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YIZKOR BOOK - TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword to the English Edition	YNK	p. 1
Foreword	Yehoshua ELBAUM, Givatayim	p. 5
Foreword	Yehoshua ELBAUM, Givatayim	p. 7
Part I - About Distant and Recent Past
The History of the Jewish Community in Kutno	Yeshayahu TRUNK, New York	p. 11
The History of the Jewish Community in Kutno	Yeshayahu TRUNK, New York	p. 29
The Kutno Funeral Society at the Beginning of the 19th Century	Lipman COMBER	p. 54
Part II - Daily life, Memories, and Events
Kutno	Sh. BABE, Tel Aviv	p. 59
Kutno	Sh. BABE, Tel Aviv	p. 61
My Coming to Kutno	R' Yonah Baruch KAC z"l	p. 65
Lottery Held for the Benefit of the "Talmud Torah" in Kutno, 1915	Aharon Shlomo ELBERG	p. 67
Kutno During the First World War	Mirel ERDBERG-SZATAN, Montreal	p. 72
Sixty Years Ago	Moshe WAJNGART, Herzliya	p. 78
Culture and Philanthropy	Yaakov FERENBACH, Nahariyya	p. 79
1905 and Later	Azriel SZYMONOWICZ, Givatayim	p. 80
A Greeting From Shalom ASZ's Shtetl	Y. M. NAJMAN	p. 82
Kutno's 'Crawlers'	Henech SZLAJFER, Paris	p. 84
Kutno Firefighters	Abraham LUSTIGMAN, Holon	p. 85
Years of Searching, Struggle and Dreams	Reuven MROZ, Kibbutz Lochamei Ha'Getaot	p. 86
The Old Market	Y. ELBAUM, E. WAJCHSELFISZ, Z. LASMAN	p. 88
The Old Market	Y. ELBAUM, E. WAJCHSELFISZ, Z. LASMAN	p. 92
I Saw Our Shtetl on the Eve of the Holocaust	Dvorah KRAUT-KOHN, Mexico	p. 97
Part III - Institutes, Political Parties, Organizations, and Companies
Memories and Notes of a Community Leader	Aharon Shlomo ELBERG	p. 101
Interview with the President of the Community of Kutno, Mr. S. FALC	S. R.	p. 110
The Last Meeting of the Kutno Jewish Community Council	Nathan MOSZKOWICZ, Herzliya	p. 111
The Last Meeting of the Kutno Jewish Community Council	Nathan MOSZKOWICZ, Herzliya	p. 112
Jewish-Polish Relationships in Kutno 40 Years Ago	David SZTOKFISZ, Ramat Gan	p. 115
Associative Life, Jewish Community, Municipality	Aharon MENDELEWICZ z"l, Tel Aviv	p. 131
The Heavenly Kutno	R' Mordechai Yehuda LUBART, New York	p. 136
Religious Life in Our Town	Meir HOREIN (BECHLER), Haifa	p. 140
The Cheder Yesodei-Torah	Gershon FOGEL, New York	p. 143
The Small Gerrer Shtiebel	Abraham LUSTIGMAN, Tel Aviv	p. 146
Agudat-Israel Party in Kutno	Arie ORNER, Haifa	p. 148
The Zionism in Kutno; Activities and Characters	Yehuda GRINBAUM	p. 149
The Beginning of Zionist Youth' Activity	Azriel SZYMONOWICZ, Givatayim	p. 154
Zionist Activity in Kutno	Azriel SZYMONOWICZ, Givatayim	p. 156
The Young Mizrachi Movement	Yitzhak MAJRANC, Rehovot	p. 158
Zionist Activity in Our Town	Yaakov KLINGBAJL, Holon	p. 159
The Beginning of Beitar	A. GOLDSZTAJN, Tel Aviv	p. 160
From "Ha'Shakhar" Branch in Kutno, to "Beitar"	Efraim WAJCHSELFISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 161
On Beitar Activity in Kutno	Moshe WIGDOROWICZ, Tel Aviv	p. 166
Organization "Brith Trumpeldor" in Kutno	Yaakov ZAJDENWAR, Tel Aviv	p. 169
Ken "Ha'Shomer Ha'Zair" in Our Town	Yaakov RIFTIN, Ein Shemer	p. 171
Our Eyes Are Lifted Towards Israel	Ita AYALON, Kibbutz Eilon	p. 172
A Glorious Page in the History of Kutno's Jewish Youth	Naftali KRUL, Beit Alfa	p. 173
"Thanks to the Ken of HaShomer HaZair"	Simcha FRUMER	p. 175
The "General Zionist Pioneer" and "Zionist Youth" movements		p. 177
