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Introduction and Forward
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| 5 | Introduction
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| 9 | The Community of Yurburg Among Lithuanian Jewry – Common and Unique Features - Professor Dov Levin |
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Chapter 1: The City and the Setting on the Banks of the Neiman River
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| 13 | My Yurburg – Sol Goldstein |
| 14 | Yurburg on the Banks of the Neiman River – Y. D. Kamzon |
| 15 | Jews of Yurburg – Y. D. Kamzon |
| 16 | On the Riverside – Shimon Shimonov |
| 18 | A Unique Town – A. Sarid |
| 21 | Yurburg - My Town of Birth – Dov (Berl) Levinberg |
| 25 | Memories of the Town of My Birth - Yurburg – Emmanuel Kopelov |
| 33 | That Was the Yurburg That I Knew – Mordechai Zilber |
| 43 | Our Yurburg – Bat Sheva Elon (Shtock) |
| 45 | Yurburg - My Unforgotable Town – Hinda Levenberg (Becker) |
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52 | Siaudine (Shaudine) - Yurburg's Neighbor -Meir Leibush
(family in El Paso, Texas)
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| 55 | Yurburg - Regional Trade Center – Hinda Levenberg (Becker) |
| 66 | Jewish Occupations in Yurburg – A Supplement to the Essay of Hinda Levenberg (Becker) |
| 68 | I Remember – Zevulun Poran (Yiddish) |
| 71 | My Shtetl Yurburg – Shimon Shimonov (Yiddish) |
| 74 | Years Ago There was a Town of Yurburg – Motl (Mordechai) Zilber (Yiddish) |
| 79 | Beautiful Town of Yurburg – Ben Devorah (Yiddish) |
| 82 | Yurburg Under Water
- Adapted by Paz (Yiddish) |
| 85 | The Town Jurbarkas – A Yurburger (Yiddish) |
| 88 | Yurburg Under the Soviet Regime – Translated into Hebrew by Shimon Shimonov |
| 91 | The Land of My Parents – Zevulun Poran |
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Chapter 2: The Families
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| 117 | The Story of the Escape and Remnant of My Family – Aliza Leipziger-Porath
(Irving Leipziger 's and William Berton's Family)
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| 123 | Memories of My Parents House – Bluma Heselovitz-Feldman |
| 129 | Me and My Family in Yurburg - Shoshanah Petrikanski (Poran)-Knishinski
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| 142 | Yurburg and People of Our Childhood – Hannah (Feinberg) Shraga (Shrage) |
| 149 | One Family from Many in Yurburg - The Story of The Smolnik Family – Zevulun Poran |
| 160 | The Most Family Knows a Sad Event in the Family – Yonina Most-Efraimi |
| 163 | The House of the Frank Family – Sarah Frank-Shapiro |
| 167 | My Family in the Days of the Fire and the Shoah (Holocaust) – by Rachael Hess (Ess) - Greenstein |
| 171 | My Parents House – Yafsh Levin Taitz |
| 173 | Zeev (Velvel) Levin Family – Rachel Levin-Rozenzweig |
| 176 | Hess Family -Tzvi Nekhemyah Hess |
| 179 | Petrikansky Family – Zevulun Poran |
| 184
| Families In Yurburg (Introduction) – Zevulun Poran |
| 186 | (Eliezer) Eliashuv Family – Aharon Elyashuv |
| 187 | (Haim Eliahu) Eliashuv Family – Arieh Elashuv |
| 188 | Afriaski Family by - Hannah Apriaski-Abel |
| 189 | Beiman Family – Yakov Beiman |
| 190 | Barshatnasky Family – Miriam Bershtanski-Verpolis |
| 191 | Reuven Hess Family -Rachel Hess-Greenstein |
| 193 | Haslelovitz Family – Yafah Heselkovitz-Lupianski and Bluma Heselkovitz -Feldman |
