From Osweicim To Auschwitz Poland Revisited

Visiting cities, towns, villages in Poland wherever Jews lived before World War II and after the war. Interviews of hundreds of Jews who survived the war. Brief histories of Jewish towns in Poland before, during and after World War II. Describing problems of Jews in my hometown Oswiecim-Auschwitz before, during and after the war.

Moshe Weiss, an orthodox rabbi with a Doctorate from Yeshiva University, lives in the United States and Israel. He grew up in Oswiecim, before the Second World War. Rabbi Weiss has returned to Poland frequently during the past 30 years. This book is a wit

Foreword

1

(2)

From Oswiecim to Auschwitz

3

(2)

Warsaw

5

(3)

The New Rabbi

8

(2)

The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation

10

(4)

Zigmunt Nissenbaum

14

(4)

Lublin

18

(3)

Majdanek

21

(3)

On the Road to Treblinka

24

(4)

Lodz

28

(4)

Piotrkow

32

(2)

The Monuments in Bytom

34

(3)

Krakow

37

(3)

The Rema

40

(3)

With the Viznitzer Chassidim at Auschwitz

43

(3)

Shabbat in Krakow

46

(4)

Plaszow

50

(3)

Wieliczka

53

(3)

The Watchmaker and the Rabbi's Son of Wieliczka

56

(3)

The Bridge in Krakowan - Interlude

59

(3)

Bochnia

62

(3)

Zabno and Dabrowa

65

(3)

Tarnow

68

(3)

A Conversation in Tarnow

71

(4)

Rzeszow

75

(3)

Ropczyce and Lancut

78

(3)

Jaroslaw

81

(3)

Przemysl

84

(3)

A Meeting in Warsaw with Leaders of the Jewish Community

87

(4)

On the Road to Bobowa

91

(3)

The Bobov Bet-Medrash

94

(3)

The Bobover Chassidim

97

(3)

The Bobover Dynasty

100

(3)

Bobover Chassidim Today

103

(3)

The Bobover Way of Life

106

(3)

The Rabbi's Son as an SS Officer

109

(3)

On the Road to Sanz

112

(3)

The Mass Grave at Sanz

115

(3)

Reb Chaim Ring of Sanz

118

(3)

The Two Monuments of the Sanzer Tzaddik

121

(3)

Katowice

124

(3)

The Katowice District

127

(3)

Some Statistics on Present-Day Polish Jewry

130

(3)

Oswiecim, My Oshpitzin

133

(3)

Oswiecim's Jewish Community

136

(3)

Oswiecim and the ``Council of Four Lands''

139

(3)

Chassidic Masters of Oswiecim

142

(4)

The Rabbis of Oswiecim

146

(4)

Oswiecim Before the Second World War

150

(3)

Oswiecim at the Outbreak of the War

153

(3)

Oswiecim During the First Month of the War

156

(3)

Israel Monik Marion and the Gerer Rebbe's Blessing

159

(4)

The End of Jewish Life in Oswiecim

163

(3)

The Attempt to Revive the Oswiecim Community

166

(5)

Auschwitz

171

(4)

Poland Revisited

175

(6)

Afterword

181

(2)

Glossary

183

Index

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