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Translation of
Yad le-Ataki: sefer zikaron le-kehilah yehudit be-Besarabia
Editors: Zrubavel Seker, Landsmanschaften of Ataky in Israel
Published in Tel Aviv, 1993
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Title and Author | Page |
Drowning of Ataky - David Raif | 1 |
Map of Ataky & Surrounding | 6 |
Mendl Slutzker - Founder of the Organization - Picture | 13 |
Members of Committee - Pictures | 14 |
Forward - Chasia Zamir | 15-16 |
Review - Mendel Vinzuf | 16 |
Maps - Besarabia and its Jewish Population at 1817 - by Districts | 17 |
Besarabia and Jewish Population according to census at 29.12.30 | 18 |
(From the book Jewish Besarabia in Struggles by Vinitzky, 1973) | |
GATE A - General Sight | |
History of the Jewish Settlement in Ataky - Gathered and written: Mendel Vinzuf | 20-25 |
On Ataky - Headlines - Mendel Slutzker's Legacy | 25-27 |
Streets and Their Inhabitants - Abraham Zonis | 28-41 |
This is How the Small Town Lives in my Memory - Ezra Naches | 41-50 |
Memories of Moshe Goldenberg - Interviewed: Chasia Zamir | 50-53 |
Eliezer Zonis tells - Interviewed: Chasia Zamir | 53-55 |
Memories of My Small Town Ataky - Malia (Doliar) Roitman | 56-61 |
Certificate & Translation to Hebrew | 61 |
Pictures - View of Ataky | 62 |
GATE B - People of Ataky tell about their hometown/font> | |
a. Notes by David Raif (Sodker) | |
Home and Family | 64-73 |
Something on the Hometown | 74 |
The Dniester | 74-77 |
Small People - They earned their bread with honor | 77-80 |
Synagogues | 81 |
Jewish Holidays | 82-83 |
Hasidim | 84-85 |
Animals in Ataky | 85-87 |
The Bath House | 87-88 |
Progress Comes to Town | 88 |
Relationship with Neighbors | 89-91 |
Confesion and Looking for My Way | 92-93 |
Student Out of House | 93-96 |
Photographs of an Exhibition by David Raif | 96-102 |
b. Interviews by Chasia Zamir - Each Family & Photographs | |
David Sodker (Raif) | 104-105 |
Vera Seder (Bar-Shai) | 106-108 |
Tovia Golger | 108-110 |
Fania Rabinovitz (Reidel) | 111-114 |
Tzilia Yules | 115-117 |
Dora & Abraham Tcherkes | 118 |
Zisl & Sheindl Brychansky | 119-120 |
Malia (Doliar) & Yasha Roitman | 121-122 |
Batia Frumchuk (Sigal) | 122-123 |
Shlomo Berman | 124 |
Mendel Vinzuf | 125-128 |
Gitl Roznblit (Vinzuf) | 129-130 |
Datz Family | 131-136 |
c. Personalities, Characters, Families, Etc., Each Family & Pictures | |
Mendel Slutzker - The Founder of the Organization - David Raif | 138 |
David Grinberg - The Donator of Ataky - Chasia Zamir | 139-140 |
David Grinberg - Translation to Yiddish - Mendel Vinzuf | 140-141 |
The Halfin Family - Mendel Vinzuf | 141-146 |
The Goldenberg House - Irucham Golan (Goldenberg) | 147-154 |
The Rothman Family - David Argamany | 155-157 |
On Families, Characters, Neighbors & Individuals - Fira Gorodezky (Sodker) | 158-160 |
The Shvartz Family - Suya Shvartz | 161-164 |
Memories of Families at Maidon Street - Suya Shvartz | 165-168 |
The Mirkis Family - Penina Izig | 169-170 |
Blivas Family - Aharon Blivas | 171 |
History of One Family - Deborah & Golda Myzlish - Chasia Zamir | 172-175 |
Sparkles - Deborah (Myzlish) Kirzner | 176 |
Nachman Goldenberg - Roza Kogan | 176 |
A New Immigrant & Her Wanderings - Olia Kogan written & translated: M. Vinzuf | 177 |
Pictures | 178 |
d. A Twinkle of Humor | |
The Small Town - Mordechai Goldenberg | 180 |
Characters, Nicknames, A Few Words about Food - Gathered by Zrubavel Seker from the Works of: Vera Seder, Eliezer Zonis, Moshe Goldenberg, Deborah Myzlish, Tcherkis, Tzipora Sirkis |
181-182 |
GATE C - Education, Zionism | |
a. Education | |
Rapsody on the Dniester - Leib Kupershtein | 184-200 |
Elementary School Tarbut - Moshe Lerner | 200-201 |
Lists of a Kindergarten Teacher - Rachel Kafri & Documents | 202-207 |
Pupils & their Families - Rachel Kafri | 208 |
Pictures | 209-210 |
b. Zionist Activity, Pioneer Movement Groups, Aliyah | |
We Grew Up with Zionism - David Sodker | 212-217 |
Isaschar Zarevnik - The Man of the Rusian Ship - Yuval Zur | 217-218 |
About Youth Movements in Ataky, and the Hashomer Ha'Zair -< Shlomo Berman + Pictures | 219-225 |
The Ken of Zionist Youth - Yosef Saliternik | 226-228 |
Gordonia in Ataky - Gita Roznblit | 228-229 |
Ataky - Memories of an Activist in Gordonia - S. Kushnir | 229 |
Interviews by Chasia Zamir: | |
a. Ben-Zion Dorfman | 231 |
b. The Story of Love & Aliyah of Kuka Padgaetz to Israel | 232 |
c. Certificate - A Letter of Shlomo Padgaetz to his Sister Kuka | 233 |
d. On a Zionist Father & Youth Movements - Zipora Sirkis (Gerzon) | 234-235 |
e. Certificate - A Letter of Ya'kov Sirkis to his Daughter | 236-237 |
