Będzin
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Organization of Będzin Emigrants in Israel
Named as the publisher.
Abraham Blat
Named as author of a poem.
Shlomo Grossman
Named as author of a poem.
Shmuel Kleinman
Named as author of a chapter.
Abraham Levinson
Named as translator of a listed song.
Dr. Reuven Rechtman
Named in a listed chapter attribution.
Moshe Binyamin Kleinman
Named as author of a listed chapter title.
Sarah Erlichman
Named as author of a listed chapter title.
Community Council
A chapter titled “Community Council” is listed.
Hashomer Hatzair
Named in a listed chapter title about guarding the honor of the people.
Będzin
City described as a center of Jewish communal life in southeastern Poland.
Poland
Identified as the location of Będzin in the passage.
Gur
The passage refers to the Rebbe of Gur.
Jewish communities of southeastern Poland
The passage describes Będzin as a leading Jewish community in southeastern Poland.
City of the Dead
Book cited as containing authentic chapters about the destruction.
Zagłębie
Region associated with Jewish communities described in the passage.
Będzin Jewish community
Community whose destroyed past and people are recalled in the book.
Memorial monument erected in Tel Aviv cemetery
A monument was placed in a Tel Aviv cemetery in memory of the community's dead.
David Lior
Named as a devoted friend who took on the demanding work of publishing the memorial book.
Cemetery in Tel Aviv
Cemetery in Tel Aviv where a memorial monument was placed.
Będzin Community Memorial Book
A planned written record of the community's history and destruction, assembled from documents, photographs, and testimony.
Archives and Libraries
Repositories searched for reliable sources about Będzin's past.
A. S. Stein
Editor thanked for concern for the book’s quality and design.
Magdiel
Locality given after Shlomo Lior’s name.
Pinḳas Bendin
Memorial book about the Będzin community, issued in two language sections.
Będzin
Town whose Jewish life and community history are discussed.
Israel
Country where most Będzin natives discussed in the passage lived.
Yosef Rozenzaft
Friend who provided material assistance for the book.
Shlomo Lyver
Friend thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.
America
Region where Bendin townspeople are identified as living.
Meeting in the ghetto
Shimele Ratenberg, Israel Gertler, and the narrator met to discuss preserving the work.
Construction of Będzin Castle
Casimir III the Great established a large stone castle at Będzin around 1358.
Jan Sobieski passes through Będzin
In 1683, Polish King Jan Sobieski and his army passed through Będzin en route to aid besieged Vienna.
Clash near Będzin
Polish insurgents and Russian forces clashed near Będzin on May 5, 1864.
Burial of fallen insurgents
Fallen insurgents were buried near the railway station after the clash.
Chapel removed
The memorial chapel was removed in 1936 because it obstructed traffic.