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Translation of
Skarzysko-Kamienna sefer zikaron
Published by: Skarzysko Society
Published in Tel Aviv 1973
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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
Foreword | Dr. I. Karmish | 9 |
Preface | Eliezer Levin | 11 |
Introduction | Yerachmiel Scher | 13 |
History of the Jewish settlement in Skarzyko | Yerachmiel Scher | 17 |
Bet Midrash [house of learning] | Yerachmiel Scher | 18 |
The Shtiebl [Hasidic synagogue] of the Aleksander Hasidim | Eliezer Levin | 19 |
The Agudat Israel Organization | Yerachmiel Scher | 20 |
Chaim David and Chaim Nathan's Hadarim [heder=Torah school] | Yerachmiel Scher | 21 |
Hechalutz Hatza'ir Organization | Zvi Polositzki | 22 |
Market days in Skarzysko | Eliezer Levin | 23 |
Balegoles [wagon owners] and porters in Skarzyko | Eliezer Levin | 23 |
Figures in town | Yakov Frant | 25 |
R'Israel Rosenberg | Yakov Shapira | 26 |
Bunim Berish | Hasida | 27 |
R'Eliezer Berkowitz | Yitzhak Goren | 28 |
R'Eliezer Berkowitz | Yerachmiel Scher | 28 |
R'Chaim Meir Altman | Yerachmiel Scher | 29 |
Yukel and Yankel | Yerachmiel Scher | 29 |
My Family | Lea Lieberbaum | 30 |
My home | Yerachmiel Scher | 31 |
Beila the Rebbitzin [the rabbi's wife] | Yerachmiel Scher | 33 |
The Train Street, across the Bridge | Tusya Mekori | 34 |
Pictures | Yerachmiel Scher, Avraham Yosef Scher | 35 |
Moshe Zuker | Batya | 35 |
Annihilation | Eliezer Levin | 36 |
The terrible massacre in Skarzyko after Liberation | Eliezer Levin | 37 |
A young boy's impressions from the days of WWII | Moshe Orion | 39 |
Words by Yosef Arad at the Memorial Gathering | Yosef Arad (Ersenberg) | 41 |
The Town before it was Destroyed | ||
Preface | Eliezer Levin | 45 |
Skarzysko | 45 | |
Our town Skarzysko | Yakov Frant | 46 |
Social Institutions | Yakov Frant | 50 |
The establishment of Beitar | Yakov Frant | 52 |
Chaim David and Chaim Nathan's Hadarim [heder=Torah school] | Yerachmiel Scher | 54 |
The Ludawy Bank | Chaia Shapira | 54 |
The Aleksander Shtiebl [Hasidim synagogue] | Eliezer Levin | 55 |
Yukel and Yankel | Yerachmiel Scher | 58 |
R'Mendel Feldman | Yerachmiel Briks | 59 |
My town Skarzysko | Chaia Shapira | 62 |
R'Israel Rosenberg | Yakov Shapira | 63 |
Figures in town | Yakov Frant | 64 |
There once was a Shtetl | Binyamin Wolovski | 68 |
What I remember | Chaim Schiefman | 72 |
Life in Skarzysko | Yakov Moshe Eisenberg | 73 |
My Father the Lover of the Jewish People | Hershel Polosevski | 73 |
My Father Yechezkel the Ritual Slaughterer | Sara Auerbach | 74 |
Theater in town | Mindel Rosenberg | 75 |
My uncle Meir Scher | Yosef Briks | 76 |
Memory of the towm | Yosef Briks | 77 |
Ghetto and Camps | ||
The first days | Eliezer Levin | 81 |
The beginning | Yakov Frant | 82 |
The first days | Yerachmiel Briks | 93 |
The beginning of destruction | Binyamin Wolovski | 85 |
The darkest Shemini Atzeret Holiday in 1942 | H. M. Warde | 87 |
The Holocaust | Yakov Moshe Eisenberg | 88 |
Memories of destruction | Yerachmiel Wolpowitz | 88 |
Memories from the Ghetto and the Camp | Moshe Kriss | 89 |
The liquidation | Eliezer Levin | 90 |
The death factories | Mordechai Striegler | 95 |
My life in the camp | Chaia Shapira | 104 |
Memories | Yakov Frischman | 108 |
Testimonies | ||
Shlomo Silberblum | 111 | |
Mordechai Goldwasser | 112 | |
Lala Wegman | 115 | |
Eva Zuker | 116 | |
Shlomo Blumgold | 120 | |
Mordechai Shledoshik | 124 | |
Avraham Weingarten | 127 | |
Marila Lieberman | 128 | |
Yanina Latowitz | 131 | |
Malka Milchman | 132 | |
Dr. Israel Rom-Rablast | 132 | |
Maniek Aratch (Orion) | 135 | |
Regina Kalman | 135 | |
Sala Goldman | 136 | |
Meir'l Musikant | 139 | |
Yitzhak Figlartchik | 143 | |
Fale Hartzman | 144 | |
Sara Ritcheval | 144 | |
Graf Hella | 144 | |
Ignatz Goldstein | 145 | |
Michael Braun | 145 | |
Chaim Kaltan | 147 | |
Yerachmiel Goldharr | 147 | |
Melech Blostein | 149 | |
Lea Fischman | 151 | |
Skarzysko After the Holocaust | ||
My birthtown has become a stranger | Avraham Yosef Scher | 155 |
The picture | Yerachmiel and Avraham Yosef Scher | 156 |
The frightful massacre | Eliezer Levin | 156 |
My home | Chaia Shapira | 160 |
Skarzysko in 1945 | Yosef Briks | 161 |
The song of the murdered Jewish People | Yitzhak Katzenelson | 163 |
Necrology | 169-219 | |
The Committee of the Former Residents of Skrzysko | ||
The Committee of the Former Residents of Skrzysko | Eliezer Levin | 227 |
Excerpts from Memories about our Town [H] | Yerachmiel ben Moshe Silberman | 239 |
Activities of the Organization Committee and Book Committee [H] | Yerachmiel Scher | 240 |
Opening speech of Zvi Abramowitz | 241 | |
Activities of the Organization Committee and Book Committee | Yerachmiel Scher | 243 |
List of the survivors living in Israel | 245 | |
List of the survivors living outside Israel | 246 | |
Foreword | Dr. I. Kermish | |
The History of the Jewish Settlement in Skarzysko | Yerachmiel Shier | 258 |
The Alexander Shtibel | Eliazar Levin | 257 |
Yukel and Yekel | Yerachmiel Shier | 256 |
The Liquidation | Eliazar Levin | 255 |
The Visitors at Our Home | Yerachmiel Shier | 253 |
Reb Eliezer Berkowitz | Izhak Goren | 252 |
The Chadorim of Chaim Dovid and Chaim Nosn | Yerachmiel Shier | 251 |
A Seder Night in Hasag Camp | Elazar Levin | 250 |
Gd Bless | Jacob Frant | 248 |
An Experience In the Ghetto of Skarzysko | Elazar Levin | 248 |
The Young Pioneer Union | Tsvi Polositzky | 259 |
A Young Boy's Impressions of the Second World War | Moshe Oryan (Oratch) | 261 |
The Terrible Massacre in Skarzysko after the Liberation | Eliezer Levin | 265 |
The Prayer-House | Yerachmiel Shier | 269 |
Market Day in Skarzysko | Eliezer Levin | 270 |
The Shtettel | Joe Ross (Rosenzweig) | 272 |
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