Ivenets, Belarus

The Memorial Book of Iwieniec,
Kamien, and the Surrounding Region
(Ivenets, Belarus)

53°53' / 26°45'

Translation of
Sefer Iwieniec, Kamien ve-ha-seviva; sefer zikaron

Published in Tel Aviv, 1973

Acknowledgments

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Ellen J. Eisner
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This is a translation from Sefer Iwieniec, Kamien ve-ha-seviva; sefer zikaron
(The memorial book of Iwieniec, Kamien, and the surrounding region),
Tel Aviv, Iwieniec Societies in Israel and the Diaspora, 1973. Volumes: 1, Pages: 484 Languages: H,Y

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Ivenets

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

[Y] = Yiddish
Introduction		7
Foreword [Y]		13

The town until September 1939
History of Ivenets (Iwieniec)	Shimon Oshrowitz	17
Ivenets, My Hometown, at the End of the 19^th Century	Shlomo Bar Tzvi Milikovsky	18
Our town in the last century - from the newspapers Hamelitz and Hatzefira	Shimon Osherowitz	62
The “Taxa” [tax collector]	Shimon Osherowitz	72
I was the first Oleh [immigrant to Eretz Israel] from Ivenets	Mordechai Silber	74
Memories	Michael Rubinstein	76
The Zionists in Ivenets [Y]	Michael Rubinstein	78
Jewish livelihoods, institutions and parties in Ivenets [Y]	Meir Perski	82
The Bund [Y]	S. Osherowitz	86
There once was a town… [Y]	Moshe-David Zak	88
Memories from mu youth [Y]	Melech Zisl Parent	127
The way of life in Ivenets [Y]	Avraham Milikovski	129
The Eliezer Katz family [Y]	Reuven Katz	143
The history of one family	Shaul Frentchik	145
Memories from the years of my youth [Y]	Shaul Frentchik	147
Ivenets [Y[	Yakov Funt	152
Hashomer Hatza'ir in Ivenets	Avraham Rogov	158
BEITAR in Ivenets	Reuven Katz	169
The Grosmanist movement in Ivenets	Zlata Farbstein-Reichman	173
Days of long ago	Mordechai Ben-Yehuda, Reuven Katz	175
A wedding in Ivenets [Y]	Yitzhak Kuznietz	179
The dispute about the new rabbi [Y]	Mordechai Ben Yehuda	181
A town with two rabbis [Y]	Avraham Kalatzik	182
My visit in Ivenets in 1938 [Y]	Zlata Farbstein-Reichman	183
Memories from childhood and adolescence [Y]	Wolke Reznik	185
The destruction of a community [Y]	Rav Zev Gordon	194
My home	Eidele Sirotkin-Dekel	199
My town Ivenets	Rachel Katz-Gringer	201
History of a family [Y]	Dvora Sabinik	203
The history of a family	Nechemia Akon	206
My home	Rachel Kovalski-Reznik	209
Childhood memories	Shimon ben Michael Luski	212
Ivenets, my origin	Reuven Katz	213
A single one - from the entire family [Y]	Miriam Nir Sabinik	214
The fate of a family [Y]	Tzila Schuman Berkman	215
Velma and Ivenets	Bella Germaiza-Weinberger	217
Ivenets [Y]	Avraham Baranowitz	217

Ivenets Personalities
Personalities and rabbis in Ivenets	Meir Aran (Arnovski)	225
Izjik	Rabbi Zev Gordon	242
Rav Michael Gronitzki	Rabbi Zev Gordon	243
Rav Yechezkel Simcha Rabinowitz	Moshe-David Zak	244
In memory of my brother Yosek Zak	Moshe-David Zak	245
R'Hirschel Klemens	Moshe-David Zak	246
R'Mordechai Luski	Moshe-David Zak	248
The convert to Judaism Avraham Vazjniak	Moshe-David Zak	248
In memory of my friend Yochanan Rubinstein	Moshe-David Zak	249
Zelig Tzernin	Moshe-David Zak	251
R' Zev Leder, the cantor	Moshe-David Zak	252
Noah Zwiniatch	Moshe-David Zak	252
Shayel the barber [Y]	Moshe-David Zak	255
My father, the shochet (slaughterer) R'Mordechao Luski	Chaim Luski	256
Our father R'Avraham Schieff	Nyonia Aberment-Schieff	258
In memory of our brother Herzke Schieff	Salva Binder-Schieff	261
Leibel Darer	Rachel Katz-Gringer	262
In memory of my brother Leibel Katz [Y]	Sonia Katz-Farentzik	263
My three war medals [Y]	Meir Perski	264
Leibel Katz	Yosef Rolnik	265
In memory of Aharon Debinik [Y]	Zusia Debinik	265

Defending the Homeland and Building the Country
Rolnik Arie, Rolnik Yitzhak, Doa Yitzhak Aizik		268
Shimon Luski, Arie Luski, Yosef Sirotkin		269

The Town Kamin
History of the town Kamin	S. Osherowitz	273
My town Kamin	Shulamit Steif-Osherowitz	274
My sister Shulamit Steif-Osherowitz	Rivka Ferber	276
Kamin and its Jews	Shimon Osherowiyz	277

Holocaust and Struggle
Holocaust dates in Ivenets and surroundings		282
My town Ivenets	Moshe-David Zak	283
From Ivenets to Varkota [Y]	Hirshel Rolnik	284
Six years in the Communist Paradise [Y]	Sara Rolnik	296
We flee to Russia [Y]	Hirshel Segalowitz	302
I was a refugee in Russia	Nechemia Akon	307
I traveled to visit my family	Arie Karp	308
From Ivenets to Shanghai [Y]	Rabbi Zev Gordon	313
The battle for life [Y]	Avraham Baranowitz	318
The great camp		320
The road of affliction [Y]	Avraham Oshers	322
Years of suffering and heroism [Y]	Mordechai Rolnik	335
Destruction of a Jewish community [Y]	Dvora Sabinik	355
Memories from a Jewish community [Y]	Eliezer Gurion	373
Times of horror [Y]	Yakov Ushman	377
On the way to Eretz Israel	Yakov Ushman	392
We remained a few…	Rachel Katz-Gringer	394
The beginning of destruction [Y]	Hatzkel Pozniak	395
In the hands of fate [Y]	Mordechai Morduchowitz	397
With the Partisans [Y]	Reuven Segalowitz	399
Two years in the pit of death	Shmuel Slutzki	401
Memories from the time of the Holocaust	Zvi Leder	408
Ivenets in 1956 [Y]	Israel Magaday	409
The first Jewish partisans [Y]	Yehoshua Yafe	411
In memory of the Ivenets martyrs	Mordechai Ben Yehuda	415
The fallen among the fighters against the Nazis		416
Ivenets Jews deported to Siberia		421
Ivenets Jews who fled to Russia at the outbreak of the German-Russian war		422

Memorial Pages
Ivenets and Kamin former residents who died in Israel		424
List of Martyrs from Ivenets, Kamen' and Environs		425
Obituaries		439
Ivenets Landsleit (former residents) in Israel		482

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