Wyszogród, Poland

Wyszogrod,
Book to the Martyrs of Wyszogrod
(Wyszogród, Poland)

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Translation of Wyszogrod, sefer zikaron le'kedoshei

Edited by: H. Rabin, former residents of Vishogrod

Published in Tel-Aviv, 1971

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This is a translation from: Wyszogrod, sefer zikaron le'kedoshei; Wyszogrod, book to the martyrs of Wyszogrod,
ed. H. Rabin. Tel Aviv, former residents of Vishogrod, 1971 (H,Y,E, 316 pages).

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English Submitted by Lois Jolson; Edited by Ada Holtzman

Vishogrod History, Description and Values
Jewish Vishogrod	H. Rabin	3
Vishogrod, Town of “Schools”	N. Sokolov	7
The Vishogrod Synagogue	David Dawidowicz	9
I Remember	Bella Gutman (Zawierucha)	12
A Purim-Day in Vishogrod	Haim Aaron Grodsdorf	15
An episode (Related by David Lipman)	Haim Aaron Grodsdorf	15

The Holocaust

I Fought Out My Life by Myself	Yitshak Pasterniak	16
From the Diary	Natan Daicz	20
With Mengele	G. Zalcberg	24
The Manager of the Moscow Synagogue from Vishogrod	A. Holender	28
Haim Joseph Holender of Blessed memory	M. Zilbershtein	29

Dynasties and Personages in Vishogrod

The Lipman family	N. Daicz	30
The Zilbershtein Dynasty	N. Daicz	31
My Grandfather, R. Pinhas Levine of Blessed Memory	H. Levine	33
Yoske Levine of Blessed Memory	N. Daicz	35
The Last Rabbi of Vishogrod	M. Walfish	37
Avraham Meir Krongrad of Blessed Memory	P. Milineck	39

Liberation Movements

The Society of Vishogrod in America	M. Zilbershtein	41
The “ Zionist Center”	D. Lipman	42
Zionism in Vishogrod	M. Zilbershtein	43
Beithar and the Youth Movements in Vishogrod	H. Levine	46
The Cultural Condition in Vishogrod in 1906	G. Lichtenshtein	48

Hebrew TOC translated by Ada Holtzman z”l

Association of the Wyszogrod Community in Israel (Foundation & Activities)		5
Gratitude of the Editor to the Wyszogrodians		6

Wyszogrod the Town (History and Values)

Wyszogrod Sources and in the Wyszogrod Book	H. Rabin	9
Wyszogrod, Town of “ Batei Midrash“ Religious Schools	N. Sokolov	14
Historical Review	A. Pelz	16
The Wyszogrod Synagogue	David Dawidowicz	17
The Rabbis of Wyszogrod (collected by A. Pelz)	N. L. Daicz	19

In the Storms of the Holocaust (Survivors' Testimonies)

List of the Deceased Before the Holocaust, as Submitted by the Relatives		22
Wyszogroders in the Ghettoes	Natan Daicz	23
On the Way to the Gas Chambers	Natan Daicz	32
Cruel also in Dying	Natan Daicz	36
Remember, person of Wyszogrod	Natan L. Daicz	39
A little boy in the days of horrors	Abraham Icchak Popowski (the grandson of Chana Itta Knepelmacher)	40
Letters without addressee (to Fejgele)	Herszel (Cwi) Noiman	47
With Mengele	G. Zalcberg (Nejdet)	50
A Bar Mitzva boy fights for his survival	Zecharia Prusak	55
Mauthhausen - Auschwitz - Berlin	Z. Bilgoraj	58
Wandering with Wyszogroders	Aron Iser Bilgoraj (Paris)	59
They do not leave also the dead in peace	From A. Pelz	61
From the first days	A. Pelz (from Neta Puterman)	62

Dynasties and Personages in Wyszogrod

The Life of Nahum Sokolov (parts from an article) Dates in N. Sokolov biography	I. Grinboim	65
My Grandfather, R. Pinhas Levine of Blessed Memory	H. Levine	68
R' Chaim Aharon Ferszt	N. B. Rahim	70
R' Mosze Gurfinkel (R' Mosze Jakob Wolf's)	H. Rabin	71
R' Pinchas Hodes's	A. Pelz	72
R' Mosze Jakob Wolf's	A. Pelz	73
Avraham Meir Krongrad of Blessed Memory	P. Milineck	75
My father of blessed memory, in my memories and my brother	Towa Krinka (Krongrad)	76
My father and my grandfather of blessed memory	Abram Wizwieski	77
R' Ichel Gerszt	P. Milineck	79

The Paths of Liberation

Beithar and the Youth Movements in Vishogrod	H. Levine	83
“The Mizrachi” in Wyszogrod	P. Milineck	85
“Agudat Israel”	P. Milineck	86
The Movement of “ Tzeirei Agudat Israel” - List of Members in the 30s	Natan Yehuda Ben Sinai	90
“Agudat Israel”	A. Pelz	91

Our Dead in The State of Israel

The last from the Buki family (Szmuel who did not fear death)		95
Szlomo Blusztein (Among the first immigrants from Wyszogrod) Szlomo Blustein (from the archive of Kfar Malal)	H. Levine	96
Mosze Michal Zychlin (Man) of blessed memory	H. Levine	97
To the personality of Chanoch Blustein of blessed memory	Y. Presman, lieutenant colonel - commander of the military police	98
Chanoch Blustein of blessed memory Born 1927 killed on Tishrei 20,1950 (19.10.1949)	M. S. W.	98
Cwika Mann of blessed memory	Dina	99

