. The Pabianice Book
A Memorial for a Community
(Pabianice, Poland)

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Published by the Pabianice Landsmanshaft, Melbourne, Australia, 2014

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Seyfer Pabianice

(The Pabianice Book)

A Memorial for a Community

Editor – A Wolf Yasni (1956)

Pabianice Landsmanshaft, Melbourne, Australia

2 ^nd Edition, 2015

Seyfer Pabianice published by the Pabianice Landsmanshaft in Israel, Tel Aviv, 1956 [in Yiddish and Hebrew].

Edited by A. Wolf Jasni.

Editorial Board: D. Dawidowicz, M.W. Kochman, G Rajchman.

This English translation, The Pabianice Memorial Book, published by the Pabianice Landsmanshaft, Melbourne, Australia in 2014.

2^nd Edition 2015.

Editorial Board: Jack Ekstein (President), Dr Ian Light, Eva Light, Sara Brott (Ben–Jacob).

Translation from the Yiddish: Bobbi Zylberman.

Translation from the Hebrew: Sara Brott (Ben–Jacob).

Editor of the 1^st and 2^nd editions in English translation: Tony Thomas.

Editorial contribution to the 2^nd edition: Ben Kotek.

Foreword
Introduction	The editors	1
“Megilus” Pabianice [Scroll of Pabianice]	M. W. Kochman	4

The Jewish Settlement until the First World War
History of Jewish Pabianice: Overview and Sketches of Life	D. Dawidowicz	9
First Pabianice Public School for Jewish Children	M. W. Kochman	37
Jewish Pabianice at the Beginning of the 20^th Century	Yosef Bialik	250
Old Wooden Synagogues in the Pabianice Region	Engineer D. Dawidowicz	38
Jewish Weavers	Jehojszua Birnbojm	43
Memories of My Childhood Years	Fiszl Rosensztejn	47

The Religious Life: Chasidim, Rebbes and Charitable Societies
The Religious Life	Mojsze Jakubowicz	49
The “Light of the Torah” School in Pabianice	Naftoli Krul	55
Lask – the Neighbouring Community and Older Sister of Pabianice	Engineer D. Dawidowicz	58
The Jewish Hospital and the Society to Help the Sick	Dawid Papjernik	63
The Organization to Clothe the Poor	Mojsze Cohen (Kahan)	64
Reb Abram the Gemora Teacher	Jichak Grynsztejn	70
The Pabianice Hagada	Avraham Wajs	253

Communal-Party Activity and the Struggle for Workers’ Rights
Jewish Pabianice at the turn of the 20^th century	Yosef Bialik	249
The Zionist Revolution in the “Gerre Shtibl”	Mojsze Cohen (Kahan)	258
Labour Zionist Activity and the Struggle for the Right to Work	Mojsza Banet	75
In the Years after the First World War	Chaim Papjernik	98
In the Last Period before the Second World War	Szlama Szijale	103
“Hashomer Hatzair” [Socialist Zionist] Movement	D. Ben-Yosef	264
The Revisionist Movement	Gerszon Rajchman	107
Supporters of the Jewish National Fund	Gerszon Rajchman	109
Paramilitary Preparations for Jews	Gerszon Rajchman	113
Maccabi [Jewish Sports Movement]	Gerszon Rajchman	114
The Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank	M. Kochman	115

Culture and School Activities
Hebrew High School	Engineer Yitzhak Gilun-Zelinsky	272
Cultural Institutions and the Pabianicer Zeitung [newspaper]	D. Dawidowicz	118, 122
The “Hazomir” [Choral Organization] in Pabianice “	Wolf Bresler	120
“Hazomir” [Choral Organization] during the Years 1933-1939	Jakob Grynsztejn	123
Personalities from Jewish Pabianice: Reb Mojsza Adler, Reb Elye Banet, Hersz Josef Giska, Nosn Glass, Szmuel Dawid Grynsztejn, Reb Jakob Wigocki, Oszer Wyntner, Mordcha Chmura, Gerszon Lejb Pakyn, Reb Henech Rajchman, Dr Szmuel Szenker, Dwojne Szerodzka-Kjak, Followers of the Enlightenment, Artists, Writers		128
Reb Josef Dawidowicz	V. Gilun Zelinsky	269
Reb Yakob Yakubowicz, Chazan [Cantor] Reb Yirmiahu Vandrobnik	Y. Zimberknopf & M.Sh. Gashoori	276
Cantor R. Yirmiahu Vandrobnik	M. Sh. Gashoori	278
Dr Yosef Ben Renan (Szwarcwasser)	D. Dawidowicz	281
A “Sefer” [book, usually a religious one]	H. L. Zytnicki	156
Sons of the Pabianicer Jews and the War of Independence in Israel: Avraham Ben Henech (Frajman), Szymon Aron Grynberg, Ben-Zion Arija Chen-Zion, Jisroel Jerust		160

In the “Gehenom” [Hell] of Extermination and Death
The Song Szlama Zelychowski	Jichak Kacenelson	163
Rabbi Mendele Alter from Pabianice Is Going to Treblinka	M. Prager	279
The First Months under the Nazi Occupation	Dr. T. Sasna-Lifszyc	165
We Survived the German Extermination	Testimonies	167
From Pabianice to the Zanszyn Torture Camp	Mojsze Herszman & A.T.Kochman	177
How I Survived the War	Jehojszua Birnbojm	180
People’s Kitchen for Pabianicer in Occupied Warsaw	Rochl Abramczyk-Alawieski	187
Pabianice Partisan in the White Russian (Belarus) Forests	Jakob Grynsztejn	188
News/Information in the Press of Eretz-Israel about the German Extermination of Jews in Pabianice	D. Dawidowicz	211

Pabianice Jews in the Wide World (Landsmanshaftn) [societies of people from the same town]		218
Final Comments	A. Wolf – Yasni	237
Bronia Eisman’s Story	Bronia Eisman	283
Pabianice Jewish Cemetery List 1847-1942	L. Dzialoszynski	294
Glossary		306
Pabianice prior to 16th May 1942		307

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