PRUZHANY YZKOR BOOK

1958

Chapter 125 

 

MURDERED SOCIAL LEADERS IN PRUZHANY

 

 

In the section "Our Destruction" of the Pinkas, we remember many names of those tortured, shot, dead in gas cameras and other terrible deaths, premeditated by Nazi murderers. Next we mention the list of  spiritual leaders that conformed the elite of our community, that  " brown " murderous eliminated. Certainly it was for us important and impossible to substitute each soul of Jewish town, and without a doubt  each drop of spilled Jewish blood was sacred. Next we detail the list to demonstrate a great quantity of people with spirit and energy, how many activists  offered their life with faith to  community benefit. All they were so cruelly eliminated servicing the community . Of that quantity, we understand the important role that had our community and its influence in the whole Uyezd.

 

The list comes from two sources: 

 

  1. The publication of "Memory of sacred souls of Pruzhany that were eliminated by the impure murderers' hands", done in Tel Aviv and published by the "Organization of Survivors of Pruzhany and surrounding area" 
  2. The answers to a survey that the Committee of the Pinkas sent in its moment.

 

The list for sure is not complete; we know that are lacking names, but this problem is not originated by the redactors. To begin, we present the list printed in Israel. If the mentioned person also figures in the answers of the survey, we  complete his biographical details.

 

 

Surname

Name

Activity

Position and references

ABRAMOVITSH

Betzalel

Institution manager

Official of Jewish Trade Bank

AHARONSON

Ytzhak

Tarbut School

leader

 

AIZNER

Shmuel

Synagogue Administrator

 

AVERBUCH

Leib

Synagogue Administrator

 

BARBEL

Shloime

"Talmud Torah" teacher

 

BEKANOVSKY

Rivka

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

BERMAN

Abraham

Institution manager

Member of the Commission of Merchants Union

BIRENBOIM

Elie

General leader

Vice Governor of the city.

BIRNBOIM

Michael

Polish Public School Teacher

 

BOGASH

Meir Moishe

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

BORNSHTEIN

 

MD

Director of the Public Maternal Hospital

BOROCHIM

Siome

Polish Public School Teacher

 

BROIMAN

Shimon

Tarbut High school teachers

 

BROIMAN

Mushke

Tarbut High school teachers

 

BURSHTEIN

Manie

Midwife

Loved vocational theater

BUTZMAN GRINSBERG

Fannie

Tarbut High school teachers

 

BZSHEZSHINSKY

Yeshaie

Tarbut School

leader

 

CHABAVETZKY

 

MD

MD of the State Hospital.

CHAIKIN BRESKY

Clare

Tarbut High school teachers

 

DAITSH

 

MD

Chief of Infirmary State Service

DISKOVITSH

Ytzhak Meir

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

DUBINSKY

Michael

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

 

EPSHTEIN

Mordechai

"Social Help Institute "leader

 

EREZ

Abraham

Tarbut High school teachers

President of the " Hitachdut ". Member of the Central Committee of Poland. Founder of the Hebrew School Yavne, and of the High School " A. D. Gordon ", Editor of the Zionist newspaper "Pruzener Shtime"

FAIGENBOIM

David

General leader

Rav, maximum authority of the community

FAINGOLD

Moishe

MD

President of Orphans Home. Member of the Commission Toz of  Bund. Vice mayor of the city. Member of "Gemilut Chasadim". Was born approximately in 1887. Murdered with his wife and son February 2 1943

FAINSHTEIN-FAIGENBOIM

Zlatke

General leader

Rav's wife

FAIVUSHINKSY

Alter

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

 

GALPERIN

Aharon Yakov

"Talmud Torah" teacher

 

GERSHGORN

Yosef

Leader artisan

 

GLEZER

Ytzhok

Orphan House Leader

Official and Organizer of the  Local Jew of Dramatic Art Circle. Member of the Commission Toz of  Bund. Member of Orphans Home. Fireman. Was born in 1886. Murdered in Auschwitz February 1 1943

GLEZER

Ytzhak Ezra

 

Was active in Artisans Union , Orphans Union, Organization of Jewish Schools, Urban Commission, Kehila, and Bund. Was born in 1887. A tailor.  Was detained by the Soviets February 5 1940 and then eliminated, it is not known which way.

