KARTUZ BEREZA YZKOR BOOK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PREFACE

A

 

Introduction

B

 

Map of the area

C

 

Bereza, Kartuz Bereza, Bereza Kartuzka and Berioza

 

CHAPTER I

KARTUZ BEREZA, IT'S PEOPLE AND HISTORY

 

A

Yaakov GORALY

Chapter of History and Memories

B

Elyahu Mote BUKSHTEIN

Polish Concentration Camp in Kartuz-Bereza

C

Moshe BERNSHTEIN

Poem - In My Poor House

D

Noach PENIEL

1. Poem "When I Will Remind You"

2. Poem "The cry of Memorial Stones"

 

CHAPTER II

COMMUNITY LIFE

 

A

Nechemia SHTUKER

Memories of Kartuz-Bereza That No Longer Exist

B

Nathan SHAPIRA

Social Events in Kartuz-Bereza

C

Y. ROTTENBERG

Peretz Markish in Kartuz-Bereza

D

E

Elyau Mote BUKSHTEIN

Firemen From Kartuz-Bereza

Education In Kartuz-Bereza

F

Chatke GRAIEVSKY-KAVAL

Sanction to the Yiddish School in Kartuz-Bereza

G

Moshe BERNSHTEIN

And Those I Will Remember

H

Tzipora BRENER

My Little Village

I

Pnina RAB (Goldberg)

My Village

J

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Folklore From Kartuz-Bereza

 

CHAPTER III

ZIONIST ACTIVITY

 

A

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Development of Zionism in the Village

B

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Kartuz-Bereza for the construction of Eretz Israel in 1919

C

....

A Call to Jewish Population Before Community Elections of July 1928

D

Eliezer EGOZY (Niselboim)

Zionist Activity in the Town

E

Pnina RAB (Goldberg)

Hebrew school " Yanve " in Kartuz-Bereza

F

Shmuel TINARY (Tabulitsky)

Betar Zionist movement

G

Chava SHMULOVSKY) (Epshtein)

He'Chalutz Ha'Tzair (The Young Pioneer)

H

Eliezer EGOZY (Niselboim)

Memories of  Ha'shomer Ha'tzair (The Young Guardian)

I

Baruch FISHER

More About Ha'shomer Ha'tzair in Kartuz-Bereza

J

....

List of "olim" (Immigrants) to Eretz Israel

 

CHAPTER IV

PERSONAL MEMORIES

 

A

Tzipora BRENER

Our House

B

Sara GACHELET

Memories of the Town in Which I Never Was

C

Amir GEREF

Poem -Travel to Unknown

D

Yael Chizkiyahu HELER

Travel to My Grandparents House

E

Shmuel TINARI (Tabulitzky)

Memories of My Paternal Home

F

Ytzchak SAPIR

Our Emigration to Eretz Israel

G

Chaim SOLAN (Slutsky) (Dr.)

Mania Serlin and Yitzhak Slutzky: Zionism without quotation marks

H

Noach PENIEL (Falantovsky)

Kartuz Bereza: My Native City

I

Chaia SHMERLOVSKY (Epshtein)

Memories of Kartuz-Bereza

J

Avram SHATZ

Kartuz-Bereza of My Ancestors

K

Chaim BEN ISRAEL (Goldberg)

My Village Kartuz-Bereza: Childhood Memories

 

CHAPTER V

PERSONALITIES AND IMAGES

 

A

.....

Rabbis from Kartuz-Bereza

B

........

Aharon David Oguz Translator to Yddish of Book "Duties of Soul"

C

Yakov GORALY

The "Tzadik" (Holy Man) Reb Itzie

D

.....

Kadia Molodovsky: Writer and Poet

E

........

Dov Chomsky: Writer and Poet

F

Dov CHOMSKY                        

1. Poem - To My Mother

2. Poem - My Friend

G

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Avram Minkovitz, Professor

H

.........

Noach Peniel, Educator and Poet

I

Noach PENIEL

Poem -Farewell Tears

J

.....

Moishe Bernshtein, Painter

K

Moishe BERNSHTEIN

Poem - Kartuz-Bereza: nostalgia

 

CHAPTER VI

DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE

 

A

....

Annihilation in July and October 1942

B

.....

Murder of Jews in Brona Gura

C

Masha ELISHIV (Shtuker)

I Survived

D

Yehuda VILECHIK

The Loss of Our Parents and Dear Sisters and Brothers

E

David BEKLER

On the Jews of Selcz, Kartuz-Bereza and Their Sad End

F

Elizabeta ZILBERSHTEIN

(Lea Berkovitz)

Poem - By the Common Grave

G

Moishe TUCHMAN

Destruction of Kartuz-Bereza

H

Elyau Mote BUKSHTEIN

Destruction of Kartuz-Bereza, More Details

I

Reizel NAVI (Tuchman)

Poem - Brona Gura

J

Masha SHTUKER-PAIUK

Poem - My House No longer Exists

K

...

Yzkor Memorial

L

......

Deceased in  Kartuz-Bereza Ghetto; list of names

 

CHAPTER VII

THEY GAVE THEIR LIFE IN THE WAR AGAINST NAZIS

 

A

.......

Names of Those Who Died In The War Against Nazis

 

CHAPTER VIII

SURVIVORS

 

A

....

List of Survivors

B

Elyau Mote BUKSHTEIN

Kartuz-Bereza 1939-1941

C

Tzipora BRENER (Bukshtein)

After Liberation

D

Moishe BERNSHTEIN

Survival

E

Shlomo HELMAN

My Family, K. Bereza , its Jews and My Sufferings In Kartuz-Bereza During the Second World War

F

Elizabeta ZILBERSHTEIN

(Lea Berkovitz)

Jews from Kartuz-Bereza I Found

G

Moishe TUCHMAN

Memories of my suffering in the Second World War

H

Ytzchak SUBINSKY

In My Village Kartuz-Bereza 50 Years Later

I

Zeev SORONOVSKY

Escaping From The Ghetto

J

Noach PENIEL

How I Survived

K

Yosef FRYDMAN

I Lived and Survived Hitler

L

Kalman KARBACHIK

I Survived To Continue The Chain

 

 

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