Translated by Yocheved Klausner

History and Memories
Photographs		10
Our book of remembrance	Shoshana Ben-Ami (Natowitz)	13
This book – as a monument to Podhale Jewry	Zvi Nir (Gerstner)	14
Editor's Foreword	Michael Walzer-Fass	15
Map of Podhale		18
History of the Jewish community in Nowy-Targ (Neu-Mark)	Dr. Avraham Chomet	19
History of the Jewish community in Nowy-Targ (Neu-Mark) [Y]	Dr. Avraham Chomet	26
Nowy-Targ, our town	Dr. Zvi [Herman] Kolber	35
a. After annexation by Austria		36
b. The new laws		37
c. The economic activities: commerce, idustry and handicraft		37
d. The competition between Poles and Jews		41
e. Clerks and free professions		42
f. The religious and public life		45
g. Rabbis, judges in religious court and slaughterers		46
h. The Great Synagogue and other prayer houses		48
i. The cemetery		50
j. The schools in town		51
k. Financial institutions		53
l. Merchants' organizations		54
m. Public organizations		54
n. The relationship with the Polish population		55
o. The Podhale Jews during First World War		56
p. Lenin lived in a village near Nowy-Targ		56
q. Army headquarters in town		58
r. The awakening of the Jewish national movement		60
From days past	Leopold Trepper	62
Nowy-Targ, my hometown	Kalman Shimon Dagan	67
The national-religious movement in Nowy-Targ	Yitzhak Neri (Licht)	73
a. The Yavne School		74
b. The Mizrahi movement		76
c. The young Mizrahi and Beruria		76
d. Hashomer Hadati [the religious Hashomer] movement		78
The Hasidic Nowy-Targ	Zvi Nir (Gerstner)	80
The Hashomer Hadati in Nowy-Targ	Zvi Nir (Gerstner)	81
Hashomer Hatza'ir in Nowy-Targ	Sabina Lahav (Ernst)	85
Memories from the Akiva movement in Nowy-Targ	Shoshana Ben-Ami	92
Akiva in Podhale	Genia Makovitz-Rand	99
My Aliya to Eretz Israel	Hela Miller-Asam	101
The library: core of social activity in Nowy-Targ	Y. Traunstein	103
The library in Nowy-Targ	Chava Langer-Hauser	104
Hagibor - Jewish sports club in Nowy-Targ	Baruch Remer	106
Thursday, market day in ourtown	Shoshana Ben-Ami	109
Antisemitism in Nowy-Targ	Shoshana Ben-Ami	111
Skirmish at dawn ...	Yanek Langer	113
Things I remember	David Goldberg	115
My town Nowy-Targ	Michael Bergman	116
Memories from days of long ago	Moshe Gevirtz	118
A bundle of memories	Yosef Dranger	119
My town Nowy-Targ	Shoshana Lieberman	120
Jewish life in the Podhale district	Yehuda Bladgreen	121
Our towns in Podhale	Yehuda Bladgreen	125
There was a town called Zakopane	Anna Pollak-Fass	127
The contribution of Jewish Zakopane	Munek Piwok	131
The activity of the Jewish Youth in Zakopane	Moshe Geminder	133
The town Ravka Zdroi	Yosef Geller (Gil)	135
The Lunezko community	Mordecai Schein	138
My town Krostchenko	Moshe Aharon Ziskind	139
a. Regional institutions		140
b. The synagogue in town		141
c. The Jewish youth movements		143
My town Stchawnica	Rav Meir Refael Zigler	146
A chapter from my childhood	Hela Miller-Asam	147
Rabbis, Personalities, Figures and Families
Rav Yakov Yokel Hirsch	Zvi Nir (Gerstner)	150
In memory of rabbi Israel David	Yehuda Gerstner	152
Rav R'Israel Schreiber (Jardanov)	"Oholei Shem"	152
Rav R'Eli Eichenstein (Zakopane)	"Oholei Shem"	152
In memory of a young scholar who perished	Yosef Friedensohn	153
R'Shimon Englander	Yitzhak Hammer	156
Persons from a world that is no more...	Dr. Zvi Kolber	158
a. Dr. Herman Schein		158
b. Dr. Bernhard Cohen		159
c. Ignatz Hammerschlag		160
d. Herman Zvi Fischgrund		161
In memory of those no longer with us	Moshe Rand	162
The history of one family	Zvi Eliezri-Lazarkowitz	164
In memory of my parents, Tontcha and Shlomo Greenspan	Chaia Greenspan-Mehlman	167
