Rava-Ruska, Ukraine

Rawa Ruska Memorial Book
(Rava-Ruska, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Rawa Ruska ve-ha-seviva

Editors: A. M. Ringel, I. Z. Rubin

Published in Tel Aviv 1973

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This is a translation of: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Rawa Ruska ve-ha-seviva (Rawa Ruska memorial book),
Editors: A. M. Ringel, I. Z. Rubin, Rawa Rusk Society, Published: Tel Aviv 1973 (H,Y,E 468 pages)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

The History of the Jews in Rawa-Ruska
Rawa-Ruska and Surroundings [Y]	Dr. Nachman Blumental	11
The History of the Jews in Rawa-Ruska	Yakov Baumwol-Yovel z”l	16
My town and my Family that do not Exist any More	Prof. Zeinwel Lieberman	22
A Lively and Turbulent Time	Gimpel Yust	26
A Chronicle of Rawa-Ruska	Yosef Zvi Rubin	42
On the life in Rawa-Ruska [Y]	Yechl Meisels	50

Torah, Hasidism and Education in Our Town
The Beginnings of the Jewish Rawa	Avraham Mordechai Ringel z”l	61
The Rav R'Doberish and his Grandson the Rav R'Yosef Chaim Rappaport	Rav I. Meir Rappaport-Cohen	86
Additional Details on the Life of my Grandfather, author of the Book The Main Road (lit. The King's Road] and his Sons, may their merit protect us	Doberish Cohen-Rappaport	88
My Uncle R'Yitzhak Nachum z”l	Yochanan Twerski	89
R'Simcha Haberman z”l	Yakov Zvi Haberman	91
The Rav R'Mordechai Arie Haberman z”l	Rav Yehuda Rubinstein	92
Figures among the Belz Hasidim in Rawa	Israel Klapholz	94
The “Old Bet Hamidrash” and “The Old Kloiz"	Avraham Mordechai Ringel	98
Memories from my Home Town	Shmuel Adler	117
The Rav R'Shimon Federbush z”l	Shmuel Adler	121
About the personality of my Father and Teacher R'Israel Schwert z”l	Bluma Rubin Schwert	122

Memories, Figures and the Way of Life
Remembering Dr. Yosef Mandel	Dr. Shulamit Tier	129
About Dr. Yosef Mandel	From his Letters	130
Two Documents [Y]	Y. Meisels	131
To the Memory of Dr. Yosef Mandel, may God avenge his blood [Y]	H. Graf	136
Notable Zionists in Town [Y]	Moshe Katz z”l	137
Two of my Friends	Yakov Baumwol-Yovel z”l	140
The Zionist Family - Edel [Y]	Chaim Rathaus	141
Memories from Days Gone By [Y]	Hersch Haberman	142
Memories from Days Gone By [Y]	Yitzhak Daks	145
Institutions [Y]	Dr. Nachman Blumental	153
An Unsuccessful attempt to organize a Hebrew School in 1913 [Y]	Moshe Weiss	157
The Hebrew Movement in Rawa-Ruska	A. Avneri (Hefner)	158
Memories from Days Past	Pnina Berer-Soslik	159
The Jewish Theater Life in Rawa-Ruska [Y]	Moshe Yakov Steinfeld	161
About the Craftsmen of the Town	Lipa Dror Altman	165
A Memorial to our Friends [Y]	Prof. Z. Lieberman	168
My Teacher and Rabbi	Prof. Z. Lieberman	170
Memories from the Time of Youth [Y]	Yakov Mezger	171
Glimpses [Y]	Ben Zion Friedman	179
Compassion and Charity	Zvi Arie Fendrich	182
A Belzer Hasid Decorated by the Polish Government with the “Independence Cross” [Y]	Yechiel Kessel	184
Yakov Shlomo Gold z”l	Simcha Doner	186
Asher Rubin z”l [Y]	Part of his Correspondence	187
Chaim Becker z”l	Lipa Dror-Altman	189
The Baker from Narol [Y]	Lea Rosenzweig-Kramer	190
Very Few Memories	Shmuel Gottlieb	191
A Bundle of Memories from my Home [Y]	Leibush Gertel-Wolf	193
The Days of 20 Tamuz in Rawa-Ruska	Yakov Baumwol-Yovel z”l	194
The Beginnings of the Youth Organization in our Town	Zvi Netzer (Sibzener)	194
The Fourteen Historic Votes [Y]	M. Y. Steinfeld	195
My Training [Y]	Eliezer Reches	196
From Old Times..... [Y]	Yosef Frenkel-Auerbach	197
Jewish Merchants in Rawa-Ruska Against Hitler's Germany [Y]	Moshe Gruber-Achsler	198
About my Destroyed Town	Rivka Fink (Tauber)	199
Belzec and Rawa-Ruska [Y]	Naftali Danner z”l	200
Jewish Guests at the Wedding of the Prince [Y]	Chana Tisser z”l	202
The Twilight of the 19-th Century and the Rising of the 20^th century [Y]	Baruch Hammerschmid (Kessler)	204

