Translated by Jerrold Landau

[H] denotes a Hebrew article and [Y] a Yiddish article.
A notation is omitted for those articles where the language could not be determined from the table of contents.

A Monument to the Town	the editors [H]	7
A Monument to the Town	the editors [Y – apparently a translation of the above]	8
I Will Never Forget you	Michael Heisler [Y]	11
A Portrait from the Landscape of my Childhood	Tzvia Nagler-Tzamri [H]	12
There was a Shtetl Turka	Menachem Langenauer [Y]	17
You are my Witnesses…	Pnina Bamushi-Sternbach [H]	21
Previous Generations
History and Demography [H]		25
The Ledgers of Turka Until the Second World War	Chaim Pelech [Y]	34
Turka	Eizik Kurtz [H]	41
Turka During the First World War	Chaim Pelech [Y]	46
Episodes from Life in Turka from Before the First World War	Elka Moshenberg [H]	50
Life and Youth
Turka My Town	David Yisraeli-Langenauer [H]	57
As it was Back Then in the Old Home	Shmuel Spigler [Y]	65
The Sabbath in our Town	Zeev Steininger [H]	75
The Eve of Yom Kippur	Shmuel Spigler [H]	79
From the Hassidic Religious Life in our City	Rabbi Alter Weinberger [Y]	82
The Hashomer Hatzair Movement in Turka During its First Years	Yitzchak Rand [H]	91
Ideas and Memories from the “Hashomer Hatzair” Group of Turka	Yafa Gorlitzki [H]	101
From Within the Walls of the Beis Midrash to “Hashomer Hatzair”	David Y. [H]	105
Sections on the Akiva Youth Movement in Turka	Shimon Keller [H]	107
The “Akiva” Hebrew Youth Group in Turka	Hela Kaspi-Shreiber [H]	112
The “Akiva” Movement – the Dream and the Realization	Moshe Zauerbron [H]	115
The “Gordonia” Movement in Turka	Pnina Vamushi-Sternbach [H]	118
The “Poale Zion” Organization, and Around it	Chaim Pelech [Y]	121
Zionist Activity in Turka in the Years 1930-1935	Zev Steininger [H]	125
Zionist Activists	Chaim Pelech [Y]	129
Yiddish Theater in Turka	Eli Montag [Y]	133
Klezmers Come to the Shtetl	Chaim Pelech [Y]	137
The Orchestra in the New Times	Moshe Frum [Y]	139
Moshe Shein	Chaim Pelech [Y]	144
Personalities of Turka	Shlomo Kraus [H]	146
Memories from my Parental Home	M. and Ch. [H]	149
The Activist from Turka Shlomo Pelech	Moshe Kershner [Y]	152
The Final Hoshanah Rabba	Eli Montag [Y]	154
Ordinary Dear Jews in Turka	Chaim Pelech [Y]	158
Chalvikes	Moshe From [Y]	162
Stories from Turka	Chaim Pelech [Y]	167
There were Jews who Lived Very Well	Miriam Teller [Y]	174
Turka – The Surrounding Villages
Jews in the Villages around Turka	Aharon Shafer [Y]	177
Jews in the Village	Chaim Pelech [Y]	180
Jewish Agriculture Around Turka	Michael Heisler [Y]	181
Jewish Life in the Village of Vysotzko Vishna	Meir Hirt [Y]	187
Ilnik – My Childhood Village	Meir Gottesman [Y]	191
The village of Vysotzko-Nyzny	Avraham Tuchman [H]	193
Rozluch and Beniva	Tzipora Zelmanovitch (Katz) [Y]	194
The Jews of Husna Vyzna and Husna Nyzna	Meir Goldreich [H]	197
Life and Doom in Lomna	Menachem Rosen and Yechiel Hirt of Haifa [Y]	199
Krasna – Life and Destruction	Moshe Schindler [H]	210
Tarnawa Nizna	Aharon Shefer [H]	217
Plucking Feathers	A. Sh. [Y]	218
Destruction and Annihilation
Russian Capital in Turka During the Second World War	Chaim Pelech [Y]	221
Stories of the Great Misfortune	Y. M. Zeifert [Y]	225
A Girl in the Storm	Ester Roter (Shein) [H]	244
From the Bundles of Testimonies		266
In the Holocaust	Esther Brand (nee Longenor) [H]	270
In the Atrocities of the Time	Dr. A. Hamermash [H]	275
A Young Man in a Nazi Work Camp	Shalom Breier [H]	279
Inhuman Suffering and Horrors	David Schwartz [Y]	285
The Children's Aktion in Turka	Ch. P. [Y]	288
Bloody Episodes	David Binder [H]	290
The Escape from the Open Grave	Moshe Hager and Genia Liberman [H]	293
We Were Refugees in Soviet Russia	Michael Heisler [Y]	295
Saved by Righteous Gentiles	Esther Brand [H]	304
Dream	Y. M. Zeifert [H]	310
Remember	Dr. M. Dvorzhitzki
The Holocaust in the Surrounding Villages
Murder in the Villages Surrounding Turka	Meir Seeman [Y]	315
The Destruction of the Jews of Borinya	Helena Ringler (Gissinger) [H]	318
Episodes from the Great Misfortune in Borinya	Yosef Brenes [Y]	321
The Story of Dzvinyach in the Holocaust	Shlomo Katz [H]	324
With Village Jews under Siege	Zerach Katz [H]	327
Harried and Afflicted	Shalom Katz [Y]	330
Surviving in a Bunker in the Forest 1	Yosef Brenes [Y]	334
Wanderings During the Holocaust	Yitzchak and Avraham Schindler [H]	338
A Nazi Murderer Met His Death in a Fight with Two Jewish Girls	Tzipora Zelmanovitch (Katz) [H]	349
The Destruction of Ilnik	Yeshayahu Schwartz [Y]	350
David Laufer, the Hero from Ilnik	Yeshayahu Schwartz [Y]	355
There are no more Jews in Turka
From Atop the Roof I See You	David Y. [Y]	359
In the Empty City…	Michael Heisler [Y]	360
In Turka after the Liberation	Chaim Pelech [Y]	362
In the Destroyed City	Asher Brandelstein [Y]	364
The City Sits in Desolation…	Bronia Brandelstein	367
A Visit to Turka in 1957	Moshe From Haifa [Y]	373
The Memorial Corner:
In Memory of my Father Reb Baruch Hirt		386
In Memory of the Binder family		386
In Memory of Menachem Langenauer		387
In our Homeland
Our Aliya and First Steps in the Land	M. and Ch. [H]	391
Breaking Through the Shores of our Homeland	Meir Hoffman [H]	396
The Aliya of those with Families to the Land	Moshe Yisraeli [H]	398
In Memory of Those No Longer With Us
Manes Bernas		402
Eizik Yitzchak Kurtz		403
Tovia Artel		403
Yitzchak Zohar (Shein)		404
Necha Lerer		405
Addendum
The Jewish Youth of Turka in the 1920s and 1930s	Zerach Shein	408
Additions		413
A Memorial to the Martyrs of the Holocaust		417
In the Villages of the Area of Turka		453

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