From Thiya through Gordonia to Hashomer Ha'Zair - Zilia (Bernshtein) & Asher Sofer | 238-240 |
GATE D - Creators & their Creations | |
a. Authors, Writers | |
I. Mordechai Goldenberg | |
On the Poet - B. I. Michali | 242-247 |
Goldenberg's Poems - Gathered: Zrubavel Seker | 248-250 |
On the Writer - C.A. Bertini | 251-252 |
The Old Mill - A Part of the Story | 253-254 |
II. Biniamin Itzhak Michali (Duchovni) | |
Lexigraph Material | 255-256 |
Critic and Witty Debator - Shlomo Kremer | 256-257 |
B.I. Michali on his 70th Anniversary - Israel Kohen | 258-261 |
From his writings: | |
a. Plagiat - Unknowingly - B.I. Michali | 261-265 |
b. My First Experience in Literature - B.I. Michali | 265-271 |
c. Research in the Domain of Stories - B.I. Michali | 271-275 |
d. The Mute Sadness and the Mute Friend - B.I. Michali | 276-278 |
e. Certificates | 278-282 |
III. Berl Rozen | |
Berl Rozen - Miriam Rozen | 283-285 |
Berl Rozen - Translation to Hebrew by Chasia Zamir | 286-288 |
Memories of Berl Rozen by his Hometown Fellows | 288-289 |
Berl Rozen - Meir Vinberg | 289 |
Berl Rozen - Meir H'aratz | 290-291 |
A Letter to A. Polak - Berl Rozen | 292 |
IV. Joshua Gurevitch - Writer & Musician | |
A Sketch of a Biography - by the author | 293 |
My Town - Ataky - by the author | 294-299 |
V. Chaim Hochman | |
About Hochman & his Stories - B.I. Michali | 300-303 |
Soberness - Chaim Hochman | 304-305 |
Disappointment - Chaim Hochman | 306-308 |
VI. Joseph Hess - Painter | |
The Painter J. Hess - Notes from Different Sources by Zrubavel Seker | 309-313 |
VII. Hirsh Goldman - Play Writer - from: Encyclopedia of Diaspora | 313 |
VIII. Aba Rot - Doctor & 'Hazan' - from: Encyclopedia of Diaspora | 313 |
IX. Theater Actors - from: Encyclopedia of Diaspora | 314 |
Autumn in a Village - Joseph Hess - Picture | 314 |
GATE E - The Horrors of Transnistria | |
a. Ataky at the Epoch of Deportation | |
They All Died - MordechaiGoldenberg | 315 |
The Map of Besarabia & Transnistria | 316 |
Map of Camps and Ghettos Where People of Ataky were | 316 |
Assortment from Besarabia Book (Enc. Of Exiles, Vol. II) -317-318 |
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Asssortment from the Research of Avigdor Shachan In the Burning Frost (Ghettos in Transnistria) - edited: Zrubavel Seker | 318-321 |
Map of the Roads of Deportation to Transnistria of the Jews of | |
Besarabia & Bukovina | 322 |
b. Witness - Survivors tell | |
Those Years - Fira Sodker - Gorodesky | 324-329 |
The Dniester -A Path to Death - David Sodker | 330-331 |
Photo: Tombstone - at the Forest of the People of Besarabia | 331 |
Interviews - by Chasia Zamir | |
a. People went and didn't return - Gita Roznblit | 332 |
b. The Governor of the District Vrensano and the Turnatoria of Yegendorf - Gita Roznblit & Document | 332-333 |
c. Bunia & Jenia Gindis | 334 |
d. Nastasia - Vera (Seder) Bar-Shai | 334-335 |
e. They Burnt the Town - Dora & Abraham Cherkis | 335 |
On My Family Members who Died at the Holocaust - Nachman Goldenberg | 335-336 |
Chaim Reznik - Mendel Vinzuf | 336 |
Memories from the Beginning of the Road and its End - Dina Yurkovitch | 337-338 |
Rabinovitch Family - Berta Trachtenberg | 339-341 |
On the Moldavian Fields - Baruch Gorodezky | 341 |
A Letter from Shmuel Roif | 342 |
Certificates of the Activities of the Jandarmeria in Ataky, during the Occupation 1941-1943 - translated to Yiddish - Miriam Rozen | 343-356 |
Documents from Yad Vashem - Photo | 357*-358 |
c. After the Gigantic Events | |
In Ataky, after - Rivka Raif | 359 |
I Pilgrimed to my Father's Tomb - David Raif | 360 |
The Monument at Holon in Memory of People of Ataky who Died in the Holocaust and their Place of Burial is Unknown | 361 |
List of People of Ataky who Died in the Holocaust and their Names were written on the Monument | 363-367 |
Pictures of Tombstones | 368 |
GATE F - Activities of the Organization Yotzei Ataky Be'Israel | |
Igud Yotzei Ataky - Activities - Mendel Vinzuf | 370-371 |
Documents | 372-379 |
List of People of Ataky in Israel and Diaspora who contributed to buy the organization's apartment in 1969 | 380 |
List of Donors to erect the Monument in the Holon cemetery, in Memory of the Martyrs during the Holocaust | 381 |
List of contributors who purchased copies of the book before it was published and thus contributed to its publishing | 382 |
In memory of our holy parents and families who died in the Holocaust or passed away in the Diaspora and in Israel | 383-384 |
Pictures - Families, Groups, A Visit to Ataky | 386-410 |
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