Deblin-Modzjitz Book
(Dęblin, Poland)

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Translation of Sefer Deblin-Modzjitz

Edited by: D. Stokfish

Published in Tel Aviv, 1969 (H, Y)

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This is a translation from: Sefer Deblin-Modzjitz (Deblin-Modzjitz Book),
editors: D. Stokfish, Tel Aviv, Association of former residents of Demblin-Modzjitz, 1969 (H, Y, 694 pages).

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Demblin-Modzjitz Book

Editor: David Stokfish

Publishing Organization
Demblin-Modjzitz in Israel and abroad

Printed in Israel, 1969

Printing Press "Arazi", Tel Aviv, Telephone 34-294

Translation from English to Polish

Translated by Andrzej Cieśla

	Forward and Acknowledgements to English Translation	8
	Preface	10

A.	Once there was a Town	12
	History of Irena-Demblin, According to Historical Sources	14
	The Destruction of Jewish Demblin in Numbers	17
	B. Demblin - The City on the Threshhold of this Century	18
	The Modjzitz Market Place The Fifth Year [1905] in Modjzitz The Rabbi's House Pesach Melamed's little School
	Abraham Shmeltzstein - Memories from the First World War	38
	Andja Shmeltzstein-Tishman - What I Remember of My Home Town	42
	Forced Labor - 1914 Version Czarist Expulsion New Rulers - Austrians and Poles My Father The Professional Union The Burial Society The Synagogue Purim in the Town Ghosts The Teacher and the Angel of Death They called us little boys Nicknames We make Aliyah to Israel
	Chaim Traler - Demblin-Modzjitz 50 Years Ago	55
	A Young Community The Fortress and Train Center the important sources of Making a Living The Religious Life In the First World War A New Source of Income - Smuggling The New Epic
	Velvel Tishman - Of the First World War, and afterwards	63
	Mindel Zinger - The Beginning	65
	Meckla Kaplansky-Buckspan - A Town like all Towns	67
	Dr. Kalman Paris - My Memories of Demblin	69
	Benyamin Smit - Memories of once upon a time	74
	David Waichman - Memories and Images of my Birthplace	75
	Demblin Piety Jewish Families and Types
	Yithak-Ahron Yom-Tov - A Big, Jewish Family	80
	Yitzhak Apelgot - About My Family and Town	82
	Yisrael Rozenwein - Childhood Memories	84
	About the Demblin Way of Life; from the Newspaper "The Observer"	88
	Grabbed by the Hand Prizes Important News Advertisements
	Fidelis Stamphian - The Jews of Demblin Until the Holocaust	92
	The History of Demblin In the First World War Poland's Independence Religious Life Matters of Health Education and Culture Banks Other Institutions Industry, Crafts and Trade The Count of Jews becomes smaller
	Chaim-Meir Goldberg - People and Events in Demblin	107
	Arye Buckspan - Political Parties in Demblin-Modzjitz	117
	Laibel Buckspan - Hasidic, Zionist and Communist	121
	Avraham Goldberg - The Searching of the Youth	127
	Laibel Nodelfodim - The First 7-Grade Jewish Co-educational School	128
	Benyamin Zilberman - Parties and Figures	130
	Moshe Wasserman - Professional Activity, Cultural Work, Personalities	146
	Benyamin Zilberman - Artisans and Merchants	158
	Hershel Nisenboim - Of the Life of Workers in Demblin	160
	Roiza Heldman-Bantman - Our Jewish Bank	166
	David Shulman - The Home, Revisionist Organization, Modzjitzer Hasidim	167
	Tzvi Eichenbrenner - The High Holidays in Our Town	170
	A. B. Yader - In the Singing Hall	174
	Photo Section A	178

B.	Pesonalities	196
	M. Kipnis - Rabbi Yisrael, The Admor of Modzjitz, and his Nigguns	198
	Shmuel Rotstein - The Life, Creation and Death of the Modzjiter Rabbi, Saul Taub	208
	Hasidic Songs of the Modzjitzer Rabbi	213
	N. Bar-Oryan - From Modzjitz to Dizengof Street	219
	Musical Score – A Meloday of the Modzjitzer Rabbi	222
	Arye Buckspan - Rabbi Avraham Shmeltzstein	223
	Andzja Shmeltzstein - Letters and Responses	224
	Ze'ev Shmeltzstein - My Father Avraham Halevy Shmeltzstein	229
	Mordechai Halamish - Benyamin-Demblin (Taitelboim)	232
	Benyamin Demblin Taitelboim - From Lexicon of New Jewish Literature	234
	G. Kersel - Binyamin Tene	236
	Wolf Tenenboim - Chaim Traler	237
	Benyamin Zilberman - Of Our Personalties	239
	Arye Buckspan - Shmuel (Oralis) Rubinstein	253
	Shapiro-Brandshpigel - To the Memory of My Near and Dear Ones	254
	Tzvi Eichenbrenner - Nuach Ekheizer; Shmuen, The Hoarse One	255
	Mendel Goldstein - The Sendwitzer Family	258
	Moshe Wasserman - Reb David Ben-Shmuen Zilberman (Fahkers)	259
	Zehava Amitz - The Road of Her Life - Only Good Deeds	260
	Chaya Goldfarb - The Memory of Alter and Bina-Rachel Friedman	262
	Yithak Apelhot - Reb Yaacov Apelhot	263
	S. Perelmuter - Yarmeyohu Vanapol	265
	Chaim Golberg - Avraham Abramowitz and Yosef-Nata Cholewinski	266
	Yithak Shtamler - In Memory of the Martyrs of the Shtamler Family	267
	Avraham Shulman - Immortalizing My Parents, Sisters and Brothers	269

