Bol'shoy Zhëlutsk, Ukraine

Memorial Book of the Community of Zoludzk
(Bol'shoy Zhëlutsk, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Ner tamid le-zekher kehilat Zoludzk

Edited by: A. Avinadav, Tel Aviv 1970

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This is a translation of: Ner tamid le-zekher kehilat Zoludzk (Memorial book of the community of Zoludzk),
Edited by: A. Avinadav, Association of Former Residents of Zoludzk in Israel, Tel Aviv 1970 (H, Y 185 pages)

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Translated by Sara Mages

With the Book (a word from the editor}	A. Avinadav	5

The Town That Was
The History of Zhelutsk	Michael Primack	11
A summer day dream (poem)	Arye Avinadav	27
My brother and sister please remember!	Arye Galon	31
The life of the community and the individual in our town	M. Meniuk-Fein	37
The way of life in Zhelutsk	Ziskind Krook	52
The way of life in Zhelutsk [Y]	Ziskind Krook	55
My town and my family	L. Barill-Shoham	59
Like a rose amongst the thorns	Yakov Zask	63
The endearing town	Michael Leifer	67
Figures	Arye Galon	71
Introduction to the Song of Songs	Arye Galon	77
The wedding of the Rabbi's daughter	Henya Primack	79
The slaughterers' dispute	Dov Galon	82
In their memory	Moshe Zuckerman	84
Orphan's Kaddish (poem)	Chaim Lavshai	86
With a strong arm	A. Galon	87
From Zhelutsk to Binyamina [Israel]	Zev Diamentin	90
Woe, my homeland… (poem)	Zerach Halevi	96

War and Holocaust
The establishment and the destruction of Wolyn's Jewry	A. Avinadav	99
On the sanctification of the Lord's name	Y.L. Yonatan	101
When a permission was given to the destroyer	A. Galon	102
The destruction of Zhelutsk	Z. Krook	103
Three sisters in the forest	Yentel Kaufman	109
Three sisters in the forest [Y]	Yentel Kaufman	115
The heroic death of Eliezer Kantor	Yakov Bass	122
How our love ones fell	M. Meniuk-Fein	124
My soul will cry in secret	Z. Diamentin	127
The families Galon and Bliznyuk	A. Galon	129
One out of a family	Ajzek Giebel	130
Our home that was destroyed	Elisheva Rosenberg	132
From death to life	Dov Galon	135
In the struggle for life	Ben-Zion Kantor	138

Yizkor
G-d will remember	A. A.	145
List of Martyrs from Bol'shoy Zhelutsk		146
Absent in the Homeland: Sheraga Krook, Nathaniel Finkelstein and Yakir Mordechai Leifer	A.G.	154

The Survivors
From Zhelutsk to the Brigade and HaBricha*	Binyamin Zalzman	163
From destruction to salvation – the long way	A. Galon	166
Former Zhelutsk's residents in Israel	The Committee	188
Map of the region		2
A chart of the town	The Architect Srbrany	9

37 photos (personalities, groups, families and landscapes are scattered throughout the book)
Verses and Sayings of our Sages on pages: 10, 83, 98, 114, 126, 144, 162

* Bricha – escape or flight - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricha

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