On March 8, 2008 a group of Bilgoraj survivors and their families checked in at Lot Polish Airlines at JFK for their first trip to the city of their birth since their escape 66 years ago. The program was beautifully arranged by Rabbi Nachman Elbaum of Ideal Tours, NY who also insured us with Kosher food and modern accommodations throughout our pilgrimage.

Looking at survivors, you saw anxious faces of “what to expect - respect or hatred/danger, bad memories of the last days before expulsion or the fond memories of parents caring for their children - of days of peace, tranquility with only daily life and Jewish learning on the agenda.” In the faces of the American generation of Bilgorajer, looks of concern of how their father will react upon reaching their childhood home and actually seeing what was discussed at every Shabbat table when they reminisced about life “in the heim” that was Bilgoraj.

On board the Boeing 747 blue and white plane were many Chasidim that were going to Poland to visit the geverim of their sainted Rabbis, parents, and ancestors. With all this and Kosher food being served, one would have thought we were aboard an El AL flight going to Israel. The passengers and crew were very respectful and welcoming. In fact, we were able to daven with a sizeable minyan without any fear.

After several hours, our jumbo jet landed in Warsaw and was greeted by our Polish driver and guide who knew much about Judaism than any goy I ever met.

A quick tour of Warsaw, and then to the Shul we our Mr. Huff and Dr. Nathan Bryks was the Chazan for Mincha and Maariv respectfully and then we were joined by 150 Israel soldiers boys and girls who came to Poland to learn why they are so important in our lives in protecting Eretz Yisrael. Rabbi Michael Shudrich who works tirelessly in Poland spoke to all of us and then we saw the monuments the Poles erected to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Shoah.

We then visited the Chabad of Warsaw where we rejoiced with home made kosher food and then went to our hotel.

In the morning, after davening, we visited the oldest and largest Jewish cemetery and I was surprised that our guide new where each of the Gdolim are buried and their importance in Jewish history. After some prayers at the keveraim, we departed Warsaw for Lishanz and prayed at the Kever of Rabbi Elemelech. Once again we met with the Israeli soldiers. Even those who were not religious understood the meaning, and wore kipot and even prayed with the rest of us. Then we drove to Bilgoraj where we checked into our hotel.

In the morning, I meet the Huff brothers and I remarked “Moshe, you and your brother slept in the same room under the Bilgoraj moon” just like you did in your childhood. Mr. Huff responded ” I felt the schechina of both my parents hovering around us and kissed us good night”. Mr. Huff’s older brother said “I felt the exact same way. How good my sleep was. the best in 66 years!”. I imagined life with my grandparents, great grandparents, mother, uncles, aunts with love and devotion making a Jewish life in a predominately Jewish town of 5,000 Jews and as many non-Jewish Poles. We went to the Rynk to meet with the Mayor of Bilgoraj, the president of the provincial council, and other dignitaries who welcomed us sincerely. We were also informed that there are still Jews in Bilgoraj however, distant from tradition since most of them were hidden children that were unclaimed after the war but they now know who they are and their true identities when the Russian records were recently released.

On November 16, 2008, The Bilograj Society will commemorate the 66th Yarzeit of the Shoah and reminisce of the life in Bilgoraj. It will take place at the Ocean Avenue Jewish Center - 2600 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, NY at 11am. We will discuss the positive outcome of our meetings concerning our properties, cemeteries, records of search for survivors as well as those murdered. We must discuss how to address the situation where brother/sister, nephew/nice who miraculously survived to be reunited with surviving family. In addition, the Rynk to be renamed after our families, reunion, the relationship between Bilgoraj families from around the world and our joint effort with the landsleit in Israel. Heimishe refreshments will be served.

We will also show pictures taken and the Polish TV documentary made during our visit to Bilgoraj.

It is vital that all Jews from Bilgoraj and the surrounding towns of Frompol, Tarnagrod, etc attend with their children and GRANDCHILDREN to experience their heritage before it is lost forever.

Any questions, contact Yechiel Baum at (718) 376-4508 or e-mail: BilgorajSociety {at} aol(.)com

Please note that some of the SEARCHES sent to Allgenerations may also be printed in the Together newspaper and on the web site of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants. We are doing this to increase the exposure of the SEARCHES and the chances of receiving responses.

If you would like to respond to any of the SEARCHES in this Compilation or if you would like to add your own SEARCH inquiry into the Compilation, please send an e-mail to us at: allgenerations {at} aol(.)com with relevant information.

Board of Directors, Allgenerations, Inc.
Serena Woolrich, President
Audrey Kirzner Syatt, Secretary
Isaac Kot, Treasurer
***********

Dear “ALL,”

Please include the following information in your e-mails in response to the SEARCHES:

1) your name
2) city/state/country where you reside
3) whether you are a Survivor, a 2g or 3g, etc.
4) a COPY of the inquiry to which you are responding.

Thank you very much.

********** AUSTRIA *******

From Leo Braun, a Survivor in Sao Paulo, Brazil:

I am a survivor from Vienna, Austria, born in 1926 now living in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. I had a school friend of my age, also from Vienna, named Hans Singer. As far as I know he escaped to Valparaiso or Santiago in Chile in 1938/39. Due to WW II I lost his address and I wonder whether you could help me to find him or maybe his children, if any.

Trusting to hear from you before long.

******* ESTONIA / LITHUANIA ***********

From Rosalyn Kliot Heims, a Child Survivor in Redmond, Oregon:

Both of my parents are now deceased; however, I would like information about the camp from which they escaped in 1944 - I believe it was named Goldplatz, in Estonia. Both my parents, Leon (Lippa) and Vera Kliot (nee Borowick) were originally from Vilna, were transported to Vilna ghetto, then on to various labor camps in Poland and finally Estonia. And any information about my mother’s little brother, Avram, who at the age of 10 was designated as a “political prisoner” (per records), was sent to Auschwitz and sent to the gas chamber.