The surroundings
The Jews in Belzec [Y]	Chaim Rathaus	207
A Memorial to my Shtetl Mogyerow [Y]	Zvi Langenauer	209
Mogyerow [Y]	Efraim Schreiber	211
Kamionka Woloska [Y]	David Halpern	219
There Once was a Town Named Rawe [Y]	Max Halpern	220

The Holocaust
On the Day of Judgment (a poem) [Y]	Melech Ravitch	225
Rawa-Ruska and Belzec on the Map of the Destruction-Sites [Y]	Eliezer Ungar	227
My Trials and Ordeals [Y]	Yehoshua Wallfuss z”l	230
This is how Jewish Rawe Perished [Y]	A. Klag	247
I Remember You, Rawa-Ruska (a poem) [Y]	Bluma Rubin-Schwert	229
The End of my Town Rawa [Y]	Chaim Spatzer	254
Memories for the Future Generations [Y]	Dan Berger	265
Rawa, my Little Town… (a poem) [Y]	Yechl Meisels	278
The Yanowski Camp in Lemberg [Lwow] [Y]	Katriel Rosen	281
From the Memories of Ida Kleiner-Lev	Meir Levin	282
The Jews of my Ruined Town [Y]	Lea Rosenzweig Kramer	296
Chanuka in the Ghetto... (a poem) [Y]	A. Klag	299
Among the Partisans [Y]	Alexander-Shmuel Storch	300
Excerpts from my Diary [Y]	Wolf Sambol	310
Yom Kipur in my Town Rawa (a poem) [Y]	A. Shmuel Storch	312
What my Father and I Lived Through [Y]	Ben Zion Friedman	313
From the Book Kidush Hashem [The Sanctification of God's Name]	Rav Shimon Huberband	318
The Bogen House	Lea Rosenzweig Kramer	319
Testimony of a Gentile about the Annihilation of the Jewish Population in Rawa-Ruska [Y]	Frantzishek Wolach	320
The Eternal Song (a poem) [Y]	Wolf Sambol	325
I Escaped from the Grave	Muni Grauer	325
In Holland on the Eve of Destruction [Y]	Itche Yust	327
Memories [Y]	Melech Zines	330
In the Whirlpool of Life [Y]	Yechl Meisels	332
The Horrors of the War	Tova Baumel-Haberman	348
A Lone Survivor [Y]	Natan Zimmerman	350
Young Men of Rawa in the Russian Army in 1941 [Y]	Israel Satz	351
How I was Saved [Y]	Ruth Haskel	353
The Beginning of the War	W. Wagner	355
1939 - The First German Occupation [Y]	Ada Weichselbaum	356
Rawa-Ruska Under the Nazi Occupation	Yitzhak Kurt-Levin	359
Rawa-Ruska as Extermination-post “Stalag 325” [Yiddish, translated from the French]	Yechl Meisels	365

My Family [lit. The House of My Father]
The house of my Father	Lipa ben Pesach Altman	371
About my Dear Parents	Tzila Rosenblatt-Altman	373
My Parents, of Blessed Memory	Neomi Yissachar-Gozhik	373
The Daks Family [Y]	Itche Daks	374
The Sauerbrun Family	Bluma Sauerbrun-Lockman	375
The First Immigrant to Eretz Israel from Rawa Ruska	Asher Han	377
The House of my Parents	Tzipora Weinreb-Mann	378
My Family	Yehuda Mond	379
The House of my Parents	Yechiel Meisels (Yechl Kessel)	380
A Hymn to my Family [lit. to My Father's House]	Yaffa Eichenbaum nee Margaliot	381
My Family [lit. My Father's House]	Tova Fischler-Reinherz	384
My Family [lit. My Father's House]	Lea Rosenzweig-Kramer	386
The Redlich Family	Yosef Redlich z”l	387
The Rosenfeld Family	Naftali Rosenfeld	387
My Life in the Days of the Nazi Occupation	Batia Schiebak-Reiss	388
The House of my Parents	Batia Schiebak-Reiss	388
The History of One Family	Chana Cohen nee Eisen-Schappel	390
My Family	Chava Schuman nee Strauss	392
Memories and Reality [Y]	Hella Schieper-Lew	395
My Home [Y]	Bluma Rubin-Schwert	396
After Us (a poem)	Bluma Rubin-Schwert	400

Remembering the Martyrs
List of the Deceased		401
Names of the Rava-Ruska Martyrs		421

The Diaspora - The Jewish Dispersion
Rawa-Ruska of Yesteryear [Y]	Leib Lew	457
Rawa-Ruska Former Residents in Canada [Y]	G. Yust	458
The New Home [Y]	Eliyahu-Zelig Altner, New-York	459
My memories from Rawa in 1906 [Y]	Shmuel (Sam) Essig, New-York	461
The “Benei Levi-Yitzhak Society” of Rawa-Ruska People [Y]	Shmuel Essig	462
The “Society” in New-York [Y[	Chaim Rathaus, New-York	463
Rawa-Ruska Jews in Uruguay [Y]	Itche Erdman, Montevideo	465
The Association of Former Residents of Rawa-Ruska and Surroundings in Israel	Gimpel Yust	466
We, The Last Ones (a poem) [Y]	Yechl Meisels	468

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