Rachov - Annopol

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

		Hebrew	Yiddish	English
Preface		4		1
Introduction	Editor	13	327	5
Part One - Prosperity and Fall
Pioneer training on the Rachov Estate		16
From the Past		19
Jews in Rachov-Annopol	Shmuel Nitzan	19	333	9
The “Rachov” Farm – A Jewish Estate	Based on W.S. Flishinski	22	380	12
The murder of David Frischteier	Leibel Barfman	23
The Important Role of Rachov's Jews	Elazar Goldner	27	335	13
Community life and its Institutions	Shmuel Nitzan	36	381	19
Youth in Rachov three generations ago	Yudel Borenstein	41	359
The town of my childhood	Shlomo Corona	45
Transporting a Torah Scroll to the Synagogue	Shmuel Freiberg	47
The Czech prohibitions	Yehuda Leib Sheps	47
Toward Community Reorganization	Bunim Mandelker	47		22
The Rabbis of the Rubinstein Family		48
a. Grandfather R'Elimelech Hacohen	Nathan Rubinstein
b. Memories	The Rabbanit [rabbi's wife] Sara		493
c. In his merit	Salva Dannenberg (Rubinstein)
The community
The community's last rabbi	Excerpts from letters	50	494
Rescue Operation	Mordechai Weisenblit	52	414
Free Loan Fund: Plan and Principles	Rabbi Shmarya Finzterbush	53		23
“We are all beggars”	Excerpts from letters	54	415
Yakov-Leib Rosenberg, the last estate owner	Munik Rosenberg	55
“Little Palestina” on the grounds of the Estate	L. Scheps	58
Youth Activities: Political and Social	Elazar Goldner	58		25
Growth of Zionist-Pioneer Activity	Shmuel Nitzan	68	389	29
Early Youth Activities Endeavors	Daniel Freiberg	72	410	31
The Young Pioneer Groups	S. Nitzan (Blumenkranz)	74		34
My Pathways to the Pioneering Movement	Yitzhak Ben-Nun	77		37
…In spite of all this…	Excerpts from letters	83
The meaning of Hechalutz: training and Aliya	Zev Nitzan	85	406
The Education and School System	Shmuel Nitzan	88	385	41
The beginnings ot the Tarbut School	L. Scheps	92
Tarbut - a center of Community-Zionist activity	Y. Ben-Nun	93
The “Tarbut” School in a Struggle for Survival	Mordechai Weisenblit	94	402	42
Difficult times for the Tarbut School	Avraham'ke Freiberg	95	403
The Great Bet Hamidrash	S. N., A. R., S. K.	95	397
The General Talmud Torah and the Yeshiva	Rabbi Shmarya Finzterbush	96	398	46
Our Town: Landscapes and Faces Down the Generations	S. Nitzan	98	367	46
“Surrounded by woods and gardens”	Esther Shifrowitz	99	373
How the Plague Was Halted	Leibel Brafman	99		47
All fires - on Thursday nights	Fishel (Rachel Tzipi's)	100	372
A wedding in town	Yehiel Meckler	101	369	47
The apron	Y. L. Peretz	101	374
First World War	S.	106
“On both sides of the Wisla”	Yitzhak Rosenberg	106		48
The rescue arrived too late	Elazar Goldner	107	527	49
Memories of Home	Nathan Belmont (Nachman Blumenkrantz)	108	352	50
After the War	Shmuel Nitzan	109	353
Grandma Sheindl-Dvoire and Mother Chayeh Dinneh	Hadassah Einav (Fishman)	111		51
The Splendid Passover	Chaim Nissenboim	114		53
“Mutual responsibility”	Teshaya Fischman	115
a. Yose'le Perele's and the wild goy [gentile]			501
b. The Gaba'iyot [women attendats in the synagogue]
The humble ones	Daniel Freiberg	118
a. The water-carriers and the “Blue Box”			496	55
b. Asher “Davidoy” the porter
A Bundle of Episodes		121
Purim in town	Shlomo Corona
The great flood	Yitzhak Ben-Nun		370