And additionally any information about my grandmother, who was sent to Stutthoff - also murdered. Her name was Esther Borowick.

Thank you.

********** FRANCE **********

From Peter Paisley, a Survivor in Essex, Chigwell, UK:

I am looking for an old friend, a fellow survivor, a fellow inmate of various internment camps in Vichy France. It is Paul Stern, born 1920 or 1921 in Cologne and who lived in Belgium prior to May 1940. After our escape in August 1942, we met again in Lyons at the time of Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, then went our separate ways and were both lucky enough to survive the ordeal. We met again in Brussels in 1946 when Paul had something to do with a Swiss newspaper.
We have lost contact since and if by any stroke of luck he is still alive, I would love to hear from him, wherever he may be.

My name used to be Herbert Peiser, but I changed it whilst in the British armed forces and my present name is Herbert Peter Paisley. I am well and live in England. Incidentally, if there should be some other former inmates of St. Cyprien and/or Gurs with whom I have not already been in touch, I would love to hear from them.

Greetings to all!

******** GERMANY *********

From Miriam Feldman, a 2g in Morton Grove, Illinois:

I’m a 2G. Both my parents survived the camps. My father died at the age of 51 in 1964. His name was Rolf Salomon, born in Berlin on 09/22/1912. Somehow, he survived Auschwitz. He was in Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945. I was 13 when he died. He never spoke to me about his time in Auschwitz, or my sisters. My mother was never really able to tell us much; she said they preferred not to talk about it. My mother is alive today, 86 years old, but she was diagnosed five years ago with Alzheimer’s disease. I am wondering if anyone can tell me if they have any information on my father’s time in the camps. I believe he was in other camps besides Auschwitz.

Thank you so very much.

******

From Sonja Schulmann, a Survivor (submitted on her behalf by Stefanie Seltzer, a Survivor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and president, World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust:

Sonja saw your searches in Together. She is looking for a man, named Walter-he was 12 or 13 years old in 1937-38. He was in the Bad Nauheim Children’s home, then transferred to Rothchild Orphans Home in Frankfurt after Kristallnacht.

Thanks.

************

From Werner Zimmt, a Survivor in Tucson, Arizona:

My name is Werner Zimmt, and I was born in Berlin in 1921. My parents sent my twin brother and me to the USA in 1935 in a Kindertransport. Fortunately we were all reunited in 1939. Since I left that early I have always hesitated to call myself a “survivor” which in my mind denotes a lot more suffering than I experienced. I am looking for information about an uncle of mine, Siegfried (Kai) Ostrowski - ???

He was a prominent surgeon in Berlin and emigrated to Palestine in 1939. I met him in the 1970’s in Tel Aviv, where lived at 6 Mendele St. I am sure that he has died since then, but I can find no record of his death, not even that he ever lived in Israel. The Chevra Kadisha also has no record of his death. Yet, he was active in establishing a surgery ward in one of the Tel Aviv hospitals. The Medical Society has no record.

Perhaps someone remembers him or knows when or where he died.

******

From Irene Zuckerbraun, a Survivor in Connecticut (submitted on her behalf by Amelie Doge in Berlin, Germany):

I am sending a search notice for a friend of Leo Gerechter, Irene Zuckerbraun, who is living now in Connecticut, but grew up in the Heilbronner Strasse in Berlin, Bavarian quarter: “I am searching for my best friend Renate Aron. We attended the synagogue in Berlin, Prinzregentenstrasse until 1938, after that we lost contact. Her mother had fiery red hair as did Renate, and she was not Jewish. Her father was Jewish and an undertaker.

Kind regards and thank you very much.”

********GREECE***********

From Dorothy Tiano Melvin, in Los Angeles, California:

I am looking for anyone that may have known my grandparents, aunts, uncles in Salonika (Thessaloniki). My mother a”h was Solika Varsano, daughter of Doudoun and Ovadia; my father was Mordoh Tiano a”h, son of Itzhak and Ricoula (passed away young) and stepmother, Buena Tiano.

*************HUNGARY ***********

Michelle Burns, a 3g in Boston, Massachusetts:

I am trying to find information on some family members who perished in the Holocaust, or anyone who might have known them. This is the information that I have:

Margit Szanto (maiden name Vadasz), born Sept 1897 in Budapest, Hungary. Parents were Lajos Vadasz and Irma Vadasz (maiden name Heimbach). Married to Istvan Szanto (info below).

Istvan Szanto, born March 31, 1893 in Tamalelesz, Hungary. Parents were Samuel Szanto and Matilda Szanto (maiden name Sonnenschein).

Oszkar Szanto, born 1931 in Budapest, Hungary. Parents were Margit and Istvan.

All three lived in Budapest at the start of the war. We believe that Istvan and Margit were sent to Auschwitz in 1944 or 1945. We are not sure if Oszkar was sent, or killed prior to transport. Istvan and Margit had two other children; Martha (was hidden during the war) and Ivan (in army), who survived the war.

Thank you for your help.

*************

From Judy Cohen, a Survivor in Toronto, Canada:

My name is Judy Cohen. My maiden name is Weiszenberg/Weissenberg. I am a survivor originally from Debrecen, Hungary, now living in Toronto, Canada. I survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen and a slave labour camp in Aschersleben, near Leipzig, working in the Junkers airplane factory (500 of us were taken there from Bergen Belsen in early January 1945).

Sometime in April 1945 after a decisive bombardment of the area by the US air force the factory closed or was destroyed (?) and we were sent on the usual “march” on which many of us died. The remainder of us, on May 5,1945, were awakened by the Bürgermeister of the town, in a dirty barn where we were allowed to sleep, telling us that we were free to go (just like that!) since the SS guards had disappeared.

