Mizoch, Ukraine

Memorial Book of Mizocz
(Mizoch, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Mizocz; sefer zikaron

Editor: A. Ben-Oni

Published in Tel Aviv 1961

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator

Student Translation Project Coordinators – Hebrew Chapters
Orian Zakai
The George Washington University
Naomi B. Sokoloff
University of Washington
Danielle Shwartz
Denver Jewish Day School

Student Translation Project Coordinator – Yiddish Chapters

Itzik Gottesman
The University of Texas at Austin

This is a translation of: Mizocz; sefer zikaron (Memorial book of Mizocz),
Editor: A. Ben-Oni, Former Residents of Mizocz in Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1961 (H 317 pages)

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TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner

Foreword to the English and Ukrainian-language Translations

Preface #		3
Mizoch – its Life and its Annihilation *	Asher Gilberg	5

The Holocaust Period
How I Was Saved from Death in Mizoch *	Max Weltfreint	29
In the Ghetto, in Forced Labor, and in the Forest *	Nahum Kopit	33
The Forest Girl *	Kayla Goldberg–Tzizin	54
Memories of a Partisan +	Yankev Mendiuk	60
The Judenrat in Mizoch Had a High Moral Standard, But… *	Yehuda Broinshtein	90
Bits of Memories from the Holocaust Period *	Miriam Kashuk-Szprync	95
The Horrible Days #	Ida Eisengart-Pliter	98
The Struggle for Life #	Yona Oliker	104
Dovid Flitter Tells His Story +		111
Dreams are Not False Omens #	Baruch Flitter	123
Father Saved My Mother from Death with a Speech #	Asiya Braz	129
The Partisan Izya Wasserman ^	A. Ben-Oni	136

The Zionist Organization
Memories from Hashomer Hale'umi (Zionist Youth) in Mizoch #	Lisa Nemirover	146
Gordonia #	Reuven Melamed	149
The “Gordonia” in Mizoch #	Yosef Ben Gedalyahu	152
The Gordonia Movement in Mizoch #	Moshe Feldman	160
The Beitar Movement and the Youth in Mizoch #	Moshe Perlock	163
The Mute Beitar Member #	Asher Ben-Oni	171
Teaching and Education in Mizoch during Polish Rule #	Moshe Feldman	173
Toward the History of the Revisionist Movement in Mizoch #	Arbi	175

Memories and Impressions
The 17^th of September 1939 #	B. Asher	179
A Family in Mizoch #	Sara Shoham-Fleisch	184
Mizoch – the Place of My Happiness #	Soniya Polchik	186
Mizoch– A Town Where Guests Were Always Welcome #	Sarah Bieber-Golick	187
Impressions, Memories and Evaluations #	Reuven Melamed	189
Derman, the Village #	W. Sudgalter	193
Life and Folklore #	Mordechai Scheinfeld	195
Pages from My Diary * #	Isaac Braz	203
How I Made Aliya #	Noah Stein	221
A Lieutenant General -- a Champion Collector ^ +	Asher Ben-Oni	224
Thoughts about the Holocaust Era #	Moshe Perliuk	229
The Last Jew of Mizoch Has Arrived in Israel #	David Dratba	233
Impressions and Memories of My Childhood in Mizoch #	Adah Fishfeder-Teichner	234

Figures, People, and Personalities
This is a Memorial *		238
Memorial for Mizoch (A Poem) *	Yoseph Koppelman	239
The Holy Rabeinu Natan Netta Lerner, May God Avenge his Blood *		240
The Teacher David Koppelman of Blessed Memory *	Reuven Melamed	241
Shmuel Gentzberg of Blessed Memory *		245
Shlomo Kopelman of Blessed Memory *		245
Reb Yitzhak Berez *		246
Reb Yechiel the Butcher of Blessed Memory *	A”BA	247
The Grandmother Leah Reznick *	Chaya	249
Yitzhak Port *	Chaya Reznick (Altman)	251
My Father's House *	Rachel (Ilka) Brisker-Nemirover	252
The Wound that Will Never Heal *	Liza Nemirover-Shtelong	253
In Memory of my Parents *	Asher	255
Reb Yitzaak Pliter and his wife Esther *	Baruch Pliter and Zev Gilberg	257
Baruch Pliter *	Baruch	258
Itzchak Shochet the Teacher *	Arbi	259
Siyuma (Sammy) Olicker *	Ben	260
Reb Yeshayahu Mayer Kotel of blessed memory #	Chaya Goldman–Kotel	261
In Remembrance of the Shvarzman Family #	Eliezer Shvarzman	262
In Remembrance of the Tentzer Family #	Braindel Shvarzman-Tentzer	262
Kaddish (Flitner-Shvarzgorn) #	Baruch, son of Zalman and Leah Fliter	263
My Father R. Shmuel Eizengart, May God Avenge his Blood #	Ida	264
An Eternal Flame in Memory of the Progeny of Chone the Rabbi of Mizoch #	Shmuel Mandelkorn	266
Golda Moshe-Hayyim Yossis (z”l) #	Reuben	267
Berko Iosilevich Street #	Chaya Murak	268
Acknowledging the Feldman Family #	Moshe Feldman	269
A Soul in the Breizman Family, May God Avenge His Blood #	Sarah Biber-Lukick	269
Without Graves… #	Moshe Perliuk	271
Our Mother Sarah Goldberg (née Truchler) #	Kayla and Mordechai	272
Leiber, Golob, Sudobitzky and Sizak #		273
In Remembrance of Our Little House that was Destroyed #	Nachum Zeev bar Yerachmiel Kopit	275
In Remembrance of My Brother Yosef Wolfman, z”l #	his sister, Tova	276
On the Grave of Our Friends Michael Nemirover and David Genzberg #	Yosef Carni and Yacov Gelman	277
My Parents, Yitzchak and Rivka Yasin #	Esther	278
In Remembrance of the Family of Eliahu Olicker #	Yona	278
Additional Family Photographs #		279

List of Martyrs from the Mizoch Ghetto		294
List of people from Derman', who were annihilated in the Mizoch Ghetto in 1942		315
List of Photographs

* Translated by Hebrew language students, George Washington University + Translated by Yiddish language students, University of Texas at Austin # Translated by Hebrew language students, University of Washington ^ Translated by Hebrew language students, Denver Jewish Day School

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