Acknowledgments

Project Coordinators

Rachel Karni and Lynne Tolman

Map of Volhynia showing Shumsk -- 50'26"

A Message from the Association of Immigrants from Shumsk   5 Preface of the Editorial Board Editorial board: Pesach Lerner, Rafael Sapir and Chaim Rabin 6 Shumsk and the Shumsk Book Chaim Rabin 9 Dedication to David and Rosa Chazen   15   On the Holocaust   Between Regimes in Shumsk F. Weisman 16 This is How it Began W. Berensztejn 21 The Last Days of Shumsk Ruth Sztejnman Halperin 29 My Last Days in Shumsk H. Cisin 49 Into The Shumsk Ghetto And Out Again – Five Times M. Kesel 53 Ghetto Experience L. Golub 59 Shumsk at her End (a reconstructed diary) Y. Geler 66 Shumsk, My Tragic Host M. Grenoch 80 From One Hell to Another A. Krejmer 87 My Front Line Battles M. Gervitz 96 After the Holocaust Shalom Krakowiak 103 Wanderings of a Boy from Shumsk M. Fuks 110 The Zionist Underground in Soviet Shumsk A. Krejmer 117 Shumsk in the Eyes of a Refugee A. Zilber 123 Some Vengeance A. Krejmer 125   Shumsk Through Experiences & Memoirs   The Move to Shumsk Yisrael Sudman 129 Shumsk of Blessed Memory Rafael Sapir 136 To Shumsk from the Heart Mordechai Gervitz 138 Shumsk – Landscape of My Youth Simcha Roich 140 Shumsk as I Remember It Pesach Lerner 144 Experiences and Memories Yehoshua Toren 147 Shumsk in the First World War Years A.M. Gejlichen 151 Summer Sabbath Chaim Livne (Yukelson) 158 The Jews of Shumsk - All cut from the same cloth Pesach Lerner 162 Shumsk: a Town Remembered Aryeh Mordosh 164 The Four Horsemen Aharon Lokaczer 167 One Visit to Shumsk Chana Rosenberg 169 An Experience Frieda Bendman 170 Simple Shumsk Shlomo Bahat 171 Glimmers of Memory   173 Return to Shumsk Chaim Livne (Yukelson) 175 Anti-Semitism Throughout the Ages Shlomo Bahat (Bat) 180   Special Persons in Shumsk   Rabbi Mordechai Lerner Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Yosepov 185 Rabbi Beirinyo Rafael Sapir 188 Shumsk – Its Life and Its People Chaim Rabin 193 Dr. Jakobson Pesach Lerner 199 Zecharaya Schreiber (Roichman) Bella Tzoref 201 Rebbe Binyamin, SHUB Rafael Sapir 204 Efroim Goldenberg Chaim Rabin 207 Yisrael Sudman Yitzhak Geler 211 Yisrael Sudman Yaakov Viner 214 Alter Yukelson Dvorah Schneider Sachish 217 Nachman Milman Zvi Ravitz 219 Hertz (Hertzik) Milman Zvi Ravitz 220 Our Rabbi, Reb Yossele -- and Sports Shalom Freider 221 The Last Rabbi of Shumsk Dr. Aaron Wertheim 224 Sarah the Righteous David Chazen 226 Binyamin Shochet Chaim Rabin 230 A Candle for Moshe Sztejnberg Rachel Vardi 234 The Two … and Others Rafael Sapir 235 Yossel the Barber Mordechai Gervitz 237 Grandma Dvora Roichman Pesach Lerner 239 Teicha Katz – A Jewish Grandmother Charna Katz Rabin 241 What Grandma Sara Told Us Tchiya Adler 244 Faygele the Rebbetzin – and Her Response Esther Sapir (Groman) 246 The Chazen Family: Yaakov & Sarah Pesya Gercfeld 248 A Family and its History Bezalel Goren (Alter Gorendar) 249 Something of Shumsk and her Legends Muni Chazen 252 Idel Ashkenazi Charna (Katz) Rabin 255 The Nejmans Esther (Sudman) Lerner 258   Organizations and Different Movements   All My Melameds Pesach Lerner 261 Schools in Shumsk Chaim Livne (Yukelson) 267 The “Tarbut” School and Culture in Shumsk Zvi Rosenberg (Segal) 272 On “Hechalutz” in Shumsk and its Members Yosef Sapir 276 Shumsk – Thoughts and Feelings About Aliyah Yitzhak Geler 281 The Lubomirki Group Sender Sforim 289 The Drama Group in Shumsk Rachel Feldger 291 Things I Remember Akiva Shprecher 294 Theater in Shumsk Mordechai Gilon 297 The Shumsk Economy Chaim Livne (Yukelson) 300 Advanced Education Pesach Lerner 305 Kindergartens in Shumsk Mordechai Gilon 308   Expressions of Shumsk   Letter to a Friend Malka Roich-Heyman 310 Not a Grave / Before (poems) Shoshana Segal 312 The Light of a Memorial Candle Shoshana Segal 314 Speech for the Opening of Hebrew University in 1925 Shlomo Bahat 316 To My Town, the Unforgettable Shumsk M. Rubin 317 Preparations for Shavuot in the Town Yehoshua Toren 319 Curses Malka Roich-Heyman 321 Mother's Prayer Malka Roich-Heyman 322 In Memory of My Brother Malka Roich-Heyman 324 My Grandfather's Synagogue Yehoshua Toren 325   Letters   A Letter from America to the Yizkor Book (1967) from Akiva ben Mordechai Peltz   327 A Letter from Grochov (1938) from Yitzhak Geler   329 To the Organization of Immigrants from Shumsk in Israel (To Pesach Lerner) Yitzhak Geler 330 Letters to Immigrants from Shumsk from Yitzhak Geler   333 Letters from the Grochov Farm in Poland from Yitzhak Geler   335 A Letter from Shumsk to the Readers of “BaMaale” (1937) from Yitzchak Geler Yitzhak Geler 336 A Letter from Yitzhak Geler – to the Association of Former Residents of Shumsk   338 A Letter to a Friend Pnina Dorfman 340 A Letter to Pnina Dorfman from Yitzhak Geler   341   Yiddish Section *   Editor's Foreword Chaim Rabin 345 My Hometown Shumsk Sarka Berensztejn–Fiks [Fuchs] 347 My Unforgettable Shtetl Shumsk Manny Rubin (Avraham Schochet's grandson) 356 Shumsk Dies Fayge and Yosef Mednik (Recounted by Munya Chazen) 358 How My Son and I Survived Chaim Geler 365 The Death of Devorele Zadie Chodaker 369 Sarah the Righteous David Chazen (New York) 372 Once Upon a Time in Shumsk Munya Chazen 376 The Rich Man Who Became a Bathhouse Attendant Munya Chazen 380 A Wedding at the Cemetery Munya Chazen 382 “Ata Her'eita” (An Evening Prayer on Shmini Atzeret) Munya Chazen 387 A Mixup About an Eruv Munya Chazen 390 Disguised as a Russian Munya Chazen 394 A Rich and Crafty Man – But Not After Death Munya Chazen 398 Two Friends – One Father Munya Chazen 401 A Double Miracle Munya Chazen 405 The Rabbi's Curse Munya Chazen 410 From Shumsk to Tel Aviv Rivka Ehrlich-Goldenberg 415 A Letter to Mother from “Velos” (Diary of an Illegal Immigrant) Zipora (Roichman) Weisman 419 Harry Silverberg (Meir-Tzvi, son of Avraham-David) (From Dos Yiddishe Vort, Winnipeg) 440 What Can a Picture Tell Us? Etel Kleinshtein 442   The Martyrs of Shumsk   445 Survivors from Shumsk, Listed By Country   475 People from Shumsk Who Have Died in Israel   477

* Editor's note: The table of contents in the original Shumsk Yizkor Book ends with Page 324 but the book itself continues through Page 477. The translation of the Yiddish chapter titles was done by Michael Goldstein. Return

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