“The Goats of Rachov”	S. Nitzan	122		56
Sketches and Figures	Elazar Goldner	123
Yoske relates his memories			515
Reizel “devil” was punished…
Hirsch Sposovnik			524
A Hot Summer Day Before The Storm	Elazar Goldner			57
Part Two - Struggle and Holocaust
Horror and great calamity	Based on material from Yad Vashem	139	421
Kidnapped to forced labor; the first victims	Shlomo Corona	140
Decrees, Maltreatment and Illusions	Eli Fishman	143	460	67
Before deportation	Shmuel Freiberg	146
On the road to total destruction	Mendel Singer	147	445
The years of tribulation	Hirsch Yitzhak Musikant	148
The wanderings of a young pioneer	Yitzhak Ben-Nun (Fischman)	149
In the Camps of Torture and Extermination		161
The final road for Rachov's Jews	Elazar Goldner	171	447	63
In the Gostchiradov Camp after deportation	Henry-Henech Schifman	167
From camp to camp	Shlomo Corona	168
Polish prison camp became torture camp for Jews	Daniel Freiberg	170		65
The cruel management	B. Kleinman	173
“They are coming!”	Avraham'tche & Manis Brafman	174
“Jews, Save Yourselves”	Yaacov Farber	175		66
Operation in Yanishov	Gzsegozs Kortchinski	176		69
Who murdered the survivors of Yanishov and their partisan rescuers?		179		73
The southern area of the Lublin District	Shmuel Krakowski	179
A military-industry plant turned into a Camp of Hell	Daniel Freiberg	182
The Belzec extermination camp	W.S. Plishinski	199	443
Auschwitz (Birkenau)	Daniel Freiberg	200
In the Woods and Caves; Among Partisans and Murderers		204
The tribulations of one family	Moshe'ke Kestenbaum	204
The adventures of a young boy	Shlomo Schilewitz	210	426
Asher Brukierer - “Bulek” the partisan	Elazar Goldner	219	456
Rescue Stories		222
Saved by the French	A. Brafman	222		78
The front is getting near	Hirsch Yitzhak Musikant	222
On the Brink of Auschwitz	Joseph Crystal	223	469	76
The fate of my family	Munik Rosenberg	225
One alone, out of hundreds of thousands…	Sara Felsenschwalb	226
There are no more Jews in Rachow	Elazar Goldner	230
Remember - and Never Forget!		233
Recording the Holocaust victims	Prof. B. Dinur	234
Dates of destruction and murder		235
These are the names…		238
We Shall Remember!		247		80
Memorial Pages		284
Part Three - Resurrection of the Survivors
After Liberation		287
On the day of liberation	Menachem Singer	287	479
The return to nothingness	Daniel Freiberg	287
A visit to the ruined nest	Excerpts from survivors' letters	295	488
Letters from the Land of Death	D. F.	296
Rachow - the damned-beloved	Chaim Nissenboim	298
Rachower Jews Overseas		299
I escaped from the Czar	Yudel Bornstein	299	536
“Yellow", “Green” and the Jewish heart	Sara Bornstein	300	535
Former Rachow-Annopol Jews in the Diaspora		302
Rachower Jews in Eretz Israel		306
Before the deluge - men of piety and good deeds	Shmuel N.	306
From Rachow to Kibbutz Daphna	Yitzhak Ben-Nun	309
Forty years later	Bar Taublieb and Dina Schneiderman	314
A descendant of the Argentina Settlers	Sophia Rendler	316
Unveiling the plaque in memory of the Rachow martyrs	Yeshaya Fischman	318
The activity of the Organization Committee	Yeshaya Fischman	318
Former Annopol-Rachow Residents in Israel		320
We have built a home in our fatherland	Hadassa Einav	323

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