	Y.L. Tumarkin	230
Tumarkin the educator	Tzvi Kupershtein	233
My first meeting with Tumarkin	Lib Yafa	234
The “Father” Tumarkin	Breina Steinberg	236
The teacher and warrior Yeshayahu Tumarkin	Michael Landau	238
The high school and its principal	Meir Kotik	241
My friend Tumarkin of blessed memory	Ehud Avriel	246
The high school during the years 1926-1927	Meshulam Eisenstein	247
Yeshayahu Goldstein	Chaim Toren	251
The high school in 1937	M. Ben-Dor / Mina Malchi	252
Youth, Halutzim [pioneers], Immigration
The inception of the Youth Movements	Leib Kupershtein	257
“Pirchi Zion” / The founding of “Maccabi” / The “Societies” / “Hashomer Hatzair”
The renewed “Hashomer Hatzair”	Arye Givony	273
The first members of “Hashomer Hatzair” to receive pioneer training and the first to immigrate	Baruch Pekelman	273
“Hashomer Hatzair” in 1927	Tzka and Moshe Harduf	276
With “Hashomer Hatzair” as a student and a teacher	Yehudah Mishory	278
“HaShoef” and other movements	Meir Kotik	282
The activities of “Maccabi”	Dov Wiesbach	285
“Soccer” in Mărculeşti	Mendel Wiesbach	288
The “Capitalists” immigrated the “Emuna” route	Yosef Pekelman	289
“Betar”	Zev Dudzon	291
Episodes in “Betar”	M. Ben-Dor	301
“HeHalutz” in Mărculeşti	Efraim Prelstein	303
“HeHalutz” chapter in Mărculeşti	Yakov Gorishnick	305
Two women from Mărculeşti immigrated illegally on the boat “Parita”	Miriam Seltzer Kopelovitz	307
Images and Events
In praise of the town and its poet	Natan Bistritzky-Agmon	313
Mărculeşti – a collection of poems (translated by Robinson)	Meir Hertz	315
About two homes	Chaim Toren	318
The community in Mărculeşti	Meir Kotik	323
Hirsh (Henriko) Pekelman	L. K.	326
Meeting centers in the town	Lina Ben-Dor	327
The “Heder” of Rabbi Musia	Nachum Sefer	328
Arye Souslik from Mărculeşti – one of the founders of Tel Aviv	His sons in Israel	330
Eliyahu Pekelman	Avraham Pekelman	333
Chaim Mishory	Yehudah Mishory	334
The ritual slaughterer R' Moshe Spielberg		337
Ester Dechter – who clothed the naked	L. K.	337
“Bikur Cholim” and “Linat Zedek”	Tzvi Kupershtein	340
Yosef Geffen (Tabak) and his family	Yitzchak Yitzchak, Yisrael Tabak	340
Yitzchak Eisenberg	Mina Malhi	342
A “Pressure Groups” in Mărculeşti	Dov Stanislavski	343
Amusing short stories		344
Shloime the cook or the modest warrior (Avraham Protiz of blessed memory)	Dan Ben-Amotz	346
“Pogrom” in Mărculeşti	Hersh Pekelman	355
The riots in Mărculeşti (1918)	Nachum Tefer	356
My “Pogrom”	Yosef Pekelman	357
Self defence	Yisrael Kopelevitz	358
“Refugees” in Mărculeşti	Yosef Pekelman	358
Momoiano's “Incident”	M. Ben-Brit & M. Ben-Dor	359
The “Premier” Zise Langman	M. K.	362
Under Soviet Rule – Wandering
The Soviets are coming	M. Ben-Brit (Britman)	365-380
Lina Ben-Dor, Dov Stanislavski, Avraham Schorr, Malka Sodowarg, Yakov Milndler,             Meir Hertz, Dvora Barenboym-Teneboum, Breina Steinberg, Tova Kukeler,             Bracha Terif-Kupershtein
On the way to the Ukraine	M. Ben-Brit	381
On the way to Transnistria	Breina Steinberg	385
The escape from Mărculeşti	Malka Yafa	386
In Transnistria	Moshe Fugel	388
From Mărculeşti's camp to Transnistria	S. Tauber	391
In Transnistria and the escape from there	Garesh (Tzvi) Pekel	391
In Transnistria	Polia Tzur (Greenberg)	394
My experience wondering from the Răut River to the Caspian Sea	Lina Ben-Dor (Lisinger)	397
Among those expelled by the Soviets Regime to Siberia	Meir Zebodivker	398
From Mărculeşti to Georgia and back	Chaya Shosterman	400
To a Kolkhoz in the Stalingrad region and to the Ural	Yakov Millender	402
To Siberia via the Ukraine and Caucasus	Mina Malhi-Eisenberg	403
The Holocaust
The annihilation operation in Mărculeşti	Zev Dudzon	409
Introduction / The Pogrom / The mass murder
Witnesses Tell    M. Ben-Brit / Yakov Millender / Mina Malhi / Malka Sodowarg /    Rachel Milndler-Meltz / Moshe Fugel / Rivka Fugel / Leib Yafa		420
The massacre of Mărculeşti's Jews in Antonescu's trial (1946)		425
The trial against the executors of the massacre in Mărculeşti		427
Bibliography		440
The Concentration Camp in Marculesti
The concentration camp in the town's grounds	Leib Kupershtein	447
Eyewitnesses Tell – Collected and written by Zev Dudzon
Following my holy father, May the Lord avenge his blood	Dvora Barenboym-Teneboum	464
The walls were covered with feathers and blood	Bella Fugal-Bar	465
A spark of hope flickered in our hearts	Sara Tauber	465
We were persecuted without mercy	Bertha Morgenstern	466
One big cemetery	Chaim Vizerbin	466
Farmers' quest for prey	Losi Fleshler	470
The sufferings of an eleven year old girl	Silvia Fleshler-Gambeki	470
Corpses in the cellar	Arthur Kosober	471
Lost childhood	Michael Rubinstein	472
From Mărculeşti the “Town of death”	Marios Mirko	473
A disappointing shelter	Yakov Paner	473
The trains transported the dead	M. Rodik	474
A story without words	Meir Sternberg	476
The camp's bill of indictment (1945)	Translated by Z. Dudzon	477
Back to the town
The town in 1943	M. Fugal	488
Desolation in the cemetery	Avraham Shosterman	489
In Mărculeşti, December 1945	Tzvi Kupershtein	491
Back to Mărculeşti in 1945	Arna Tilis	492
A visit to Mărculeşti, 1944,1946	Meir Hertz	493
A visit to Mărculeşti, 1974	Dov (Berel) Golodriga	494
Yiddish
My memories	Shlomo Halles	497
Mărculeşti (a poem)	Meir Haratz	512
Avraham Protiz, a multipurpose Halutz	Yigal Alon	542
Yizkor – Necrology		547
Commemoration of the families		551
List of contributors to the publication of the book		569
The organization of former residents of Mărculeşti in Israel		572

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