GOLDBERG

Leibl

Institution manager

Member of  Jewish Council. Member of Trade Bank.

GOLDBERG

Abraham Ytzhak

Tarbut School

leader

 

GOLDBERG

Freidke

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

GOLDBERG

Boris

Polish Public School Teacher

 

GOLDFAIN

Faivl

General leader

Community Chief Head ("Rosh Ha' Kahal)

GOLDFAIN

Zelig

Institution manager

President of Merchants Union. President of Public Jewish School. Member of Urban Commission

GOLDFAIN

Tzirl

Orphan House Leader

 

GOLDSTHEIN

Aharon

Polish Public School Teacher

 

GOLUBOVITSH

Faivl

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

 

GOLUBOVITSH

Leibl

Synagogue Administrator

 

GRINZBERG

Yosef

Tarbut School

leader

 

GRINZBERG

Pinchas

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

GUERSHOVITSH

Ytzhok

Synagogue Administrator

 

HALPERN

Mordecahi

Synagogue Administrator

 

IZRAELIT

Mordechai

Orphan House Leader

 

KAMENAMASTKY

Sh.

Midwife

 

KANETZ

Yosef

Leader artisan

 

KAPLAN

Abraham

General leader

Author of the book  " Brest after WWI"

KAPLAN

Abraham Ytzhak

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

KARSHENBLUM

Ysrael

"Talmud Torah" teacher

 

KLEINERMAN

Netanel

Institution manager

Member of  Jewish Council. Member of Trade Bank

KLEINERMAN

Yosef David

Tarbut School

leader

 

KLENITZKY

Ytzhak

Institution manager

President of Jewish Trade Bank

KOLODNER

Shimon

Leader artisan

 

KRUTZEL

Alter

Synagogue Administrator

 

KRUTZEL YANOVITSH

Miriam

Orphan House Leader

 

KUNK SAPIRSHTEIN

Gutel

Tarbut High school teachers

Kindergarten teacher. Murdered in Auschwitz February 1 1943

KUSHITZ

Mordechai

Institution manager

Member of Merchant Union Commission

LEVIN

Abraham

Tarbut High school teachers

 

LEVINHENDLER-LEVITZKY

 

Lawyer

 

LEW

Mordechai

General leader

Journalist of "Pruzener Lebn"

LIPHSHITZ

Esther

Orphan House Leader

 

MAKRANSKY

Mosihe

Leader artisan

 

MESHEL

Ysrael

Synagogue Administrator

 

MESHENGUISER NITZBERG

Liza

Dentist

 

NACHUMOVKSY ZELENIETZKY

Chaia

Polish Public School Teacher

 

NEIMAN

Natan

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

 

NEIMAN

Michael

 

Official. Secretary of the Bund. Member of the Jewish School. Born in 1902 Pursued by the Bolsheviks Escaped to Volin.

NITZBERG

Veve

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

 

NITZBERG

Veve

 

Engineer, dental technician. . Member of the Jewish School, the Kehila, and the Urban Communion. Worked with his wife the dentist Lize Meshengiser  Nitzberg Was born in 1890.Murdered  with his wife February 3 1943

NITZBERG SHAPIRO

Dvora

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

PADILSKY

Reuben

Leader artisan

 

PERELSHTEIN

Alter

Leader artisan

 

PERKAL

Berel

Leader artisan

 

PERLSHTEIN AVERBUCH

M.

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

PIK

 

MD

Director of Public Hospital  for venereal illnesses. Born in Lodz

PIK

Mrss.

Polish Public School Teacher

 

PINSKY

Leibl

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

 

PINSKY

Sheindel

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

PINSKY

Polie

Polish Public School Teacher

 

POMERANIETZ

Zelik

Orphan House Leader

 

POMERANIETZ

Fannie

Orphan House Leader

 

POTSHINKSY

Dovid Velvel

"Talmud Torah" teacher

 

RAVITZKY

Dovid

Institution manager

Member of the Commission of Merchants Union

RAVITZKY

Sheine

Orphan House Leader

 

RAVNITZKY

Bentzion

Tarbut School

leader

 

ROSACHOVSKY

David

Institution manager

Member of Jewish council. Member of Trade Bank

ROZENKRANTZ

 

MD

Director of Urban  Hospital . Born in Warsaw

ROZENSHAIM

Moishe Aharon

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

RUDNITZKY

Freidke

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

SAPHIRSHTEIN

Velvel

Tarbut High school teachers

Founder of Ha'shomer Ha'tzair in Pruzhany. Member of the Commission of Orphans Home. Director of the Toz of the Bund.  Was born in Kamenietz Litovsk  in 1897. Also taught in Hantzevish and Warsaw.

