Introduction	Dr. Dov Levin	8
Word From the Organization and the Editors		10
A Monument to the Telshe Community	Yitzchak Alperovitz	12
A map of Telshe
Chapter One
The History of Jewish Telshe
Telshe		17
Telshe		19
Telshe		20
The History of the Jewish Settlement in Telshe	Shmuel Natanovitz	21
Bygone Times [Y]	Berl Cohen	34
Telshe [Y]	Rabbi Efraim Oshry	51
Telshe [Y]		54
Chapter Two
The Telshe Yeshiva - its Rabbis and its Institutions
The Telshe Yeshiva	Shmuel Natanovitz	57
The Development of the Yeshiva	Rav Avraham Shoshana	66
The Telshe Activities		90
My Years of Study at the Telshe Yeshiva	Rav Prof. S Asaf	94
Shreds of memories from Telshe	Shimon Kushnier	104
The Rav R'Avraham Yitzchak Bloch		112
The Telsher Yeshiva [Y]	Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch zt”l	124
The 5th Year in the Telshe Yeshiva [Y]	N. M. Averbuch	130
The Great Scholar R'Eli Meir Bloch [Y]		133
The Great Scholar of Education [Y]	Moshe Yehuda Gleicher	135
The Agudist [Y]	Rabbi Meir Pantel	138
Hundreds of Years in the Telshe Yeshiva [Y]		143
Chapter Three
Personalities and Figures
An Exemplary Educator	Avraham Ron	159
A Man of Faith and Science: Dr. Rafael Halevi Etzion	Rivke Nave	163
A. Harzfeld - A Look at Bygone Days	Eliezer Gordon	164
The Blechman Family	Dr. Malka Israeli (from the Blechman family)	172
Yosl Ba'al Shem (the Miracle Worker)	Chasia Gring-Goldberg	178
The Rav R'Yehuda Liber Hirshovitz	A. Z. Hirshovitz	179
They Were Four Brothers	Levi Shalit	181
The Ravad Family	Yisrael–Ya'akov ben Yerachmiel Ravad	183
[The] “Korczak” of the Telshe Ghetto	Chasiah Gring-Goldberg	185
My Family, The Singer[s] of Telshe	Rachel Singer-Taitz	188
The Family of Rabbi Zelig and Eliahu Katz- Akerman in Telshe	Leah Ariel (Katz)	191
My Family in Telshe	Yosef Eliaz (Levin)	193
Itche the Blacksmith	Chasia Gring-Goldberg	194
My Family in Telshe [Y]	Tuvia Ba'al-Shem	195
The “Rovner” [Y]	Chasye Gring-Goldberg	198
Chapter Four
Memories
Way of Life, Memories and Public Life	Dr. Malka Israeli (née Blechman)	203
A monument to Telshe, My City	Shoshana Holzberg (Shochat)	206
Memories of a High-School Student from a Small Town	Rivke Nave (née Katz, from Gorzd)	213
In My Dream	Ada Goldreich-Blechman	217
My Little Town of Telshe [Y]	Avraham Barkai (Berkman)	218
Sabbath Nights in our Home	Shoshana Holzberg (Jaffe)	221
The First Martyrs of the Town (1914–1918)	Zev Noy (Noyik)	224
My Family	Esther Gvorin-Ritov	226
Memories from my Childhood in Telshe	Tzila Weinstein	228
Sketches for Telshe That Was and no Longer Exists	Malka Klein Sirot	231
Youth Memories are Delicate Like Spring Butterflies	Walpert Gershon	232
Shabbat at Dusk	Eliyahu Rudnitski	233
First Impressions from My Visit in Telshe in 1927	Helen Kaplan–Hiller	235
Telshe Rosh Chodesh Shevat 5682 (1922)	Yerachmiel Ravad	237
My Visit in Telshe After the Holocaust	Shmuel Elyashiv	239
In the Days of the Soviets	Lea Silberman-Varias	240
At the Outbreak of the War	Eliyahu Rodnizki	241
The First Aliya from Telshe	Shmuel Auerbuch	243
My Home in the Village	Shmuel Natanovitz	246
My Teachers and My Friends in Telshe	Tuvia Ba'al Shem	253
Telshe our Town	Bat-Sheva Sasson (Ben-Gouri)	259
A Wedding in Telshe	Tuvia Ba'al Shem	261
My home in Telshe	Bat-Sheva Schwartz	263