The Foundation of the "Young Zionists" and Other Memories	David MENSZES, Tel Aviv	p. 178
The Youth Movement of "Poalei Zion" Party	Eliyahu KLINGBAJL, Beer Sheva	p. 183
Jewish Workers' Party "Poalei Zion" and Youth Party	Henech SZLAJFER, Paris	p. 185
Youth Memories From Youth Party	Yehoshua ELBAUM, Givatayim	p. 190
Memories of a Bundist	H. CHABUS, Paris	p. 195
The Bund and Its Institutions	Nathan MOSZKOWICZ, Herzliya	p. 196
My Childhood in "Skif" (Youth Movement)	Pola MANCZUK-GOLDBERG, Montreal	p. 198
The Dramatic Circle "Yab"	Chaim BEN-MENSZE, Holon	p. 199
The Communist Party and Its Members	Chaim GRINBAUM, Holon	p. 201
Events and Characters in the Communist Party	Yosef KAM, Lyon	p. 206
Ten Years in the Society of Friends of YIVO	Yeshayahu TAUB, Melbourne	p. 207
Our School "Am Ha'Sefer"	Nysen WELCMAN, Haifa	p. 209
The School, Linat Zedek and Merchants' Union	Efraim WAJCHSELFISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 211
The Sport and Gymnastics Organization in Kutno	Abraham KOLSKI, Haifa	p. 215
The First Jewish Sports Club in Kutno	Menachem KOHN, Besançon (France)	p. 216
Jewish Sports Club in Kutno	Wolf MANCZYK, Karkur	p. 217
"Morgensztern-Jutrznia", Its Chairman and Coach	Chaim GRINBAUM, Holon	p. 223
The Jewish Socialist Sports Organization "Morning Star"	Yosel GOLDBERG, Montreal (Canada)	p. 226
Documents, Photos and Newspapers - Jewish Organizations' Life		p. 227
Part IV - Personalities, Fighters, Businessmen Characters
In Kutno and Outside
The Gaon R' Y. Trunk of Kutno	R' A. Y. BROMBERG	p. 235
The Visit of the Genius Rabbi From Kutno in Jerusalem	Pinchas BEN-ZVI GRAJEWSKI	p. 239
65 Years of the Passing of R' Yehoshele, "Gaon of Kutno"	Aharon Shlomo ELBERG	p. 240
A Collection of Memories about R' Yehoshele KUTNER	M. J. SZATAN	p. 241
Mr. Yitzhak Yehuda TRUNK	Yeshayahu TRUNK, New York	p. 243
ASZ Shalom	Shmuel NIGER	p. 247
Shalom ASZ	Yitzhak CHARLASZ	p. 249
Literary Eternity and Shalom ASZ	Melech RAWICZ	p. 252
Shalom ASZ in his Twilight Years	Mordechai CHALAMISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 253
At the Funeral of Shalom ASZ's Mother in Kutno	Y. Sh. GOLDSZTAJN	p. 255
Shalom ASZ and Motke	Zvi ASZ	p. 257
The Shtetl of Shalom ASZ and its heroes	Abraham LUSTIGMAN, Tel Aviv	p. 257
Shalom ASZ's Heroes	Abraham LUSTIGMAN, Tel Aviv	p. 258
House of Shalom ASZ in Bat Yam		p. 259
Kutno Rabbis, Sages and Writers	Aharon Shlomo ELBERG, son of Ze'ev Zvi z"l	p. 259
Mr. Yonathan MAJRANC	Yitzhak MAJRANC	p. 265
Yehuda RIFTIN z"l	Moshe MAJZELS, A. MENDELEWICZ	p. 266
In Memory of Abraham RIFTIN	Yaakov RIFTIN, Ein Shemer	p. 266
The FALC Family	Y. ELBAUM	p. 267
Mr. Abraham BORNSZTAJN	Aleksander ANKER	p. 268
Yechiel Yeshayahu TRUNK	Chaim Leib FUKS	p. 268
Israel Yehoshua TRUNK	Chaim Leib FUKS	p. 270
Yeshayahu TRUNK	Chaim Leib FUKS	p. 271
Israel TRANK	Israel GOLDKORN, Tel Aviv	p. 271
Lipman COMBER	Prof. Rafael MAHLER	p. 273
Beinish ZYLBERSZTAJN	Mark RAKOWSKI	p. 273
Yaakov OSOWSKI and his family	Ruth HOLANDER-OSOWSKI	p. 273
Tea ARCISZEWSKA, the Actress and Writer	Henech SZLAJFER, Paris	p. 274
About Our Spiritual Figures	Nathan MOSZKOWICZ, Herzliya	p. 275
Some Scholars and Businessmen	Arie ORNER, Haifa	p. 277
Our Cantors	Moshe WIGDOROWICZ, Tel Aviv	p. 278
Chaim TYBER	Yosef SANDLER	p. 279