My mother	Chana Green-Gevirtz	168
To Mother	Hela Miller-Asam	170
A monument on the road (remembering Moshe Beldinger)	Sara Krein-Mark	171
Our house in Deluga St. 132	Sara Krein-Mark	172
Memories from my childhood	David Goldberg	174
My home	Yosef Drenger	178
The members of my family	Gila Knippel-Sprei	179
Young boys tell their stories	Ioachim Traunstein	180
In memory of my parents and brother	Yoel Braunfeld (Bar-Shira)	181
The home of Yosef and Malka (Englender) Ziskind	Moshe Aharon Ziskind	182
Dr. Barthold	Baruch Fass, Dr. Zvi Herman Kolber	183
Yosef Folkman	Dr. Zvi Herman Kolber	184
Memories from a visit to Tcharni-Dunaitz	Michael Waltzer-Fass	185
In the mountains	Menachem Stempel	188
The Holocaust
A. Nowy-Targ on the eve of the German invasion	Dr. David Yacobovitz	190
Occupation by the German Army and transfer of Jews as hostages to Germany		191
The murders of the "Einsatz Gruppe Wien"		192
The first anti-Semitic decrees		193
The Jewish Council		194
A Jewish quarter		195
Labor camps, and more persecutions		196
Murders during the years 1940-41, the first "Aktzia"s		198
The last days before deportation		202
The final Aktzia, the massacre in the cemetery		203
The last road to extermination - the labor camp in Nowy-Targ		206
Nowy-Targ Jews in the Plashow camp		210
Reasons for the total annihilation of the Nowy-Targ community		211
The destruction of the Nowy-Targ cemetery		214
B. Zakopane (the deportation of the Jews from Zakopane and surroundings, the Gestapo headquarters at the Palace Hotel, the Stuag labor camp, the verdict of the Court)		216
C. Ravka (the first period of the Nazi rule, the Aktzia against the Ravka Jews, other Aktzias in the forest near the SS School)		221
D. Jordanow (the town during the first days of the German army invasion, the cruel Aktzias, murders in the Jordanow cemetery)		226
E. Stchawnica		232
F. Krushtchenko on the Dunaytz		233
G. Tcharny-Dunaytz		234
H. Makow-Podalski		235
What happened in the Nowy-Targ area after liberation		237
Additional reports from the time of destruction		240
The Judenrat in Zakopane	Alexander Ben-Ami	244
My story during the Holocaust	Chana Hornung Grasgreen	250
From the testimony of Marian Derlich		252
Memories from “those days”	Avraham Riger	256
The day of the deportation	Nachum Back	260
In a Soviet concentration camp during the war	Moshe Sinai	262
Fragments of memories from the war	Moshe Rand	262
Murders on Tish'a Be'av	Herta Greenspan-Natowitz	264
Fragments of memories from the time of the Holocaust	Frania Tieger (Netzer)	265
The town Ravka during the first period of the Nazi rule (the establishment of the SS School, reorganization of the school, the first Aktzia, the following Aktzias, the murder of a transport of religious Jews, Rosenbaum's behavior toward his servants, Rosenbaum and his helpers' crimes, the final Aktzia, sending information to the free world, the fate of the Jews in the labor camp, Rosenbaum's trial, echoes of the trial in the Hamburg press, the fate of the other Ravka criminals)	Dr. David Yacobovitz	268
Rosenbaum's release from prison (memorandum to the German Embassy, stormy discussions in the press and the Hamburg Parliament, resignation of the Minister of Justice and Rosenbaum's return to prison)	Yehuda Kestenbaum	293
In Ravka Zdroy during the Holocaust	Yehuda Kestenbaum	297
The day of deportation	Ioachim Traunstein	299
The Jewish electricians	Hirsh Shifeldrin	300
This is how the Ravka Zdroy community was destroyed	Zvi Shifeldrin	306
Ravka Zdroy during WWII	Yosef Geller-Gil	311
Memories from "those days"	Fala Kushnir (nee Geller)	312
My town Jordanow	Ratz Aloni	313
