Zabludow, Poland

Zabludow Yizkor Book
In Memory of Their Deaths During World War II
(Poland)

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Translation of
Zabludow Yisker- Bukh

Edited by: Shmuel Zesler et al.

Published in Buenos Aires, 1961

Acknowledgments

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This is a translation from: Zabludow Yisker- Bukh (Zabludowo; in memoriam),
Editors: Sh. Tsesler et al., Buenos Aires, Zabludowo Book Committee, 1961 (Y, 507 pages).

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Zabludow (1961)

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ZABLUDOW

Editors and Committee of the Yizkor Book

Translated by: Edmund U. Cohler

Associate Editors:
Shmuel Zesler, Joseph Reznik, Yitzhak Zesler

Editorial Consultant:
Mordechai W. Bernstein

Committee:
Elihu Gelerstein (Tel Aviv) - Honorary Chairman
Shmuel Zesler - Chairman
Joseph Reznik - Vice Chairman
Yitzhak Zesler - Secretary
Zalman Reznik - Deputy Secretary
Chaim Yachnuk - Treasurer
Abraham Rofe - Deputy Treasurer

Members:
David Zabludovsky, Shepsel Breslavsky, Abraham Reznik, Shmuel Sherman, Mosheh Zesler, Chaim Schlesser, Abraham Kashman, Gedaliah Bezruk, Abraham Lapetshei
Sub-Committee in the Land of Israel: Mikhal Lifshitz (ben Benjamin Shraga), Avishi Dolinsky, Shmuel (Molie) Bernstein

Translated by: Edmund U. Cohler

	Introduction	11
Yitzhak Zesler:	Memorial.	13

1) The Genesis
Mordechai W. Bernstein:	Old Zabludow .	19
	Preface; 1) The Dispute Between Grodno and Tiktin; 2) From the Pinkas of Zabludow; 3) The Sessions of the "Council of the Country of Lithuania" in Zabludow
Jerucham Bachrach:	Materials on the History of the Oldest Jewish Settlements in the Bialystok District in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries.	81
Dr. Jakob Shatzki:	The Village of Zabludow and its Synagogue.	99
Michal Lifshitz (BEZ):	Our Old Zabludow Synagogue.	104
Y.L. Cohen:	About the Zabludow Synagogue.	109
Shmuel Zesler:	******(Hebrew).	110
Z. Segalovitch:	The Zabludow Synagogue; In the Kinneret.	112
Y. Krepliak:	Lost.	113
D.Z.:	S. Anski Visits the Zabludow Synagogue.	118

2) Up to World War I
Michal Hakohen Sinai:	Memories About Zabludow.	121
Dr Herman Frank:	Yakob Krepliak.	128
Yakob Krepliak:	My Hometown.	134
Abraham Kotik:	How I Succeeded in Yiddish.	137
Alter Ganietzshotzki:	Stories of an Era.	144
	The Dispute at that Time with the Chevra-Kadisha; Krazenstein's Manor "Zabludow" and the "Krasne" Forest; the Zabludow "Burgers"; the "Prizivnikes" of Zabludow.
Rabbi Jochanan Mirsky:	The Rabbis of Zabludow	156
Michal Lifshitz (BEZ)	The Gaon and Tzadik Reb Yoseles, of blessed memory	158
Michal Lifshitz (BEZ)	The Gaon Abraham-Akiva Subotnik	160
Alter Ganietzshotzki	The Zabludow Rabbi the Tzadik Reb Yoseles, Others - Rabbis, Judges and Teachers	163
	The Judge, reb Shmuel Mazortshik; Yenkel Naftalis, the Judge; Itzike the Teacher and his School; Shlomiliche's Son-in-law, the Tall Teacher
Y.K.	Reb Shmuel Feinstein, the Gemara Teacher of Zabludow	168
Mosheh Binder	The Children's Teacher	170
Alter Ganietzshotzki:	The Worker's Movement in Zabludow; the Organization of the "Bund".	173
Israel Ostrof	In My Old Home	180
	1) The First Political Casualties in Zabludow; 2) The "Parlement" in Zabludow
Y. Tz-r	Folks in Zabludow	184
A. Sh. Hershberg	Chaim Zelig Slonimsky	188
Michal Lifshitz (BEZ)	Impressions of Our Home	191
	Reize Rivahs Kreml; Chlavne the Prayer Leader; Reb Heshel Hefner
Zev Efer	On My Childhood	197
Jonas Turkov	Zesha Sarna (Hershfeld)	200
Lifo Rubin	Childhood Years	204
Shmuel Lifshitz	Zabludow Jewish Personalities	206
	Alter the Barber; Esther Chaya the "Zogerin"
Elihu Gelerstein	Lost Worlds	210
Peretz Shwartz	The Zabludow Enlightenment	215
Joseph Zabludovsky	Yiddish Theater in Zabludow	218
Mosheh Binder	Zabludow Families	220
A. G-n	Mohel Geven	224
David Zabludovsky (ben Chaim Tzvi)	Zabludow - Its Eternal Stamp on My Heart.	227
Melech Ravitsh	Benn	231
Mosheh Zaltzman	Reb Mosheh Zelik Petlin	233
Sulke Petlin Tsherof	My Father's Great School	234
Y.L. Alter	Three Zabludow Portraits	236
	Aharon Hersh the Doctor; Shmuel Leib Zesler, the Violin Virtuoso; Jerucham Bachrach, the Young Historian
David Zabludovsky	My Father, Joseph Zabludovsky, peace be unto him	246
Joseph Zabludovsky	Songs	250
	I Want to Forget a Time Without You; Why It Happens Only at Evening; Why the Lovely Summer; The Jewish Laugh
Mordechai Toby	The "Family Zabludove"	254

