Mikulintsy, Ukraine

Mikulince Yizkor Book
(Mikulintsy, Ukraine)

49 °24' / 25°36'

Translation of
Mikulince; sefer yizkor

Edited by: Haim Preshel, Organization of Mikulincean Survivors in Israel and the USA

Published in Israel, 1985

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Karen Rosenthal

Donated translations

George Trief

Our sincere appreciation to Sam Brandes, USA and Zelig Spierer, Israel,
for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

We wish to thank Karen Rosenthal and her father, David C. Rothaus, for their contribution to the translation
of considerable portions of the yizkor book in memory of their uncles Mottel, Herzl, and Kus Rathaus,
who were born raised, and murdered by the Nazis in Mikulince.
Ironically, none of them are mentioned in the List of Martyrs.

This is from Mikulince; sefer yizkor (Mikulince yizkor book) Editors: Haim Preshel, Israel, 1985;
Organization of Milulincean Survivors in Israel and the USA

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EDITORIAL MESSAGE

Title one: YIZKOR

Names of Holocaust Victims from Mikulintsy		II
Names of the sons of Mikulince who lost their lives fighting the Nazis 1939-1945		24
Names of Mikulinceans who passed away in Israel and Diaspora		25

Title two: A MONUMENT TO OUR TOWN MIKULINCE
I will remember you forever	Rivka Sommerstein-Doktorowitz	27
Our Jewish community will be remembered forever	Zvi Hirsch-Glazer	31
Memories of our destroyed town	Martin Heliczer	36
Extracts from an address given at the 25th anniversary of the destruction of Mikulince	Yaacov Nassberg	39

Title three: HOLOCAUST
My town during the Second World War	Niusia Schweizer-Horowitz	49
Mikulince our friendly town	Rabbi Leon M. Kahane	70
The life of horrors of Mrs. K. Reich-Schrenzel	Mr. Y. Schmulevich	78
A baby girl captured by the gentiles	Zalman Pelz	92
This time they could shake hands openly	Patt Morrison	99
Pole, Rabbi he saved in reunion		102
Righteous gentiles	Mr. Y. Schmulevich	104
On the way back	Izhak Schwarz (Izik-Hersch)	113
Jewish doctors in the popular Army	Shlomo Straus-Mark	114

Title four: BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS
a) Childhood memories:
Shaie Trager (Shie the Porter) Haim Preshel	Yaacov Nassberg	121
A bundle of memories		123
In my childhood	Michael Goldhirsch	140
The source of our survival	Michael Goldhirsch	142
b) It's our duty to relate	Phillip Feibush Amerant	147
I do not want to wear the halo of a hero- Interview with Mr. Philip Febush Amerant	Editor: Haim Preshel	153
Balkan: Tel-Aviv Completed by: Izik Hersz Society and Economics, culture and education Zionist -political organizations	Moiz Engel (Moshe Katz)	161
A page in Jewish history	N. Kleinman	167
Mikulince facts and figures	Diaspora Museum Archives Tel-Aviv	169
Livelihood and production	Selig Spierer	178
Theater and Drama groups	Izhak Schwarz (Izik-Hersch)	188
The musicians of Mikulince	Izhak Schwarz (Izik-Hersch)	192
Football fever	Izhak Schwarz (Izik-Hersch)	195
Gordonia	Aharon Weisshois	197

Title five: MIKULINCE UNDER SOVIET RULE 1939-1941
a) Society:
Mikulince under Soviet rule	Aharon Weisshois	203
b) Soldiers:
A Soldier in the Red Army	Michael Goldhirsch	211
The Brandes brothers	reviewed by Haim Preshel	213

Title Six: MY EDUCATORS / Haim Preshel
Rebbe Itzhak-Moshe		217
Yoshua the Sexton		221
Rabbi Nehemia Pekel		228
Jewish women teachers		233
Some summer camp		242

Title seven: IN MEMORY OF THE DECEASED
My grandmother of blessed memory	Bracha Kidron-Gewirz	253
Chana Heliczer	Tony Kosower-Heliczer	254
A Sabbath Uncle	Ariela Reuveni-Rohan	255
Only after death was the vow understood	Amir Vardi	256

Title eight: ABOUT THE BOOK
Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3		258
Subjects to the book		259
The editor	Izhak Schwarz (Izik-Hersch)	264

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