Remembering Mielec; the destruction of the Jewish Community, Poland

Remembering Mielec;
the Destruction of the Jewish Community
(Mielec, Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Mielec;
sipur hashmadat ha-kehila ha-yehudit

Edited by: Mielec Yizkor Book Committee

Published in New York, 1979

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Phyllis Goldberg z"l

These chapters of the “Remembering Mielec” have been donated by
the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG)
in memory of their family members who perished in the Holocaust.

This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Mielec; sipur hashmadat ha-kehila ha-yehudit
(Remembering Mielec; the destruction of the Jewish community),
Editors: Mielec Yizkor Book Committee, New York 1979 (H,Y,E, 206 pages).

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

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Remembering
Mielec

The destruction

of the

Jewish Community

Published by

The Mielec Yiskor Book Committee

COPYRIGHT @ 1979

MIELEC YISKOR BOOK COMMITTEE

Our thanks and appreciation to:
Dr. MOSHE LANDAU, Principal of Gimnasia “HEI”, TEL-AVIV;Introduction.
DAWID BERNSTEIN; Translations.
SCHMUEL GARFUNKIEL; Collecting documents from YAD w SHEM, JERUSALEM.
ABBA FENICHEL; Cover design.
EDITORS;
Mielec Yiskor Book Committee.

Permission to use any material contained in this book
will be granted to historians and non-profit organizations upon application.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Preface		1
Mielec Story (Untitled)	Marvin Balsam	9
I remember Mielec	Doris Lander Berl	10
A postcript of a sister		12
Impession and scenes from Mielec	M. Keit	14
The theatre	Mechel Messinger	24
The Jewish Frauenverein	Tyla Vorschim	26
The Sztetel Mielec and the Rosh Hashanah Tragedy
My memories from the bloodiest period of my people	Sarah Blattberg-Cooper
The road to freedom		43
The Holocaust	M. Keit	69
A witness statement
The Nazi-Killers (a character study)	M. Keit
Mielec -My Home - Reflections	Chaim Friedman
Nechemia Brodt, the righteous Jew from Mielec

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