Translated by Peter Zinn

Title	By (Author)	Column*
A Map of Suchawola (from Memory)	Mr. Tsaban	8
Who will recount your suffering (poem)	Mordekhai Temkin	9
A map of Suchowola and surroundings		9
Introduction		11
The face of the town
Suchawola in recent generations     1. The founding of the town     2. The populace and its means of livelihood     3. The Fair     4. Education and Culture     5. Communal leadership and Public life	Yerukham Levin	19 19 20 21 22 23
The Rabbis of Suchawola     1. Rabbi Meir Yona     2. Rabbi Avraham Einhorn     3. Zionist Rabbis     4. haRav haGa'on Moshe Betzalel Luria     5. Rabbis born in Suchawola	M. Tsinovitch	25 25 27 29 29 29
Rabbi Shabbtai (Shepsel) Berlin	Yosef Halperin	31
R' Shmuel ben Meir Brumer	Yosef Halperin	32
Rabbi Yaakov Binyamin Ze'ev haCohen Yakimovsky	M.S.Gshuri	33
The Community and its Servants     1. R' Avrahamtchi Einhorn     2. The dayan Rabbi Shepsel (Shabtai) Berlin     3. Rabbi Yisrael Libnershtein     4. Rabbi Shlomo-Tzvi Kalir Shokhtim (Ritual slaughterers)     5. Reb Natan Bura (Nosske the Shochet)     6. Reb Alter Mali     7. Reb Shlomo Amsterdamsky Khazzanim and Ba'aley Tefilla	Khana Steinberg	41 43 45 45 45 46 46 46 47
Institutions and Movements
Our School	Batya Peles (Cohen)	51
From the annals of our Library     1. The library in the underground     2. Activists of the library     3. For and Against at the assembly of the library	Pnina ben Artsi (Shklar) Khana Shteinberg Gedalia Grimitchansky	59 59 61 63
The Keren Kayemet leYisrael	Rivka Matz	67
Of the Activities of the Mizrahi movement in Suchawola	From articles in Mizrahi movement newspapers	71
The “Tehiyya” and “haShahar” Youth Movements	Khana-le	72
(The) Beitar (Youth Movement) and its members	Yesha'yahu Vorushilsky	75
Members who did not merit to make Aliyah	Yisrael Eshkoli (Karolinsky)	77
Amateur Theatre	Khana Privolsky	83
The “Linat Tzedek” Society	Eliezer Yeshurun (Zazdere)	85
The Chevra Kadisha of the Suchawola community	Miriam Posfeld (Vorushilsky)	87
Zionism and its Realisation
The First Ones     1. Reb Terahmiel Shteinberg - the “old man” from Motsa     2. Michael Shteinberg     3. Motti the Napah (Blacksmith)	Y. Tsaban Rivka Gil'ad Gedalyahu Gil'ad-Grimitchansky	95 95 99 100
Families who were the first to make Aliyah	Elhanan Carmi Weinberg	101
The Khaluts (Pioneering) era in Suchawola	Gedalyahu Gil'ad-Grimitchansky	103
The Khaluts in our town	Mordekhai Sidransky	105
The Khaluts Organisation in Suchawola	Rivka Matz, Ahuva Vennkhotsker	107
Pioneering preparation/training	Rivka Matz (Vidatch)	113
In the the Pioneering era	Aryeh Zazderi	115
The “Young Khaluts”	Gedalyahu Poria	119
The pain of (de)parting	Tzvia Donir-Veinberg	121
The joy of the Balfour Declaration in the town	Gedalyahu Gil'ad–Grimtchansky	125
A letter from a teacher to his friend in the land (of Israel) (the teacher Z.Navinsky to Y.Halperin)	Tsvi Novinsky	127
Memories and the Way of life
My Town	Aryeh Shmukler	131
From my childhood	Gedalyahu Gil'ad	133
The image of my town	Esther Ostrov (Berelkovsky)	137
This was Suchowola	Shoshana Levinsky (Shpecht)	139
My Childhood in the town	Hayya Suchowolsky (Barkai)	141
My emigration to the Land of Israel	Miriam Ron Sidransky	141
