My Childhood Years in the Pyaskes

My Childhood Years in the Pyaskes
(Białystok, Poland)
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Translation of
Mayne ḳinder-yorn oyf di Pyasḳes zikhroynes̀
fun mayn heym-shṭoṭ Byalisṭoḳ fun di yorn 1882-1905

Author: L. Hindes

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This is a translation of: Mayne ḳinder-yorn oyf di Pyasḳes zikhroynes̀
fun mayn heym-shṭoṭ Byalisṭoḳ fun di yorn 1882-1905
My Childhood Years in the Pyaskes,
Author: L. Hindes

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Leybl Hindes, Boston, October 1963

My Childhood Years in the Pyaskes
Memoirs from my hometown of Bialystok from the years 1882 – 1905

L. Hindes
1963

Dedicated to my dear sister, Feygl Ushkovska, who was killed by the murderous Nazis in Treblinka in 1942,
together with tens of thousands of Jews from Bialystok.
Published by the L. Hindes Book Committee Boston, Chairman: Freink, Zeidman, Secretary: Wolf Weiner

Translator's Foreword
With a good portion of humor, but also with a drop of melancholy and a touch of bitterness, Leybl Hindes describes his childhood at the turn of the 20th century in one of the poorest districts of Bialystok.
His personal depictions are a wonderful complement to three other biographies by his contemporaries from Bialystok and nearby Krynki:
“Memoirs of a Bialystoker Woman” by Rachel Kositza,
“Memoirs and Writings of a Bialystoker” by Jacob Jerusalimski and
“As It Happened Yesterday” by Yosl Cohen.
My translations of the three mentioned books can be downloaded here for free:
Memoirs of a Woman from Bialystok translated from Yiddish - Społeczne Muzeum Żydów Białegostoku i regionu (jewishbialystok.pl) [also available as a printed book at JewishGen JewishGen Press - Memoirs of a Woman From Bialystok (Białystok, Poland)
Translation of the memoirs of Jakob Jerusalimski - Społeczne Muzeum Żydów Białegostoku i regionu (jewishbialystok.pl)
Krynki - Krynki Memorial Book “Vi Nekhtn Geshen” translated into English and German - Społeczne Muzeum Żydów Białegostoku i regionu (jewishbialystok.pl) [also available as a printed book at JewishGen JewishGen Press: “As it Happened Yesterday”
As always, I would like to thank my friends, Dr. Susan Pasquariella [NY], Johanna Czaban [Krynki] and Dr. Tomek Wisniewski [Bialystok], for their great support.

Beate Schützmann-Krebs
Translator's note: Contents in [ ] are mine.Contents in ( ) are by the author.

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