Translator's Preface
Foreword / Prof. E. Katzir, President of the State of Israel	9
Foreword / H. Justus	11
Preface [in Yiddish] / The Editors	13
The History Chapters / Meir Shimon Geshuri
On Oshpitzin that Preceded Auschwitz	17
Once there was an Oshpitzin…	19
On the Chronicles of the Oshpitzin Palace	26
Synopses of Chapters 3 to 8	32
Oshpitzin During the Initial Period of Austrian Galicia	69
The Continuation of Oshpitzin Jewry's Exile in Galicia	77
Jewish Farmers in the Oshpitzin District	83
Oshpitzin Jewry and the Onset of the Springtime of Freedom	89
Oshpitzin and its Tzadikim in the Hasidic Movement	95
Oshpitzin's Rabbis and Chachamim	100
Jewish Community in Oshpitzin and Its Institutions	107
Jewish Oshpitzin, from Insularity to Expanding Horizons	113
Oshpitzin and Environs on the Demographic Scale	119
Oshpitzin as Reflected in Various Journals	126
An Historical Chronology of Oshpitzin	141
A Jewish Town / Eliezer Schenker
Oshpitzin as Reflected in Various Journals	126
Historical Chronology of Oshpitzin	141
Stones Tell the Tale	147
History of Jewish Oshpitzin and its Folktales	151
The Town and its Personalities	155
The Holocaust Begins	161
Berlin	169
The Great Synagogue is set ablaze	173
The King of the Jews by Courtesy of Himmler	178
Translator's notes and remarks on the Schenker article	186
Community Institutions / Chaim Wolnerman
The Synagogues and Batei Midrash	190
The House of the Bobower Hasidim	199
Benevolent Societies and Organizations	209
Factories and Workshops	215
The Peddlers' Association	217
The Municipality and the Jewish Community	220
Rabbis and Heads of Yeshivot
On the Publication of an Oshpitzin Rabbi's Book	227
Rabbi Menachem Menli Soifer of Oshpitzin	230
Rabbi Elazar Mintz / Dr. Gershon Mintz, Jerusalem	233
Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Yisrael Bleicher	234
Rabbi Chaim Zvi Kupferman / C. Z. Wolnerman	235
Rabbi Binyamin Rosenblum / Ch. Zion	236
Rabbi R’ Mordechai Rottenberg, HY”D	237
Rabbi R’ Eliezer Halevi Rosenfeld	240
The Rebbe, R’ Shloime'le from Sassow in Oshpitzin / Uri Hanis [Hanish?]	244
Rabbi R’ Eliyahu Bombach HY”D	249
Rosh Hayeshiva Rabbi R’ Usher Zelig Landa	253
Rabbi R’ Eliyahu Rosen HY”D / Rabbi Ze'ev Gottlieb, Glasgow	255
Rabbi Dr. Reuben Farber / M. Ungerfeld	257
Roshei Yeshivos and Melamdim / Ch. Ben-Yosef	259
Hasidism in Oshpitzin [Yiddish] / Yehuda Kinderman	261
Melamdim in Town / Chaim Nebenzahl	265
Political Parties and Youth Movements
The Zionist Movement / Yakov Better and Shmuel Bochner	269
Hechalutz / Shmuel Bochner and Natan Goldfinger	271
Hashomer Hatza'ir / Rachel Shoham	273
The Mizrachi Movement	274
The Po'alei Agudas Yisrael Federation / Ch. Zion	277
The Kadima Sport Association / Naftali Kleinberger	281
Kadima / Yehoshua Feiler	283
The Jewish Youth Organizations / Yisrael Fertig	284
Beis Yakov and B'nois Agudas Yisroel / Ch. Avi-Yona	290
Personalities and Figures
R’ Shaul Dovid Englard	295
R’ Moshe Hirschsprung HY”D	295
R’ Michele Blumenfrucht HY”D	296
Yakov Better / Ch. Z. Simchoni	297
About R’ Avrohom Gross	298
R’ Pinchos Greier HY”D	299
Dr. Moshe Goldberg / Hans Loew Z”L	300
R’ Chaim Goldberg HY”D / Ben-Yosef	302
Eliezer Gleitzman Z”L / Rabbi Yedidia Frankel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Yaffo	303
In Memory of Eliezer / Nathan Scharf	304
And Ahron Held His Peace / Ben Zion Chaim	305
R’ Yitzchok Huppert Z”L / Dr. Yakov Golan	306
R’ Moishele Wulkan (Little Moishele)	307
The Late Moishe Wulkan	308
R’ Mordechai Wildman / Ch. Berish	310
