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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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Translated by Sidney Lightman
FIRST PART (HEBREW) A. The shtetl (small town) up to the time of its destruction |
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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 |
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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 | |
List of Captions for Photos and Documents |
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