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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front Cover |
Kartuz-Bereza, Our Town Memorial Book |
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Back Cover |
Holy Community Kartuz-Bereza |
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Table Of Contents |
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Introduction |
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CHAPTER 1 -- KARTUZ BEREZA, THE TOWN AND IT'S HISTORY |
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Map of the area |
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Bereza, Kartuz Bereza, Bereza Kartuzka and Berioza |
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C |
Yaakov Gorali |
Chapters of history and memories |
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D |
Elyahu Mote Bukshtein |
Polish concentration camp in K. Bereza |
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Moshe Bernshtein |
1. In my poor house (poem in Yiddish) |
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2. In my poor house (poem)(translated from Yiddish by Benyamin Tene) |
26 |
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Noach Peniel |
1. When I remember you (poem) |
28 |
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2. The cry of memorial stones (poem) |
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CHAPTER 2 -- COMMUNITY LIFE |
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A |
Nechemia Shtuker |
Memories of K. Bereza that no longer exist |
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B |
Nathan Shapira |
Social events in K. Bereza |
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C |
Y. Rottenberg |
Peretz Markish in K. Bereza |
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D |
Elyau Mote Bukshtein |
Firemen from K. Kereza |
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Elyau Mote Bukshtein |
Education in K. Bereza |
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Chatke Graievsky-Kaval |
Sanction to the Yiddish school in K. Bereza |
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Moshe Bernshtein |
And those I will remember |
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Tzipora Brener |
My little town |
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Pnina Rab (Goldberg) |
My town |
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Folklore from K. Bereza |
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CHAPTER 3 -- ZIONIST ACTIVITY |
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Development of Zionism in the town |
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K. Bereza for the construction of Eretz Israel in 1911 |
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A call to Jewish population in K. Bereza before community elections of July 1928 |
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D |
Eliezer Egozy (Niselboim) |
Zionist activity in the town |
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Pnina Rab (Goldberg) |
Hebrew school "Yanve" in K. Bereza |
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Shmuel Tinary (Tibulitsky) |
"Betar" Zionist Nationalistic Movement |
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Chava Shmulovksy (Epshtein) |
"He'Chalutz Ha'Tzair" |
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Eliezer Egozy (Niselboim) |
Memories of "Ha'shomer Ha'tzair" |
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Baruch Fisher |
More about "Ha'shomer Ha'tzair" in K . Bereza |
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List of "olim" (immigrants) to Eretz Israel |
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CHAPTER 4 -- PERSONAL MEMORIES |
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A |
Tzipora Brener |
Our house |
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B |
Sara Gachelet |
Memories of the town in which I never was |
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C |
Amir Geref |
Travel to unknown (poem) |
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D |
Yael Chizkiyahu (Heler) |
Travel to my grandparents house |
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Shmuel Tinari (Tabulitzky) |
Memories of my paternal home |
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Ytzchak Sapir |
Our emigration to Eretz Israel |
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Chaim Solan (Slutzky) (Dr.) |
Manie Serlin and Ytzchak Slutzky, zionism without quotation marks |
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Noach Peniel (Falantovsky) |
Kartuz Bereza: my native city |
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Chaia Shmerlovsky (Epshtein) |
Memories of K. Bereza |
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Avram Shatz |
K. Bereza of my ancestors |
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Chaim Ben Israel (Goldberg) |
My town K. Bereza: childhood memories |
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CHAPTER 5 -- PERSONALITIES AND IMAGES |
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Rabbis from K. Bereza |
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Rabbinical Genealogy through the book by Aharon David Egoz, translator of "Duties of Soul" to Yiddish. |
153 |
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Yakov Goraly |
The "tzadik" (holy man) Reb Itchie |
154 |
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Kadia Molodovsky: writer and poet |
158 |
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Dov Chomsky: writer and poet |
159 |
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Dov Chomsky |
1. To my mother (poem) |
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2. My friend (poem) |
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Avram Minkovitz, professor |
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Noach Peniel, educator and poet |
165 |
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Noach Peniel |
Farewell tears (poem) |
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Moishe Bernshtein, the artist |
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Moishe Bernshtein |
1 Longings for K. Bereze (poem in Yiddish) |
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2. Longings for K. Bereze (poem, trans. Dr. Y. Ch. Wiletzky) |
177 |
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CHAPTER 6 -- DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE |
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Annihilation in July and October 1942 according to "Atlas of Shoa" by Martin Gilbert |
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Murder of Jews in Brona Gura according to Vasily Grosman & Illia Arenburg, (Soviet Union) |
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C |
Masha Elishiv (Shtuker) |
I survived |
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D |
Yehuda Biltzik |
The loss of our dear parents, sisters and brothers |
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David Bekler |
On the Jews of Selcz, K. Bereze and their bitter end |
190 |
F |
Elizabeta Zilbershtein |
1 By the mass grave (poem, Yiddish) |
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2 By the mass grave (poem, trans. by Noach Peniel) |
194 |
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Moishe Tuchman |
Destruction of K. Bereze |
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Elyau Mote Bukshtein |
Destruction of K. Bereze, more details |
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Reizel Navi (Tuchman) |
Brona Gura (poem, Yiddish) |
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Noach Peniel |
Brona Gura (poem) |
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Masha Shtuker-Paiuk |
My house no longer exists (poem, Yiddish) |
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Yizkor (Memorial) |
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Deceased in K. Bereza Ghetto; list of names |
213 |
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CHAPTER 7 -- FALLEN IN WAR AGAINST NAZIS |
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Name list of those from K. Bereza (killed in action) |
237 |
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CHAPTER 8 -- SURVIVORS |
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List of survivors |
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B |
Elyau Mote Bukshtein |
K. Bereza 1939/1941 |
242 |
C |
Tzipora Brener (Bukshtein) |
After liberation |
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D |
Moishe Bernshtein |
Survival |
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E |
Shlomo Helman |
About my family, Kartuz Bereza and its Jews, and my sufferings during second world war |
251 |
F |
Elizabeta Zilbershtein |
Jews from K. Bereza I found |
257 |
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Moishe Tuhcman |
Memories of K. Bereza and my suffering in Second World War |
258 |
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Ytzchak Subinsky |
In my village K. Bereza 50 years later |
267 |
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Zeev Soronovsky |
Escaping from Ghetto |
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Noach Peniel |
How I survived |
276 |
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Yosef Frydman |
I lived and survived Hitler |
277 |
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Kalman Karbachik |
I survived to continue the chain |
278 |
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NAME INDEX |
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