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The Community of Sierpc; Memorial Book
(Sierpc, Poland)

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Translation of Kehilat Sierpc; sefer zikaron

Edited by: E. Talmi (Wloka)

Published in Tel Aviv, 1959

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This is a translation from: Kehilat Sierpc; sefer zikaron (The community of Sierpc; memorial book),
Editors: E. Talmi (Wloka), Tel Aviv, the former residents of Sierpc in Israel and abroad, 1959 (Hebrew, Yiddish, 603 pages).

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

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Translated by Sara Mages (Hebrew) and by Yocheved Klausner (Yiddish)


Title Page      
Yizkor     ה
Once upon a time…     ו
Table of Contents     ז
Seals     י
I will remember them (Poem)    
א י
       
The history of Sierpc (Sheps)   I. M. Sidroni 3
The history of the rabbinate in Sierpc   Y. M. Sedroni 16
The holders of religious posts in Sierpc [Y] M. D. Goldman 40
The old Beit Hamidrash [Y] M. D. Goldman 45
The old Beit Hamidrash [Y] Ben-Zion Kempner 54
 
Parties and Institutions
Institutions and Activists   Y. M. Sedroni 61
Zionism in Sierpc [Y] Shmuel Lenter 122
“Poalei Zion”[1] [Y] H. L. Fokatsh 123
The activities of the leftist Po'alei Zion [Y] Y. D. Wajsroze 132
The Bundist movement [Y] A. Gordon 133
“SKIF” – the socialist children's union [Y] H. Jurkewicz 136
The youth organization “Herzliya” [Y] Shmuel Cyna 136
Personalities [Y] Mordechai Reshatka 138
“Hashomer Hatzair”[2] Hanoch Nachshon 139
From the life of “Hanoar Hatzioni”[3] Moshe Smolenski 141
“Hehalutz Hamizrachi”[4] Yosef Appelbaum 143
The Revisionist Movement   Zev Appelbaum 144
“Beitar”[5] S. Y. Algabish 145
“Agudat Yisrael”[6] A. Y. Penpil 146
The youth organization of Agudat Israel [Y] A. M. Benczkawski 149
“Benot Agudat Yisrael”[7] Chana Cytrynbaum 149
The Heder Yesodei HaTorah[8] [Y] Y. D. Wajsroze 150
The library [Y] Rivka Arpa 151
“Tarbut” School   Yitzchak Dichter 152
“WIZO” Organization[9] Chana Dichter 156
School and culture, the Zionist movement [Y] Tzvi Malewanczyk 159
Batei Midrash [houses of learning], Shtiblech [Hasidic synagogues] [Y] Menachem Bejnwal 165
The artisans of Sierpc [Y] Avraham Ben-David 172
 
Once upon a time
My town, Sierpc (Sheps)   Y. M. Sedroni 175
Street Names in Sierpc     256
The Jewish community in Sierpc [Y] Y. A. Libsohn 258
The flooding after the heavy snow in Sierpc [Y] S. Y. Lenter 272
Sierpc my spiritual home   Meir Weisgal 274
A pious Jew [Y] Elisheva Rabinowitch 275
Chapters of memories   Y. M. Sedroni 282
Memories from the childhood years [Y] Moshe B. Goldman 322
The Jewish supporting societies [Y] Avraham Melave 333
My town Sierpc   Efraim Talmi (Wloka) 334
My Little Shtetl of Sierpc, Now Destroyed [Y] Y. Weingarten 338
Memories from Hanuka [Y] Matel Rajczyk 341
Images and memories [Y] Gershon Bergson 344
My years [Y] H. Aberfeld-Levin 350
Jewish livelihoods [Y] Tzvi Malowanczyk 352
Memories [Y] Y. D. Senderawicz 356
R'Zalman Hasid   Y. M. Sedroni 377
The uncle Chaim Nachum [Y] H. Pundek 378
Avraham Fried Yerushalmi   A. Talmi 380
Natan Tac   R. Eshajwicz 381
R'Nachum [Y] Y. D. Senderawicz 383
My girl friend Ika [Y] D. Meir 385
Riva Alter [Y] M. Alter 386
Types and Figures [Y] H. Jurkowicz 388
Yehosua Podskoc   Hanoch Nachshon 390
 
The Holocaust
I will not cry for you (poem)   A. Talmi 392
In the Valley of Tears   Y. M. Sedroni 393
When I came from Eretz-Yisrael to Sierpc   A. Talmi 417
Before the Holocaust – The town in 1938   S. Czarka 418
For the blood (poem)   A. Talmi 418
The first months [Y] Z. Malawanczyk 419
The first days [Y] N. Frenkel 423
The last night [Y] Y. Szwarc 425
The High Holidays [lit. terrible days] [Y] Y. Senderawicz 426
The synagogue is on fire [Y] Y. Skornick 428
God's Temple went up in flames   Y. Juzelewski 429
Setting fire [Y] A. Majeranc 430
The deportation of Sierpc [Y] Golde Goldman 431
The deportation   Y. Juzelewski 433
The day after I arrived…   Yoel Pas 435
After the deportation [Y] A. Majerance 436
The sick mother [Y] Asher Mlawa 437
My little town [Y] B. Fejnberg 438
Old man and child [Y] Y. Skornick 439
Life experiences [Y] A. Grinberg 439
From Novidvor [Y] M. Tajtelbaum 441
In the Ghetto and in the camps [Y] Hela Listapad 444
The Sierpc Jews in the ghetto [Y] Y. Nemlich 448
Life in the ghetto [Y] Hela Listapad 451
In the camps [Y] Y. H. Grinberg 453
In Auschwitz [Y] Y. Nemlich 454
German cruelty [Y] Beile Rabinowicz 457
One occurrence [Y] Chava Digala 459
On the verge of liquidation   Y. Juzelewski 459
Memories [Y] Binem May 461
My life experiences [Y] A. Majerance (Meron) 463
On the ruins of Sierpc [Y] Y. Frenkel 471
I have arrived [Y] A. Tatz 473
One who survived [Y] B. Dorfman 476
Heinrich Pszenice [Y] G. Goldman 477
Autumn in Poland (Poem)   Efraim Talmi 479
Before the storm / during the days of the Holocaust   Tzvi Arpe 480
Segments about the Holocaust   Y. M. Sedroni 519
Vision of the Dry Bones - Yehezkel 37:1-10   536
 
Appendix
Former residents of Sierpc in Israel   Y. M. Sedroni 539
The United Relief [Y] Y. L. Mintz 543
The Scierpc Society [Y]   546
The Sierpc Branch [Y]   549
For Eternal Memory (Necrology)     559
Obituaries     577
56 Pages of photos      


Footnotes:
  1. “Poalei Zion”: Workers of Zion. return
  2. “Hashomer Hatzair”: The Young Guard - a left-wing youth movement. return
  3. “Hanoar Hatzioni”: Zionist Youth. return
  4. “HeHalutz HaMizrachi”: Religious Pioneers. return
  5. “Betar”: The initials of Brit Yosef Trumpeldor – the Covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor. return
  6. “Agudat Yisrael”: Union of Israel - the Orthodox Jewish (anti-Zionist) political movement. return
  7. “Benot Agudat Yisrael”: Daughters of Agudat Israel. return
  8. “Yesodei HaTorah”: the foundations of the Torah. return
  9. “WIZO”: Women's International Zionist's Organization. return


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