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HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF SKALA Location of Skala Maps of Skala Map of Skala Landmarks Maps of Skala and Surrounding Areas Cadastral Maps of Skala (1827 - 1862) Skala and Its Changing Name through the Ages An English Visitor to Skala in 1585 The History of Skala: Pinkas Ha-Kehillot Polin* Update to the History of the Skala Jewish Community History of the Jews of Ukraine by Yaakov Yitzchak Jay-Jay Martin PEOPLE AND PLACES OF SKALA Around the Town of Skala Skala Yesterday A Lithograph of 19th Century Skala Skala Today Skala: September 2006 Skala: Summer 2007 Skala: March 2008 Skala: October 2015 "Going Back (in time) to Skala," Ann (Melzer) Bergart 's story that accompanies the October 2015 photos just above Skala: April 2016 Skala's Jewish Cemetery Today THE SKALA JEWISH CEMETERY WALL IS IN A STATE OF GROSS DISREPAIR. Click here to read the full details on what is being done to restore it and how you can help: https://tinyurl.com/Skalacemeteryfundth" A Selection of Gravestones Life in Skala: Pictures, Stories and Documents Faces in Skala A Postal Worker in Skala (Elias Weidenfeld) Moishe Froyim Wiesenthal and the Orphan Boys of Skala Abraham Mordechai Schachter-Zwirnbaum: Shoichet and Mohel Vignettes of Religious Life in Skala The "Shkola" and Father's Shtreiml Hirsh Pinyas: A Skala Gangster A Refugee's Plea for Help (1887) Love, Skala Style Skala in 1920 Skala Schoolchildren in 1926 Letter from Bergman, Leibisch to Simonsen, David Portion of Jacob S. Mehlman naturalization documents with description of heartbreaking events in Skala in 1920 "About my family in Skala on the Zbrutz river in Galicia" by Yaffa Edelman Fingerman Skala Families The Herschers of Berezhanka Photos of Berezhanka The Rosenblum Family The Family of Shimon Wiesenthal and Chanzie Silberroth The Weidberg Family The Family of Zalman Hausner The Goluchowskis of Skala The Relles Family A Tribute to Maurice Belgray Samuel Harris (Hersher?) of Skala Skala Luminaries The Drimmers: Skala's Rabbinic Dynasty Chone Gottesfeld: Author and Humorist Philipp Menczel: Journalist and Zionist Fradel Shtok: Author and Poet (Revised) Zvi Zimmerman: Anti-Nazi Partisan, Deputy-Speaker of the Knesset In Memory of Max Mermelstein In Memory of Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Skala Folk Art A Needlework Tapestry by Chana Wiesenthal Herzog Shoshana Eden's Artwork EMIGRATION FROM SKALA The Journey to America A Skala Native Emigrates to New York: Schaie (Charles) Weingast A Skala Native Emigrates to Great Britain: Mendel (Max) Goldschein Skala Zionists and Aliyah Photographs of Zionist Activities in Skala Skala and the International Zionist Movement A Plea to Help Relatives Make Aliyah from Skala to Palestine (1938) AFTER EMIGRATION Faces of Skala Emigrés in America:1890-1920 The Skala Benevolent Society (Skalar Unterstitzungs Verein) The Early History of the Skala Benevolent Society Photo Page: The Skala Benevolent Society December 1941 Party Photo Skala Benevolent Society Journal from 1946 Dinner Identifying Skala Landsleit Skala Landsmanshaft Cemetery Plots in New York 1920 Skala Relief Fund Letter Skala Pioneers and Emigrés in Palestine SKALA IN THE HOLOCAUST Wartime Relief for Skala Residents The Testimony of Menachem (Bretschneider) Bartel The Weidberg Family During the War The Feuersteins: A Chanukah Miracle Our Skala Relatives Who Perished in the Holocaust The Wiesenthal Family Weidberg Relatives from Skala and the Holocaust A Family Survives: The Stachels of Skala Memorials to the Martyrs of Skala Who Perished in the Holocaust Sefer Skala, the Skala Yizkor Book* Sefer Skala, the Skala Yizkor Book at the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project Righteous Among the Nations Skala and the Shoah Foundation Conversation with a Ukraininian Babushka Youtube video and book cover for "The Secrets in the Suitcase: Stories My Mother Never Told Me" - Original stories by Molly Greenberg; Narrated and Edited by Rosalie Greenberg MD "Holocaust Survival Experience of Helen (Chaya) Dub nee Grossman" by Stanley M. Dub "A Mother's Diary - Surviving The Holocaust In Ukraine 1941-1944" by Sosia Gottesfeld Zimmerman "Surviving in the Forest" by Max Mermelstein (Weidenfeld) Holocaust Testimony of Max Mermelstein (Fortunoff Video Archive, Yale University) Joseph and Rena Gottesfeld Schenley: Surviving the Holocaust (For Yale University library) RESEARCH RESOURCES Skala Podol'ska Research Group on Facebook Video: "Skala on the Border" 1929 taxpayers list Skala Entries in Poland and Danzig Business Directories Skala Benevolent Society Collection at YIVO Skala Research Group Other Relevant Internet Sites Bibliography for Skala Researchers Skala and JRI-Poland Skala 1812 Jewish Innkeepers/Barkeepers Names Jewish Families from Skala Podolskaya at Geni.com Video Testimonies of Skala-connected People and related Documents THE SKALA CONNECTION A comprehensive report by Dana Erwin on the the 3 New York area Skala Benevolent Society cemeteries and the cemetery in Skala Podolskaya with photos, names, etc. Photo Inventory Racheli Kreisberg gave this lecture at the Jewish Museum in Jewish Museum Vienna on the occasion of Simon Wiesenthal's 10th year of passing: R. Kreisberg: My Grandfather Simon Wiesenthal: A Family Story to be Told The As Yet Unrevealed Secrets of the Skala House Number Project, Racheli Kreisberg This article has been posted with the permission of the author and the journal. It originally appeared in the November 2010 issue of the Galitzianer, the quarterly research journal of Gesher Galicia. For more information on the Galitzianer, visit https://www.geshergalicia.org/the-galitzianer/. "Going Back (in time) to Skala," Ann (Melzer) Bergart 's story that accompanies these October 2015 photos Photos of Tony Hausner's trip to Skala in 2010 Gabriel Braunstein's photos from his trip in 2010 2010 luncheon to celebrate the unveiling of the new translated Skala Yizkor book Skala Luncheon: Manhattan, NY, November 11, 2018 "Nothing's Changed" Video - Michael Edelstein and His Family's 1999 Return to Skala Skala Luncheon in Manhattan, November 10, 2019

* We particularly recommend this article and book as an introduction to the history of the town of Skala.

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Skala is included in the Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing. They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl. One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl. The SRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach. To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG).

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