Miechów, Poland

Miechov Memorial Book, Charsznica and Ksiaz

(Miechów, Poland)	(Charsznica, Poland)	(Książ Wielki, Poland)
50°22' / 20°02'	50°25' / 19°26'	50°26' / 20°08'

Translation of
Sefer yizkor Miechow, Charsznica, Ksiaz

Editors: N. Blumenthal, A. Ben-Azar (Broshy)

Published in Tel Aviv 1971

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator

William D. Cherny

Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem
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Our sincere appreciation to Genia Hollander
for typing up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project

This is a translation of: Sefer yizkor Miechow, Charsznica, Ksiaz (Miechov memorial book, Charsznica and Ksiaz),
Editors: N. Blumenthal, A. Ben-Azar (Broshy), Former Residents of Miechov, Charsznica and Ksiaz,
Published: Tel Aviv 1971 (H,Y 314 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Miechow

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Table of Contents translated by Yocheved Klausner

A Word from the Publishers	A. Ben–Azar
Foreword	Shmuel Berger
Waterfalls of time	Y.L. Bieler
Miechow – general view

The History of our Community
On the Holy Communities of Miechów Charsznica and Ksiaz	Eliezer Lavi (Yazkirowitz)	17
History of the Jews of Miechów	Nachman Blumenthal	35

From the Past
A. Anecdotes from the Town
Ya'acov Spiegel Recounts	Recorded by Moshe Spiegel	55
The First Personalities	Ya'acov Levitt	57
March of the Generations	Meyer Goldberg	58
The District-City Miechow – Powiat [district] Miechow [Y]	Yosl Charif (Astri)	60
High Holidays in My Parents' Home [Y]	Getzl Levitt	62
Memories from Before the First World War [Y]	Chaim Zalcberg	78

B. Cultural and Educational Establishments
The “Heder” and Teachers in Miechów	Moshe Spiegel	80
The “Mizrachi” School	Ze'ev Dror (Friedrich)	82
The Gymnasium in our Town	Shmuel Berger	86
The “Dror” Youth Library in Miechów	Moshe Spiegel	89
The Drama Society	Sarah Friedman (Sukenik)	90
The Youth of Miechów	Gershon Charig (Katolyk)	91
Cultural Activities	Moshe Spiegel	92
Cultural and Social Development of Miechow [Y]	Moshe Savitzki	94

C. Organizations and Youth Movements
From my Memories of the Youth Movements in Miechów	Yitzhak Polska(?)	96
The “Mizrachi” and “Young Mizrachi” in Miechów	Arieh Brukner	99
The Youth Movements in Miechów	Ze'ev Dror (Friedrich)	102
The Kadima Sports Club [Y]	Mendl Alszewski	106
The Rise, Development and Destruction of the Cooperative Movement in Miechow [Y]	M. Sbitcki	109

D. Between the Two World Wars
No. 1 Krakowski Street	Sarah Ilan	111
Our House	Sarah Wertheim	114
Impressions of the Pogrom of 1920	Moshe Burstein	115
Pogroms against the Jews of Miechów	Ya'acov Spiegel	116
How the Jews of Miechów and Charsznica celebrated the opening of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus	Shimon Dov Yerushalmi	118
The Foundation Fund for Israel – Miechów's magnificent operation	Yehezkiel Dror (Friedrich)	122
The “Miechów Group” in Israel	S.D. Yerushalmi	124
Memories of my Birth-Town [Y]	Henya Zingerman	126
Of Events in My City [Y]	Ruwin Lewit	129
A Monument for Miechow [Y]	Shmuel Blum	130