The Image of Telshe	Shifra Tatz (Abramovitz)	266
Telshe	Bat-Sheva Sasson (Ben-Gouri)	268
The Fight Against the Nazis	Klotz Hillel Ben-Moshe	269
The Training Kibbutz of Hechalutz in Telshe	Yechezkl Fleischer	272
Hashomer Hatza'ir in Telshe	Chana Leibovitz-Brodman	275
The Parties in Our Town	Zev Noy (Noyik)	277
The Beitar Movement in Telshe	Meir Yoselevitz	278
Telshe That Is No More	Tuvia Ba'al Shem	280
Telshe, We Remember You Forever!	Tzvi Brik	283
The Schiff Family	Reizl Schochat (Schiff)	286
Yizkor for the Telshe Community	Tuvia Ba'al Shem	289
Memories from Telshe [Y]	Sara Feier Shlomovitz	291
In Telshe Girls Are Sent to Gymnasium High–School and Boys to the Yeshiva [Y]		293
Episodes From Bygone Times [Y]	Pera Levinson-Soifer	294
The Deportation to Siberia [Y]	Grisha Wolpert z”l	296
A Chapter of Memories [Y]	Zalman Levi	298
Telshe As It Once Was [Y]	Yaakov Zlotnik	301
Telz [Y]	Tsvi Brik	302
Yizkor [Y]	Tzvi Brik	303
In the Beit Hachinuch School in Telshe [Y]	Nechemia Endlin z”l	303
Figures in Telshe That Are Kept in Our Memory [Y]	Reizl Schochat (Schiff)	307
An Eternal Monument [Y]	Tzvi Brik	314
Chapter Five
The Holocaust
Our Town is Burning	Mordechai Gebirtig	320
Telshe		321
The Last Journey of the Telshe Martyrs	Chaia Bloch-Osband	326
From Holocaust to Revival	Mina Girsh	330
The Days of the Holocaust	Yocheved Holler (Varias)	338
From the Diary of Sara Elitzur-Ritov		346
A Diary from a Lithuania Ghetto	Hanny née Bloch	350
The Ghetto That Rescued Me	Sarah Klas-Abelsky	353
A Poem	Sarah Elitzur-Ritov	354
“It is good that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Your Laws” - (Psalms 119:71)	Bat Ami	355
Contempt to You, Nations!	Sara Elitzur-Ritov	362
Telshe During the Holocaust	Rachel (Rashela) Singer Teitz	363
Wanderings and Struggle Against the Nazis	Moshe Rosenbaum	367
Years of Suffering in the Face of Death	Bat-Sheva Schwartz	369
Memories from the Days of the Holocaust	Mina Kirsht (Yudelevitz) z”l	379
Stories from the Holocaust	Shraga (Feibush) Kushnir	385
Dear God [Y]	Tzvi Brik	388
Remember [Y]	Tzvi Brik	388
The Ruin of Telshe		389
In Hiding [Y]	Chaia Klein	390
Memories from Fateful Times [Y]	Sara Zeyenz (Shogam)	392
Pain, Suffering and Rescue [Y]	Sara Shevel	393
Echo (a poem) [Y]	Tzvi Brik	398
Poems [Y]	Sara Elitzur-Ritov	399
The Destruction of Telshe [Y]	Miriam Kleiner (Bloch)	400
The Tragic Fate of the Telshe Jews [Y]		408
Memories from the Ghetto and the Forest [Y]	Masha Endlin	414
The Fate of the Telshe Jews [Y]	S. Kagan	420
Years of Pain and Suffering [Y]	Rachel Fulda, Chana Jack	423
Tragic Reminiscences from the Era of Ruin [Y]	Chaim-Leib (Arie) Shavel	440
Yitzchak (Iza) Bloch's Last Words [Y]		447
Telshe and the Holocaust [Y]	Ya'akov Rabinovitz	448
A Bundle of Memories from Telshe [Y]	Lipman Schiff	461
Years of Suffering Before the Holocaust [Y]	Tzvi Brik	464
Telshe Jews who fell in the wars for the liberty of the nation and homeland		471
Yizkor		474
Telshe Jews who passed away after World War Two		480
List of Telshe Jews who fought in the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army		481
List of Telshe Jews who fell in battle in the war against the Nazis		481
Memorials		482

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