Difficulties Regarding Education     1. How our mothers were educated     2. The education of the boys     3. “The reformed cheder”     4. Compulsory education (Tzwangshules)     5. Private Teachers	H. Privolsky	145 145 146 148 149 150
Market and Fair days	Sarah Kaleko–Vardi	151
Impressions of Life	Zvi Zalman	153
In memory of my parents	Zvi Zalman	153
The divide between the “Berg” (Hill) and the “Morad” (Dale)	Unknown	155
The Great Trial (di Groise Sproveh)	Unkown	155
The Riots in Suchowola in 1920	Kh. Sh.	157
The Riots of the eve of Yom Kippur	Hadassa Khevin – Goldberg	159
In the days of the First World War	Shoshana Luninsky	160
The Great Fire of 1926	Esther Krutsel–Pazi	161
The Storm in Suchowola	Shoshana Shpecht	163
Our House	Esther Fazi- Krutzel	165
Hershke Krutzel (Hershke Tashmeniches)	Bruria Golov - Livni	166
My Family	Miriam Krutzel - Zam	169
My Family Home	Isaiah Voroshilski	171
Holidays at my Family's House	Hadassah Chavin Goldberg	173
A Portrait of the town	Avraham Shapira	177
Stones of the wall will cry out	Gedalyahu Grimtchansky–Gil'ad	179
Important Persons and Characters
Reb Zalman Yaffe	Avraham Khefetz	187
	Yosef Tsaban	190
	M. Bori	191
Yitzchak Prybolsky	Chana Steinberg–Prybolsky	191
Moshe Katz	Kh. Sh.	195
Chaim Shneiderovsky	Mushka Shneiderovsky-Yerushalmi	197
Bashke Shefler-Galanti	Kh.Sh.	198
Reb Shmuel and Reb Isser	Shlomo Berelkovsky	200
Rabbinical families Rabbi Moshe Miller and Gittel nee' Brumer	Yosef Halperin	201
The annals of one family (Reb Yokhanan Rushin - Yukheke' the Engraver and his sons-in-law)	Bruria Golov-Livni	203
Reb alter Mali	Bruria Golov-Livni	207
Gedalyahu Stotchinsky	Menakhem Zaharoni-Yerushevsky	211
The house of Shalom Motti's	Chaim Stotchinsky	213
Sketches of Memory	Many contributors:	215
	Sarah Yakimovsky-Hendler, Sarah Yakimosky-Hendler, Avraham Strinkovsky, Chana Fruend (Ditkovsky), Yaffa Olart-Khevin, Pessia Sokolsky-Liverant, Chayya Maik-Tikotsky, Ze'ev Binshtein	216 - 222
Grona the Midwife	Tssvia Donir-Veinberg	223
Henia the Aide (helper)	Batya Peles	224
The Shoah and Destruction
How we were saved (eyewitness report of the Zela family)	Kh. Sh.	227
The Shoah	Sarah Ivri-Tikotsky	233
Witness reports     1. Mother     2. The female “contact” in the Underground     3. Faitshe Rvov - one of the female fighters     4. One of the mutineers	Yehudit Poplovsky-Burshtein Masha Fisher-Bagner Moshe	251 251 252 255 256
Our Shtetl's Past
Step by Step     1. General     2. Schools and Study Halls     3. Baalei Tefilos     4. Our Teachers     5. Jobs [Employment]     6. Our Youth	Yankel Czerow (Detroit)	263 263 265 268 271 272 275
My Shtetl	Shmuel-Eisik Frantchuz (Montreal)	277
Ther “Barg” and the “Arop”	Yerukham Levin	283
The Yiddisher Youth Union of Suchawola	Y. Levin	293
Suchawola in the 2nd World War	Isser Smollar	295
Such was a Shtetl (poem)	Shoshanna Stotchinsky-Cohen	299
From Place to Place	Khana Pribulski – Stajnberg	301
Nostalgia	Khana'le Yehudit's	347
Reminiscences and Descriptions
Tradition and Foolishness     1. Rabbi Avrah'mel Einhorn     2. My dear friendYitshak Privolsky     3. With R' Avraham Einhorn	Perets Hirshbein	351 356
Those Close to me	Babke Nissl's Barelkovsky	365