Personalities and Families
My Father's House	Shmuel Berger	135
From the “Visionary of Lublin” to the “Grandfather” of Miechów	Dov Yerushalmi	139
The Wealthy of the Town	Hannia Feigenbaum–Zyngerman	142
A Tombstone for my Family – Like a Thousand Others	Meir Goldberg	144
The writer Israel Zarchi	S. D. Yerushalmi	146
Shmuel Nahum Chanowsky	Moshe Spiegel	149
Berish Frankel (Z”L)	Tsvi Frankel	150
Esther Etil Burnstein	M. Sukenik	152
Haim Tennenwurcel	Raphael Mlinarski	153
Yehuda Zelmanowicz (Z”L)	Ze'ev Dror	155
In Memory of Yehuda Zelmanowicz	Yitzhak Pulaski	156
Rabbi Yankele Rottenberg	Moshe Spiegel	157
In Memory of My Parents	Yehuda Burstein	159
Avraham Yama and His Son Shlomo	Haim Ze'ev Yama	160
Personalities from among “The Hidden Ones”	Y. Pulaski, Y. Grynwald, Y. Goldberg	161
The Mlinarski Family	Dov Mlinarski	163
The Vanchadlovski Family	Tsvi Vanchadlovski–Vardi	172
A Friend's Wife Who is no More	Shimshon–Dov Yerushalmi	175
Zahava Shen (HY”D)	Dov Mokri	178
In Memory of my Parents	Eta Sherman (Née Horowitz)	180
Yona Friedrich (Z”L)	Moshe Spiegel	180
Moshe Sabotka (Z”L)	Arieh Sheintal	181
Elimelech Sabotka (HY”D)	Arieh Sheintal	184
Childhood Memories	Reuven Getzel (Levitt)	185
Shimshon Dov Yerushalmi	Shmuel Berger	187
Miechow Types [Y]	Shmuel Khazan	190
The Lazar Family	Rafael Mlinarski	192

The Holocaust
The Destruction and the Holocaust	Yehuda Greenbel	195
The Struggle for Life	Pesach Bezerdki	201
Our Family in Miechów	Eliezer Dresner	207
The Transport	Natan Rosenkrantz	210
Miechów 1939–1943	Yitzhak Weinreb	210
The War Years 1939-1945 [Y]	Arya (Leib) Sosnowski	212
Reflections of a Miechow Concentration Camp Survivor [Y]		216
In the Ghetto and Camps [Y]	Doba Lewin-Abramowicz	217
Episodes from the Time of War [Y]	Yonah Fridrich	218

Charsznica and Ksiaz
A. Charsznica
The Town of Charsznica	Yisrael Rogovski	223
A Family that Was Cut Down	Israel Rogovski	229
Charsznica	N. B.	232
Jewish Life in Charsznica [Y]	Y.S. Wajcman	233
The Destruction of Charsznica [Y]	Sura (née Grajcer) Rozenberg	234

B. Ksiaz
Yizkor (poem)	Avraham Yakov Walbromski	238
Ksiaz Wielki	N. B.	239
An Anthology of the Rabbis of Ksiaz		244
High Holydays in Town	Avraham Y. Walbromski	250
Friends and Teachers from the Days of My Youth	Avraham Y. Walbromski	252
Memories of Ksiaz	Yitzhak Silberberg	254
The Town Markets	Haim Friedberg	255
From Ksiaz to Charsznica	Avraham Zelig Silberberg	257
The Evacuation from Ksiaz	Avraham Ya'acov Walbromski	260
Ksiaz under the Nazis	Yehoshua Wundersman	266
A Matzeyvah (poem)	A. Y. Walbromski	267
Reb Dovid Walbromski – the House of Prayer gabbai	A. Y. Walbromski	268
Yosl the Town Shamas [Y]	A. Y. Walbromski	271
My Family in the Shtetl Kzias	Yitzhak Meir Wyerza	272
The Families in the Bunkers [Y]	Mordekhai Herszkowicz and Ahron Matuszinski	273
How I Survived the Germans [Y]	Ruchl Wilczkowski	276
The Last Friday (poem)	A. Y. Walbromski	280

Miechów Survivors in Israel
Activities of the Miechów–Charsznica Association in Israel from its Inception until its Foundation	Shmuel Berger	285
The Process of Publishing the Memorial Book of the Miechów, Charsznica, Ksiaz Communities	Shmuel Berger	291

List of the Martyrs (Necrology)
Miechów martyrs		295
Charsznica martyrs		307
Książ Wielki martyrs		309

My Hometown – Miechov [English]		318

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