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Volozhyn Izkor Book

 

The town & the Yeshiva "Etz Hayim" "Tree of Life" Book    

 

Editor: Eliezer Leoni    

 

Irgun Yotsey Volozhyn in Israel & in the United States    

 

Tel Aviv 1970    

       

 

Table of contents    

 

Translated from Hebrew by

 

Moshe Porat — Perelman (Tel Aviv) poratm@netvision.net.il

   

 

Part one — YESHIVA " ETZ HAYIM"    

 

  

Introductions

  

2

 

1

Volozhyn

Rabi Yehuda Unterman

3

 

2

The Power of Volozhyn

Rabbi Tsvi Neriya

7

 

3

The Book of Volozhyn

Eliezer Leoni(Ben David)

11

 

  

The History of the town & the Yeshiva "Ets Hayim"

  

17

 

4

The History of Volozhyn Kehila (congregation)

Eliezer Leoni

19

 

4.01

The beginning of the Kehila

Eliezer Leoni

19

 

4.02

Reb Hayim Volozhyner-Great Teacher & Educator

Eliezer Leoni

23

 

4.03

The Volozhyn part of BIALIK's Poetry

Eliezer Leoni

31

 

4.04

The "Shaagat Ariye"- Volozhyn's spiritual father

Eliezer Leoni

35

 

4.05

Rabbi "Zalmele" - Rabbi hayimn's brother

Eliezer Leoni

39

 

4.06

The DAYAN (judge), R' shimon Rordenski

Eliezer Leoni

46

 

4.07

R' Aron Bunimovitz & the storm in Volozhyn community

Eliezer Leoni

48

 

4.08

Volozhyn prodigious scholars

Eliezer Leoni

51

 

4.09

Zalman Minkovski - the prodigious

Eliezer Leoni

52

 

4.10

R' Eliyahu Naydvill, R' Zalmele's great grand son

Eliezer Leoni

53

 

4.11

R' Shlomo Dovid Dinkin-the MASHGIAH (supervisor)

Eliezer Leoni

53

 

4.12

R' Hayim's contribution to establish a seclusive settlement in E. Isroel

Eliezer Leoni

54

 

4.13

"Hibat Zion" & the Zionist movement initiation

Eliezer Leoni

56

 

4.14

The Volozhyn Jews economic, social & cultural situation

Eliezer Leoni

59

 

5

Origins for the Jews history in Volozhyn

Eliezer Leoni

66

 

  

The History of Yeshiva "Etz Hayim" & its leaders

Eliezer Leoni

75

 

6

Rabbi Hayim Volozhyner's Period

Eliezer Leoni

77

 

6.1

Rabbi Hayim's annals

Eliezer Leoni

77

 

6.2

Rabbi Hayim & his Teacher R' Eliyahu the genius from Vilna

Eliezer Leoni

79

 

6.3

The Yeshiva in its first days

Eliezer Leoni

82

 

6.4

The value of tora learning in the Volozhyn yeshiva

Eliezer Leoni

88

 

6.5

Rabbi Hayim as a Teacher & Educator

Eliezer Leoni

90

 

6.6

Rabbi Hayims moral personality & wisdom

Eliezer Leoni

93

 

6.7

R' Hayims death& the tale about his love to Vol' Jews

Eliezer Leoni

95

 

6.8

The text on R' Hayims memorial in Vol.

Eliezer Leoni

95

 

6.9

R' Davids from Novaridok funeral oration over R' Hayims grave

Eliezer Leoni

97

 

7

R' Itsele's & his son in law R' Eliezer Itshok Freed's Period

Eliezer Leoni

99

 

7.1

R' Itsele's personality,his cleverness and sharpness

Eliezer Leoni

99

 

7.2

Dr. Max Liliental, his expedition to Volozhyn

Eliezer Leoni

103

 

7.3

R' Itsele, his journey to the Rabbinic session in Petersburg

Eliezer Leoni

105

 

7.4

Rabbi Eliezer Freed

Eliezer Leoni

108

 

7.5

The text on R' Eliezer Itshok Freed's memorial in Vol.