While dragging ourselves on the road towards the next town, we met American Red Cross personnel on the road who gave us chewing gum (!) and sent us to Düben, a nearby town, where basically the real liberation took place.

Ever since I came to Canada I am looking for fellow survivors from this labour camp and “march.” This is my great opportunity to search again. If you recognize this story than we were fellow sufferers on that “march.” I would like to exchange memories to see if I remember correctly.

Many thanks.

********

From Sharon Pollak:

My father was born in Miskolc, June 8th 1925, but grew up in his mother’s town of Jassina, Czechoslovakia with his brothers, mother and for a short time, his father. My grandfather’s name was Andor / Meyer Pollak, a tailor by trade; my father was Baruch / Bela / Vojtech Pollak, the youngest of 3 boys all born in Miskolc (Fiszel and Lolli were the names of his brothers). We have never been able to trace this side of our family but I suspect my grandfather must have been born at the turn of the century. Just making a wild stab in the dark in trying to connect with anyone from Miskolc or anyone who had family from there.

Thank you and Happy New Year.

***********

From Louis Schwartz, a 2g in Brooklyn, New York:

I am searching for my uncle, Miklos Schwartz (Schvarcz) (Schvartz). He was born in Hungary approximately 1916 or 1920.

His father’s name was Leib; mother, Miriam. He had two brothers, Josi (Joseph) and Bela. Before the war began his family moved to Belgium but he stayed behind in Hungary. He was deported from Debrecen, Hungary. I was informed by the Red Cross that he was liberated by the British from Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. We were informed, but could not verify, that he attempted to enter Palestine with other refugees by being smuggled through the British embargo before the War of Independence.

We were also informed, but could not verify, that he was killed by the British in his attempt to enter. I have been trying for years to determine if this story is true. The only fact in which I have confidence is that he survived Bergen Belsen. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone can provide that would help me locate him or that could shed light on the story of his attempting to enter Palestine.

******************** LATVIA **********

From Betty Shiel, a 2g in London, England:

Since the middle of WW2 my family has been searching for our Latvian cousins - perhaps someone reading these columns will be able to help me.

Yad Vashem has confirmation of one branch of my family who perished in Belarus in the Shoah and whom I was aware of, but my Svidler family who lived in Riga, Latvia, were deported to Siberia in June 1941. Shmuel Svidler and his daughter, Mona-Lea Svidler died there, but Shmuel’s two other children survived the gulags, going on to having marriages and children in Siberia, before their liberation in 1956. I have been informed they had all emigrated by 1992 - but to where?

The names of those who survived are:

Svidler, Moshe Yekutiel, b. 1923 in Riga; his wife, Maria nee Uzkina,(daughter of Drofee), b. 1926 (place unknown).

Svidler, Zvia, b. 1920 in Riga, married Morduch Berkovich Kahn (or Kan) c.1954.

Zvia’s daughter, Fayna Michaelova Svidler, b. c 1950 in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. Moshe’s sons Aleksander and Eugene Svidler were both born after 1948 also in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia.

After writing and receiving responses from archives in Latvia and Belarus, I was informed that Moses was living up to 1990 in Riga. I have no more information, but having contacted the international telephone operator for Riga I was told no Svidler family lives in Riga today - so where are they?

Has anyone heard of my Svidler or Kahn/Kan family or any of their descendants?

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who
knew or knows of my Latvian family, no matter how small the information may be.

Thanking you all very much.

******

From Jim Harvi, in Roxbury, Connecticut:

Am interested in finding out as much information as possible on Krakanava, Lithuania; there are several different spellings, i.e. Krakanova, Krakevova, etc. Names associated with this town that I am particularly interested in and trying to research are: Goldsin, Golszin, Glick, Elias, and Sandler.

Any help that you can be will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

******

From Ella Levine, a 2g in New York, New York:

I was born in 1948, in Kovno; left Kovno for Israel in 1967 and have lived in the US since 1987. My father, David-Dovidas Tamse (Tamsa), born in Kovno in June 1905 was married to Hinda, born around 1910. They lived on Ukmerges gatve. My father had a: “Zuvu ir veziu parduotuve” on 21 Gedimino street. The telephone number, according to a 1939 Kauno phone directory, was: 23210. He and his wife had two children: Ida, born in 1933; killed together with her mother, in the 9th fort or in Shtutthof.

The person I am looking for is Nionia or Nisan or some similar name (we do not know the exact name) who was born in 1939(?). Here is the story I know from my father who passed away in 1968 in Israel.

When my father and family were in the Kovno Ghetto, in 1942 or 1943 my father smuggled his son out from the Ghetto and gave him to a Polish or Lithuanian family. Father was taken to Dachau. After the liberation, in 1945 he went to Kovno (on his way to Palestine), to find his son. He never found him or the family. I do not know the family’s name. They might have been people who worked in dad’s store before WWII . And there is nobody to ask.

I would appreciate if you can help:

1. Find a copy of my half-brother’s birth certificate or any other document that might have his photo on it

2. Where and how can I place an inquiry, looking for him?
(In 1992 I applied to the Red Cross and the Hidden Child Organization in New York. At that time they couldn’t find anything).

I have a feeling that he might be alive, without even knowing who he is or what his real name is.

This is my life Quest!!! I want to try, one more time, to locate him. Is he alive? This is the biggest question.

Because our world became more open, many more archives became accessible and might offer new information. Maybe placing an ad in the Lithuanian Jewish press and non-Jewish press; in the Jewish community in Warsaw, in Israel, or any other place?

I will welcome any and all suggestions.

