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Yizkor (Memorial) Books Catalogue as at Sept 1999
Memorial Book of Krynki
(Poland)
53°16' / 23°47'
Translation of Pinkas Krynki
Edited by: D. Rabin
Published in Tel Aviv by Former Residents of Krynki
in Israel and the Diaspora, 1970
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Table of Contents
To you Krinki (Krinek) / Benedict Nisht 7
The “Pinkas Krinki” 11
From the history of the Jews in Krinki / Dov Rabin (pages 31-37)
From the distant past 31
The description of the emergence of the community 31
The bourgeois against the rights of the Jews 32
The Krinki community, Kehila, at its beginning 33
Krinki a community in Lithuania 33
The government assembly and its meeting in Krinki 34
The Krinki people revolt 35
Krinki Jews in the 19th century 35
During the Polish uprising in 1863 36
Krinki produces textile; chapter on the fires 37
Krinki Jews in the second part of the 19th century. (pages 40-52)
In the expanse decades / A.B.[RHM]Miller 40
Chapter on textile production 40
Krinki in the past. The big fires 41
The shtetl rebuilds itself 42
They take up tanning; the beginning of the major tanning industry / A.B. Miller 42
They make progress. From tanners to leather manufacturers 45
In the flourishing period of Krinki (1897 - 1915) / Dov Rabin (pages 62-93)
General overview 62
The Jewish population 62
The economic state and the aspirations of the Krinki Jews 62
Tanning, the life of Krinki 63
The first strike 66
Krinki a town of Torah 66
Under Russian cultural influence 66
The beginning of Krinki Zionism 67
The Tannery Town of Krinki in creativity and struggle The tannery center
Krinki a town with a name / Mordecai V. Bernstein 68
The tannery / Shmuel Geler 68
The Strike Period
The condition of the Jewish tannery workers and laborers / M.V. Bernstein 69
The beginning of the strike movement / H. Weinberg (Hershel Pinkes) 69
Before the start of the strike / Yossel Cohen 70
My debate with the rabbi / H. Weinberg 71
Terror and arrests / Yossel Cohen 72
The first victory / Hillel Katz-Blum 72
The workers became aware of their power / A.B. Miller 73
The second tanners strike 73
The prolonged tanners battle for a humane existence / Sofia Dubrow Ehrlic 73
Revolutionary activity
Beginning of the revolutionary movement in Krinki / Dov Rabin 75
The revolutionary propaganda / Betzalel (Alter) Patchebutski 76
The activities of anarchists
The beliefs of the anarchists - terror - acts. Demonstrations of the anarchists 77
Niamke the anarchist 78
The activities of the Krinki anarchists outside of their shtetl 79
The workers take over the power in Krinki / Aba Lev-Btz (Alter) Patshebatski 80
A S. Lutz revives the “Bund” / Nechum Bliacher-M. Friedman 82
From the cultural-social life in Krinki. A center of Torah
Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahanee Shapiro and his Yeshiva 89
Cultural conditions and aspirations / D.R. 91
The cheder improved / Benedict Nisht (B.Nib ) 92
The First World War (pages 94-110) The beginning of Russian defeats
Relief to homeless refugees / Benedict Nisht (B. Nib) 94
At the end of the summer 1915 / D. Selkof 94
The German occupation (Fall 1915 - Spring 1919) Under the pressure of the occupier / Dov Rabin
Under oppression and great needs 98
The trades during the destitute times 99
In the abandoned tannery places / Shmuel Geler 100
Jewish cultural resurrection / D. R__N 100
The “Literary Society” and its struggles / Israel Vaner 101
The Hebrew elementary school / Benedict Nisht 105
Struggle with Germans for teaching in Yiddish / Sarah Fel-Yelin 106
During the time of the revolutions
The workers reign in Krinki / Israel Stolarski 108
The activities of the workers regime and its demise / Wolf Ekstein 108
Activities of the “Bund” during the war years / Hershel Giteles Augustovski 110
A song about the war years / AB Miller 110
Under the renewed Polish reign (pages 146-166)
(May 1919 - September 1939)
General overview / Dov Rabin
The beginning of Polish rule 146
Jews and gentiles in Krinki 146
Economic discrimination 147
Krinki in economic ruin. Dynamism and mutual-aid initiative 150
The Jewish Public Life
Societal Competition
Alertness and activity 151
Ideologies and movements 151
Competitions for social position 151
From the education and cultural areas
The progressive school in Yiddish 153
The Hebrew school activities 154
Libraries 156
The Zionist movement
Beliefs of the movement and what they stood for 157
Pioneer movement (the “Hakhalutz”) aliyah to Eretz Israel 158
From the pulse of Krinki life
Jewish economic life / Shmuel Geler 159
The religious life
Torah and traditional devotion in Krinki 162
Rabbi Reb Khaskibi Yosef Mishkubski / David Mishkubski , Melameds of Krinki 163