Eliezer Leoni

111

 

8

The Naziv R' Yosef Dov & R'Haym Soloveytshik's Period

Eliezer Leoni

112

 

8.01

Hanatziv (Harav Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin) - history

Eliezer Leoni

112

 

8.02

HaNatziv is rebuilding the Volozhyn Yeshiva

Eliezer Leoni

114

 

8.03

HaNatziv's wonderful devotion to the Yeshive students

Eliezer Leoni

116

 

8.04

The Yeshive learning order

Eliezer Leoni

119

 

8.05

Secret societies-"Ness Ziyona", "Nets", "Netzah Isroel"

Eliezer Leoni

120

 

8.06

The disagreement between HaNaziv & R' Yosef Dov Soloveytshik

Eliezer Leoni

124

 

8.07

The ignoble dilation on the Naziv

Eliezer Leoni

127

 

8.08

R' Heshl Levin's rebellion

Eliezer Leoni

128

 

8.09

HaNatziv's moral elation &educational model

Eliezer Leoni

129

 

8.10

The Yeshiva big revolt

Eliezer Leoni

131

 

8.11

HaNatziv is heartly sorry

Eliezer Leoni

133

 

8.12

The summit years of the Volozhyn Yeshiva

Eliezer Leoni

134

 

8.13

The Yeshiva persecutions and the ministersdecree

Eliezer Leoni

135

 

8.14

Closure of the Yeshive - "Destruction of the third Temple"

Eliezer Leoni

138

 

8.15

The beginning of HaNatziv's decline

Eliezer Leoni

140

 

8.16

HaNatziv's death and the shocking funeral orations

Eliezer Leoni

142

 

9

R' Refoel Shapiro's Period

Eliezer Leoni

145

 

10

The Volozhyn Genealogy Chain

Eliezer Leoni

152

 

11

Among the Great "Ets Hayim" Yeshiva disciples

Eliezer Leoni

160

 

11.1

Rabbins and Yeshive leaders

Eliezer Leoni

160

 

11.2

Poets, Writers and savants

Eliezer Leoni

166

 

12

Origins for the histort of Volozhyn "ets Hayim" Yeshiva

Eliezer Leoni

169

 

12.1

Writings On "ets Hayim" yeshiva and its leaders

Eliezer Leoni

169

 

12.2

Daily press

Eliezer Leoni

173

 

13

The Rabinnic School in Volozhyn

Rabbi Shimon Langbert

188

 

14

The Yeshiva during Rabbi Refoel Shapiro period

Dr. Hirsh Leyb Gordon

197

 

  

The Volozhyn Scholars

  

202

 

15

The three Tora pillars in Volozhyn

Eliezer Leoni

205

 

15.1

Rabbi Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveytshik

Eliezer Leoni

205

 

15.2

Rabbi Hayim Soloveytshik

Eliezer Leoni

209

 

15.3

Rabbi Hayim Berlin

Eliezer Leoni

215

 

16

Hagaon R' Hilel Freed

Haykl Lunski

221

 

17

Hagaon R' Refoel Shapiro

Itshok Reevkind

224

 

18

Harav Moshe Shmuel Shapiro

Shimon Zak

230

 

19

Harav Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin)- "The noble of Volozhyn house"

Shimon Zak

233

 

20

Harav Shmuel Avigdor Derechinski's House

Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski

238

 

20.1

In the Cedar shadow of the Volozhyn Rabonim House

Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski

238

 

20.2

The Volzhyn Rabonim House remnants

Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski

239

 

20.3

My Father Harav Avigdor Shmuel Derechinski

Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski

239

 

20.4

The Rabanit Freydele Derechinski, born Freed

Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski

242

 

20.5

Moshe Zalman Ben-Sasson - Luntz

Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski

243

 

21

Savants Conversations

Eliezer Leoni

246

 

22

The Volozhyn graduates - tradition followers

Eliezer Leoni

277

 