In Memory of Dvora Weinheber / N. Scharf	311
R’ Chaim Silbiger / Sarah Herrendorf	312
My Father-in-law R’ Chaim Silbiger / Zvi Eliash	313
R’ Yehuda Hakohen Silbiger Z”L	315
R’ Nosen Hakohen Silbiger / Shlomo Silbiger	316
R’ Shulem Kahana	318
Hans Loew / Alexander Goldberg	319
R’ Hershel Enoch / Estherson	321
Moshe Shmuel Frisch / Chaim Wolnerman	323
Avrohom Feiler / Yehoshua Feiler	327
Akiva Zwerling	328
R’ Avrohom Halevi Ringer / A. Avinoam	329
R’ Hershel Stiel / Natan Goldfinger	331
R’ Yechiel Schindel and Family / Yitzchak Levi	333
Moshe Ahron Schindel	333
My Extended Family / Ruven Rottenberg	334
The Good Shmuel / Chaim Wolnerman	336
Eliezer Leo Schenker	337
The Late R’ Chaim Zvi Wolnerman	339
Memoirs and Impressions
From My Memoirs (section on Oshpitzin) / Gershom Bader	341
The City of Oshpitzin / Yakov Seifter, Cleveland	355
Rabbi and Doctor /Aviezer Burstin	362
Oshpitzin / Uri Hanis	366
My Hometown / Natan Goldfinger	371
Fragments of Folklore / Natan Scharf	377
My Town Oswiecim – A City of Blood and Tears / Rabbi Moshe Weiss	381
Memoirs of My Father's House / Regina Bendzinsky nee Enoch	385
The Beloved, Sweet People /Alexander Scharf	388
Childhood Vistas /Alexander Goldberg	391
Water Carriers / Chaim Wolnerman	394
Portraits of Altruists / Asher Weiss	396
En Route to the Homeland / Yitzchak Tzivoni (Farber)	399
Stories My Father Told / Gita Loewy-Weissler	403
A True Story / Fela Recht (Jerud)	406
Two Episodes / Yehuda Schneider	407
The Wife of the Former President of Poland – A Townswoman	409
A City and its Chalutzim / Prof. Dov Sadan	411
The Surrounding Area
Zator / Ch. Simchoni	417
The Beginning and the End of My Shtetl Zator / E. Elias	421
Brzezinka / Mordechai Schindel-Frey	423
Brzeszcze	429
Libiaz	430
Chelmek	431
The Holocaust
If I Should Happen… / Uri Hanis	435
The Lessons of “Auschwitz” / Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Chief Rabbi of Israel	436
A Nightmare / Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidia Frankel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Yaffo	441
Have We Learned the Lesson of the Shoah? / Rabbi Y. M. Ahronson, Member of the Chief Rabbinate, Petach Tikva	446
A Holy Community and a Place of Martyrdom / Dr. Yosef Burg, Minister of the Interior	449
So That You Will Tell / Gideon Hausner, Minister of Israel	451
A Visit in Auschwitz and Warsaw - May 1966 / Abba Eban, MK	452
Auschwitz, The City and the Warning / Menachem Begin, MK	455
The Jew Confronts the Dread of Auschwitz / Shmuel Tamir, MK	456
There is No Monument for Jews at Auschwitz / Moshe Prager	458
Remember Auschwitz / Leib Rachman	464
Yisgadal Ve Yiskadash Sh'mei Rabba / Yechiel Granatstein	466
The Duty to Tell / Shammai Golan	468
A Can of Sardines / Aviezer Bursztyn	470
The Revolt of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau	475
My Participation in the Revolt at Auschwitz / Reisel Gruenapfel-Meth	478
Rosa Robota	480
In the Midst of Hell / Zalman Gradowski	482
Jewish Heroism – or Like Sheep to the Slaughter / Chaim Brenner	486
I Wandered Like a Lost Sheep / Ze'ev Peltzman	489
The Hasidic Dance in Oswiecim / M. Mark	494
From Darkness into Light / Chana Ziegman	499
My Days of Wandering / Chana Kaufman-Weichman	501
Living in Sorrow / Gella Burger	503
Bibliography	505
Memorials to Israel's Fallen	543
A Memorial to the Pioneers	557
Memorials to Holocaust Victims	563
Letters of Regret	617
Acknowledgments	620
Afterword / KaTzetnik	621

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