********* UKRAINE ***********

From Hy Ramm, a Survivor in Los Gatos, California:

I am looking for information about my great grandfather, Marcus Mordecai Ramm from Lubavich (Lubavichi Russia) in Lithuania, Belorussia, and the eastern Ukraine. The Germans entered the town in August 1941, and almost immediately established a ghetto. In November 1941, about 700 Jews from the Lubavich ghetto were shot.

************ POLAND ********

From Joanne Aloni-Boldon:

Looking for Ignatz or Ignacy Shapira from Lviv, Poland born on 10/6/05. He survived Buchenwald. He was married to Ludwicka Laufer (1/20/32 or 33); one daughter named Dana. They were separated during the war. Dana was a hidden child. She and her mother immigrated to the U.S. She would like to know what happened to her father after the camps. Can you help ?

*******

From Carole Turkeltaub Borowitz:

I am currently involved as a volunteer researcher for a web site for Kutno, Poland and if there are any members of your group from Kutno who would agree to e-mail me, I would be overjoyed to hear from them. Also, Wloclawek. Maybe, maybe, there’s someone out there who would turn out to be my cousin …

With all best wishes, to you and your group.

**********

From Stanislawa (Stasia) Janowska (nee Hadasa Chajmowicz) a Survivor in
Cambridge, Massachusetts:

I was born Hadasa Chajmowicz November 24, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland. My childhood
ended with the beginning of the ghetto in 1940. In mid-August 1942 I was smuggled out to a Polish friend (and changed care-givers when needed). I became “Stanislawa Janowska,” thanks to a birth certificate of a dead child by this name. At the end I survived in an orphanage, ” Children’s Home” in the eastern part of Poland. None of my family survived. In 1946 I was transferred to a “Children’s Home” in Lublin. Finished high school; 1950 - 1955 Medical Academy
in Lublin; 1958 Pediatric Board.

All this time I have been searching for my brother, Franek Chajmowicz in Geneva, USSR, and Ukraine). He was the son of Elka Wajc and Wolf Chajmowicz, residing in Warsaw, Poland at 46 Nowolipki Street. If alive Franek would be 86- 87 years old now. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Wilno from 1937 - 1939. At the end of 1940, he was smuggled to the Soviet Union hoping to make it to the USA. Instead he got stranded in Stolpce and later on in Kostopol both in Ukraine. I assume he was killed in the Soviet Union around 1942 /43.

I’ve searched for him numerous times, but to no avail. Maybe an old colleague or an acquaintance of his is still alive and could tell me something about him. I hope somebody came across my brother, Franek Chajmowicz.

I am a member of “Hidden Children ” since it inception in 1992. We all have a “book,” or more than one, in us. With very warm regards.

*********

From Sharon Szeracki Kalman, a 2g in St. Louis, Missouri:

I would like to find out if my father has any living relatives. My father’s name was Abraham or Abram Sieradzki. He was born in Babiasky (Pabienice) around 1910. His father was Mendel and his mother was Fajga (Feiga) nee Jakowbowicz.

I know my father had several siblings, but he never mentioned them by name. He was married to a Regina nee Warszawski and had two children. He was told that his wife and two children died in the Holocaust. He met my mother, Sura Ruchla Golla, in the Displaced Person camp in Bergen-Belsen and were married in 1948. In 1949 they moved to St. Louis where I was born in 1950. I would love to try and piece together my father’s family.

*************

From Jay Kuperman, a Survivor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

I am searching for several people: An uncle, Avram Cyne Glejcer, whom we called Arthur. He was born in Sosnowiec, Poland and was a watchmaker. When ordered to present himself at the office of the Gestapo, he went East to Lwow (Lemberg). He even sent us food packages from there. However, we lost contact with him. While in Lwow he became a director of a Russian watchmakers cooperative. Maybe somewhere somehow people met him?

Another uncle, Leon Kuperman, born in Zwolen, Poland, was married and possibly had 2 children. He lived in Rybnik and in Bedzin, Poland. An aunt and uncle and several children - The Hajnfling family . All I know is they lived in Warsaw at Pawia 14. All this is a shot in the dark.

Thanks for your involvement.
***********

From Philip Leder, a Survivor in Baltimore, Maryland:

I was born on June 19,1943 in Kazakhstan.

My father was from Zamocz and Izbetcha. He was always known as “Shlomo the Baker.” He was a Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto; he escaped in 1942. He and my mother escaped to Russia and kept running until they got to Kazakastan. During that time, my father did a hitch in a Russian labour camp until he left there.

After the war we lived in DP camps; the one I remember is Fohrenwold. Both of my parents have passed away (my father in 1996 and my mother in 1998.) I am looking for someone who comes from either Chelm or Raivitz and remembers anyone by the last name of Ergman (sp?).

My grandfather was Fievela Bach and my grandmother’s name was Rosa. He had a shoe store. There were 11 siblings; my mother, Toba, was the eldest girl. Some of the siblings names were: Lazer, Mordichai, Schimuel, Tzirel and Surah.

That’s all I can remember from stories my mother told me. I have been doing research work to find relatives on and off for the past 30 + years.

Thanks.

***********

From Willy Lermer, a Survivor in Melbourne, Australia:

Looking for Sabina Roth (Rosenberg), who lived in Krakow, Poland during the war. She was last seen in 1941 with her son Wladek (Wolf). She was married to Adolf (Abraham) Roth; he was in K.C. Plaszow till 1944.

That’s all the information I have,

Hope you will be able to find an answer for me.

****************

From Jeannette Rapoport-Hubschman. a Survivor in Neuilly Sur Seine, France:

I would like to complete a request made a little time ago. I’m searching members of my father’s family. My father was Meir Hubschman, born in 1901 in Nadworna (actually in Ukraine). His mother’s name was Chaje Hubscham.