SAPIRSHTEIN

Abraham (14) and Shaia (8)

Tarbut High school teachers

Son of Velvel and Gutel. Murdered in Auschwitz February 1 1943

SEGAL

Chanania

Synagogue Administrator

 

SEGAL

Velvel

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

SEGAL

Chaike

 

Active member of Orphans Home. Born in 1898

SELETZKY

Abraham

MD

One of first medicine specialists. Renown in the city and Uyezd.

SELETZKY KAPLAN

Chana

MD

Daughter of  Abraham Seletzky

SERLIN

Shloime

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

Member of the Commission of Artisans Union. Member of the Commission of Jewish Schools. Member of the Organization Toz of the Bund. Member of Orphans Home. Born in 1890. Carpenter. Murdered in 1945 in a Nazi concentration camp.

SHEINFIRER

 

"Social Help Institute" leader

 

SHRAIBMAN

Velvel

Lawyer

 

SHRAIBMAN

Yoisef

Lawyer

 

SHRAIBMAN

Nachum

Synagogue Administrator

 

SPECTOR

Zishe

Institution manager

Officer of Jewish Trade Bank.

STRAICHER Dr.

Yosef

Tarbut High school teacher

 

TENENBOIM

Freidke

Midwife

Acted in vocational theater

TZAREF-YANOVITSH

Velie

General leader

Wife of Ytzhak Yanovitsh

TZUKERMAN

Ydel

Leader artisan

 

URIEVITSH

Abraham

 

Was active in the organizations: Bund, Jewish Schools, Newspaper "Pruzener Lebn". Murdered in Auschwitz February 2 1943.

URINSKY URIEVITSH

Yente

"Tzhiso" Central Jewish School Organization leader

Finished High School. Studied pedagogic courses in Vilna. Worked as teacher in  Popular School Y. L Peretz. Collaborator in  School Commission , in Orphans Home, in Popular Library. Kindergarten Teacher . As Bundist developed activities in labor movements. In 1939 under Russian régime was displaced of her librarian activity. Was in the Ghetto. His husband Zalman is now in New York. She and her two daughters Fume (7) and Manie (16 months) were eliminated in Auswitch

VASER POMERANIETZ

Rivka

Tarbut High school teachers

 

YABLON

Shalom

Synagogue Administrator

 

YANOVITSH

Ytzhak

General leader

Judenrat President. Was born approximately in 1898. Merchant. Loved by the population. Murdered together with his wife and two children in Auschwitz  July 2  1943

YANOVITSH

Michel

General leader

President of the "Fund for the Recovery of Israel" (Keren Ha'yesod) and of Linat Ha'Tzedek (Social Help)

YELSKY

Leib

Polish Public School Teacher

 

YUREVITSH

Shloime

General leader

Founder of the Jewish Library. President of this Library after WWI. Member of the Commission of the Newspaper "Voice of Pruzhany" (Pruzener Shtime). Founder of the Group Toz of the Bund. Member of the Commission of Orphans Home. Member of the Commission of Keren Ha'Yesod. Member of the Kahal among both WW. Member of Judenrat with the position of "Responsible for Provisions". Was born in 1892. Worked in Warsaw. Finished the 8 years of High School. Studied didactic courses in St. Petersburg. Serviced in the army until WWI's end. Was sent by nazis in the first transport to Auschwitz  February 28, 1943. Got sick during camp work and  was sent to camp hospital of which didn't survive

ZAVELEVSKY

Zavl

Institution manager

Member of Jewish Trade Bank.

ZELENIETZKY

Hilel

Dentist

Member of Town council

ZELENIETZKY

Osie

Polish Public School Teacher