| 194 | Weinberg Family – Rivkah Weinberg-Ravitzky |
| 195 | Chaimovitz Family – Niuiah Chaimovitz-Slovo |
| 196 | Levenberg Family – Hinda Levinberg-Becker |
| 197 | Leipziger Family – by Aliza Leipziger-Porath
(William Berton's Family )
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| 199 | Magidovitz Family – Hannah Magidovitz-Goldman |
| 200 |
Most Family – Leah Most |
| 202 | Mazor
Family – Mina Mazur-Simon
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| 205 | Naividel Family – by Mordechai (Motl) Naividel |
| 203 | Melnik Family – Ge'ulah (Grunia) Melnik-Rabinovitz |
| 204 | Minzer Family – Sheina Mintzer-Polover
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| 206 | Smolnik Family – Hannah Smolnik-Polen |
| 207 | Polarvitz Family – Shoshanah Polarvitz |
| 208 | Feinberg Family – Mina Feinberg |
| 210 | Frank Family – Sarah Frank-Shapira |
| 211 | Koplov Family – Emmanuel Kopelov |
| 212 | Karabelnik Family – Hannah Karabelnik-Trainin |
| 213 | Rodensky Family – David-Mordechai Rodensky |
| 214 | Rabinowitz Family – Yakov Rabinowitz |
| 216 | Rahaza Family – Israel Rahaza |
| 217 | Raizman Family – Sarah Raizman-Yagolnitzer |
| 219 | Rikler Family – Aharon Rikler |
| 220 | Smolovsky
Family – Abraham Smolovsky |
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| Stern - Fein Family – Erika Katz |
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Chapter 3: Personages and Public Figures
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| 225 |
The Author Avraham Mapu
– by Zevulun Poran |
| 231 |
Zelig Shakhnovitz - Author and Intellectual
– by Pinkhas Volman |
| 235 |
Shlomo (Saul) Goldstein
– by Zevulun Poran |
| 248 |
Boris Bernstein - The Man, His Vision and his Works
– Zevulun Poran |
| 253 |
Pinchas Shakhnovitz - Zionist and Man of the Book
– Zevulun Poran |
| 256 |
Eliezer Liepziger -Teacher, Educator and Principal
– Emmanuel Kopelov |
| 258 |
Eliezer Liepziger - Friend and Soul-mate
–
Dr. Shlomo Kodesh
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| 262 |
Alter-Mordechai Shimonov
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Shimon Shimonov |
| 265 |
Mordechai Zilber - The Man and His Pen
–
Sarah Alkoni and Zevulun Poran |
| 268 |
Clara Bernstein-Dushnitzki
– Zevulun Poran |
| 270 |
Zalman Laibosh
– Actor and Director - Zevulun Poran |
| 273 |
The Artist William Zerach
– Paz |
| 274 |
Avraham Kasif - Educator and Man of Learning
– Zevulun Poran |
| 275 |
Chaim Seiger
– Teacher and Educator
– Zevulun Poran |
| 277 |
The Author and Educator Yisrael Dimantman
– Paz |
| 278 |
Berl Levinberg
– The Man and Public Figure
– Zevulun Poran |
| 281 |
Hinda Levinberg-Becker and Her Diary
– Zevulun Poran |
| 284 |
Rachel Niv - From Yurburg to a Beit-Zera
– Yakov Niv |
| 288 |
Meir Laibosh
– The Man and Friend
– Zevulun Poran |
| 289 |
Shimon Feinberg - Pioneer and Public Personality
– Zevulun Poran
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Chapter 4: Religion, Culture and Community Life
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| 293 |
Yurburg - A Jewish Community Distinguished by its Intellectual Life
by M. Simon Tilsit - translated by Josef Valk, son of Matityahu Valk, a native
of Yurburg |
| 294 |
Yurburg in Questions and Answers of the Rabbinical Literature
– Edited by Paz |
| 295 |
The Old Synagogue Tells Its Story
– Pinchas Shakhnovitz |
| 297 |
The Synagogue and the Communitys Religious Life