Thanks to JRI Poland, on Nadworna PSA AGAD Births, that I discovered he had two brothers and one sister, all registered in Nadworna like my father. His siblings were Jutte, born in 1894, Abe born in 1897, Jacob born in 1899. The fact that their surnames were Hubschman led me to think that there was not a civil wedding for their parents, but only a religious one, which explains why my father bore his mother’s name.

My father was deported to Auschwitz, then to Mauthausen where he died on February 26th 1945. Three months ago, I discovered the documents that my father had to fill out 193O to get French citizenship. In these documents he specified that his father was called Bernhard Pfeffer, and that he died on June 15th 1924.

My father wrote also that he had 2 brothers and 1 sister: Simon Pfeffer born in 1892 tradesman in Jablonow; Lazar Pfeffer born in 1908 bank employee; and Dora Leitner (I imagine her maiden name to be Pfeffer), born in 1895 , married and living in Nadworna.

My father, never gave us precise information about his family left in Galicia. It’s why I cannot find a logical link between these two different in scenarios which are totally incompatible. However I think that Bernhard Pfeffer can be my paternal grandfather, because my father called one of my two brothers (his eldest son), Bernard.

Are the results on JRI Poland absolutely reliable? It’s difficult to imagine that my father gave false informations for such an important request for him.

I would be very grateful for any information and explanations that you could give me to solve my problem, and I would be so happy if descendants of the families Hubschman and Pfeffer had survived, and if I could get information from them.

I want to thank very much everybody who will perhaps help me.

************

From Deborah Ross, a 2g in Vancouver, Canada:

My mother’s maiden name was Ramm or Ram. Her first name was Nechama or Niuta and her [mother's] maiden name was Devora Baltupski. She was born in the southern Ukraine but grew up in Vilna . She was a nurse in Warsaw at some point.

Her husband was Yonia Fain, an artist and poet who taught at the university in Warsaw. They escaped with a Sugihara visa and went to Japan and then on to Shanghai and after the war went to Mexico City where they hung out with Diego Rivera and Frida Kalo. Also, my maternal grandfather was sent to Siberia before the war (last name Ramm or Ram, first name was Chaim). I have hoped that he would have survived in Russia and maybe started another family. My maternal uncle was Israel Ram. I now live in Canada and have no relatives. I would love to find someone who might be related to me.

All responses are welcome.

**********
From Iris Rozencwajg, a 2g in Houston, Texas:

My family, Schlesinger/Ross/Rossova, were burned out of Kalnice Czechoslovakia in 1918. Schlesingers also came from Wiener Neustadt. Austria They ended up in Trencin, south of Bratislava. Anyone from there?

I’m also looking for any cousins related to this family: parents (my maternal grandparents) Max and Selma Ross; daughters: 1.) Elsa Rossova, shot by Gestapo as a spy, after her cabaret in Ilawa prison. Other sisters: Edith, Olga, Blanka; Edith survived and lives in Florida. All from Kalnice and then Trencin, Czechoslovakia.

Looking for any collateral relatives, Anna Turteltaub, sister of mother’s cousin Palo Turteltaub (later Turcan) and anyone who knew Palo and wife Magda Turteltaub (Turcan) in the partisans or anyone who knew Frantisek Sachistahl, Elsa Rossova’s fiancé Other cousins, including Oskar Brenner and family, lived in England–Birmingham, I think. Anyone know them? Related to Czechoslovakia family described above?.

Also, looking for any Rozencwajg children from Czestochowa, Poland - some rumored to have been spirited to Denmark (from where? what town? dp camp? etc.) who were taken for safety to Denmark before or during the war. Grandparents’ names would have been Idessa Wajl and Izak Judka Rozencwajg. Possible parents’ names: Marek Rozencwajg (died in Bialystok massacre after moving back to Czestochowa); Regina nee Rozencwajg; Loosia nee Rozencwajg; Helena nee Rozencwajg — all from Czestochowa, Poland.

Regards to all.

*********

From Manny Steinberg, a Survivor in West Hills, California:

I am a sole survivor from a family of 300. I am searching for my family: my mother’s brothers, who lived in Warsaw on Nalewki 41; Itzrack Grosfield and his family and Avrum Grosfield who lived in Radom, Poland with his family, and my father’s brother, Marek Sztajnberg, who lived in Lodz, Poland on Shustego Sierpnia 26 before the war. It would be wonderful to find them, as we are getting older.

Shanna tova.

*****

From Israel Unger, a Survivor in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada:

I was born in Tarnow, Poland in 1938. My nuclear family, father, mother, brother and I survived in hiding in Tarnow. My father came from Ryglice, a small village near Tarnow. He had 7 brothers and sisters. My grandfather’s name was Josef Pincus Unger and my grandmother’s name was Hana Leia (nee Leser) Unger. One brother, Abraham, moved to England prior to the war. The other six siblings, along with my grandparents, were all murdered by the Nazis. I do not know the names of my uncles and aunts, my father’s sisters and brothers. If any one knows their names and what happened to them please let me know.

*********

From Mietek Weintraub, a Survivor in Arligton Heights, Illinois:

It would be so reassuring to find Jerzyk Geller, a survivor, and dear friend and pre-war classmate from Itzhak Kacenelson’s School in Lodz. We saw each other soon after the war in Lodz in 1945, but lost contact since. If anyone knows of his whereabouts, please let me know.

***********ROMANIA***********

From Diana Gerzenstein, a 2g in Melbourne, Australia:
I’m still searching for my father’s family, any survivors of the Lazar family from Transylvania, Szilagy Somlio [my father’s z”l hometown also. I don’t know how to get any more information. I applied to Yad Vashem, to the Australian Red Cross (not much help there) to Arolson, to the museum in Szilagy Somlyo (Simleul Silvaniei in Romanian). My dream will be if someone survived and married and had children. In fact I know that Bela Lazar survived Dachau and was in Paris DP camp in 1945 - but after?