Two Reb Shmuels 164
Reb Shmuel the rebitzens / B.TS. Patshebuski 165
Reb Shmuel Glombutski / Yishie Draysik 165
Our Shtetl Krinik (pages 175 - 188)
From my childhood year / Beilke Shuster - Greenstein 175
Krinkik / Avrom Toyfer 176
The weekday Krinik / Shmuel Geler 180
On a market day 181
The dear Sabbath comes 183
Friday evening 184
Baruch Vladek visits the eternal light / Daniel Charney 185
The “skit” / Hershel Zakheim 186
From the Krinki “Hakhalutz” / Shmuel Herbarem-Krupnik 187
A summary 188
Description and memories (pages 204-221)
My Kavkaz (mountain) / Wolf Ekstein 204
Our shtetl in the past / Avram Miller 205
The waters in Krinik 205
The market place and the streets 206
Count Virian, a Polish ruler, emphasizes punishment for Krinik 206
A breakthrough in the clouds 206
The tanneries in the past; the workers 207
Nice citizens, Maggids, Hassidim, Cantors; from the respected citizens of the community. Types from the Jewish community 208
“Triple storied names”. The pastimes of the children 209
During the reconstruction of Krinik 209
Mentally ill, dark souls (underworld) 210
The Krinki doctors, druggists, midwives, exorcists and other healers 210
Something more about a Polish doctor / D. Selkof 211
My memory of Krinik / Berl Zakan (Berlatser ) It was told, there were times and fires 213
Giants of the Torah 214
Beautiful images of people, special characters of the people 215
I remind myself (remember) / Moishe Weisberg (Pisker ) 216
The Krinki life-style
Not a fanatical community, Sabbath and holiday / B. Zakan 217
The Holy Sabbath. High Holidays 217
Succoth 218
Chanukah and Purim 219
The dear Passover; Shavuos; Tisha-B'Av 219
The art of Tzedakah 219
The mentally ill, unstable people, and nicknames / Betzalel Patshebutski 220
An error / A. Fridenstein 221
At the outbreak of the Storm (pages 231-234)
Jews in Krinki under Soviet reign / Koshnir Alihou and Fride Zelkin 231
The beginning of WWII / Bielke Shuster-Greenstein 232
On the eve of Russian invasion / Abraham Soyfer 233
Under the reign of the Red Army / B.Shuster-Greenstein 233
Destruction and heroism. (pages 263-318)
A dream (a song) / Sarah Fel-Yelin 263
Nazis invade Russia / Avram Toyfer 264
The total demise of the Jewish community in Krinki / Lola Wolf-Resnik 264
Jewish areas bombarded and destroyed 264
The slaughter on the the empty field 265
We should be offerings for the Shtetl Jews, instead they should be offerings for us 265
The Polish anti-Semites take revenge on Jews 265
We are interned in the ghetto 266
The ghetto is enclosed 266
The Jewish Council 267
How life was seen in the Krinki ghetto 267
The cruelty and torture 269
The murder of the twenty 269
The cruel, murderous, petty officer 270
Hunger and plagues 270
The slaughter on the eve of Passover 270
Jews from Brestovitz chased into Krinki 271
The ghetto divided; the liquidation of the ghetto 271
The labor camp and its liquidation 272
In the ghetto / Abraham Sofer 273
In tight quarters and thirst; the bloody Friday 273
They search for a way to escape to the forests 274
The Nazi murderers and their Polish partners / Chaim Weiner 275
The liquidation of the ghetto / Abraham Sofer 275
The story of Kelbasin. The mass murderers and their judgments / Dov Rabin 277
From Rintsler's hell 278
In the struggle for life / Feivel Wolf 279
In the struggle for life, in the Krinki ghetto 284
Into the Kelbasin camp 284
On the road to our death 286
Don't forget- Remember (a song) / Chaim Sheinbert 288
I escape from Kelbasin / Feivel Wolf 289
The factory camp. The last road / Abraham Sofer 293
Jumped from the death train and arrived in Bialystok / DrTs D. 297
In Aushwitz / Abraham Soyfer 298
We are standing in Aushwitz 298
With Krinki Jews in Bierkenau 299
Our first victims in the work-camp 299
Chapter “Canada” 300
The Krinki mutual aide, the Krinki girl 301
The crematoria are burning 302
Let's blow up the crematoria 303
Shloima Avnet killed in the battle 303
During the struggle and homelessness / Feivel Wolf 305
The “big action” (slaughter) in Grodno; escaping from Grodno 306
Homeless 307
My brother goes away 310
I am joining the partisans 311
The partisans of Krinki / DRTs-D 312
More about Moyshe Slopak and his partisan group / Shmuel Geler 313
Krinki fighting individuals and their uniqueness 315
A Krinki Passover-seder in a German work camp 316
The extermination of the Krinki martyrs / Shmuel Wolf and Heshel Eizen 317
The roster of the victims. The victims of the bloody Passover-eve 318
My Shtetel, Krinki (song) / Sarah Fel-Yelin 318
After the Holocaust (pages 322-325)
On the ruins of the Jewish Krinek / Baylka Shuster-Greenstein 322
On the cemetery of our home town / Sarah Fel-Yelin 322
On our ruins. My last visit / Benedict Nisht 325
Necrology 328