22.01

The Editor-writer's foreword

Eliezer Leoni

277

 

22.02

Mordehay Eliyashberg- Publicist

Eliezer Leoni

278

 

22.03

Moshe Mordhay Epstein

Eliezer Leoni

281

 

22.04

Yehuda Leyb Don-Yihya

Eliezer Leoni

284

 

22.05

Alter Droyanov-Writer, "Book of Jewish Jokes" author

Eliezer Leoni

285

 

22.06

Klonimus Zev Visotski

Eliezer Leoni

288

 

22.07

Leyb Yaffe - national poet

Eliezer Leoni

289

 

22.08

Mordhay Gimpel Yaffe - among Ekron settlement founders (1883)

Eliezer Leoni

292

 

22.09

Shmuel Mohaliver - among Ekron settlement founders (1883)

Eliezer Leoni

294

 

22.10

Essar Zalman Meltzer

Eliezer Leoni

298

 

22.11

Mordehay Nahmani - among Rehovot settlement founders (1902)

Eliezer Leoni

300

 

22.12

Itshak Nisenboym - "nezah Isroel' society's Chairman (1892-94)

Eliezer Leoni

301

 

22.13

Yosef Zundl Salant - ascended Jerusalem ((1837)

Eliezer Leoni

302

 

22.14

Shmuel Salant

Eliezer Leoni

303

 

22.15

Avrahm Hakohen Itshak Kouk- Jerusalem Yeshiva "beyt Harav" founder

Eliezer Leoni

305

 

22.16

Itshak Ryvkind-Volozhyn Yeshiva's history investigator

Eliezer Leoni

307

 

22.17

Itshak Yaakov Rayness-Founder off the "Mizrahi" Movement

Eliezer Leoni

310

 

22.18

Origins for the above Graduates chapter

Eliezer Leoni

312

 

Part two - VOLOZHYN the SHTETL  

316

 

23

A bundle of memories - before the first world war (YIDDISH) *

Osher Malkin

317

 

23.01

Volozhyn Topography

Osher Malkin

317

 

23.02

Volozhyn Economics -parnosses

Osher Malkin

318

 

23.03

Post and telephone in Volozhyn.

Osher Malkin

321

 

23.04

Volozhyn barbers

Osher Malkin

321

 

23.05

Charity

Osher Malkin

322

 

23.06

Shuker's "private" Zionist organization

Osher Malkin

323

 

23.07

Revolutionary circles in Volozhyn

Osher Malkin

323

 

23.08

Melamdim, learning institutions and theater

Osher Malkin

323

 

23.09

Reb Refoel der Goen ( Rabbi Rafael the genius)

Osher Malkin

326

 

23.10

The Perelman Family.

Osher Malkin

327

 

23.11

Ore Polak

Osher Malkin

329

 

23.12

Childhood and boyhood happy years

Osher Malkin

329

 

24

Inside Volozhyn - before the first world war

Avraham Halevi

330

 

24.1

The yarmolke (The cap)

Avraham Halevi

330

 

24.2

Volozhyn Economics -parnosses

Avraham Halevi

330

 

24.3

The dispute on the secular school creation

Avraham Halevi

331

 

24.4

My last hostellery in Volozhyn

Avraham Halevi

331

 

25

The Yeshiva & Town at R' Refoel's period

Aron Zvi Dudman-Duday

332

 

26

A look backward

Ihuda-Hayim Kotler

333

 

27

The first flour-Mill, Electricity production & cinema in Volozhyn

Michael Vand Polak

336

 

28

Estate possessors in Volozhyn

Meir Shif

338

 

29

Bread and Tora in Volozhyn

Hayim Zvi Potashnik

340

 

30

Market days in Volozhyn

Israel Levinson

342

 

31

Volozhyn at the first world war and after this war

Reuven Rogovin

343

 

31.01

Yeshive boys Sophistication talks

Reuven Rogovin

344

 

31.02

The economical situation in Volozhyn

Reuven Rogovin

345

 

