APPENDIX E

A Partial Pogrom Memorial List, 1920

Source: The Forward (Forverts), December 30, 1920, page 1

Credit: The Forward Association

Translation from Yiddish to English by Dr. Ida Selavan Schwarcz

Translation used with the permission of Dr. Robert Barnes

Names of One Hundred Murdered Jews in Stavishche, Province of Kiev

Special cable to the Forward from N. Shifrin, Berlin, December 29:

“I have received the names of over one hundred murdered Jews in Stavishche, Kiev Province.”

The following have left behind a wife and four children:

· 1. Avraham’l Litvak, 40 years old

· 2. Ben-Tsiyon Maladavski, 46 years old

· 3. His son, Reuven

· 4. Meir the teacher, 38 years old

· 5. Mikhl Papirovitsh, 55 years old

· 6. Yaakov the ritual slaughterer, 40 years old

· 7. Nahum the carpenter, 55 years old

The following have left behind a wife and five children:

· 8. Binyamin Natavski, from Yanashivke, 35 years old

· 9. Shmulik Stavski, 45 years old

· 10. His wife, 38 years old

· 11. Mordekhai Leyb Frenkel, 45 years old

· 12. Avraham the ritual slaughterer, 55 years old

· 13. His wife, 50 years old

The following have left behind a wife and six children:

· 14. Tsevi Grabman, 44 years old

· 15. Shalom Shvetkay, 38 years old

The following left behind a wife (or spouse) with one or two children:

· 16. Tsevi Lazanski, 40 years old

· 17. Avraham Dvinski, 35 years old

· 18. Gitl Senderovski, 35 years old

· 19. Esther, Kalman the hatter’s daughter, 60 years old

· 20. Mordshe Berkum, 48 years old

· 21. Bayets Berkum, 22 years old

· 22. Meir, 16 years old

· 23. Ele Stepanski, 35 years old

· 24. His brother, Mendl, 23 years old

· 25. Yitshak Kagan, 35 years old

· 26. Motl Fishman, 28 years old

· 27. Avraham Meir Fishman, 38 years old

· 28. Nahum Frants, 33 years old

· 29. Fayvish Platinski, 55 years old

· 30. Tittsek the miller, 55 years old

· 31. Khvelye Dartshevski, 40 years old

· 32. Motl Gutharts, 35 years old

· 33. Volke (Zeev) Vaynshteyn, 45 years old

· 34. Fayvl the blacksmith, 45 years old

· 35. His son, David, 28 years old

· 36. Veksler the dentist, 40 years old

· 37. His wife, Belah

· 38. Hershl the cobbler (Zagatavshtik[?]), 35 years old

· 39. Ayzik Kanski, 58 years old

· 40. Shalom Denest, 55 years old

· 41. Avraham’l the (shinder/shingler) 50 years old

· 42. Asher the water-carrier’s stepson, 30 years old

· 43. His wife

· 44. David Itsik’s, 32 years old

· 45. Shalom Salganik, 55 years old

· 46. Jacob Grinshpan, 35 years old

· 47. Stapla, wife of Ben-Tsiyon the teacher, 35 years old

· 48. Hayke, 15 years old

· 49. Zelde, 5 years old

· 50. Rahel, 9 years old, wounded

· 51. Feyge, 4 years old

· 52. Baby, 2 years old

· 53. Nahum Velvel Bershadski, 60 years old

· 54. His brother Yonah, 50 years old

· 55. Meir Miratshnik, 55 years old

· 56. Hanah Meszibovskaya, 50 years old

· 57. Yaakov David Zshivatavski, 60 years old

· 58. Levi the waggoner, 30 years old

· 59. Mosheh Shelomah Kushnier, 25 years old

· 60. Unknown young man

· 61. Mahlah Kaptshevskaya, 70 years old

· 62. Avraham, son of David the [platatshnik], 12 years old

· 63. Ayzik Rizanski, 55 years old

· 64. Avraham Sukanik, 75 years old

· 65. Yankel Shumski’s mother, 70 years old

· 66. Gitl Rive Krasilavskaya, 75 years old

· 67. Yosl Zshabtshinksi, 75 years old

· 68. His wife, 70 years old

· 69. Zeydl Volodarski, 25 years old

· 70. Avraham Abba (Efrayim Tshudinski’s son[?]), 30 years old

· 71. Beni, son of Aharon the tailor, 22 years old

· 72. Pine, son of Yeruham, 8 years old

· 73. An old lame woman, “Di Litvatshke,” 75 years old

· 74. Daughter of Avraham the ritual slaughterer, 20 years old

· 75. Itsik Tori, 40 years old

· 76. David, son of the shingler, 25 years old

· 77. Tsevi Pisnay, from Stanislantshik, 16 years old

· 78. Gessl son of Yisrael Yonah, 22 years old

· 79. Yankl Grafman, 25 years old

· 80. Avraham Shestak, 23 years old

· 81. Tsevi Zagatavshtshik, from Rakitina, 45 years old

· 82. Yitshak Shatshan, 23 years old

· 83. Pesye Kartshevskaia, 55 years old

· 84. Sarah Rosenberg (Rosenblit[?]), 45 years old

· 85. Her daughter, Hanah, 22 years old

· 86. Her daughter, 18 years old

· 87. Shime Boyarski, 35 years old

· 88. Shelomoh Zalman the galoshes maker, 75 years old

· 89. Mosheh Nesyer (the bander; coopersmith), 20 years old

· 90. Sarah Shapira, 55 years old

· 91. Ittse Mazeraki, 50 years old

· 92. Golde Dikstevitsh, 50 years old

· 93. Mother (Sarah[?]) of Pittse Kaplavitsh, 70 years old

· 94. Lipe Stepanski, 60 years old

· 95. Avraham son of Mosheh Tankel, 20 years old

· 96. Kalman Nahum the carpenter, 25 years old

· 97. His bride, 20 years old

· 98. Berl Yaladarski, blind, 80 years old

· 99. Sarah the brunette, a disabled woman, 80 years old

· 100. Sarah the waitress, 80 years old

· 101. Alte the weaver’s daughter, 30 years old

· 102. Her husband, 32 years old

The Stavishche Yizkor Book lists two others left off the list:

· 103. Yosef Rubtshinski, the butcher, 87 years old

· 104. His wife, Batyah, 84 years old

“These are the last martyrs who were murdered by Zhelezniak’s band in the big bet hamidrash, possibly the last Jews in town.” (Note from both the translator and the author: this is inconsistent with the dates. Zhelezniak’s attack was certainly not the last.)

Source: Stavishche Yizkor Book, 1961

· 1. Levin, Avraham-Eli, murdered in August 1918

· 2. Kohen, David, 20, murdered in 1919

· 3. Svirski, unknown, 18, murdered in 1919

· 4. Fishlin, Reuven, murdered in 1920

· 5. Landsman, Shalom, murdered in 1920

· 6. Frenkel, Shelomoh Zalman, murdered in 1920

· 7–8. Smaliar and his wife, burned alive in their home^I

1. I. Author’s note: Moshe Smaliar and his wife were a young Jewish couple in town.