Translated by Sara Mages

Edited by Dr. Moshe Avital

Volume A
A memorial to Bilke	3
The destruction of our town	7
Bilke Over the Generations
The Editor's Introduction	17
Title Page	19
Introduction and Review	23
Bilke's geographical position in Carpathia	33
Map of the vicinity	37
Historical review of Bilke	39
Daily life in Bilke	59
Memories of the past – or, about what was and no longer exists	91
The Jewish youth in Bilke and the vicinity in the 1930s	101
The Jewish child in the Diaspora of Bilke	103
A synagogue that was desecrated	107
Bilke without Jews	125
Personalities and Families
In memory of the righteous	129
My father	133
Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Lieberman, President of the religious court of the community of F?ldes	137
There was a Chasid and his name was Rabbi Avraham Lipschitz	147
R' Yehusua and Peril Doft and their family members	163
The first Holocaust victim in our town Bilke	173
And a brother will spiritually enhance his brother	179
The last months	197
Childhood memories from Bilke	201
Correspondence	205
The Cycle of Jewish Holidays in Bilke
The sanctity of the Sabbath that was breached in the town, Bilke	209
The holiday of Chanukah in our town Bilke	219
The last Purim in our town Bilke	223
The way we celebrated Passover in our town Bilke	229
The holiday of Shavuot in our town Bilke	239
The holiday of Sukkot in Bilke, Czechoslovakia	245
Special events in Bilke
The wedding of Leah the oldest daughter of the ritual slaughterer	253
A single case of intermarriage in our town Bilke	261
From Bilke to Petah-Tikva
From Bilke to Petah-Tikva – a life story	269
Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors
The calamity that befell the Jews of Bilke	363
The Holocaust that befell the Jews of Bilke	369
Kastner's train	373
Bilke also received its portion of the Bitter Cup	383
Memories from the expulsion of Bilke's Jews	389
The reckoners of the end of days in 5701 (1941)	393
The annihilation of Bilke's Jews	407
On the Road of Suffering	419
The winter of 1945 – the death march	427
The day Buchenwald was liberated	431
And this is our revenge!	437
The Arabs' involvement in the annihilation	441
From the furnace to a safe haven in Israel	447
Words from the memorial service for the martyrs of Bilke	457
Memories from the life in the village of Likeve	461
A brief history of the Neumann family from Bilke	463
The family of Reb Moshe Aharon Blassberger from Bilke	467
How I saved my wife and our daughter	475
Memories of former residents of Bilke who immigrated to Israel
My father	481
My beloved village - Bilke	485
The village “Vyshni-Sharad”	493
Memories from Bilke	497
The Davidovich family throughout the generations	499
The description of my life and my immigration to Israel	529
Former residents of Bilke who participated in the “Haganah” and the liberation of the Land of Israel
From Buchenwald to the ranks of the “Haganah”	537
From the heroism of the War of Independence – and the siege of Jerusalem	551
The battle of Kibbutz Negba	557
From the activities of the Biliker Landsleit in Israel
The Study of Torah and Good Manners are Preferable	561
Kaddish	562
The establishment of a Jewish state	563
A prayer	565
A postcard	567
Remember and memorize – an educational challenge	569
Hebrew songs that were sung in the Zionist Movements in Bilke	575
Volume B
Yiddish Section
Foreword	587
Our Hometown Bilke	597
From All the Four Questions, Only One	603
Correspondence	607
Resurrection of the Dead on the Death March	613
Memoirs of Mayer Yoysef ben Hersh Ber Layzerovits	615
An Act of Revenge	617
Rebbe Mayer Eckstein	619
Yiddish Songs	623
Yiddish Sayings	633
English Section
Introduction	649
Our hometown Bilke	653
Memories of Shtetl Life	661
The Holiday of Passover	665
Memories of “Kolbasovo” a Suburb of Bilke	683
Rabbi Joshua Doft Cantor and Shochet	687
There Was A Chasid and Tzadick Whose Name Was Abraham Lipschitz	697
This is the Last Will and Testament of Rabbi Abraham Lipschitz	705
The Family of Reb Moshe Aharon Blassberger	713
Bilker Landsleit in the U.S.A. in the 1930's	723
The Jews of Bilke	727
Bilke, my little hometown	743
From Bilke, my birthplace	745
Testimony of Bitzi Zisovic Yakubovic Zivic	749
Remembrances of a survivor	753
Childhood and Holocaust Memories	759
Testimony of Moshe Friedman	765
A Scroll of Agony and Hope of a Young Jewish Boy from Bilke	769
Over fifty years	775
Who am I?	789
My Father's Eyes	797
Testimony of Rivka Klein	799
Why?	801
An Epitaph for a Young Jewish Partisan Girl	805
My Echo and I	809
Hebrew Section
I will Remember Those
Memorial pages for the families	812
Bilke's families – Memorial pages	822
List of Bilke (and the surrounding area) residents who died in Israel after the Holocaust	869
List of families of Bilke and the surrounding area	870
List of the Jews of Kolbasovo	877
Bilke's Album
Photos from the way of life and the personalities of Bilke	883
Miscellaneous Section
Map of Carpathia	989
Map of Bilke's streets (a sketch)	990
A list of Holy Scripture that were written by HaRav Shabtai Lipschitz	1001
The title page of the book Yalkut Avraham	1003
A list of the transports to Auschwitz in 1944, including the transports that left Berehovo Ghetto, where Bilke 's residents were	1004
The number of residents in Bilke – a letter in Russian	1005
Carpathia during the Holocaust – the arrows mark the routes of deportation to Auschwitz	1006
Map of Carpathia	1007
The state of the European Jews – the number of Jews before the Holocaust by country	1008

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