Rozan, Poland

Rozhan Memorial Book
(Rozan, Poland)

52°53' / 21°25'

Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Rozan (al ha-Narew)

Edited by: Benjamin Halevy, Rozhan societies in Israel and the USA

Published in Tel Aviv, 1977 (H, Y, E)

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Ada Holtzman z”l

Translations

Efraim Ben-Dor
Jenny Ben-Dor
Ada Holtzman

Necrology transcribed by

Ada Holtzman

Our sincere appreciation to Efraim Ben-Dor of the Rozan Landsmanschaft in Israel,
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This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Rozan (al ha-Narew);
Rozhan memorial Book of the Rozhan societies in Israel and the USA, ed. Benjamin Halevy, Tel Aviv, 1977 (H, Y, E)

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Book Committee	Introduction
Benyamin Halevi	Forward

The History of our Community Rozan

	Historical Review (Hebrew)	17
	From the Sources (Yiddish)	24
	From the Sources (Yiddish)	29
	The history of the Shtetl (fragment)	32
	The history of the Shtetl (fragment)	34

Memories of the Past

Yehuda Kurnik	The first destruction of the town	35
Chaim Raitzik	An escape from a certain death (an episode)	37
Yecheskel Gelczinski	Government changes but Anti-semitism stays	39
Yechiel Wigoda	A blood libel in Rozan	42
Joseph Kwartowicz	A story of excomunication	44
Zecharia Chanin	Life and destruction of Rozan Community	46
Natan Wigoda	Death of Jakob Sapirstejn	49
Bezalel Broide	Rozan, nest of brotherly love	52
Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	Pictures from the past	54
Lea Broides Kurlender	A market day in our town	58
Menucha Shultzer	An epysode	60
Chaim Plotkin	Boots (a story from the time of the War)	62
Moishe Przysusker	Four poems	73
Alter Rosenfeld	Footsteps of the past	75
Shalom Perel	Life experiences in Rozan	77
Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	I see you my Shtetl…	79

Jewish Rozan

Arie Buchner	This was our little town	83
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	Chapters of Rozan	85
Natan Wigoda	Rozan how can I forget thee	126
Moishe Beilis	From the beginning of childhood until the horrible end	142
Zecharia Chenin	The holy conmmunity Rozan	134
Nute Rogoza	Special Rozan	137
Lejzer Beilis	Culture under all conditions	142
Chana Holtzman Buchner	The theater in Rozan	143
Eliahu Wilgowicz	Memories of the Shtetl	147
Jehuda Chmiel	The last religious institutions in Rozan	152
F. R.	The life of the religious girls in Rozan	156
Samuel Grushka	Rozan, 1936	158
Mendel Burstein	Memories from our little town	162
Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	Youth life in Rozan until 1920	172
Itzhak Senderowitz	Youth Movement life	182
Natan (Noske) Wigoda	"Poalei Zion Smol" (the Workers of Zion - left wing) movement in Rozan	187
Samuel Rosenberg	"Tzeirei Zion" (Youngsters of Zion) party in Rozan	194
Arje Buchner	"Hashomer Hatzair" movement in our little town	197
Mendel Burstein	"Hamizrachi" (Zionist religious party) and "Torah ve'Avoda" (Torah & Labour movement) in Rozan	201
Arye Buchner	First football team in Rozan	204
Nachman Shafran	Memories of my Shtetl Rozan	206
Pnina Aharonowitz Katz	My little Shtetl Rozan	209
Shalom Perel	Rozan - town landscape and a dream	210
Mordechai Armoni (Zamek)	First immigrants form Rozan to Eretz Israel	213
Natan Wigoda	My journey to Eretz Israel	218

Personalities and Images

Bezalel Broide	Rabbi Naftali Josef Freund	227
Yehuda Chmiel	Our Rabbi Naftaly Josef Freund	229
Yehuda Chmiel	Rabbi Shimon Margalit (Margulis)	230
Yehuda Chmiel	Righteousness Women	231
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	The family Katz (“the Mechanic”)	233
Yecheskel Gelczynski	Jews in Rozan	235
Becalel Broide	Henich Buchner and his wife Chayale	237
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	Arie Buchner – head of the youth movement “Hashomer Hatzair”	239
Shalom Perel	Baruch Bursztayn	243
Arie Buchner	Pessach Bursztayn	244
Pessach Mlinek E. B.	The Ben-Dor (Bender) house	246
Chaya Losh-Katz	Jonas Beker	251
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	Jonas Beker and his undertakings	253
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	Abraham Szaja Piontnica (the carpenter)	254
Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	Reb Abrahan Segal	256
Moishe Shultzer	Rozan and its typical characters	259
Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	Characters of our shtetl Rozan	266
Zvi Bender	Types of people and curiosities of Rozan	268
Shlomo Pultusker	Partycular Types of people and Characters	273