31.03

The war did not conducted accordingly to Vol Strategically Predictions

Reuven Rogovin

347

 

31.04

Flow refugees in Volozhyn

Reuven Rogovin

349

 

31.05

A terrible event in Volozhyn

Reuven Rogovin

350

 

31.06

At the Bolsheviks regime (during the revolution)

Reuven Rogovin

351

 

31.07

Self defense

Reuven Rogovin

353

 

31.08

Fire Brigade

Reuven Rogovin

355

 

31.09

The community committee

Reuven Rogovin

357

 

31.10

Founding the Jewish bank

Reuven Rogovin

359

 

31.11

A Niekrasov story in Volozhyn -Arrest of an no guilty

Reuven Rogovin

361

 

32

Volozhyn at the end of world war one

Sara Perski (Meltzer)

364

 

33

Volozhyn as I see in my memory

Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz)

365

 

34

Recall the memory of Volozhyn

Pesah Berman

370

 

34.01

The Volozhyn legend

Pesah Berman

370

 

34.02

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro and sinhat beyt hshoeva in the yeshive

Pesah Berman

370

 

34.03

Bundles-bundles of scholars

Pesah Berman

371

 

34.04

The sundial and the yeshive reparation

Pesah Berman

372

 

34.05

Harav Yaakov Shapiro's house, his death and funeral

Pesah Berman

372

 

34.06

The Volozhyn youth and educators

Pesah Berman

374

 

34.07

Zionist movements and Eretz Isroel love

Pesah Berman

375

 

34.08

Purim and Pesah in Volozhyn

Pesah Berman

376

 

34.09

The food we used to eat in Volozhyn

Pesah Berman

377

 

34.10

Bread winning in Volozhyn

Pesah Berman

377

 

34.11

Mutual help in Volozhyn

Pesah Berman

379

 

34.12

Pleasantry

Pesah Berman

380

 

35

The Volozhyn stream

Yakov Kagan

381

 

36

Zabrezhe

Moshe Eliyashkevitch

382

 

37

Mijeyki village

Baruh Tsivoni (Farberman)

385

 

38

Yuzefpol Estate

Benyamin Kutshovski

386

 

39

Volozhyn stories

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

388

 

39.1

Complaint of a Jews hater in Volozhyn

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

388

 

39.2

A story about a Naziv disciple and a rustic Jew

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

388

 

39.3

The house shall be respected with a besom

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

388

 

39.4

A Volozhyn subverter

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

389

 

39.5

Why the Jews do not own a state

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

389

 

39.6

Din Tora judgement in Volozhyn

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

390

 

39.7

Volozhyn version Austerity

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

390

 

  

The Zionist movement

  

392

 

40

Tseirey Zion - Zion youngsters, in Volozhyn

Shlomo Bunimovits+Z Rogovin

393

 

41

The "hehaluts" and his action in Volozhyn

Group of pioneers

396

 

42

Hahshara (training) of Pioneers in Yuzefpol

Lea Nahshon (Shif)

405

 

43

Hahshara (training) groupof "hehaluts Hamizrohi" in Volozhyn

Ariye Haruts

405

 

44

Beytar in Volozhyn

Group of beytar members

410

 

45

At a training camp - Hahshara in Volozhyn

Rachel Knaani (Berman)

422

 

46

Keren Kayemet Leisrael (KKL) in Volozhyn

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

425

 

  

Education & Art

  

430

 

47

The Hebrew Tarbut School

Group of graduates

431

 

48

A culture war in Volozhyn

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

440

 

49

Kindergarten in Hebrew

Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg)

443

 

50

The library

Fruma Guzman (Yuzefovitz)

445

 

51

Religious education in the thirties

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

446

 

51.1

The great synagogue

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

446

 

51.2

The "Klayzl"

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

447

 

51.3

"Tiferert Bahurim" (The best guys) society

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

449

 

51.4

"Beyt Yaakov" - Religious school for girls

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

449

 