*********RUSSIA, UKRAINE, SIBERIA **********

From Sam Malbin, a Survivor in Johannesburg, South Africa:

My parents, Mottel and Hinda Malbin (now deceased), and their families were born in Steibst, now known as Stolpste, Belorussia. The Survivors emigrated to South Africa and Argentina circ 1925-1939, but many of their kin were murdered during the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1942 and the remainder in concentration camps.

There may hopefully be surviving children who like me, are continually hunting for possible connections of Survivors originating from Staibst/Stolpte.

With kindest regards.

*************

From Eugen Schoenfeld, a Survivor in Atlanta, Georgia:

I am seeking any person who is related to the Neuman family- my grand parents - Avrohom who lived in Talamas. The family also resided in Huklivoh and Voloc. Also, I am looking for anyone who was related to my grandmother, Feiga, nee Berman, born in Poland and her brother who emigrated to Israel before World War I. He had a wood and coal store in Haifa on Rechov Hanamal.

ISRAEL-ITALY-LATVIA-LITHUANIA
Compilation of SEARCHES
Allgenerations, Inc.
September 19,2008
for ALL the Generations
Compilation of SEARCHES

ISRAEL - ITALY - LATVIA- LITHUANIA

Compiled and edited by
Serena Woolrich,
President, Allgenerations, Inc.

RESPOND TO ALLGENERATIONS {at} AOL(.)COM UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE

Please note that some SEARCHES may also be printed in the Together newspaper and on the web site of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants. We are doing this to increase the exposure of the SEARCHES and the chances of receiving responses. If you only wish to have your SEARCH posted in Allgenerations and do not wish your SEARCH to be posted or printed anywhere else, please send me an e-mail in that regard. Please note that SEARCHES may include the submitter’s name and his/her city/state/country, unless you specifically request that it not be printed in the SEARCH. Except for Together, the SEARCHES herein, either in part or in its entirety, are not to be reprinted, copied or used by anyone in any manner or for any matter (except for personal use by family and friends) without the written consent of Allgenerations, Inc.

If you would like to respond to any of the SEARCHES in this Compilation or ifyou would like to add your own SEARCH inquiry to the Compilation, please send an e-mail to us at: allgenerations {at} aol(.)com with relevant information.

If you would like to respond to any of the SEARCHES in this Compilation or if you would like to add your own SEARCH inquiry to the Compilation, please send an e-mail to us at: allgenerations {at} aol(.)com with relevant information.

Board of Directors, Allgenerations,Inc.
Serena Woolrich, President
Audrey Kirzner Syatt, Secretary
Isaac Kot, Treasurer

SEARCHES FOR SEPTEMBER

From Leor Alcalay, a 2g in Boston, Massachusetts:

I’m writing to you because I’ve lost contact with one of my few relatives. My father, Albert Alcalay, a Survivor and an artist, recently passed away. His memoirs,”The Persistence of Hope.” were published by the University of Delaware Press (I was involved with the book’s production).

The relative I am looking for is the daughter of Albert’s uncle, David Alcalay (the spelling might be different), who worked in Yad Va-Shem in the Righteous Gentiles section for many years, and who has a square named after him in French Hill in Jerusalem.

David lost his first wife and child in Belgrade during the war, but he remarried in Jerusalem. He had a daughter, Liora, from that marriage. Liora grew up in Jerusalem, but married a Swiss man. I met her once only, at the time of David’s death, in 1982, in Jerusalem.

We know the name of the man she married. It is Bronnle, or Bronle, with an umlaut over the “o”. We had an address in Switzerland, but all of our recent attempts (in the past few years) to contact her have failed. We know that she worked as an interpreter, probably in English, Hebrew, French, German, and possibly Serbian. It’s possible she also knows Hungarian, as her mother was a native Hungarian speaker who also spoke Serbo-Croatian.

I know that she and her mother had been involved in an almost-fatal automobile accident in Israel, when she was a child. I know that she was older than me, although I don’t know by how may years (maybe born in 1950?).

Her father David would have emigrated to Israel about that time, I suppose. Her father was a well-known and beloved figure in Israel, especially among the Yugoslav Jewish community in Israel, which is highly respected for its activities, and where I also had inquired. All mail sent to a street address I had, was not responded to. She telephoned our home perhaps 10-15 years ago, once, while traveling in Canada.

I don’t know if your network might have some suggestions. There is also a legal reason we need to speak with her , which involves the resolution of some small property in Belgrade which was restituted, finally, after the Nazi expropriations, and which my father intended to donate to the Jewish community.

Maybe you have some ideas that I haven’t thought of? It would be nice to hear of some suggestions.

quincycollege.edu/qc/about/testimonials/leor.htm

**************************
ITALY AND DP CAMPS
***************************
From Leopoldo Infante, in Rome, Italy: (seeking family hidden by grandmother):

I am searching for anyone who may know Charles Gerszenzon (or Szwajcer). The Szwajcer/Gerszenzon family were Jews of Polish origin who took refuge in the house of my grandmother, Mrs. Villata, in Moncarlieri, Turin, Italy during the Nazi persecution.

Charles Gerszenzon (or Szwajcer), the youngest of the Polish family was born in 1944 in Moncalieri when the family was secretly hosted by Mrs. Villata. The surname Szwajcer was the original family name which was retained by the grandmother, Dwojra Szwajcer, when the rest of the family changed the name to Gerszenzon.

At the end of the war the Szwajcer family moved from Mocalieri to Angoulême, France. The finding of this Charles would be a matter of great happiness to my grandmother who, though now an elderly lady, vividly remembers those far off days.

I’m thankful for any kind of assistance you may be able to give in this matter.