From my joyful childhood	Dina Berelkovsky-Zaklokovsky	373
Suchowola Tales	Chana Pribulski – Steinberg	373
1. Reb Shaime Moshe's (Gornostawski) 2. A Conversation with Reb Shmuel Yofe 3. Avrahamel Chaim Leizer's (Liverant) 4. With Our Mothers in the Land of Israel: Bat–Sheva Shulzinger; Shushke Juchkes–Golub, Czipe Worosilski; Babki Nisel's – Barelkowski; Soroh Rochel Bori; Dena Nisel's Barelkowski–Zaklukowski		373 374 375 376 377
In my time	Ze'ev Marenberg	383
Events large and small	Yaakov Tikotsky (Philadelphia)	386
This is our past	Zerakh Sidransky (Mexico)	390
My Father's Gaba'ut	Babke Treshtchansky (Chicago)	394
In the old home     1. My family Elders     2. Yehudit's Groom     3. The „Pozsharne“ Fire Commando     4. Fires and Firemen	Fanny Rabinovitch-Lipshitz	395 395 396 397 397
Fires and Holy Days	Sarah Sokhovolski-Fargamanik	399
Matza Baking	Yankel Shmulk'es	401
Preparations on Erev Peisach (the eve of Passover)	Eisik Sokolsky	402
Erev Peisach	Khana Privolsky	404
Our Millers	Peshke Liverant-Sokolsky	405
Chaim Leizer's watermill	Yekhezkel Liverant	408
A dispute for the sake of heaven	Mordekhai Sidransky	409
A trip to Bialystok	Sarah-Rachel Buri	411
Forced Labour (Tsvangsarbeit)	Mordekhai Sidransky	412
Omfargeslekher Yohren     1. My teachers     2. Sabbaths     3. “haTekhiyya” Youth Club, voting “Left”, Emigration.	Moli Driyansky	413 413 415 417
The Zsholtak Family	Moshe Yanovsky	419
Tater Performance	Eisik Sokolsky	421
Kiddush Levana	Sima-Raizel Shpecht	423
Two Weddings	Simkha Lazar	425
Sarah-Dina and her mute husband	Khana Privolsky	427
My Home	Ya'akov Lofshitz	429
Beautiful behaviour (midot) in the shtetl	P. Y.	430
The first Khalutza (pioneer)	Rivka Shkop-Gur-Aryeh	431
In my home	Rivka Krutsel-Eckshtein	432
My grandfather's house	Yaffa-Shapiro-Ahuvi	434
Events and Episodes
The first victim (the murder of Khatskel Piasker)	Yosef Halpern	439
The Murder of innocents	Avraham Liverant	441
My Tzorisener coat	Breine Kaminsky-Tikotsky	443
Opposition	Eisik Sokolsky	445
The great fire of 1926	Rakhel Perei-Abramson	446
The geshalgener Policeman	Rivka Krutsel-Eckshtein	447
The violent policeman	Leibel Tikotsky (Philadelphia)	448
Exchanging Blows The Wagon-Wheel thief An incident with the library	Breine Kaminsky-Tikotsky	451 451 453
Important Persons and Characters
haRav haGaon Rabbi Avraham Einhorn	Yankel Tsherovo (Detroit)	459
Reb Koppel Maggid	Yerucham Levin	461
Itamar Nisselkovsky	Yerucham Levin	463
Daniel Shklar	Khana Privolsky	467
Shmulke' the tailor	Yankel Chovorovsky (Detroit)	469
A Chossid	Yerucham	471
Sol Rosenblum	Kh. Sh.	473
Shlomo (Solomon) Veinshtein	y-n	475
Professor Oscar Yanovsky	Kh. Sh.	477
Khatskel Ostrovo	Kh. Sh.	479
Outstanding people     1. Itamar Nisselkovsky     2. Moshe Putiel     3. Zalman Yaffe     4. Leizer Tikotsky (Motke's) Teachers     1. Meir Buri (Nosskes)     2. Isser Smoliar     3. Yaakov Tsaban (Polominer)     4. Moshe Vonkhotzker     5. Khaim Shneiderovsky Lamdanim     1. Koppel Maggid     2. Zalman Galanti     3. Avraham Moshe Kharlap     4. Hillel the Toiber (Leibling)     5. Alter Itshes (Lazar)     6. Blecher, the Featherman Khazanim [Cantors]     1. Khatzkel Krutsel (Henne