Lanowce: Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Lanowce
Who Perished During the Holocaust
(Lanivtsi, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Lanovits: sefer zikaron le-kedoshei lanovits
she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim

Edited by H. Rabin

Published by Association of former residents of Lanowce


 

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Sol Sylvan z”l

 

An obituary to Sol z”l

 

This is a translation from Lanovits: sefer zikaron le-kedoshei lanovits she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim,
(Lanowce: memorial book of the martyrs of Lanowce who perished during the Holocaust);
editor H. Rabin; Association of former residents of Lanowce; Tel Aviv, Israel, 1970


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  Editorial Comment 5
 
Chapter 1: Lanowitz, History and Experiences
 
H. Rabin Historiography 11
Shalom Avital Lanowitz at the Beginning and at the End 20
Motke Roichman Man and his Environment 23
Eliezer Zinberg Our Home in the Stetl 41
Beiril Goldberg Memories of My Family 44
Bluma Miller My Stetle, My Family 48
Bonia Stein-Spitzer About Your Lanowitz and my Aunt…. 50
Shlomo Pacht This Event Happened 52
 
Chapter 2: Lanowitz-Holocaust and its Aftermath
 
Moshe Rosenberg In the Lanowitz Ghetto, from the Beginning until its Liquidation 56
Meir Becker The Lanowitz Ghetto and my Escape from it 69
Issac Landau Horror Journal 76
Shlomo Pacht Lanowitz-Majdanek, 1944 91
Shalom Segal How my Daughter was Saved 95
Moshe Rosenberg About Idis' Daughter 98
Byya Goldberg Horror Details 99
Rivka Perla In memory of martyrs 100
E. Rabin Memorial candle 100
E. Rabin I want to live 101
  Reply to a grandson 102
 
Chapter 3: In the Soviet Diaspora
 
Feiril Melamed Remembering Lanowitz in My Wanderings 104
Aryeh Ginzburg From Lanowitz to the Soviet Union 107
Batya (Melamed) Taitel This is How We Lived in Russia 113
Shlomo Taitel An Addendum to Batya's Report 119
Joseph Viner My Experience Under the Soviet Regime 121
Mendel Brimmer Difficult Separations 125
Zvi Meil I Was in Lanowitz After the Holocaust 132
Editors Yosef Marder, Caretaker of Our Mass Graves 137
Mendel Brimmer Moishe Marder 140
 
Chapter 4: In the Thicket of Redemption
 
Moni Each Generation and its Zionists 142
Israel Glazer First Hehalutz Branch in Lanowitz 148
Zvi Brimmer Hehalutz Hatza'ir in Lanowitz 154
Sonia Shar (Shifman) My Pioneering Days in Lanowitz 157
Sarah Kitikisher Beitar Hakhsharah in Lanowitz 161
Etil Adler Spiler Redemption that Ended Poorly 162
Moni Dramatics in Lanowitz 163
Josef Buchstein Changes in Class Standing in Lanowitz 166
Shalom Avital Youth and Its Yearning 169
Cherna Rabin In Memory of Those Friends that Perished 171
 
Chapter 5: Significant Persons and Dr. Zinberg
 
Hayim Rabin The Legacy of Lanowitz in the Writings of Dr. Y. Zinberg 177
David K'na'any The Author and his Project 183
Eliezer Zinberg In Memory of Yisroel Zinberg 187
D.A. Zinberg's Heritage and Posterity 193
Ozer Lerner Our Late Rabbi Motel Speizman 198
Rabbi Aharon Wertheim Rav Aharon Rabin, Our Last Town Rabbi 201
  The Late Reb Yisroel (Srulikol) Rabin 204
Lola Friedman Katilansky Zeida Katilansky 205
Editor About Shaiky and Zuni (Rabin) 207
Lola Katilansky Yosef Ozer Shprit 210
Rabbi Y. Opatovsky Lanowitz and its Notables 214
Ch. Livne Feiga, the Bath Attendant 217
B. Harin Leizer “The Greener” 219
Yeheskel Shmukler Arenda Holders 224
 
Chapter 6: Lanowitz in Legends
 
Ch. Rabin Lanowitz Legends 229
Editor The Original Barons of Our Town 235
Yisrael Glazer Experiences We Do Not Forget 238
Yizhak Meir Weitzman Calling Up 4th to the Torah 240
Ch. Rabin Yizkor for Lanowitz's Martyrs 246
 
Chapter 7: Our Losses in Our Homeland
 
Ch. Rabin Feiga Roichman (Nechtelman) 249-253
Yisrael Glazer Our First Halutzah, Feril Yishpe-Gilboa z”l 254
H.M. Ran The Late Zvi Rabin (1913 – 1946) 256
B. Y. Haran The Late Shoshana (Rozhya) Stein-Koitel 257
Moni Fotsi - Yizhak Gluzstein 258
Ya'acov Valaizi The Late Avraham Roichman 259
Y. Glazer The Late Y. Zingel 261
Y. Glazer The Late Yizhak Kirshon 263
R. Hadar The Late Hava (Mirotznik) Taichman 265
Editor Hayya Fuchs 267
Ya'acov Fialkov The Late Hayya Feiga Fleishman 268
Editor Rav Glazer 270
Ch. Rabin Yizhak Shemesh 271
 
Chapter 8: Yiddish Section - Lanowitz, History, People & Memories
 
Ch. Rabin Lanovits History and Memories 279
Yosef Warrach Lanowitz, a Spiritual Concept 284
Avraham Teichman Lanowitz, Types and Pages 288
Yosef Warrach A Visit to Lanowitz 302
Byya Goldenberg A Few Family Remembrances 304
 
Chapter 9: Death and Horrors
 
Moshe Rosenberg In the Lanowitz Ghetto- From the Beginning until its Liquidation 313
Meir Becker My Escape from the Lanowitz Ghetto 329
Byya Goldenberg How Our Rabbis Perished 339
Ya'acov Kagan In Our Shtetl and Far Away 341
Aryeh Ginzburg From Lanowitz to the Soviet Union 344
Batya (Melamed) Taitel This is How We Lived in Russia 352
Shlomo Taitel (Tamri) An Addendum to Batya's Report 360
Joseph Viner My Experience Under the Soviet Regime 362
Yitzhak Weinstein I Was a Witness 368
Photos   374
 
Chapter 10: Dr. Yisroel Zinberg
 
Hillel Alexandrov Zinberg Pages [and his archive] 376
H. A. Zinberg's Archives 384
Avraham Belov The Rich Archives of Y. Zinberg in Leningrad 387
 
Chapter 11: People and Types
 
Muni Dina Kavkes 393
Muni Uziel Chaim Mordche's 395
Sarah Fickes Shalom Weisman 397
Shalom Koitel (Avital) My Three Sisters 400
Yizhak Weinstein Regarding Zuni (Azriel) Rabin 402
Moni El'azar (Lazar) Meil 405
Z. Katz (Rabin) My Grandfather Akivah 407
Moshe Zak (Mexico) My Family 409
Yechezkel Shmukler (Beis Yitzchak) Farmers 411
Ch. R. Shmuel Fisher, of blessed memory 416
  Photos 418
  Alphabetical List of those Who Perished 421
  List of Homeowners of Houses Shown on Lanowitz City Sketch 436
 
  Photo captions from the Lanovtsy Yizkor book

 


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