In the Jordanow forest	Chana Windstrauch	315
My town Shtchavnica	Rav Refael Meir Ziegler	320
The sufferings of the Orawa Jews	Ethelka Weissberg	321
Sparks (by reports in “Haboker”, “Ha'aretz”, “Davar”)		324
A visit to Nowy-Targ in 1975	Adek Edward Arberman	327
Former Residents of Nowy-Targ and Surroundings in Israel
Our organization and its aims	Yehuda Bladgreen	332
Memorial Service for our Town's martyrs, Tel Aviv 1964	Dr. Yakov Mikenbrun	335
a. Mordechai Loewenberg,	Shoshana Ben-Ami	337
b. In memory of Irena	Rachel Markus Folkman	338
Dr. Yakov Mikenbrun	Dr. Avraham Chamet	340
Dr. Akiva Shmuel Milgrom	Arie Diamant	344
Dr. Akiva Shmuel Milgrom	Sabina Lahav	346
Dr. Israel Hammerschlag	Dr. Zvi Kolber	347
Memorial Pages - Nowy Targ		350
Memorial Pages - Krościenko		410
English
Our book of remembrance	Shoshana Ben-Ami	5
This book–monument to Podhale Jewry	Zvi Nir	6
Editor's Foreword	Michael Walzer-Fass	7
History of the Jewish community in Nowy-Targ	Dr Avraham Chomet	9
Our Nowy-Targ	Dr Zvi [Herman] Kolber	12
From days past	Leopold Trepper	17
Nowy-Targ, my hometown	Kalman Shimon Dagan	19
Hassidic Nowy-Targ	Zvi Nir	20
“Hashomer Hadati” in Nowy-Targ	Zvi Nir	21
The National religious movement in Nowy-Targ	Yitzhak Neri	21
“Hashomer Hatzair” in Nowy-Targ	Sabina Lahav	23
“Akiva” in Nowy-Targ	Shoshana Ben-Ami	25
“Akiva” in Podhale	Genia Makovitz-Rand	27
My Aliya	Hela Miller-Osem	28
The library: core of social activity	Y. Traunstein	29
“Haggibor” Jewish sports club in Nowy-Targ	Baruch Remer	30
Thursday was market day	Shoshana Ben-Ami	30
Antisemitism in Nowy-Targ	Shoshana Ben-Ami	31
Skirmish at dawn	Yanek Langer	32
Things I remember	David Goldberg	33
My town Nowy-Targ	Michael Bergman	34
The “social club” in Nowy-Targ	Yosef Dranger	34
My Nowy-Targ	Shoshana Lieberman	35
Jewish life in the Podhale district	Anna Pollak-Fass	35
Our towns in Podhale	Yehuda Beldegrün	36
The contribution of Jewish Zakopane	Munek Piwok	37
Memories of a visit to Charni-Dunaietz	Michael Walzer-Fass	39
My town Kroshchenko	Moshe Aharon Zyskind	41
The town Rabkah Zdroi	Yosef Geller	42
The Lunezko community	Mordecai Schein	43
In memory of my family	Gila Knipel-Shprei	43
As the young ones tell it	Joachim Traunstein	44
Rabbi Yaacov Yokil Hirsch	Zvi Nir	45
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid	Yehuda Gerstner	45
My town Shchavnitza	Yehuda Gerstner	46
In memory of a great Scholar	Yosef Friedenson	46
Shimon Englander	Yitzhak Hammer	47
In memory of those no longer with us	Moshe Rand	48
–No title–	Shlomo Greenspan	49
My mother	Hannah Green-Gewirtz	49
A marker on the way [Moshe Baldinger]	Sarah Kreis	50
Childhood memories	David Goldberg	51
Dr Berthold [Baruch] Fass	Dr Zvi Herman Kolber	52
Yosef Folkman	Dr Zvi Herman Kolber	52
My parents and brothers	Joel Braunfeld	53
Introduction to the accounts of the Holocaust		55
Nowy-Targ on the eve of the German takeover	Dr David Yacobovitz	56
Zakopane		64
Rabka		66
Yordanov		68
Shchavnitza		69
Kroshchenko-on-Dunaietz		69
Charni Dunaietz		70
Makov Podhalanski		70
The Holocaust: Personal Accounts
Recollections from “those days"	Avraham Rieger	73
The “Judenrat” in Zakopane	Alexander Ben-Ami	75
Roundup day	Nahum Bek	77
In a Soviet concentration camp	Moshe Sinai	77
Recollections from the war era	Moshe Rand	78
Murder on the 9th of Ab	Herta Greenspan-Natowitz	79
Memories from the days of the Holocaust	Frania Tiger	80
The Rosenbaum trial	Yehuda Kestenbaum	81
The Jewish electrician	Hirsch Schiffeldrin	85
Our Association and its activities	Yehuda Beldegrün	87
My Town Sczawnica	Mayer Refael Zigler	146
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