Memorial book to the Holocaust victims of the community of Pshaytsh (Przedecz, Poland) : translation of Sefer yizkor le-kedohei ir Pshaytsh korbanot ha-shoa  Memorial Book to the Holocaust Victims of the Community of Pshaytsh: Translation of Sefer Yizkor Le-Kedohei IR Pshaytsh Korbanot Ha-Shoa 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2636839B

  Author(s)

  Bilavsky, Moshe

  City

  New York 

  Country

  United States 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781954176577 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  JewishGen  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  306 

  Subject

  Ethnic Studies / Ethnology

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Jewish Studies

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Bilavsky, Moshe

  Publisher

  JewishGen  

• Description

  Memorial Book to the Holocaust Victims of the Community of Pshaytsh: Translation of Sefer Yizkor Le-Kedohei IR Pshaytsh Korbanot Ha-Shoa Przedecz, located in central Poland, had a vibrant Jewish community for some 600 years, starting at the end of the 14th century. In Yiddish, the city was known as Pshaytsh; in Hebrew, Pshedetz. Most Jews worked as tradesmen, artisans, merchants and small traders. The community supported a synagogue, a bet midrash, a mikva, Jewish schools, a Yeshiva, a bikkur cholim society caring for the sick, and a benevolent fund which granted interest-free loans. The town had a Jewish library where people could meet to read books, attend dances, hear lectures, and see theatrical performances. Nazis occupied the town in October 1939. Changing the town's name to Moosburg, they burned the Synagogue and began the persecution and killing of Jews. Nearly half were sent to forced labor camps, where most of them died of hunger and disease. In Przedecz, Jews were forced to live in a ghetto under horrific conditions. In early 1942, they were packed into the local church and left for three days without food or water. On April 24, 1942, the remaining Jews were sent to the Chelmno death camp. As the Editors wrote: This book is meant as a memorial and yahrzeit candle... revealing events and deeds in the lives of our dear ones up to the years of the Holocaust