3) Between the Two World Wars

Sarah Keile Subotnik-Gelerstein	How My Father, Rabbi Subotnik, Rescued Zabludow	257
Shmuel Lifshitz	In Expectation	259
Alter Gnietshotski	The Zabludow River is an Escape	260
Yitzhak Zesler	Zabludow Under the German Occupation (1914- 18)	262
Michal Lifshitz (BEZ)	War Experiences	266
Mosheh Goniondzky	Our Zabludow Library	267
David Zabludovsky	Theater, Culture and Entertainment	272
Mosheh Zilberberg	About the Zionist Movement in Zabludow	282
Yerak Yetzer	An Overview of the Zabludow Workers Movement	286
	About Zabludow Communal Life	294
	Zabludow's "Lint the Tzadek"; Splitting Wood for the Winter; About the Management of the Zabludow Peoples-Bank; The Y.L. Peretz Library; a Carters' Cooperative
	Letters, Correspondence and Articles About Important Events in Zabludow	304
Y. Reznik	Zabludow in Relief	315
Dr. Asher Babli	Zabludow	322
Itshele	Selections from Zabludow Folk-lore	324

4) Zabludow People Around the World
	In North America	331
	In Israel	335
	In Australia	338
	In Chile	339
	In Uruguay	341
	In Mexico	342
	In Cuba	342
	In Argentina	343
Elihu Gelerstein	Meetings between Zabludowers in America and Israel	352

5) Destruction and Mass Murder

Shmuel Zesler	With Full Compassion (Hebrew)	359
Pinie Khorovsky	Our Dear Hometown on the Day of Its Gruesome Dying Agony.	362
	Documents on the Destruction of Zabludow	395
Efrim Rubins	The Annihilation of Our Beloved Home	400
David Zabludovsky (Dodia)	Pictures of Horror, Mass Death and Destruction.	404
Y.L. Alter	Mama! Where Are You? Where!?	417
David Zabludovsky (son of Chaim Tzvi)	Trouble by	418
Nechama Yachnok-Loshitzky	My Experiences at the Time of Hitler's War.	420
Ahmuel Bernstein	Our Destroyed Zabludow and Its Martyrs	427
Shmuel Zesler	A Tale of Horror	435
Reizel Wagman-Bachrach	I Have Seen My Destroyed Home	438
Jakob Ragovsky	Our Great Tragedy	440
Dr. Abraham Mirsky	A Memoriam for my Beloved Father, the Last Zabludow Rabbi, Jochanan Mirsky, of blessed memory, Mother Beile, Sister and Brother.	442
Michal Lifshitz	Rabbi Jochanan Lifshitz	446
Dr. Shmuel Zabludovsky	Instead of a Tombstone for an Unknown Grave.	448
Abishi Ralinsky	I Will Never Forget	450
Michal Lifshitz	Zabludow's Last Pinkas	451
	The True Dates for the Bloody Yahrtzeits of our Martyrs	453
Yitzhak Zesler	On the Undefined Yahrtzeit Date	455
Y.L. Alter	The Martyrs Monument	456
Abraham Zak	By the Memorial Tablada	457
Joseph Reznik	Memorial and Reminder	459
Abraham Zak	As the Reminder May Be	461
Shmuel Zesler	Man's Foundation in Dust	462
Memorial	First Martyrs	463
	Our Victims	465
Yitzhak Zesler	The Urn of Ashes	507
	(A Final Word from the Committee for the Yizkor Book)

Maps and Illustrations
Map of Zabludow and Vicinity	by Shalom Wasilevsky	2
The Zabludow Synagogue in Flames	drawing by Benn	5
The Historic Zabludow Synagogue	ink drawing by Yitzhak Zesler	18
The Zabludow Synagogue	illustration by Aharon Gudelman	117
A Funeral Around the Zabludow Synagogue	picture by A.Gudelman	146
5 drawings by Benn:	A Worried Jew; Benn's Father, Shlomah Yakob of blessed memory; Shmuel Zesler; A Learned Jew; an Old Jew.	231 232
A Wedding at the Synagogue	drawing by A. Gudelman	273
The Kuperstein Wedding	by Aryeh Merzer	273
The Unheard Scream	drawn by Benn	358
Topographical Map of Zabludow and Places from the Ghetto	plan by Yitzhak Zesler	360 - 361

Book Reference

by Lois Horowitz

This is the book from which the names were transcribed (UCLA's copy).

The entry below is from their online catalog:

Title:	Zabludove, yizkor bukh. Di geshikhte fun der yidisher kehile Zabludove fun ir bereshit biz ir fartilikung durkh di natsishe rotshim. [Redaktsye-kolegye: Shemu'el Tsesler, Yosef Reznik, un Yitshak Tsesler]. Buenos-Ayres, aroysgegebn fun dem Yizkor-Bukh- Komitet tsum tsvantsikstn yortag fun di ershte yidishe korbones fun hurbn-Zabludove ..., 1961.
Description	507 p. illus., facsims., maps, ports. 28 cm.
Notes:	Added t. p.: Zubludowo (yizkor-book) in memoriam. Added t. p. in Spanish.
Subjects:	Jews -- Poland -- Zabludow. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Zabludow.
Other entries:	Tsesler, Shemu'el, 1904- Reznik, Joseph. Chesler, Isaac. Zubludowo (yizkor-book) in memoriam.

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