Translated by Yocheved Klausner

On the threshold	The Book Committee	17
Poems	Yitzhak Katzenelson	19
This is the way we started [Y]	Zishe Fuchs	21
Introduction	Shimon Kantz	35
History of the Town
Woldawa Pinkas (register) from 1761	Pinkas	49
Woldawa legends	Alexander Cohen	75
History of the Jewish community [Y]	Pinkas	79
The establishment of the Jewish settlement		89
Historical calendar	I.S. Rosenblatt	97
My shtetl	Ben Matityahu	115
Wlodawka		119
Tomazsowka	Ben Matisyahu	124
Poems	Yitzhak Katzenelson/Yitzchok Kunczman	127
The course of the generations [Y]	Mordechai Wlodawer	129
The stormy year 1909 [Y]	Yakov Rovner	137
Between times [Y]		141
The first years [Y]	Shakla, Kliger, Rosenblatt	149
Life in past years [Y]	A. Lemberger	159
The First World War	Moshe Rozhanke	165
Bolachovce		168
Shatzek		170
The sad chapter of Bolachovce	Dr. S. Gelehrnter–Kamenir	173
“The Dubetchne cottage”	Eli Libes–Fischman	179
The first railroad [Y]	I. Millner	183
Torah and revolution in Wlodawa [Y]	Eliezer Leichter	185
Poems [Y]	Yitzhak Katzenelson	189
The song of the murdered Jewish people [Y]	Yitzhak Katzenelson	191
Rabbis and Chasidim
MAHARAM of Rotenburg	Nathan Rotenberg	197
The ADMOR Rav Yuda Perlov	Zev Minkowitz	201
The Rav R'Leibele	M. Wlodawer	203
Four Prayers (poem) [Y]		207
The Saviner Rav R'Moishele [Y]	Feige Lederstein	209
Rav Trochanovski	Shmuel Ungar	211
The rabbi and his book [Y]	Ben Matityahu	217
R'Mendele Morgenstern [Y]		222
The memorial plaque on the Torah Ark [Y]		224
Prayer–houses, rabbis, slaughterers and melamdim [Y]		228
The First World War [Y]	A. Struzman	251
Rabbis and Chasidim	Moshe Rozhanke	259
Chasidism	A. Hansker	261
Kotzker Chasidim	Eliezer Yitzhak Wasserman	265
The Rav R'Yona Goldstein	Nachum Goldstein	267
The Rodziner Minyan (prayer) in Stillerman's house [Y]	Yosef Stillerman	269
Our home [Y]	Mordechai Byali	273
Zishe the rabbi's [Y]	M. Wlodawer	281
Jewish life [Y]	Zelig Weinschel	285
Cheders [Schools] and Melamdim [Teachers] [Y]	Aryeh Struzman	289
The Novorodka Yeshiva	Chaim Lichter	295
Parties and Organizations
The Zionist organization		301
The house where religious Zionism began	Elchanan Shafran	305
The Zionist movement [Y]	Ben Matityahu	307
The activity of Jewish councilmen [Y]		324
Hashomer, Macabi, Beitar, Mizrahi, pioneer training, Brit Hakana'im [Y]		328
Shimon Sonnschein		341
Aharon Seifer		342
The Tchedrowitzki family [Y]		343
Jewish banking [Y]		345
Loan–without–Interest Funds [Y]		350
The story of the BACH [Bayit Chadash] manuscript		351
Unsere Stimme [Our Voice] newspaper in Wlodawa [Y]		355
The wood trade [Y]		357
Founding the first Zionist organization [Y]	A. Struzman	361
Zionist activity in 1903 [Y]	Zvi Scneiderman	367
BEITAR	Arie Goldman	369
The pioneer [Chalutz] training camp [Y]	Moshe Ribak	371
Chalutzim [pioneers]	N. S. R.	373
The Maccabi Orchestra [Y]	Binyamin Berman	377
The Hashomer Hadati religious youth movement	Yosef Stillerman	379
The first Aliya [Y]	Zishe Fuchs	383
Illegal immigrants [Y]	Arie Goldman	395
The first pioneer kibbutz in Tomashowka [Y]	Jonathan	401
David Lifshitz	Yakov Rosenblatt	403
Zionism and charity [Y]	Dr. Sofia Ehrlich	407
The professional movement [Y]	Chaim Kliger	411
The first professional unions [Y]	Ben Malka	421
The first members of the professional unions [Y]	Chaim Shakla	425
The leather section [Y]	Asher Lemelboim	427
Drama clubs in Wlodawa [Y]	Shaye Kirman	431
The craftsmen's union	Chaim Shakla	437
Personalities and Way–of–Life
R'Binyamin Blumenkranz [Y]	Yakov Rosenblatt	445
Dr. Yosl Feldman [Y]		447
R'Hershel Zberzher–Feldman [Y]		450
R' Eliezer Bernstein [Y]		452
R'Mendel–Hersh Nachmiyas [Y]	Esther Kelberman–Goldman	455
The town of my childhood and my youth [Y]	Rachel Kippel–Tzitrin	457