Best regards.
***************************************

Below is an excerpt of a letter Mr. Infante wrote to Yad Vashem regarding this matter:

“The finding of this Charles is the condition for my grandmother, Mrs. M. Villata to be recognised in the “Giardino dei Giusti” and receive the highest acknowledgment reserved for those individuals who risked their lives helping Jewish people during the 2nd World War.

As I am sure you well understand, this recognition would be a matter of great happiness to my grandmother who, though now an elderly lady, vividly remembers those far off days. She remembers well the dangers and fears but also fondly recalls those families and individuals that she so courageously helped.

Thank you for any assistance you may be able to give in this matter.

***********
From Francesco Lotoro, pianist and author of the CD-Encyclopedia KZ MUSIK in Barletta, Italy:

I am searching for some news concerning the pianist and musician, Bogdan Zins, who was in the internment camp of Campagna (near Salerno, Italy) during WWII. He was active as a musician in Campagna (as a conductor of a little orchestra, also). According to some information, Bogdan Zins probably moved to the USA after the war. He probably is still alive.

If somebody knows something about him, please contact me. It’s very, very important.

Thank you.

*************
From Edna Seaman, a Survivor in Cambridge, Massachusetts:

I am trying to locate survives who may have information on people of any age who may have been in labor camp in Asino, near Tomsk / Novosibirsk in 1939- 41.

I was there as a child during that period and I am trying to fill in huge gaps in my memory.

Do you know of a list serv I could join? Can you help or can you point me in a potentially fruitful direction.

With hope and thanks.

***********
DP CAMPS IN ITALY
A Match!

Eugene Frisch and Philip Beckman (Rafal) Beckman
Found mutual friends from when they were in Italy!

BARI

Inquiry received from Nathan Lichtenstein, followed by the responses he received, from Melissa Beckman and Bert Schachter. ALSO FROM BARI
From Michelle Katz, a 2g in Freehold, New Jersey:

My father was in a DP camp in Bari from 1945-1950. His name is Abram Belzycki (now Belz) and he was originally from Lodz and then Piotrkow.

From Rivka Greenberg, a 2g in New York, New York:

My parents, Avraham and Rachel (Kohnshtam) Bekerman, originally from Lodz, stayed after the war in a DP camp in Austria and came to Italy in 1947. I believe that they stayed in Bari for a while, and then moved to Tradate (near Milan) where I was born.

From Tania Feierman, a 2g in Albuquerque, New Mexico
How do I get in touch with the people from the Bari Italy DP camp?
My parents and I were there ‘45-’48.

From Sharone Kornman, a 2g in West Hartford, Connecticut:
My father, Eugene Frisch, who was born in Poland, was living in a transit camp in Bari, and was working for the American Joint.

He lives in Fort Lee, NJ and can be reached by email.

From Rebecca Knaster, a 2g in New York, NY:
My parents were also in Bari. My older sister, Mirka, was born there.

From Lena Fiszman, a 2g in Melbourne, Australia:
My parents - Moshe and Franka Fiszman - were both in DP Camp in Bari as well and would love to get in touch with others.

Also from Rebecca Knaster: One of the survivors who was in Bari called her from Australia.

From Shulamith Shafer, a 2g in Alexandria, Virginia:
I was also born in the Bari, Italy DP camp (like Rebecca Knaster’s sister, Mirka).

****************
SALVINO

From Rosian Zerner, a Survivor in Newtonville, Massachusetts:

After WWII I was in Italy at two Hachshara style places for children: Selvino and Avigliano.

Is there anyone out there who knows about Avigliano? Might there be someone who was with me in Selvino and Avigliano, Italy; or knows others who were there, or knows something about these two places?

I have little recollection and would appreciate whatever information comes my way.

Also, I was in a DP camp at the Ursulinenkloster in Gratz, Austria and perhaps also someone has either been there, knows someone who was there or has contact information for me. Apparently, this was not for Jews only since my father, Paul Bagriansky, was head of the camp’s Jewish section. I have only very sketchy memories.

From Lou Appleman, a Survivor in Queens, New York, in response to the inquiry below from Rosian Zerner:

I was in Selvino, Italy, in early 1945. It was a way station for DP children on the way to Palestine.

I didn’t stay there long as my mother had me taken back. However, I do have a picture taken with another boy there that I can share with Mrs. Werner.

Please have her contact me

Lou Appleman, Selvino ‘45

*******
From Dorothy Small, a 2g in Detroit, Michigan:

I am interested in researching the DP camp where my parents met. Does anyone out there have any information about camp Barletta in northern Italy?

My father was the camp president, dates unknown. He was known as Moses Aaron Giman, (Moshe and Morris) and he was born in Kozienice, Poland.

My mother was Rose Preisler, known as Race, Raca, Rachel, Red and she was born in Visuel de Sus, Romania.

*************

From Hesther Weisberger, a 2g in New York, New York:
I was born in Santa Maria de Leuca in 1946.

My parents traveled to Italy after the war and were in several places before I was born. Both my parents were Holocaust survivors.

Few people know that there were a handful of camps for displaced persons in Italy and most, if not all, the babies were born where I was. (The location was at the heel of Italy).

************

LATVIA

****
From Karen Frostig, a 2g in Boston, Massachusetts:

My father fled Vienna in 1938. His parents, my grandparents, Moses Frostig and Belie Frostig, were deported to Riga on December 3, 1941. That was all that I knew about them.

I have since learned that they never made it to the Riga ghetto, which was not yet open to German Jews (they had to first murder the Latvian Jews). So my grandparents were sent to Jungfernhof, a small satellite camp that there is very little information about.

I am not sure they survived the transport of three days in freezing temperatures. Some records indicate only 300 survived, another indicates that most survived.

