Front Cover 

Kartuz-Bereza, Our Town Memorial Book 

Back Cover 

Holy Community Kartuz-Bereza 

Table Of Contents 

Introduction 

CHAPTER 1 -- KARTUZ BEREZA, THE TOWN AND IT'S HISTORY

A

Map of the area

B

Bereza, Kartuz Bereza, Bereza Kartuzka and Berioza

C

Yaakov Gorali

Chapters of history and memories 

D

Elyahu Mote Bukshtein

Polish concentration camp in K. Bereza

E

Moshe Bernshtein

1. In my poor house (poem in Yiddish)

2. In my poor house (poem)(translated from Yiddish by Benyamin Tene)

F

Noach Peniel

1. When I remember you (poem)  

2. The cry of memorial stones (poem) 

CHAPTER 2 -- COMMUNITY LIFE

A

Nechemia Shtuker

Memories of K. Bereza that no longer exist

B

Nathan Shapira

Social events in K. Bereza

C

Y. Rottenberg

Peretz Markish in K. Bereza

D

Elyau Mote Bukshtein

Firemen from K. Kereza

E

Elyau Mote Bukshtein

Education in K. Bereza

F

Chatke Graievsky-Kaval

Sanction to the Yiddish school in K. Bereza

G

Moshe Bernshtein

And those I will remember

H

Tzipora Brener

My little town

I

Pnina Rab (Goldberg)

My town

J

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Folklore from K. Bereza

CHAPTER 3 -- ZIONIST ACTIVITY

A

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Development of Zionism in the town

B

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K. Bereza for the construction of Eretz Israel in 1911

C

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A call to Jewish population in K. Bereza before community elections of July 1928

D

Eliezer Egozy (Niselboim)

Zionist activity in the town

E

Pnina Rab (Goldberg)

Hebrew school "Yanve" in K. Bereza

F

Shmuel Tinary (Tibulitsky)

"Betar" Zionist Nationalistic Movement

G

Chava Shmulovksy (Epshtein)

"He'Chalutz Ha'Tzair"

H

Eliezer Egozy (Niselboim)

Memories of "Ha'shomer Ha'tzair"

I

Baruch Fisher

More about "Ha'shomer Ha'tzair" in K . Bereza

J

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List of "olim" (immigrants) to Eretz Israel

CHAPTER 4 -- PERSONAL MEMORIES

A

Tzipora Brener

Our house

B

Sara Gachelet

Memories of the town in which I never was

C

Amir Geref

Travel to unknown (poem)

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 (Slutzky) (Dr.)

Manie Serlin and Ytzchak Slutzky, zionism without quotation marks

H

Noach Peniel (Falantovsky)

Kartuz Bereza: my native city

I

Chaia Shmerlovsky (Epshtein)

Memories of K. Bereza

J

Avram Shatz

K. Bereza of my ancestors

K

Chaim Ben Israel (Goldberg)

My town K. Bereza: childhood memories

CHAPTER 5 -- PERSONALITIES AND IMAGES

A

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Rabbis from K. Bereza 
1. Rav Yitzchak Elchanan Spector 
2. Family Klatzkin: Rav. Elihau Ben Naftali Hertz Klatzkin
3. Rav Shlomo Fainzilber 
4. Rav Yakov Moshe Hashrovitz 

B

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Rabbinical Genealogy through the book by Aharon David Egoz, translator of "Duties of Soul" to Yiddish.

C

Yakov Goraly

The "tzadik" (holy man) Reb Itchie

D

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Kadia Molodovsky: writer and poet

E

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Dov Chomsky: writer and poet

F

Dov Chomsky

1. To my mother (poem) 

2. My friend (poem) 

G

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Avram Minkovitz, professor

H

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Noach Peniel, educator and poet

I

Noach Peniel

Farewell tears (poem)

J

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Moishe Bernshtein, the artist

K

Moishe Bernshtein

1 Longings for K. Bereze (poem in Yiddish) 

2. Longings for K. Bereze (poem, trans. Dr. Y. Ch. Wiletzky) 

CHAPTER 6 -- DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE

A

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Annihilation in July and October 1942 according to "Atlas of Shoa" by Martin Gilbert

B

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Murder of Jews in Brona Gura according to Vasily Grosman & Illia Arenburg, (Soviet Union)

C

Masha Elishiv (Shtuker)

I survived

D

Yehuda Biltzik

The loss of our dear parents, sisters and brothers

E

David Bekler

On the Jews of Selcz, K. Bereze and their bitter end

F

Elizabeta Zilbershtein
(Lea Berkovitz)

1 By the mass grave (poem, Yiddish)

2 By the mass grave (poem, trans. by Noach Peniel) 

G

Moishe Tuchman

Destruction of K. Bereze

H

Elyau Mote Bukshtein

Destruction of K. Bereze, more details

I

Reizel Navi (Tuchman)

Brona Gura (poem, Yiddish)

J

Noach Peniel

Brona Gura (poem)

K

Masha Shtuker-Paiuk

My house no longer exists (poem, Yiddish)

L

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Yizkor (Memorial)

M

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Deceased in K. Bereza Ghetto; list of names

CHAPTER 7 -- FALLEN IN WAR AGAINST NAZIS

A

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Name list of those from K. Bereza (killed in action)

CHAPTER 8 -- SURVIVORS

A

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List of survivors

B

Elyau Mote Bukshtein

K. Bereza 1939/1941

C

Tzipora Brener (Bukshtein)

After liberation

D

Moishe Bernshtein

Survival

E

Shlomo Helman

About my family, Kartuz Bereza and its Jews, and my sufferings during second world war

F

Elizabeta Zilbershtein
(Lea Berkovitz)

Jews from K. Bereza I found

G

Moishe Tuhcman

Memories of K. Bereza and my suffering in Second World War

H

Ytzchak Subinsky

In my village K. Bereza 50 years later

I

Zeev Soronovsky

Escaping from 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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