Sarnaki, Poland

Memorial Book of the Community of Sarnaki
(Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Sarnaki

Editor: D. Shuval (Dov Sobel)

Published in Haifa 1968

This is a translation of: Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Sarnaki
(Memorial book of the community of Sarnaki),
Editor: D. Shuval (Dov Sobel), Former Residents of Sarnaki in Israel, Published: Haifa 1968 (H,Y 415 pages)

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

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Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

Hebrew translated by Yocheved Klausner

The Song of the Murdered Jewish People	Yitzhak Katsenelson	6
Map of Sarnaki		8

Introductory Chapter

Opening Remarks (H)	Editor	15
Forward	The Editor	18
Editorial		22
From the Editor		24
Remarks to the Hebrew Section		26
Observations about the Yiddish Section		26
Origins and Development of Sarnaki	Shraga Zajerman	27
There Was a Shtetl [town] (poem)	Aryeh Tenenbaum	40

The Way of Life

Small, but Impulsive	Daniel Fajersztejn	43
There Were No Rich Men, but Also No One Bankrupt (H)	Yisrael Shtainman	47
There Were No Rich Men, but Also No One Bankrupt	Yisrael Shtainman	49
The Days of My Childhood (H)	Pesach Perlman	52
The Days of My Childhood	Pesach Perlman	55
I Left Secretly for the Hakhshara (pioneer training) (H)	Ester Grunowitz	59
The Young Years	Sura Rubel	65
The Well We Drank From	Ester Grunowitz	66
A Strange Visitor	Aryeh Tenenbaum	68
We Cannot Forget	Aryeh Tenenbaum	69
The Melamed [religious school teacher] Wants to Become a Merchant	Gershon Zajerman	70
The Large Fair	Daniel Fajersztejn	80
Small Industrial Enterprises	Shraga Zajerman	88
A Dispute in the Shtetl [town]	Gitl Plat	92
Orphaned Home (Song)	Aryeh Tenenbaum	93
Became Strange (Song)	Aryeh Tenenbaum	94

Political Organizations and Communal Institutions

Activity of the Jewish Community	Shraga Zajerman	97
Rise of Zionism	Shraga Zajerman	100
Development of the Bundist Organization	Sholem Klajdermacher	104
Revisionism and the Betar Organization	Shraga Zajerman	110
Dramatic Circles - a Ray of Light in the Shtetl	Shraga Zajerman	114
Destroyed Holy Places	Shraga Zajerman	115
The Push for Education	Serl Bursztyn	119
Medical Institutions	Shraga Zajerman	124
Old Traditions and New Currents	Daniel Fajersztejn	128

Traditions and Customs
Nothing Changed During the Course of Generations	Shraga Zajerman	137
Shabbat and Holiday (H)	Yisrael Shtainman	142
In a Holiday Spirit (H)	Yisrael Shtainman	143
When Every Jew Was a King	Yitzhak Plat	144

Suffering and Death

A Thousand Days in the Ghetto and Underground (H)	Pesakh Perlman	147
A Thousand Days in the Ghetto and Underground	Pesakh Perlman	195
Mass Exodus	Chaim Zajerman	267
How We Saved Ourselves	Sholem Klajdermacher	271
Alone in a Hiding Place	Shimeon Fajnland	273
Wandering Through the Forests	Tsvia Shabbat	281
Escaped from the Road to Treblinka	Gideon Wajsberg	285
Exiled in a Pasholek [camp] Near the White Sea	Serl Bursztyn	296
Sarnaki 20 Years Later	Shepsl Rozenberg	310

Personalities

The Rabbi Went with his Flock; The Shoykhet [ritual slaughterer] and Khazan [cantor] - a Counter-Revolutionary; The Lost Lawyer; The Beloved Arbitrator; The Erudite Scholar; A Remnant of the Elders of the Community; Studied Industriously, Traded Honestly; The Humble and the Shy; The Representative of the Artisans; Just a Respectable Jew; A Storekeeper with a Warm Heart; Happy Types; The Woodcutters; The Jewish Farmer	Shraga Zajerman	315
A Family Striken by Fate	Ester Grunowicz	356
The Wagon Driver, Josl the Blind One	Henekh Zajgerman	357
Exiled to Russia as a Spy	Henekh Zajgerman	360
The Porter	Serl Bursztyn	362
The Martyrs in the Partisan Fight	Sholem Klajdermacher	364

Rebuilding

Sarnaker at Rebuilding of the Country	Shraga Zajerman	369
I Came to the Land on the Ship “Exodus”	Aryeh Birnbaum	375
Fallen for the Defence of the Country: The Councelor of the “Second Israel” [Immigrants] children; the talented lady officer; the devoted young man; he wanted to save the wounded; his conscience called him		378
Activity of the Union in Argentina	A. Landsman	382
Landsleit in America	Sholem Klajdermacher	385
Scattered in Canada	Sholem Klajdermacher	389

Memorial Pages

Remembrance [Yizkor]		393
List of the Sacred Dead of Sarnaki		395
Necrology		403

Closing Word		414

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