Collection (at the end of the book)

A wedding in Wyszogrod	A. Pelz	101
A message from the editorial board		103
My Uncle S. Jolson	Lois Jolson	104

Yiddish TOC translated by Pamela Russ

Editor's Foreword		109
A Few Words for the Editor		110
Organization of ex-patriots of Wyszogrod (report)		111
Financial report from the council		114
Thank you to the editor		115

Wyszogrod the City (History, Description, Economy)
Jewish Wyszogrod	Ch. Rabin	118
What I remember of Wyszogrod	D. Lipman	123
With Wyszogrod in my heart	Y. from Wyszogrod	124
My hometown Wyszogrod	M. Wolman	126
Nature's beauty and creativity	M. Walfish	128
Wyszogrod in another person's eyes	Harav Reb Z.Eilenberg	130
Livelihoods in Wyszogrod	N.L. Daicz	131
A fragment of Jewish reality	R. Glatstein	135
Market and market days	N.L. Daicz	137

Horror and Destruction (Survivors' Narratives)
Wyszogroders in the ghettoes	N.L. Daicz	141
On the way to the death camps		153
Murder also by their own killing		160
Remember, a Jew from Wyszogrod	N.L. Daicz	164
Notes from hell	H. Neuman	165
With Wyszogroders in difficulty	Y. Shlossberg	170
From ghetto to ghetto	Ch. Futerman	174
I Fought Out My Life by Myself	Y. Pasternak	175
One of many	Tz. Fuks	179
Sixteen years in Nazi hands	Z. Prusak	181
I left for Berlin	Z. Bilgoraj	185
The invasion	Ch. Levin	188
My last day in Wyszogrod	G. Cohen-Dekelbaum	189
The beginning of the end	M. Walfisz	190
It begins	Z. Zawierucha-Gutman	191
My mother's last letter	Z. Zawierucha-Gutman	193
From Christian to Christian	E. Hollender	195
With Wyszogrod in the wanderings	A.A. Bilgoraj	196
Sanctification of God's name, in Moscow	E. Hollender	198

Personalities and Portraits
Harav Reb Naftali Szpivak	M. Walfisz	201
With Nachum Sokolov	M. Turkow	203
Gershon Epstein	newspaper article	205
Yosef Yitzchak Epstein (Y. Monicz)	Ch.R.	207
Yoske Levine of Blessed Memory	N.L. Daicz	208
The Lipman family	N.L. Daicz	210
The Zilbershtein dynasty	N.L. Daicz	213
Everyone's friend	A. Peltz	215
Reb Chaim Aaron (Kotzker) Fersht	A. Peltz	217
Reb Lipa Wiezbinski	A. Peltz	219
Family Grosman	Ben Sinai Daicz	220
My encounters with M.M. Zhichlyn	B. Gutman	221
A merchant businessman	B. Zawierucha-Gutman	223
Avraham Walfisz (Fishele)	R. Glatstein	224
Kalman Ogrodnik	M. Walfish	226
In memory of the martyrs	P. Krongrad	227
My parents	Sh.A. Krongrad	229
The feather-woman and her grandchild	Y. Hecht	231
Reb Moshe Yaakov Taub	Deutch-Walfisz	232
Family memories	Ch. Gemach	233
Faces from back home	G. Cohen-Dekelbaum	235
Family Lichtenstein	D. Lipman	236
Chaim Yosef (Herbert) Holender	M. Zilbershtein	237
A representative group	M. Walfisz	238
The teacher Biezhunski	L. Szczofe	241
Yisroel Yeshiye Grosman	D. Grosman-Israelski	242
Memories	B. Kahn	242

Societies in Wyszogrod (Movements, Institutions, Activities)
Our Wyszogrod Committees		243
The great synagogue	N.L. Ben Sinai	245
The study halls and the houses of prayer	Ben Sinai Daicz	248
The Society of Vishogrod in America	M. Zilbershtein	250
The Wyszogrod representatives in America		251
Our Wyszogroder in Argentina	M. Ogradnik	252
Zionism in Vishogrod	M. Zilbershtein	253
The “Merkaz Hatziyonim” [Zionist Center]	D. Lipman	257
The Zionist youth in Wyszogrod	A. Rotbart	258
Movements and goals	M. Walfisz	259
120 years of workers	N.L. Daicz	268
Dear youth mistakes	A. Szczafe	273
Amshinov in Wyszogrod	Sh. Weingart	275
Cheders, religious teachers, schoolteachers	Nosson Leib-Mottel	275
The Cultural Condition in Vishogrod in 1906	G. Lichtenstein	279
A town of workers and small merchants	Y. Kwaszne	280

Wyszogrod (Memories, Episodes, Folklore)
A town to remember	H. Grosman	283
Memories of my hometown	G. Cohen-Dekelbaum	284
I Remember	B. Zawierucha-Gutman	285
Youth	B. Gutman	287
From my old memories	Sh. Weingart	289
Fishel Krongrad's yahrzeit	Sh. Weingart	290
People's strength in Wyszogrod	N.L. Daicz	291
Great Wyszogrod days	A. Peltz	292
A Purim in Wyszogrod	Ch.A. Grosdorf	296
From Wyszogrod folklore	M. Walfisz	297
List of the Wyszogrod Martyrs		298
List of the Wyszogrod Deceased		314

Captions: Images from Wyszogrod
Lists from Yiddish part Occupations Mlodziszyn - Necrology Yeshivot Bucher Our Wyszogrod Committees		131 173 229 243

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