Our father Yosef Kippel [Y]	Ahuda Ronit / Rachel Tzitrin	459
R'Eliezer Yosef Holzman [Y]	Yitzhak Holzman	463
R'Shaul Fiedelman	Matityahu Fiedelman	465
R'Feivel Lederman	Chaim–David Brus	467
Shepsel Kaminer	I.S.R.	470
Yosef Goldman z”l	Alte Tzviya Goldman	471
Community activity in our town	Dr. S. Porat–Goldfarb	475
Chaim Berl Rothenberg (Chaim Yente's)	Nathan Rothenberg	477
Charitable women (women of good deeds) [Y]	Frume Schtitzberg–Grossbard	483
Chaim Baruch Grinblatt from Sobibor [Y]	Geula Glintzman	485
Levi Goldfeder	Guta Tchantkovski	487
R'David Alamotzki	Zeev Alamotzki	485
Dr. Shlomo Igelnik		487
My parents' home [Y]	Sara Porat–Goldfarb	489
The Lemberger family [Y]	Avraham Lemberger	493
“R'Yochanan the shoemaker” [Yochanan Hasandlar] from Dubetchne	A. Dubetchner	495
People of my father's generation [Y]	Binyamin Milch	499
Dreamers and fighters – Yosef Rothenberg, Anton Gruber, Yakov Barenholz [Y]	Arie Struzman	501
R'Binyamin Feinstein	S. Weissberger	509
Our home, a fountain of life [Y]	Avraham Barenholz	513
The song of my Shtetl [Y]	Leibel Schneiderman	535
R'Yitzhak–Meir Babad	Binyamin Flomenboim	541
My grandfather's family	Zeev Rabinowitz	543
Outstanding personalities [Y]	M. Wlodawer	545
Stone–cutters and shingle–makers	Shmuel Friedman	549
Klezmer	Avraham Friedman	551
R'Gershon the watercarrier and the first Selihot [Y]	Yakov D.	553
Shayele the watercarrier [Y]	Chaim Shakla	555
The Jews in my village Kalotch [Y]	Nachum Knopmacher	557
Our unforgettable home [Y]	Rivka Appelboim–Fahrer	559
My shtetl Wlodawa (poem with music) [Y]	Yakov Rosenblatt	563
The Horrors of the Holocaust
Days and Years of Pain and Destruction	Yechiel Greenhaus	569
Reiman – the first victim	Chaia Gellerman–Baumgarten	603
Rubache – the first mass–grave	Peshe Kutcher	605
The destruction of Wladawa	A. Tulip	609
The destruction of Tomashowka	Rivka Byaler	619
The night on the eve of Shavuot Holiday	Malka Kreinowitz	621
A poem	Yitzhak Katzenelson	623
The walk through Hell	Sara Amalinski–Lustikman	625
R'Yeshaya Tcheryonigora		647
The economic situation and the Cooperation movement	Sara Amalinski	649
The fight for life	S. Liza	653
Miserable days and nights	Motel Rabinowycz	661
Correspondence between the Wlodawa Judenrat members		675
The Rabbi of Radzin's blessing [H]	Michael Kaftor–Knopmacher	687
The Death of the Radziner Rabbi	Motel Reichman	689
The Radziner Rabbi among the Wlodawa Martyrs	Shimon Kantz	693
In the valley of death	Perele Knopmacher	697
The road of pain	Bracha Rosenzweig–Stchupak	705
“Folkenberg's Jews”	Shimon Lederman	723
On the bloody roads	Matityahu Appelboim	735
“My child, say Shema Israel”	Henie Rosenberg–Schafferman	741
In rivers of blood	Sprintze–Miriam Byali–Reise	747
Pain and struggle	Pessl Seltzer–Appelboim	751
Nightmares – my life experiences under Nazi rule	Arie	755
In the valley of weeping	Mirco Ehrlich–Brom	759
My road from Katchal to Kibbutz Gan–Shmuel	Miriam Bot–Teitelboim	765
In the pits and in the woods	Aharon Diamant	785
The Tombstone Street	Ben Tzviya Holzman	799
My way back to the Jewish People	Lola Elzhbietta Lustgarten	805
Rivkele from Virker Street tells her story	Chaim Shakla	807
Upon the ruins of Wlodawa	Dr. Shoshana Gelehrenter–Kamenir	811
Flames in the Ashes – the Saga of Bravery
YIDDISH
Mass murder	C. Niewieska	817
The resistance of the Wlodawa Jews in Sobibor	Ada Lichtman	827
The cut–off generations (poem)	Yakov Rosenblatt	829
The uprising in the Sobibor death camp	Misha Lew	831
From the uprising in Sobibor to the partisans	Aizik Rothenberg	847
The uprising in Sobibor	Noah Zevuluni	867
“There is nothing to see in Sobibor”	M. Tzanin	869
“Inscribed with blood” – The Sobibor trial	From the German Press	879
The trial of the hangmen of Sobibor	Shimon Kantz	881
