Khorostkiv, Ukraine

Chorostkow Book
(Khorostkiv, Ukraine)

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Translation of Sefer Choroskow

Edited by: D. Shtokfish, Committee of former residents of Chrostkow in Israel

Published in Tel Aviv, 1968

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This is a translation from: Sefer Chorostkow (Chorostkow book), Editors: D. Shtokfish, Tel Aviv,
Committee of Former Residents of Chorostkow in Israel, 1968 (H, Y, 418 pages)

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CONTENTS

Translated by Sidney Lightman

FIRST PART (HEBREW) A. The shtetl (small town) up to the time of its destruction

Foreword		5
The History of Chorostkow and Its Jews	Dr N. M. Gelber	11
Minute-Book of the Chorostkow Chevrah Kadisha		20
In a Little Town	Pinchas Sherlag	27
Chorostkow	Chanoch Shechter	51
About the Life of Our Little Town 1914-1930	Avraham Glick	86
Three Times Chorostkow	Leah Blauthal-Zeltkes	93
The Market	Shlomo Werber	100
Parties, Organisations and Societies	Haim-Israel Weissbrodt	104
About Hanoar Hatzioni (Zionist Youth Movement)	Dov Arieli	138
Hashomer Hatzair in Chorostkow	Bella Kessler	153
The Kindergarten in Chorostkow	Rivkah Hart (Vogelmann)	155

B. Figures

The Rabbi's House	Sarah Heitner	159
Portrait of Rabbi Meshulam Rota, of blessed memory	Zephania Drori	161
Pinchas Sherlag		164
Public Affairs Activists	Haim-Israel Weissbrodt	165
A Family Who All Survived	Moshe Yavor	195
The History of One Family	Aharon Widermann of blessed memory	202
A Skilled Conversationalist	Dov Sadan	220
Figures	Shlomo Werber	226
Shmuel Epstein	Yekutiel Chereg	232
Leah Weissbrodt	Bella Kessler	235
In Memory of Aharon	Moshe Yavor	236
Portraits of Comrades	Yitzchak Kessler	237

C. The Holocaust

Testimony from the Days of the Holocaust	(Recorded by H. Y. Weissbrodt)	243
Three Testimonies	Leah Zeltkes, David Wich, Dr Klahr	248

SECOND PART (YIDDISH) D. Between Two World Wars

Unforgettable Memories	Marek Sherlag	253
Chorostkow at the Time of the First World War	S. An-Ski	258
That Was How the Shtetl Lived	Yosef Cohen	263
Beautiful and Sad Recollections	Hanya Widermann	268
Parties, Organisations, Societies	Haim-Israel Weissbrodt	270
Religious Life	Shalom Klinger	292
Chorostkow as I Remember It	Yitzchak Widermann	304
Zionist Activity	Hersch-Mendel Klein	308
My Visit To The Town	Aharon Widermann, of blessed memory	312
About Our People	Moshe Fink	317
Summation and Overview of Pre WW1 Chorostkow Until WW2	Dr. Morton R. Lang

E. The Holocaust

Intoduction	Dr. Morton R. Lang
A Memorial for the Jews of Chorostkow	Bluma Feffer-Lempel	325
Chorostkow Under the Soviets	Yitzhak Kessler	332
First Letter About the Destruction	Matilda Krenkel	334
My Experience Under the Germans	Shimon Kahana	336
Years of Sorrow, Anguish and Struggle	Zipporah (Fanya) Kiperman	337
The Tragic Fate of Some Jewish Families	Chayah Zydowicki	364
Survival in Camp	Yitzchak Goldflies	365
I was Successful in Escaping	Fanie Katz-Goldhirsch	365
The Disappearance of a Jewish Community	Chanah Zineman (Margulis – Klar)	367
Ruins Remain of Jewish Chorostkow	Moshe Feingold	370
Ukrainians and Poles Helped to Murder the Jews	Avraham Vitoff	373
Concentration Camps in Eastern Galicia		375
Concluding comments regarding “The Holocaust”	Dr. Morton R. Lang

F. Associations – Organisations of Jews from Chorostkow

Intoduction	Dr. Morton R. Lang
The Organisation of Jews From Chorostkow in Israel		379
Fellow Former Chorostkow Residents in NewYork	Shmuel-Shlomo Schwartz	381

G. List of Martyrs

Memorial Prayer – Necrology		389-408
Memorial Dedications		409-418

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