51.5

The Yeshive schools Committee

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

451

 

51.6

The daily Guemorra page

Menahem Mendl Potashnik

451

 

52

Polish schools in Volozhyn

Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg)

451

 

52.1

Primary school "Povshehna" in the thirties

Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg)

451

 

52.2

The commercial high school

Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg)

452

 

  

Figures & types

  

463

 

53

Emissaries, Rabbis & Shohat's

  

464

 

53.1

The Volozhyn "Shadar's" - Rabbi's emissaries

Eliezer Leoni

465

 

53.2

Harav Zvi Namiot "Der Sheliver"

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

470

 

53.3

Harav Shmuel Freed

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

471

 

53.4

My father, Harav Yehoshua Hakohen Kaplan

R' Meir Hakohen Kaplan

472

 

53.5

The Volozhyn "Shoyhets" before world war 2

Moshe Eliyashkevitsh

473

 

54

Rabbi’s wifes ("Rebetsn")

  

  

 

54.1

Feyga Unterman, Rabbi Unterman's wife

R' Israel Shapiro

474

 

54.2

Rayne Bashe Berlin, HaNaziv's First Wife

R' Baruh Hlevi Epsteyn

475

 

54.3

Bashe Mirl, HaNaziv's secnd Wife -Meir bar Elan's mother

R' MeirBar Ilan

476

 

54.4

My Grand Mother Miryam

Tova Berlin - Papish

479

 

  

Teachers & Melamed's

  

480

 

55

Reb Bezalel der Melamed & his heyder

Rachel Rogovin (Rubinsteyn)

482

 

56

Our Melamed's

Reuven Rogovin

483

 

56.1

Reb Moyshe Fayve the Melamed

Reuven Rogovin

483

 

56.2

Reb Kalb the Melamed

Reuven Rogovin

484

 

56.3

Reb Avrom Gorelnik the Teacher-Melamed

Reuven Rogovin

484

 

57

My father, Reb Moyshe Shloyme Volkovitz the Melamed

Mendl Volkovitz

485

 

58

Yakov Lifshits, The Tarbut school manager and teacher

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

486

 

59

Noah Perski the teacher

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

487

 

60

The teacher Eliyahu Itshok Shvarzberg

One of his disciples

489

 

  

Public Activists

  

490

 

61

Avrom Berkovitsh

Fruma zitrin (Rogovin)

490

 

62

Yaakov (Yani) Garber

Lea Baksht (Faygenboym)

492

 

63

Reb Isroel Lunin

Shulamit Golovenchitz-Berger

493

 

64

R' Menahem Yoel Potashnik- My grand Father

Hayim Ashlagi

495

 

65

Avrom Zart The physician

Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz)

496

 

66.1

His personality and deeds

Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz)

496

 

66.2

Memories related with Avrom Zart & his family

Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz)

497

 

67

Shneyer Kivilevitsh

Reuven Rogovin

498

 

68

Reb Aharon Rosenberg, my grand father

Miryam Levitan (Rosenberg)

500

 

  

Folksy persons

  

501

 

69

Reb Avrom "Asher Yozer"

Yaakov Kagan

501

 

70

Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Bunimovitsh

Rabbi Dov-Natan Brinker

502

 

71

Rabbi Shlomo Hosid (R' Shlomo Shepsnvol)

David Kohen

505

 

72

Figures I knew

Reuven Rogovin

506

 

72.1

Eyzer Der Raznoshtshik (postman)

Reuven Rogovin

506

 

72.2

Reb Hayim der Shnayder (the taylor)

Reuven Rogovin

507

 

72.3

Reb Itshe der Balegole (coachman)

Reuven Rogovin

508

 

73

Reb Avrom Hayim Marshak

Israel Ben Nahum (Goloventtsitz)

510

 

74

The GranMa Rohe Reyze

Israel Ben Nahum (Goloventtsitz)

511

 

75

Ptsholke - the boarding house owner

A. Litvin

513

 

76

Dov Ber Kaplan

Yehuda Hayim Kotlar

515

 