	In Defense of the Land of Israel
	Al Hamishmar Daily (Newspaper) - Alexander Kestenboim (Armon)	270
	Hadassa Eichenbrenner - The Martyred Child Alek Kestenboim	271
	The Paratrooper Shamaiye Shayevitch	276
	Michael, Sarah-Leah and Dinela Shayevitch - Our Son Shamaiye Shayevitch	277
	Tzi Eichenbrenner - "Faster Than an Eagle, Stronger Than a Lion" in Memory of Paratrooper Shamaiye Shayevitch	279
	Arye Agassi	281
	Photo Section B	284

C.	The Holocaust	290
	Binyamin Tene - Childhood	292
	Moshe Wasserman - We Establish You As a Living Monument	294
	Arye Buckspan - Yizkor (Remember)	296
	David Shulman - Do Not Forget!	297
	Yaacov Ekheizer - The Destruction of Demblin	298
	Stamphian Fidelis - The Jews of Demblin During the German Occupation	310
	Tzvi Eichenbrenner - Thus Was Jewish Demblin Destroyed	336
	Andzja Tupolsky - In the Ghetto and in the Camps	384
	Aida Milgroim-Tzitrinboim - How We Taught, Gave Courage and Saved Jewish Children of Demblin	387
	Chaim Shtamfater - Koryov - Modzjitz - Buchenwald	394
	Devorah Reznik - We Saw the Children No More	398
	Rhoda Lindover - Memories of Hitler's Hell	399
	Binyamin Shtamler - On Their Last Journey	402
	Jews of Demblin Tell About the Holocaust	404
	S. Perelmuter - The First Passover in the Camp of Demblin	416
	Chaya Shildkroit - The Destruction of My Hometown	418
	Ahron Katshka - From Demblin to Bergen-Belsen	421
	Chana Goldberg - My Road of Torments from Demblin to Dachau	425
	Esther Apelboim - From Warsaw Ghetto to the Demblin Camp	439
	Pesa Kanner (Golderet) - My Father's Vow	444
	Chaya-Brocha Rosenberg-Urbach - Tragic Fate of a Jewish Demblin Family	450
	Mendel Shteinbach - From Camp to Camp	452
	Meir Eichenbrenner - The First Half Year of Horror	458
	Miriam Tzimbrovitch - Survival of Hell	464
	Aba Bronspigel - I Was Born in 1938	466
	Chaya Zilberberg-Weinberg - Tales of a Survivor	467
	Esther Shapiro-Tenenboim - The Russians Liberated Us	473
	Zaheva Amitz - The Second Expulsion	475
	Yosef Daitsher - I don't have the Strength to describe everything	478
	Malka Lederman-Flek - The 6th of May, 1942	484
	Matityahu Zukerman - The Only One of Two Thousand Souls Who Had the Horror of Being Buried	485
	Esther Kaminsky - Only Me and My Children Were Saved	486
	Chaya Goldfarb-Rozenberg - Survived with My Daughter	494
	Avrohmele Abenshtein - I Succeeded in Saving Various Jews	496
	Avrohmele Abenshtein - Murdered After Liberation	500
	Shavti Perelmuter - Jewish Resistance in the Ghetto and the Camp	501
	Aba Bantman - The Martyr Like Way of Yechiel Bantman	505
	Dr. Kalman Paris - The Destruction of Jewish Demblin	514
	Zipporah Schilling - I'll Never Forget That Day (17th of Cheshvan)	525
	Yisrael Bubis - The Year 1942	528
	Arye Albert - "Circling" In Memory of the Martyrs in the Rabbi of Modzjitz House of Learning in Tel Aviv	531
	Photo Section C	532

D.	Those from Demblin-Modzjitz, in Israel and abroad	538
	Arye Buckspan - Account of the Activities of the Demblin-Modzjitz Émigré Organization in Israel	540
	Wolf Tenenboim - The Demblin Society in France	543
	Photo Section D	546

E.	Pages that immortalize	552
	List of Martyrs	554
	Obituaries	572

	History of Demblin (Submitted as an insert to the Yizkor Book)

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