The road from the city to the woods	Ben Matityahu	889
In the Jukow Otriad (partisan unit)	A. Feige	905
The struggle against the enemy	Ben David	915
Anything for a rifle	Moshe Katzav	919
The road to the partisans	S. Nathan	925
From the labor–camp to the partisans	S. Beile	941
The drive for vengeance	A. Ben Reisel	953
In the Jewish partisan–Otriad (partisan unit)	A. Shenka	959
Through bloody slaughters	Patzan	975
The first Wlodawa partisans	S. Bat–Chinke	987
The road in the woods	A. Tulip	993
In the fire of the bloody massacres	Ben Arie	1005
A partisan leader fell in battle	Serashke	1015
The Jewish Unit	Shlomo Strauss–Marco	1019
On the old roads	Dr. Shoshana Gelehrenter–Kamenir	1025
Testimonies of Wladawa survivors		1029
In the midst of dear persons	Ch. Ben Eliezer	1037
The first rescue activities	Dr. Adam Springer	1043
They were many		1047
Dov Sobelman	From the IDF Yizkor Book, Ministry of Defense 1955	1051
Yitzhak Friedman		1052
Yitzhak Friedman	Chaim–David Brus	1053
At the graves of the fathers	Chaim Kliger	1055
YIDDISH
Wlodawa Jews in Israel and Abroad
The ADMOR from Byala [H]		1071
The Wlodawa Comittees in Israel and abroad	The Committee	1075
Wlodawa Women's Committee in America	Chaim Malyes Farbman	1077
The First Wlodawa immigrants in America	Zelig Feinstein	1081
Wlodawa charitable women in America	Rivka Feinstein	1085
Wlodawa Landsmanshaft in Brazil	Chaim Shakla	1087
Shaul Wolf Lichtenberg, I. Scherman	Zishe Fuchs	1091
Wlodawa Landsmanshaft in Argentina	Motl Wlodawer, Yehoshua Stoll	1093
Wlodawa Jews over the world		1099
The activity of the Book–Committee	The Board	1107
The Days of Memorial	Zishe Fuchs	1115
HEBREW
Holocaust and Heroism
How Wlodawa was destroyed	Zishe Fuchs	1119
The Wlodawa Jews in the ghetto	S. Michaeli	1123
The destruction of Wlodawa	S. Efraim	1125
My road through Hell	Sara Umlinski	1131
Liquidation of the ghetto	Yechezkel Huberman	1143
In the Valley of Death	Perla Knopmacher	1147
In the Auschwitz Camp	Tzitterspieler Zvi	1151
In the Sobibor death camp	Niwiska	1157
The revolt	Misha Liew	1163
The uprising in the Sobibor death camp	Moshe Bahir	1171
This was how the uprising began	Michaeli	1177
Those who did not surrender in the valley of murder	Aizik Rothenberg	1185
The uprising of the Wlodawa Jews in Sobibor	Ada Lichtman	1195
“There is nothing to see in Sobibor”	Mordechai Tzanin	1197
The trial of the Sobibor hangmen	Shimon Kantz	1203
The founders of the Partisan group in Wlodawa	Bat–Chinka	1207
Through bloody battle under Nazi rule	W. Patzan	1211
The Jewish partisan group	Shyanko	1217
He believed in the success of the revolt	A. Babad	1225
The Tombstones Street	Ben Tzviya	1227
Desecration	S. Michaeli	1229
The Sobibor trial – on 80 video films	From the German Press	1229
Testimony against Nitchke, head of the SD		1231
Children accuse	Mira Ehrlich–Brom	1235
Living Hell	Tzipora Sicher–Rosenschein	1237
List of Martyrs (Necrology)		1243
Memorial Pages		1282
ENGLISH
Remember and Do Not Forget	Sisha Fuchs	3
Sobibor	H. Nivjeska	7
In a Jewish Division	A. Shenko	15
The Partisan Founders in Wlodowa	Bat–Chinka	27
Testimony against the head of the SD Nitshke	Jews of Wlodowa who survived	33
In Sobibor There is Nothing to See	Mordechai Zanin	39
The Uprising of the Jews of Wlodowa in Sobibor	Ada Lichtman	47
The Tombstone Street	Ben-Zwia Holzmann	49
The Destruction of Wlodowa	Ephraim Tilip	51
The Road Of Bloody Battles Under the German Occupation	Pazan	79
Experiences from the Ghetto and Extermination Camp	Eisik Rothenberg	87
Again in the Forest	Eisik Rothenberg	97
In The Valley of Death	Perla Knapfmacher	101
From the German Press		106
The Trial of the Executioner of Sobibor	Shimon Kanz	108
Nearly a Legend	Misha Lew	115

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