Rochel's)     2. Mordechai Yosef Krutsel     3. Reb Natan Bori     4. Nisel Berelkowski (Yoshe's)     5. Reuven the Melamed [teacher]     6. Khaikel Treszczanski (the dyer)     7. Itche Eberstajn (Itche Motle's the carpenter) Honorable Heads of Families     1. Daniel Skljar (Yoikhne's)     2. Yankel Shein'es (Yakov Sochowolski)     3. Shlomo Rabinowycz (Iser's)     4. Gedaliah Swarcz (Gedalia Khaim Yankel's)     5. Melamdim [Teachers] in Suchowola: Community Leaders     1. Moshe'l Gupershtein     2. Yosef and Shmuel Tsaban     3. Sender Lazar	Simcha Lazar	481 481 482 483 483 483 483 483 484 484 486 485 485 485 486 487 488 488 487 487 488 488 489 489 490 490 489 489 490 491 491 492 491 491 491 492
Gedalia Bagner the undertaker		494
Yankel the “Dziesietnik” [Section Head]	Chana Pribulski	494
The Mameh, Henne–Rochel Krutsel	Khana Krutsel – Droyan	494
Eida Krutsel – Goldin	Khana Steinberg	498
Sorah Miller (Karo)	Ch. Sh.	499
Misfortunate characters     1. Leibe     2. Leibel Kamikai	Rivka Viyadatsh-Matz	501 501 502
The Destruction of the shtetl
Never Forget	Shloim'ke Pribulski (Chicago)	507
Suchowola in 1938	Chava'ke Krutsel–Tchekow	508
Letters from Suchawola (before the war)     1. Moshe Gupershtein 16.2.1938     2. Yaakov Adelfang 12.10.1937     3. A delegation from the Help Committees to Suchawola		509 509 512 513
The events of the last few years, and how they died	Simkha Lazar	514
In the Ghetto and the Camps	Yehudit Privolsky-Burshtein	525
In Memory of my friends	Yesha'yahu Vorushilsky	531
The destruction of a family	Sarah Tikotsky-Ivri	535
How I was saved     1. The destruction of a family     2. A letter from a survivor     3. A day of horror	Shim'on Tsimbal (Atlassovitz) Elke Sokolsky-Vaksman Dopke Tsiboly (Kartovsky)	537 537 539 541
After the Liberation     1. Sender Pribulski     2. 3 letters from Shloime'ke Pribulski		543 543 544
Expatriate Activities (Landsmanshaften)
Documents     1. Report from the Suchawoler Community Committee to the Suchawoler Relief Committee of America     2. An Appeal of the Suchawoler Relief Committee of America (New York Branch)     3. A letter to the Suchawoler Lady's Auxillary Group in New York	Meir Buri, Isser Smoliar Jacob Kahan Rabbi Shlomo-Tzvi Kalir, Rabbi of Suchawola, 1938	551 551 552 553
Suchawola Expatriates in Mexico	Yekhezkel Liverant	555
A letter to Suchawoler expatriates	Eli Poplavsky, Mexico	559
Suchawola expatriates in Israel	Khana Krutsel-Droyan	560
Extras     1.Velvel's tefillin     2. Sketches of Memory	Mordekhai Tikotsky Pessakh Pinkasovitch	567 567 568
Al D'Avdin (poem)	Mordekhai Tikotsky	569
From the days of my youth	Sarah Carmit-Temkin	571
These I remember
On the Day of Remembrence	Y. Tsaban	575
Images of those who have died – Numerous photographs
Words from the Editors (Yiddish)		602
A list of the Jews of Suchawola before the war		603
In memory of Suchawolers who died in Israel's war of independence     1. Gid'on Eilon     2. Yerakhmiel Amali (Milak Tikotsky)     3. Dr. Avraham Droyan and his son Tsvi	Bruria Livni Yerukham	613 613 613 614
Words from the Editorial Committee (English)		617
To the younger generation (English)		618
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