Szydłowiec, Poland

Szydlowiec Memorial Book
(Szydłowiec, Poland)

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Editor: Berl Kagan; translated by Max Rosenfeld

Published in New York 1989

Acknowledgments

Our sincere appreciation to Helen Rosenstein Wolf & Genia Hollander
for typing up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project.

Our thanks to Sondra Ettlinger for extracting the pictures from the original book,
enabling their addition to the project.

This is the: Szydlowiec Memorial Book,
Editor: Berl Kagan; translated by Max Rosenfeld, Shidlowtzer Benevolent Association in New York.
Published: New York 1989 (E 483 pages)

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Introduction

1.	Brief history of the Book	11
2.	Akiba Berlinski - “How Lonely Sits the City. . .”	13
3.	Yitzhok Goldkorn - Shidlovtse, My Birthplace	15

From the Beginning to 1918

1.	E. Lifshutz – An Outline of the History of the Jews of Szydlowiec	21
2.	Berl Kagan – Rabbis and Rebbeim of Szydlowiec	32
3.	Motl Eisenberg – Szydlowiec in Peaceful Times	36
4.	Moshe Yehiel Schwartzfuter – Of Times Gone By	44
5.	Shmuel Chustetski – A Bit of Shtetl History	48
6.	Mordecai V. Bernstein – The Jewish Cemetery in Szydlowiec	49

Between the Two World Wars

1.	Jacob Pomerantz – Szydlowiec – A City of Labor	55
2.	Simcha–Bunim Blander – Szydlowiec's Religious Life	56
3.	Abraham Finkler – Jews in the Szydlowiec City Council	57
4.	Isaac Milstein – Melamdim, Hedorim, Schools	60
5.	Devorah Rosenzweig–Blander – Customs and Nostrums	62
6.	Hershl Kriss – Blood Libel in Szydlowiec	63
7.	Sarah Zeller (Goldwasser) – “Mendl Trotsky”	64
8.	Isaac Milstein – Theater, Film and Szydlowiec Artist	66
9.	Reyzl Midlarski–Kwiatowski – Doctors in Szydlowiec	69
10.	Elka Goldberg Silberman – Dentists in Szydlowiec	71
11.	Pearl Teichman – Szydlowiec Youth	72
12.	Frieda Kurlender–Kuplik – The Mill	72
13.	Yankl Silberman – A Matter of Spirits	73
14.	Leybush Glass – The Death of Two Boys	74
15.	Majorek Rosenberg – Tragic Memories	75

Institutions and Parties

1.	Saul and Hinda Zlotov – The Zionist Movement in Szydlowiec	79
2.	Yankl Silberman – The Bundist Movement in Szydlowiec	80
3.	Yosel Silberstein – Betar and Brit–Hachayil	83
4.	J. Silberman – Left and Right Poale Zion	84
5.	MMalke Rosenzweig–Silberman – The Mizrachi Party	84
6.	Abraham Finkler – The Bikur Holim	85
7.	B. Kagan – Life in Szydlowiec Before the Holocaust (A Summary)	86

Holocaust

1.	Isaac Milstein – Chronicle of the Destruction of Szydlowiec	93
2.	Abraham Finkler – A Ghetto without barbed wire	137
3.	Motl Eisenberg – Running from death	161
4.	Ben-Tsion Rosenberg – Escape from the Abyss	186
5.	Israel Friedman – Under the Nazi boot	199
6.	Moshe Konovski – Saved by a Well	202
7.	Isaac Moro – My Brother's Fate	203
8.	Chaya Kornbroyt – Our hiding-place	205
9.	Joseph Friedenson – Hassidic Underground in Szydlowiec	207
10.	Isaiah Henig – Episodes in our torment	216
11.	Berl Krajevski – Out of the trap	220
12.	Leah Eisenberg – A Radom “Aktaie” in Shidlovtse	221
13.	Elka Schreiberger – Kitchen for refugees	223
14.	Neche Katz – Our Friendly Neighbors	223
15.	Jeremiah Meyerfeld – Catholic “Love”	224
16.	Wolfe Eisenberg – A Jewish Policeman Named Glatt	224
17.	Moshe Cooperberg – Boy in the Ghetto	225
18.	Toba Sharfhartz – From Szydlowiec to Auschwitz	226
19.	Mindia Citrinbaum – Caught in the Trap	228
20.	Leybl Monk – From hiding to camp	228
21.	Yankl Silberman – My Last Look at our Shtetl	230
22.	Isaac Moro – On the “Aryan” Side	231
23.	Abba Rosenbaum – With An “Aryan Pass”	235
24.	Nathan Stark – With Forged Papers	238
25.	Mordechai Strigler – The Skarzysko camp	241
26.	Isaac Milstein – In Camps with Szydlowiecers	278
27.	Abraham Weisbrot – Ghetto, Hiding-Place and Camp	282
28.	Elka Silverman – How We Saved Ourselves From Death	287
29.	Menachem Rosenzweig – In Hasag	292
30.	Fishl Kornbroyt – Luck - Good and Bad	293
31.	Hannah Bavnik – My First Days in Hasag	294
32.	Eliezer Levin – A Seder Night in the Skarzysko Camp	295
33.	Choneh Piasek – In the Ghetto	296
34.	Miriam Silberman – One of Many	297
35.	Feyge Shwartzfing – In the Camps	297
36.	Osher Kornbroyt – From Juzefow to Hasag	298
37.	Feitshe Eisenberg – From Camp to Camp	300
38.	Hannah Freilich – I Cannot Forget	301
39.	Bronek Tsingisser – Among Good Christians	303
40.	Motl Eisenberg – The Camp at Wolonow	305
41.	Jacob Pomerantz – Kingdom of Death	309
42.	Jacob Shapshewich – Starchowicz	310
43.	Jacob Binshtok – One Danger After Another	313
44.	Rachel Lederman – Three Sisters in the Camp	313
45.	Leybl Silberman – In the Camps	315
46.	Abraham Tseifinger – Leap From a Death Train	318
47.	Mordechai Richter – Escape	320
48.	Shmuel Chwstecki – Across the Border	321
49.	Shlomo Rosenzweig – Wherever our Eyes Took Us	322
50.	Yosl Silverstein – Death in Toulouse	323
51.	M. Dreynodl – Under the Nazi in France	324
52.	Joshua Krantz – In Belgium	324
53.	Max Ostro – Last Deportation from Szydloviec	325
54.	Isaiah Henig – The First Labour Camps	329
55.	Dora Blander – From Shidlovtse to Dachau	333
56.	Isaac Milstein – Shidlovste in 1980	335
57.	Michael Pomeranz – A Journey Without End	337
58.	B. Kagan – Life in Szydlowiec (A Summary)	345
59.	Szydlowiec in Pictures	355
60.	Yizkor	397

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