Michów, Poland

Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Michow
Who Perished in the Holocaust
(Michów, Poland)

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Translation of
Michow (Lubelski); sefer zikaron le-kedoshei Michow
she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim ba-shanim 1939-1942

Editor: Hayim Rabin

Published in Israel 1987

This is a translation of:
Michow (Lubelski); sefer zikaron le-kedoshei Michow she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim ba-shanim 1939-1942
(Memorial book to the martyrs of Michow who perished in the Holocaust),
Editor: Hayim Rabin, Former Residents of Michow, Published: Israel 1987 (H,Y 343 pages)

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

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Hebrew
Editorial		1-3
The Organization		4-5
Historical review		6-10
Chapters of hatred	Survivors' testimony	15-133

Russia - wandering and hardship		135-157
A Jewish mother	S. Schuster	137-141
How I escaped	S. Kleinman	143-146
Forced labor	M. Engluster	147-148
My suffering	I. Kesselbrener	149-150
At the edge of horror	A. Rubinstein	151-153
Life and tribulations		155-157

Michow - life and people		159-191
Michow - a sample of the society	Avraham Rubinstein	161-164
The windmill - a seat of the spirit	I. Ch. Weinberg	165-166
About Michow	S. Kleiman	167-170
Shimon Butchan	P. Guterman	171-175
Men of enlightenment	P. Guterman
Wagon-drivers in Michow	A. Rubinstein	177-182
About my father	D. Brodett	183
Village walkers	I. Ch. Weinberg	185-186
Background of life	Devora Lerner	187-189
Kidush Hashem [sanctification of the Name of God]		191

Michow fraternity in Israel		193-212
My parents Nechama and David Aspis	Aharon Aspis	195-197
The Goldman family receives new olim [immigrants]	Yechiel Guterman	199-200
Yakov Skara+A48bnik and his wife	Yehoshua Skarabnik	201-206
My father Yehoshua Goldman	Menachem Goldman	207-208
My mother Tzipora Goldman	Menachem Goldman	209-210
Nechama and David Aspis	Shoshana and I. I. Weinberg	211-212

Michow in our hearts	Michowers - born in Israel	213-223
From generation to generation	Meira Weiberg	215-218
Michow - in my heart	Miriam Tamir	219-220
Holocaust in Michow and the Michow Book	Yehoshua Skarabnik	221-223

Died in the prime of their lives		225-230
Zvi Goldman	M. G.	227-228
Yakov Heilik	Glika	229
Shmuel Rubinstein	Editorial Board	230

Dyor history and others		231-241
Scars that last forever	Yechezkel Duchleuter (Dyor)	233-234
The story of Avraham Michel's	Yechezkel Duchleuter (Dyor)	235-236
Worries about Aliya	Ch. Scheretzki	237-238
How I made Aliya	D. Radenburg	239-241

Yiddish

Suffering and destruction		243-263
Black Saturday	Yakov Skarabnik	245-246
Days of fear and hunger	Avraham Rubinstein	247-252
Michow's last days	Y. Skarabnik	253-254
The horrible Sabbath	P. Guterman	255-256
Dobe'le the Rabbi's	P. Guterman	257-258
At the time of murders…	A. Rubinstein	259-261
A book, a monument (poem)	I. Ch. Weinberg	263

Michow's uniqueness		265-296
From Michow on	Glika Zokolek	267-268
Michow folklore and tradition	Yakov Skarabnik	269-272
My melamdim (teachers)	Yakov Skarabnik	273-276
Two sons	Yakov Skarabnik	277-280
Landscape and society	Yakov Skarabnik
First of May in Michow	Yakov Skarabnik	281
My father's armchair	P. Guterman	283-285
My mother's pearls	P. Guterman	287-288
Michow-Lubelski	Y. Guterman	289-290
The unique qualities of Michow	Moshe Glawinski	291-193
A visit to dead Michow	Y. Skarabnik	295-296

Outlines	I. Dyor	297-307
Michow - a Shtetl with a heart	I. Dyor	299-300
Pesach in Michow	I. Dyor	301-303
Kotzker Hasidim	I. Dyor	305-306
The destruction of Michow	I. Dyor	307

First steps in Israel	Y. Guterman	309-316
A night in Tel-Tzur	Y. Guterman	311
A week in Kefar-Ya'vetz	Y. Guterman	313
Tears of blood and joy	Y. Guterman	315-316

List of Michow martyrs (necrology)		321-335
List of martyrs [address or name missing]		337-339
Michower who died in Russia		343
Michower who died in Israel		343-345

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