– Zevulun Poran |
| 305 |
History of the Jewish Community in Yurburg
– translated and rewritten in Hebrew by Z. Poran |
| 309 |
The Yurburger Community
– A Tax Payer |
| 311 |
The Talmud-Torah (Religious School) in Yurburg
(from "Hamelitz") - N A.D. |
| 312 |
The Elementary School in Yurburg
– Paz |
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The Hebrew Gymnasium in Yurburg
– Givat Brenner and Rivka Weinberg Ravitzky |
| 318 |
Student ID Card of a (High School) Gymnasia Student - Tovah Most |
| 319 |
Zionism and the Zionist Activity in Yurburg
– Zevulun Poran |
| 328 |
Yiddishism and Folkism in Yurburg
– Zevulun Poran |
| 332 |
Yurburg - A Song to the Tune of a Lithuanian Folk Song
– Emanuel Kopelov |
| 334 |
Yurberik
Liked the Theater
– Motl (Mordekhai) Zilber - Motl (Mordekhai) Zilber - (Yiddish) |
| 337 |
Memories of People and Events
– Avraham Shmulovsky |
| 342 |
The Rabbis of Yurburg During the Last Generation |
| 342 |
Rabbi Moshe son of Rabbi Shmuel Levinson
– by Nakhum-Eliezer Dushkes |
| 343 |
The Rabbi Yacov-Yosef Kharif |
| 343 |
Rav Yekhezkel bar Hillel Arie Lifshitz |
| 344 |
Rabbi Avraham Diamant, Yurburg's Last Rabbi
– Z. Poran |
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Rav Chaim-Reuven Rubinstein - The Rabbi in the Days of the Shoah
– Paz |
| 347 |
Religious Scholars Whose Names are Linked to Yurburg |
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Rabbi Shlomo Son of Arie-Lieb |
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Rabbi Yitzhak-Eliahu Son of Shemuel Landa |
| 348 |
Shlomo Levy Ben Israel Feinberg
– Philanthropist - Paz |
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Chapter 5: Youth and Their Activities in Yurburg
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| 351 |
The Maccabi Sports Organization in Yurburg
– Z. Poran |
| 358 |
The Jewish Scouting Movement - "Shomar Hatsa'ir"
(The Young Watchmen) - Z. Poran |
| 359 |
The Hostel and the Educational
Activity
- Z. Poran |
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There was the Betar Movement in Yurburg
– Zahavah Pulerevitz - Ben Yehudah |
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The "Hechalutz" (Poineer) as the Head of the Camp
- Z. Poran |
| 370 |
J. A. C. - The Jewish Athletic Club
– Z. Poran |
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Chapter 6: the Destruction of Jewish Yurburg
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| 373 |
The Book of Tears - Z. Poran
– (Hebrew image of the Poem) |
| 374 |
The Shoah (Holocaust) in the Second World War
– Z. Poran |
| 377 |
Yurburg Destroyed (The Story of Hannah Magidovitz)
– as recorded by Zevulun Poran |
| 388 |
Additional details on the Annihilation of the Jews of Yurburg
– The Testimony of Hannah Magidovitz - Translated from Yiddish by Paz |
| 395 |
Family in Dire Straits
– Belah Bernstein - Mering's Testamony |
| 398 |
Yurburg in the First Days of the Shoah
– (from the book "Lita") |
| 404 |
The Destruction of Yurburg - Tzvi Levit
– Yiddish - same as above article |
| 408 |
Yurburg in the Days of Its Destruction
– Rabbi Ephraim Ashri - Yiddish |
| 411 |
Cases of the Killing of Women and Children by Shooting
– The Ulms Trial, Tilsit - Yosef son of Matityahu Valk of blessed memory |
| 415 |
The Oppressors - Lewitzkas and Kaminskas
– Shimon Shimonov |
| 416 |
The People From Shaodina Were the First to be Executed
– Avraham Levyush |
| 419 |
