PINKES BITEN: DER OYFKUM UN UNTERGANG FUN A YIDISHER KEHILEH פנקס ביטען: דער אויפקום און אונטערגאנג פון א יידישער קהילה
Buenos Aires: Bitaner landslayt in Argentina, 1954. Item #42936
1st Edition. 8vo. 605 pages with illustrations, portraits, map. 24 cm. In Yiddish. Added title page in Spanish: “Byten, Libro Recordatorio, Creacio´n y Desparai´cion De Una Comunidad Judi´a.”
Yizkor book for the community of Byten, Belarus. Includes memory map.
Contains several necrologies of those who perished in the Holocaust in and from Byten (pages 558-590):
Alphabetical register of those who perished during the Holocaust in Byten with the circumstances of their deaths [i.e. during one of the three dated massacres described on page 558, in the nearby forests, unknown, etc.] ("Rashimah fun Bitener kedoyshim u-tehorim, velkhe zenen umgekomen in di dray masn-shekhitot durkh di daytshn un zayere mithelfer" [="List of Biten's martyrs and pure ones who perished in the three mass-slaughterings by the Germans and their accomplices"], pages 558-585)
Section of several dozen non-alphabetical name registers of those from Byten who perished in Holocaust in other locations, arranged by location ("Bitener umgekomene in andere stet" [="Byten natives who perished in other cities"], pages 586-589)
Alphabetical register of refugees in Byten 1939-1941 who later perished during the War ("Umgekomene ple'itim vos hobn in milkhomah-tsayt 1939-1941 zikh bazetst in Biten" [="Perished refugees who located themselves in wartime Byten, 1939-1941], pages 589-590)
Also contains the following alphabetical and cumulatively-numbered name registers of Holocaust survivors:
Register of 55 partisans from Byten who survived the War, with organizational affiliations in parentheses ("A. Bitener partizaner vos zenen geblibn lebn" [=A. Partisans from Byten who remained alive"], pages 594-596)
Register of 2 non-partisan groups who escaped various ghettos and survived in the forests ("B. Andere" [="B. Others"], page 596)
Register of 16 "evacuees" who survived in the Soviet Union ("'Evakuirte' keyn Ratnfarband" [="'Evacuees' to the Soviet Union"], pages 596-597)
SUBJECT(S): Jews; History; Belarus -- Byten'; Byte'n (Byelorussian S.S.R.) -- Ethnic relations. OCLC: 23560370
Ex-library with usual marks. Water stains, otherwise Good Condition. (YIZ-23-8S-VCCLAX-’e).
Price: $175.00