From Kutno to Moscow	Chaim GRINBAUM, Holon	p. 281
The Painter Shimon AVNY		p. 281
Kutner Figures	Yaakov FERENBACH, Nahariyya	p. 282
R' Yitzhak (Itshe) Meir SZPIRO (the Ritual Slaughterer)	Daniel Leib SZPIRO	p. 283
R' Chaim WALTER hy"d and Mindel z"l	Abraham and Israel WALTER, Ramat Gan	p. 285
The "Litvak of Kutno"	Ryvka GWIRCMAN	p. 286
Our Home	Efraim WAJCHSELFISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 287
David KALMAN, z"l	Aharon MENDELEWICZ	p. 290
Meir and Anna BOZHIKOVSKI		p. 290
Yehuda (Juliush) LIPSKI		p. 290
My Father Avigdor GROMAN	Ester WOLFSKAL-GROMAN	p. 291
Leibel PANKER		p. 291
Jewish Characters in Kutno	Abraham LUSTIGMAN, Holon	p. 292
In the KUCZYNSKIs' Home	Bracha Zipora LAMSKI BILD	p. 293
In Memory of a Jewish Family	Yadsha GRABINSKI, Mexico	p. 294
Mr. Aharon LAMSKI		p. 295
Our Parents Yaakov Israel and Roza YAWEC	Ryvka FISZER (YAWEC), Leah YAWEC	p. 295
David KLECZEWSKI z"l	Yitzhak KLECZEWSKI	p. 295
Abraham Menashe KAC	Henoch H. HOFFMAN, Paris	p. 295
R' David LUSTMAN and His Family	Kalman LUSTMAN	p. 296
My Grandfather David KOLSKI	His grandsons Yehoshua, Menachem & Abraham	p. 296
Hersh-Meir and Chana RAK	Their children	p. 297
Chaim Noach BAGNO z"l	Sara BAGNO-FAJNER	p. 297
Yosele the Goldsmith and His Family	Ester KORN-NATAN	p. 298
Yitzhak-Meir and Zise Freida SZPIRO	Mashe SZPIRO-ŻURAWSKI	p. 299
The GORSZKOWICZ family	Azriel SZYMONOWICZ	p. 299
My Family	Moshe MAJSELS, Tiv'on	p. 299
The Children of Kutno in the Building and the Wars of Eretz Israel
The First Ones and Those Who Followed Them		p. 300
True Charity (Dealing with the Dead)	WELCMAN family	p. 302
Issachar Dov BAR-DRORA (FRAJER)	David TIDHAR	p. 303
Dr. Abraham GLIKSMAN		p. 304
Dr. Yehuda M. BROMBERG-BAVLY		p. 304
Eliyahu Eliezer Mordechai ELBERG	David TIDHAR	p. 305
Azriel Yosef ELBERG	David TIDHAR	p. 305
N. TIGER, His Ways and Life	N. MOSZKOWICZ, A. BERDICZEWSKI, Y. RIFTIN	p. 305
The ROJER Family		p. 307
Shmuel Halevi LAZNOWSKI	David TIDHAR	p. 307
Yaakov SZWARC	Efraim DEKEL	p. 309
Independence War
Chaim FUKS		p. 311
Chaim FISZ		p. 311
Zvi SHAPIRO		p. 311
David METAL (PELED)	Zvi NAJMAN, M. CHOREV	p. 312
Moshe PLOCER		p. 313
Eliyahu SIERADZKI (Alex)		p. 313
Abraham SZYMONOWICZ z"l		p. 314
Arie GRINBAUM	Yechezkel, Ch., M. TABENKIN	p. 314
Lieutenant PNUEL (Nachman FALC)	Yechiel KADISHAY	p. 315
Efraim FIRSTENBERG z"l	Y. K.	p. 316
Eli ELIAV z"l	Y. K. and Mother	p. 316
Six-Day War
Captain Yoram (ZANDBERG) HARPAZ z"l	Chaya LAZER	p. 317
Part V - The Holocaust and the Struggle
Kutno, My Hometown	Mirel ERDBERG-SZATAN	p. 321
Yitgadal v'Yitkadash	Shalom ASZ	p. 322
Kutno in E. RINGELBLUM's "News From Warsaw Ghetto"		p. 326
Kutno and Surroundings During the Years of Occupation		p. 327
Poles Tell About the Kutno Ghetto		p. 328
The Decline of Jewish Kutno	Yeshayahu TRUNK, New York	p. 331
The Decline of Jewish Kutno	Yeshayahu TRUNK, New York	p. 340
On the Beginning of Second World War	Zvi LASMAN, Givatayim	p. 354
Kutno in the Days of War	Wolf MANCZYK, Karkur	p. 355
A Terrible Day	Nathan KLAR, Tel Aviv	p. 357
Six Days in Łęczyca camp	Yosef GOLDBERG, Montreal	p. 358
The Escape Before Death	Arie WEISBROT, Haifa	p. 360
Five Years of Life in Hell	Lozer JAKUBOWICZ, USA	p. 362
In Ghettos and in Camps	Abraham LIFSZIC, Ohio, USA	p. 364
My Experience in the Camps	Berel BALZAMOWICZ, Montreal, Canada	p. 365
