Muizenberg KehilaLink
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/muizenberg
Megilla April Edition
Click to access Megillah22April.pdf
Chag Pesach Sameach
Eli Rabinowitz
Bielski Jewish Partisans – The Together Plan
The Bielski Partisans
7 April 2022
Tunnel or Partisans
by Nance Adler
The Together Plan’s Presentation featuring Tamara Vershitskaya
The Full Program
The WE ARE HERE! Foundation
The Partisans’ Song in Yiddish and Maori
United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Thursday 27 January 2022 ?The Holocaust was a turning point in history which prompted the world to say, ?never again?. In 2005, t?
kehila.net links – Litvak Resources
LYVA Resources by Dovid Katz
WELCOME to the Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive (LYVA), which provides raw unedited footage of native living Lithuanian (/Litvish /Litvak /Northeastern) Yidd…
29 March 2022
Dovid Katz has created a remarkable video library on YouTube of his
interviews with Litvak Yiddish speakers about towns in Lithuania called
the Lithuanian Yiddish Video Archive.
This month Professor Katz posted his 600th video. I’ve started an index
based on the titles of these videos (name of person interviewed and the
towns that an interviewee lived in). These interviews are probably rich with background information about life in Lithuania before World War II.
I have to say “probably” because I don’t speak Yiddish.
Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Atlanta, GA USA
kehila.net links
Muizzies Megilla
Muizenberg KehilaLink
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/muizenberg/Home.html
Megilla March Edition
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Eli Rabinowitz
Ukrainian Update
I was in contact with a senior teacher at the ORT school in Kiev, and this what she wrote yesterday:
Dear Eli, I remember you and that peaceful summer day when we met and spoke about our beautiful school and students’ projects we joined. Now life here is different because of war we could imagine only in nightmare. I didn’t leave my country and with my husband live in the countryside outside Kyiv. Thank you for praying that gives forces to live and to survive! Hope only for the victory!
Glory to Ukraine 
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Here are my posts from my visit to Ukraine in 2016, which include visits to Jewish places of interest and the ORT school in Kiev.
To view, enter the following text in your browser or in Google.
elirab.me ukraine
Also, watch the Forum For Dialogue Zoom and interview with Russian and Ukrainian specialist Wojciech Konończuk on Ukraine:
https://youtu.be/zgtobLvPwRM
Best
Eli Rabinowitz
Perth Australia
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German Nazi concentration camp and extermination centre, was liberated in 1945. To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27th, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The City of Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland) and the Museum of the Minsk Land are honoured to invite you to a commemoration for the victims of the Nazi death camps.
In Auschwitz, citizens of almost all German-occupied European countries, the vast majority of them Jews, were imprisoned and murdered.
HAMEC, the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Philadelphia USA, and WE ARE HERE! Foundation’s Project for Upstanders in Perth Australia, in cooperation with the City of Mińsk Mazowiecki, are honoured to organise an online meeting with Holocaust Survivor David Tuck on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The aim of the event is to pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust and prevent acts of genocide in the future. May the tragedy of the Second World War and the Holocaust be a warning to present and future generations against hatred, racism and prejudice.
Katarzyna Łaziuk
Kierownik Wydziału Promocji, Kultury i Sportu
Head of the Public Relations and Culture
The City of Mińsk Mazowiecki
Times:
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Johannesburg 6.30pm; Warsaw 5.30pm; London 4.30pm
Philadelphia & EST 11.30am; CST 10.30am; LA & PST 8.30am
Friday, 28 January 2022
Sydney & Melbourne 3.30am; Brisbane 2.20am; Perth 12.30am
To attend this event online, email kasia.laziuk@gmail.com for the link.
HAMEC: Our mission is to educate students and adults, personalizing the Holocaust so that they learn the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing, and intolerance. The Holocaust was a watershed event, not only in the 20th century, but in the entire history of humanity. Our Educational Programs serve the five-county area of Greater Philadelphia and beyond. We offer a variety of educational programs, including eyewitness testimonies, personal interactions with eyewitnesses, two live theater performances, and docent-led museum tours.
WAH!: The objective of our WE ARE HERE! project is to promote Human Rights and Social Justice through the principle of choosing to be an Upstander. Our focus is on language, literature, music, film, the arts, and other cultural forms. We feature the Partisans’ song, long revered by Holocaust survivors, including to this day. The very words embrace the understanding of what it takes to be an Upstander, and not a bystander. The message is relevant today both in the school yard, the sports field, and on the internet, to counter discrimination and cyber bullying.