The Last Days in Yurburg and the Surrounding Area
– Aba Val's story - recorded by Paz |
| 429 |
A Group of "Yurburgers" in the Forest
from Words of the Partisian Yehudah Tarshish
– rewritten by Z. Poran |
| 438 |
The Daring Escape to the Partisians in the Forest
– Mordechai Berkover |
| 451 |
A Letter from the Jail in Yurburg
– Mika Liubin - |
| 454 |
At the 7 km Marker from Yurburg to Smaleninken
– Leib (Arieh) Elyashev - Yiddish |
| 457 |
I Dreamt a Dream (song)
– Y. Katznelson |
| 458 |
Flowers of the Fatherland Grow on the Mass Grave in the Foreign Country
– Zahavah (Zlata) Pulerevitz-Ben Yehudah |
| 459 |
The Bitter End of the Community of Yurburg
– Paz |
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Chapter 7: Survivors of Yurburg Perpetuate the Memory of their Community
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| 463 |
The Organization of Yurburg Emigrants and Its Activites to Save the Memory of
the Community
– Shimon Shimonov |
| 466 |
Meeting of Emigrants from Yurburg in Jerusalem
– Frieda Shakhnovitz-Zevuloni |
| 468 |
What Does the Mean to Yurburg Tell Us?
– Zevulun Poran |
| 470 |
Yurburgers Help other Yurburgers
– Mordechai Zilber |
| 472 |
We Shall Remember - The Scroll of Planting the Yurburg Grove |
| 473 |
Address on the Planting of the Yurburg Grove -
Aliza Leipziger-Porath- (Irving Leipziger's Family and William Berton's Family) |
| 475 |
A Memory for Our Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren
– Zevulun Poran |
| 476 |
The Valley of Destroyed Communities - Yad Veshem - Memorial Site |
| 477 |
TheYurburg House in Jerusalem |
| 483 |
Yurburger Plant a Grove in Memory of their Loved Ones - A list
– Shimon Shiminov |
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I Shall Always Remember Them
– Hannah Feinberg-Shraga |
| 493 |
A Memorial Candle for My Family
– Diana Tobin (Berzener) |
| 494 |
In Eternal Memory
– Shulamith Miller (Feldman) |
| 494 |
In Memory
– Frida Epstein-Pukhert |
| 495 |
Eternal Memory
– Roza-Shoshanah Birger-Tarshish |
| 496 |
In Eternal Memory
– Dorothy Chosid-Bodnoff |
| 497 |
Jewish Residents of Yurburg - List by Street
– Mordechai Berkover |
| 503 |
Members of The Organization of Former Citizens of Yurburg and the Vicinity in
Israel
– Shimon Shimonov |
| 508 |
People of Yurburg Abroad
– List of Sons and Daughters of Yurburg Living Outside Israel - Shimon
Shiminov -
originally in English
{Additions by Joel Alpert - not in the original book} |
| 509 |
Greetings from Former Residents Yurburg in Lithuania
– Shimon Shiminov -
originally in English |
| 510 |
Survivors of Yurburg, Shoah Survivors (Holocaust Refugees) in Lithuania |
| 511 |
Epilogue: Address on the Occasion of the Internment of Ashes of Lithuanian
Martyrs at Yad VeShem
– Zevulun Poran - Shimon Shiminov -
originally in English |
| 512 |
The Only Tombstone
(Exerpt from Ben-Gurion's Address) - Shimon Shiminov -
originally in English |
| 513 |
We Shall Remember
– Zevulun Poran |
| 515 |
The Introduction to the Book of Remembrance
and
Summary of the Chapters |
| 520 |
Contents of the Yurburg Yizkor Book
(herein translated into English) |
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Special Illustrative Supplement - 16 pages , 32 photos on the subject of Yurburg |
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Additional Materials Collected and Added After the Publication of the Original
Hebrew Book
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