77

The Buisness without foundation story

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

517

 

78

Mere Shnayder - "Merke Ele's"

Dina & Lea Faygenboym

519

 

79

We shall remember them…

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

520

 

79.1

R' Shlomo Brudno & his wife Pesie-Reyzl

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

520

 

79.2

R' Ishayahu Kahanovitsh

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

521

 

79.3

R' Avraham Horvitz

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

522

 

79.4

R' Yakov Tabahovitsh

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

522

 

79.5

R' Dov Potashnik

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

522

 

79.6

The midwife Tsviya Zart

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

523

 

79.7

R' Dovid Itshok Kabtorovitsh

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

523

 

79.8

R' Sholom Leyb Rubinshteyn

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

524

 

79.9

R' Yakov Shmuel Ruhamkin

Benyamin Shapir (Shishko)

524

 

80

Before the Shoa - Volozhyn in the Shoa shadow

Bela Saliternik (Kramnik)

525

 

  

the Soviet regime Period

  

527

 

81

Under the Soviet regime

Rachel & Reuven Rogovin

529

 

82

Volozhyn Under the Soviet regime

Mendl Goldshmit

532

 

83

During the Soviet rule in Volozhyn

Pnina Hayat (Potashnik)

533

 

  

S H O A

  

534

 

84

The destruction of Volozhyn (YIDDISH)

Yosef Shvarzberg

535

 

85

"The German thunder" - from Heinrich Heine

The Editor

541

 

86

The Volozhyn ruin

Mendl Volkovitsh

542

 

87

Atrocities of the Volozhyn Jews extermination

Hesl Perski

546

 

88

The big "shehite" (butchery) (YIDDISH)

Mendl Volkovitsh

548

 

89

What I have seen with my eyes

Pnina Hayat (Potashnik)

550

 

89.1

The first "Action" oct' 41

Pnina Hayat (Potashnik)

550

 

89.2

The evasion from Vol' Ghetto to Kaldiki village

Pnina Hayat (Potashnik)

551

 

89.3

The noble paysan Kovalski saving the Jewish girls

Pnina Hayat (Potashnik)

552

 

90

Pages from the Volozhyn Shoa

Fruma Lifshits (Gapanovitsh)

554

 

91

A girl's memoirs on the Shoa

Sonia Puter (Perski)

561

 

92

A ballad about Shneur Kivilevitsh (YIDDISH)

Mendl Volkovitsh

562

 

93

In the Ghetto and in the forced labor camps

Luba Volkovitsh (Girkus)

569

 

94

Franz Karl Hess - The Volozhyn hangman

From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946

576

 

94.1

The judges, prosecutors & accused

From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946

576

 

94.2

Hess's participation in Volozhyn mass slaughter May 42

From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946

577

 

94.3

The verdict and its application

From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946

579

 

95

In Volozhyn ghetto, with the partisans and the revenge actions

Yaakov Kagan

582

 

96

Nissan Perski's death

Simhe Rogovin

583

 

97

On the suffering route

Mendl Volkovitsh

584

 

98

Wandering and strugling

Rachel & Reuven Rogovin

586

 

99

My life as partisan

Hesl Perski

588

 

100

Volozhyn partisans who died on post

Hesl Perski

589

 

100.1

Ishayahu Bernsteyn

Hesl Perski

589

 

100.2

Miryam (Mirele) Goloventshitz

Hesl Perski

590

 

100.3

Tsvi (Hirshl) Lunin

Hesl Perski

590

 

100.4

Yosef Sklut

Hesl Perski

591

 

100.5

Mordhay Kaganovitsh

Hesl Perski

591

 

101

Visiting Volozhyn after the war

Rachel & Reuven Rogovin

592

 

102

Volozhyn, I have seen at 1941

Moshe Eliyashkevitsh

593

 

103

Izkor (remember) - The flames

Sara Shlomovitsh (Rapoport)

594

 

104

Calendar dates of World War Two

Eliezer Leoni

596

 