In Konstancja, Gąbin, Płock, Strzegowo	Lucia STUCZYNSKA	p. 366
In Kutno Ghetto	Pinchas OSOWSKI	p. 370
Two Letters From Kutno Ghetto	Bela WALCER	p. 373
Two Songs From Ghetto Konstancja	Tamar KOWALSKA, Tel Aviv	p. 375
The Shoah Era in France	Bernard HOFFMAN, Paris	p. 376
The Chelmno Death Camp		p. 381
On the Battlefront and in Anti-Nazi Underground
Kutners in the Second World War	Efraim WAJCHSELFISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 384
The Last Battle of the Kutno Jewish Soldiers	Zyskind BIBERGAL, New York	p. 386
Soldiers on the Front, Partisans, Underground Fighters	Yehuda SZTAJN, Ch. H. HOFFMAN, Paris	p. 388
Bernard PONS Helps Capture a German Division	H. BAUM	p. 389
The Big Wandering	Moshe-Pinchas SZPIRO, London	p. 390
Monte Cassino	Anshel FREUND, London	p. 393
The Revenge	Shmuel LARON (FALC), Tel Aviv	p. 394
The Revenge	Shmuel LARON (FALC), Tel Aviv	p. 395
The Ghetto Fighters Israel and Salo KANAL		p. 396
List of Permanent Members of the Jewish Kutner Committee (1945)		p. 398
Part VI - After the Liberation
Kutno After Liberation	Zvi LASMAN, Givatayim	p. 401
Kutno in January 1945	Efraim WAJCHSELFISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 402
In Liberated Kutno	Efraim WAJCHSELFISZ, Tel Aviv	p. 405
Kutno Without Jews	A. SIEDLECKI	p. 407
In My Kutno, After the Destruction	Moshe PIETRKOWSKI, Brazil	p. 408
In My Hometown	Yeshayahu TRUNK, New York	p. 419
Part VII - Surrounding Towns: Łęczyca, Krośniewice, Dąbrowice
History of the City		p. 425
On the History of Łęczyca	Rabbi Yitzhak Yedidya FRENKEL, Tel Aviv	p. 426
Memories of the Old Life	Shimshon LUSNER	p. 432
Our Shtetl Łęczyca	Sh. ROGERS, Melbourne	p. 436
The Sports-Club "Ha'Koach" in Łęczyca	Zalman BORNSZTAJN, Melbourne, Australia	p. 438
How the Jews of Łęczyca Perished	Moshe SZERPINSKI, David WACHTEL z"l	p. 439
The Death of the Jews of Łęczyca	Abraham WISZEGRODZKI, Australia	p. 440
The Ten Jews Who Were Hanged	Zalman BORNSZTAJN, Melbourne, Australia	p. 441
Leczycers in France	David WACHTEL z"l, Paris	p. 443
Leczycers in Australia	Shlomo ROGOZYNSKI (ROGERS), Melbourne	p. 443
My Shtetl Krośniewice	Chananael HOFFMAN, Toulouse (France)	p. 445
Childhood Memories From Krośniewice	Rafael Hersh PACANOWSKI, Manchester	p. 450
Dąbrowice Near Kutno	Chenoch Henech HOFFMAN, Paris	p. 452
The Brutal Murder of the Rabbi of Dąbrowice ztz"l	Bernard HOFFMAN, Paris	p. 460
Part VIII - Children of Kutno and Surroundings in Israel and Diaspora
Activity Report of the Association of Former Residents of Kutno in Israel	Secretariat	p. 465
Activity Report of the Association of Former Residents of Kutno in Israel	Secretariat	p. 467
Shalom ASZ Near His Townsmen in Israel	Abraham LUSTIGMAN, Tel Aviv	p. 472
Kutners in USA		p. 474
Kutners in France	Henech SZLAJFER, Paris	p. 475
The Homeland Society in Canada		p. 482
Kutners in Mexico		p. 483
Greetings From a Kutner in Soviet Russia	Yaakov OSOWSKI	p. 487
A Letter From Moscow	Lifshe Chana OSOWSKI, Moscow	p. 492
Kutno Refugees in Germany (1945-1947)		p. 493
Part IX - Commemorative Pages
List of Martyrs		p. 496
Mourning Notices in Israel (1)		p. 522
Mourning Notices in Israel (2)		p. 532
In France and Belgium		p. 562
In England		p. 576
In Australia		p. 577
In USA		p. 578
Canada		p. 584
Mexico		p. 585