Tortured And Oppressed…

Chana Buchner	Memories of the liberation of Bergen Belsen, 1945	284
Simcha Shafran	When World War II broke out	286
Itzhak Magnushever	Testimony of a child	288
Moyshe Gruda	That is how it began	289
Pessach Mlinek	Notebook of horrors	293
Bezalel Braide	From the horrors and the miracles of the Holocaust	301
Mina Mlinek – Magnushever	Hardships and terrors during the beginning of the War	305
Moyshe Baran	I cannot any more…	315
Rachel Viser Nagel	I was only thirteen years old	319
David Pratz	From what was engraved in my memory	320
Mordechai Czechanower	The boys of Rozan among the fighters and resistance (Hebrew)	337
Mordechai Czechanower	The boys of Rozan among the fighters and resistance (Yiddish)	340
Rachel Lemberg – Kopecz	From the days of the Holocaust	344
Yecheskel Gelczinski	With the Germans and the Russians	347
Elyahu Wilgowitz	From Rozan to Germany and back	350
Moyshe Mlinek	Only four and a half years old when the War broke out	358
Frida Sarig-Weinberg (Aisenberg)	I was fifteen years old	367
Chana Holtzman Buchner	In the ghettos and in the concentration camps	375
P. R.	From the holocaust to exile in Russia	385
Perel Abramowitz Katz	Rozan – Russia – Rozan	388
Chaya Sure Kalmanowitz	Russia – a sad chapter in my life	393
Rachel Kagan Elson	Bitter memories	397
Nathan Rzepka	From Rozan to Russia	398
Alexander Gurbatov	The Red Army frees Rozan (Hebrew)	404
Alexander Gurbatov	The Red Army frees Rozan (Yiddish)	405
Pessach Mlinek	From Bialystok to exile and back to freedom	407
Rachel Glick Wigoda	Struggle for life	412
Arye Albik	About my wandering during years of Holocaust	418
Zorach Rzepka	My wandering to Eretz Israel	421
Moyshe Malowan	From leaving Rozan to Exodus	422
Shlomo Pultusker	Memories of those days	424

Pages of Yizkor – Remember

Abraham Broides	We shall remember!	436

Perished in the Holocaust:
Moshe Beilis	Yoel Gru	437
Mother Chana Holcman	Meir Holcman H'YD	439
Sara Segal Chatzkowicz	To the memory of my father Chaim-Shlomo Chatzkowicz	438
Pnina Aharonowicz - Katz	Remember my family	440
Icchak Senderowicz	The family Piepsz	441
Zehava Freiman	To the memory of my father and his family, Rabbi Yosef-Yehuda Freiman ZTZ"L	443
Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	My grandmother, my grandfather, my father and my mother - Bela Nudler Feldman	444
Chaike Serak Wigoda	In memory of my sister Sarke Wigoda	446
	List of the Jewish Holocaust Martyrs of Rozan	447
	Commemoration Photographs	462
	Died in Israel and in the Diaspora	471
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	Our beloved Arie (recited near the open grave)	471
Luba and Itzhak Senderowicz	At the end of the thirty days of mourning of Arie Buchners of blessed memory	472
Pessach Mlinek	Spoken during the ceremony of unveiling the tombstone	473
Natan Wigoda	In the end of the thirty days of mourning	474
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	To the memory of tzvi Bender	475
Natan Wigoda	Naftali Vilgowicz	477
Rzak Brand	Another victim of the Nazi barbariens	478
Lea Broides – Kurlender	To the memory of Chancze Wilogowicz – Wigoda	479
B. L.	The Rabbi Chaim Beniamin Wiernik	480
Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	My father Abraham Shaul Z"L	481
Shoshana Yatziv - Blum	Shlamek	482
M. Platkewicz	Rabbi Shlomo Platkewicz	483
Shalom Perel	My brother Chaim Perel Z"L	484
Itzhak Senderowicz	To the memory of our friend Beniamin Frenkel	487
Arie Buchner	A faithful friend since old times	488
Luba Senderowicz	Zehava Krampf Meidenboim	489
Natan Wigoda	Shmuel Rogoza
Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	Rabbi Meshulam Roshiniak	491
Mordechai Armony (Zamek)	Yechiel Rafael Pokshivka	492

	List of the deceased in Israel	493

Fallen in the struggles of the State of Israel:
	Yehuda Matecki	494
Natan	Tuvia Taus	495
Dan Margalit	Ilan Ganani	496
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	Yosef Gamer	497
Luba and Itzhak Senderowicz	Yosef Gamer	497
Tzvi G.	Ami Sarig (Weinberg)	499
Yoram		499

Upon Completion of the Book		501
	An appeal to our Landsleit in Israel and in the Diaspora (1970) (Hebrew)	502
	An appeal to our Landsleit in Israel and in the Diaspora (1970) (Yiddish)	503
The Committee	Rozan Relief Committee in New York	512
The Committee	The Rozan Isreali Landsmanschaften and its actiivities	504
Natan Wigoda	Motel Zamek celebrates his four-score years	515
The Editing Board	The end of the book	516


The English Part

The Editing Committee	Preface	5
Bejamin Halevy	With this book	6
Aryeh Buchner	This was our little town	7
Aryeh Buchner	Rozan: an historical sketch	8
Aryeh Buchner	On history of the town	14
Shalom Perl	Rozan, landscape and a dream	16
Efraim Ben-Dor (Bender)	The story of Rozan	20
Itzchak Magnushever	Evidence given by a child	31
Simcha Shafran(Shaftanovich)	When the war broke out	32
Frieda Sarig-Eisenberg	I was fifteen years old	34
Rachel Weiser-Nagel	I was just thirteen	40
David Prath	What I remember	43
Mina Mlinek – Magnushever	Troubles and horrors at the beginning of the war	52
H. H. B.	In the ghetto and in the camps	68
Pessach Mlinek	From the scrap-book of horror	78
M. Czechanover	Boys from Rozan among the fighters	87
A. Buchner	I visited Maidanek	90
Nathan Wygoda	Rozan, could I ever forget you?	91
Nathan Wygoda	Rozan Relief Committee in New York	93

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