Katarzyna Łaziuk: Head of Public Relations, Culture and Sports Department in the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland. Experienced in organizing educational projects in a field of the Holocaust Education. An initiator of Days of Jewish Culture “The Close and The Distant” She creates educational materials for teachers on the Holocaust and Human Rights. Leader of Dialogue and Ambassador to POLIN. She is the national coordinator for Poland at The Olga Lengyel Institute.
Celebrating Michael Rabinowitz’s Birthday
These photos have been colorised, and are shown in random order
Slide Show
What I did in my school holidays in July 1968 – Lemmy
What I did in my school holidays in July 1968
By Lemmy Hadassin
‘Twas a cold and smokey highveld, before the winter dawn
A Cessna four-seater, parked neatly on the lawn
The pilot checks the fuel as we all climb on board
Uncertain what’s ahead, a silent prayer to the Lord
Final year at school, I’m just sweet sixteen
Flying to De Aar in the Cape, where I’ve never ever been
My Dad and Bill Moffett, a job there to review
With the pilot, Arthur Webster, and me make up the crew
“Fasten seatbelts rather tightly”, Captain Webster’s call is clear
Nothing to worry about, and not much for me to fear
The engine sounds so noisy as my heart begins to pound
Down the runway at high speed the plane lifts off the ground
We’re flying high, it’s daylight, so much never seen before
A highway here, a farm over there, a dam and so much more
A thermos flask of coffee, and egg sandwiches for us to share
Should be at home studying, but I don’t really care
Flying over mountains, we’re close to our destination
The engine stops, the propeller slows, a worrying situation
The captain tries a restart, unfortunately no such luck
Lets out a loud profanity, which may well rhyme with duck
We glide over the hilltops, and the town is not that far
Perhaps we’ll land on the road, but this is not a car
Arthur spots a sandy track, a good landing’s on today
Little does he know there’s a wall mound in the way
We hit the ground with a mighty bump, the plane does a total flip
Landing upside down and skidding on, as I bit hard on my lip
Held hanging by the seatbelt, I should have stayed in bed
Undo the buckle, and lo and behold I fall onto my head
The Captain fears a fire and kicks out the side door
We scramble along the roof which has now become the floor
We’re out, we’re safe, just a few cuts and bruises to show
The plane’s a wreck, will I fly again – the answer’s a definite no
A farmer saw our plane above, gliding slowly into trouble
Appears with shovels, thought we were buried deep in rubble
Transport to the town, by I know not whom
Should we check-in and get a room?
I offer to ride home on the evening train
A ride on rails sounds good to my brain
Arthur says no – it’s like riding a bike
after falling off, get up and go for a hike
He calls the aero club from a call-box phone
“Send out a bigger plane to take us all home”
A six-seater arrives as sunset is near
An engine up front and one in the rear
The town folk turn out at the aero strip
To watch us fly off in this strange looking ship
My palms are all sweaty, my nerves are a-jitter
I may be a coward but I’m surely no quitter
The new pilot is cool, so I am much calmer
Gets us back home without further drama
Arthur’s bought a new Cessna – is he quite insane?
Will I ever choose to fly with him again?
Marek Chmielewski – Orla Poland
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Aware of the complexities involved in having a non-Jew in charge of the synagogue, Marek has spent countless hours reaching out to local residents, experts, representatives of Jewish organizations in Poland, and descendants of Orla’s Jews to make sure he is working in a spirit of dialogue and mutual understanding. Himself a member of a religious and linguistic minority in Poland, he is determined to ensure that his Jewish neighbors are properly remembered. In the past years, he has created a monument commemorating Orla’s Jews, published an album featuring photographs of the pre-war community, collected oral histories from elderly residents, and connected with one of the last living Jews of Orla. This fall, thanks to a grant awarded by Forum for Dialogue to members of our Leaders of Dialogue network, he organized a conference aptly entitled “What’s to happen with the Orla synagogue?” attended by experts from all over Poland, as well as local residents and guests.
Though he admits that he does not seem like the obvious choice for a keeper of memory, he relishes in the trust he has been granted by Jews and non-Jews alike, to work to preserve and educate about Jewish Orla. As he notes himself, rather than consistent, he wants to be effective. And he is.
Andrzej Folwarczny
President and CEO Forum For Dialogue
My visit to Orla 2011 – with Marek Chmielewski and Wojciech Kononczuk
Marek Chmielewski, Dariusz Horodecki & Wojciech Kononczuk
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