105

Calendar Dates of the Volozhyn Shoah

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

103.1

The Germans entrance in Volozhyn-25/06/1941

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

103.2

Establishment of the Ghetto - August 1941

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

103.3

The first Mass Slaughter - 28/10/1941

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

103.4

The second Mass Slaughter - 10/05/1942

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

103.5

The third Mass Slaughter - 29/8/1942

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

103.6

Liberation of Volozhyn by the Soviet army - 6/07/1944

Moshe Porat

599

 

103.7

The Hanging of Franz Karl Hess 30/01/1946

Eliezer Leoni

599

 

  

Izkor - Remember

  

601

 

104

And those are the holy and pure names of the Volozhyn born

Eliezer Leoni

603

 

105

Dear Mother - (YIDDISH)

Yehuda Hayim Kotlar

604

 

106

Volozhyn KDOSHIM list (1275 names) — Translated see: Site

Editorial team

605

 

  

From Generation to Generation and to Eternity

  

617

 

107

Bar Elan University & it's President prof. Pinhas Hurgin

Eliezer Leoni

619

 

108

The kibutz "Ein HANAZIV"

Eli Avisar

624

 

109

Israel Rogozin

Itshak Yakobi

628

 

110

History of the Irgun Yotsey Volozhyn in Israel (IYVI)

Eliezer Leoni

630

 

110.01

The first knowledge about the Volozhyn Shoah

Eliezer Leoni

630

 

110.02

The reception of brothers & sisters from Volozhyn

Eliezer Leoni

631

 

110.03

The establishment of a charity fund

Eliezer Leoni

633

 

110.04

Bringing books from the Yeshiva Book Treasure to Israel

Eliezer Leoni

634

 

110.05

Yearly Memorial services of the Volozhyn congregation

Eliezer Leoni

635

 

110.06

The IYVI integration in the "SHOAH Cellar" memorial Services

Eliezer Leoni

649

 

110.07

A memorial plaque in the Jerusalem "Shoah Cellar"

Eliezer Leoni

652

 

110.08

The Volozhyn literary commemoration

Eliezer Leoni

656

 

110.09

The USA Izkor book committee

Eliezer Leoni

660

 

110.10

And You Shall Love Volozhyn

Eliezer Leoni

635

 

111

The fallen Volozhyn sons at the indepndence war

Editorial team

664

 

111.1

Benyamin Perah - Ind. war

Editorial team

664

 

111.2

Hayim Perski- Ind. War

Editorial team

665

 

111.3

Eliezer Rogovin - partisan, decorated as USSR Hero-Ind. War

Editorial team

666

 

111.4

Eytan Malkin - Yom Kippur war (not included in the book)

Editorial team

666

 

112

To Eliezer Rogovin's memory (Yiddish)

Yaffa Abramovitsh

667

 

113

Volozhyners in America - In Eng: Page 15 (Left side of the book)

Dr. Avraham Yoblons

669

 

113.1

prologue -In Eng: Page 15

Dr. Avraham Yoblons

669

 

113.2

Aknowledgements - In Eng: Page 15

Dr. Avraham Yoblons

669

 

113.3

Introductions - In Eng: Page 16

Dr. Avraham Yoblons

669

 

113.4

Commeration - In Eng: Page 17

Dr. Avraham Yoblons

671

 

113.5

American Committee - In Eng: Page 25

Dr. Avraham Yoblons

677

 

114

Editor Thanking the helping team

Eliezer Leoni

679

 

115

The Destruction of Volozhyn (English-p. 30 , Book's left side)

Mendl Volkovitsh

685

 

116

I remember Volozhyn (English-p.26 , Book's left side)

Irving Bunim

689

 

Pictures of Volozhyners killed in Shoah

attachement

702

 

117

Volozhyners dead after the war in Israel, America, Volozhyn

attachement

728

 

118

Table of contents (in Hebrew)

Editorial team

743

 

119

END

  

747

       

"Bundle of memories" translated by M. Porat