If anyone has ANY information about the transport from Vienna, or conditions in Jungfernhof, I would be very appreciative.

Thanks.

***************

From Sandy Speier Klein, a 2g in New Rochelle, New York:

My beloved father, Herman Speier, spent four years in the Riga Ghetto. He never spoke about it. If anyone who was in Riga and knew my father, I would be interested in hearing from him.

*****

From Clara Knopfler, a Survivor in Scarsdale, New York:

I am a survivor of Riga. I worked only in Kaiserwald for 3 months in 1944; June, July and August - we were taken by merchandise ship to Stutthof. I would like to know what happened to the prisoners in Kaiserwald till the Russians liberated the prisoners (if there were any).

My book, “I AM STILL HERE, My Mother’s Voice,” has a long chapter about our life in Riga.

*****
From Osnat Rabin, a 2g in Holon, Israel:

Dear Serena,

My name is Osnat Rabin, and I am a 2g, born in Riga. (Aysa was my name in my Russian papers - I am named after my grandfather Asher). My maiden name was Rozinko. My sister’s name is Ariana. Both my parents are from Latvia; my mother was born in Riga and I believe my father was born in Limbazhi .

Our father, Nathan (or Nate) Rozinko, was the oldest son of Asher and Rasha (Rachel), who had 7 children; my uncle Shlomo Rozinko and my 5 aunts, whom I knew very well; now we have only 3 with us.

My parents, with numerous members of the family, fled to Kazakhstan in June 1941 from Riga, Latvia. My grandmother on my mother’s side did not make it and was killed in the Riga ghetto.

We all live in Israel; I made Aliyah in 1974 and the rest of the family (13!!!) did in 1976. I have lived in Holon, Israel for over 34 years.

*****

From Lev Raphael, a 2g in Okemos, Michigan:

Does anyone have any relatives from Lithuania or Latvia with the name, Garbel? I’ve struck out on JewishGen and everywhere else I’ve looked. I have found some things my late mother wrote about the war and she lists two (2) sub camps of Kaiserwald: Strassdenhoff Labor Camp and Yugla Seidenfabrik. They housed many German and Latvian Jews, but also 1,500 or so women deported from the Vilna Ghetto Sept. 23rd or 24th 1943.

My mother worked in the Strassdenhoff satellite camp and Yugla Seidenfabrik but I haven’t found any information on them anywhere, and Kaiserwald/Riga documents were apparently destroyed both by the Nazis and the Soviets. She was there as Liale or Lalke or Lidja Kliatshko (Klaczko) along with a good friend Frieda Zewin. I have their numbers at Stutthof (where they were transferred from Riga) and they’re consecutive - both however had changed their last names, perhaps to be considered sisters?

Did anyone who was in these camps know my mother, Lidja Garbel (aka Lidja Klatchko) from Vilno? Does the name Garbel ring bells for anyone out there?

If any of these names sound familiar, please contact me.

******
From Ellie Schild, a Survivor in East Meadow, New York:

The information I have is very sparse, but I do know that my father’s 3 out of 4 sisters were sent to Riga: Helene David, husband Max and their children; Fritzi Segal, Heinrich Segal, and their children; and Ida Segal married to Herman, (brother of Heinrich Segal), and their children. All were sent to Riga.

I have a date of February 6th 1942, for Helene and Max and the children being deported to Riga.
******

From Russ Steinweg, a 2g in San Jose, California:

My father, Walter Steinweg, was deported to Riga from Krefeld, Germany in December 1941, along with his parents and most of his siblings.

Thanks.

******
From Jeffrey Strauss, a 2g in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

While I know Strauss is a common German name, I am interested to know if Susan Taube, nee’ Strauss, had any knowledge of my Dad’s sisters and nephews, who I was told were sent to Riga.

I have no confirmation other than that was what my Dad was told by other survivors who knew his family.
*****

From Allan Ulman, a 2g in Cincinnati, Ohio:

In case you, or your email correspondents, don’t know, there is a Society of Survivors of the Riga Ghetto group, headed by Lore Oppenheimer in New York.

My father is a survivor of Riga and a member of the group.

*****
From Hanka Temel, a Survivor in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in response to the e-mail below from Berta:

Dear Berta,

When I read your inquiry, I asked my best friend, Dr. Trudy Schneider, nee Hirschhorn, Gruppe Wien, who wrote several books about Riga, etc., and who went personally to Arolsen to get her lists before anybody knew that Arolsen existed.

According to Trudy’s information your mother Regina Scheck, and sister, Grete Scheck, came to Riga Ghetto with the Gruppe Dortmund on January 27, 1942. We don’t know if your mother was sent to “Duenamuende” on Passover that year or what happened to her. In any case, Greta Scheck left Riga on the second merchant boat and arrived in Stutthof on October 1, 1944. Where she was sent from there we don’t know.

This is all very sad, Duenamuende was a fictitious name for the first “Aktion” in the German Ghetto where older people were selected and sent away - and you really don’t want to know how and where. Most of the surviving women came with the first boat and were brought to Sophienwalde from where a good percentage survived (thanks to our Kommandant Schultz who was not as good as we thought he was.). This is unfortunately all I can tell you.

*****
From Susan Taube, a Survivor in Rockville, Maryland, in response to Berta’s e-mail (please see e-mail below):

Dear Berta,

I am Susan Taube, nee’ Strauss, a survivor of the Riga Ghetto. I was deported from Berlin in January 1942. Around that time people came from all over Germany to Riga.

I wish I could tell you that I knew your family and what became of them. We have a newsletter “Survivors of the Riga Ghetto” that comes out 4 times a year. I would advise you to put a note in this paper; also the “U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington” has information about the Riga Ghetto.

My husband, Herman, wrote the introduction to Mr. Katz’s book, we are friends of the family. The book reflects what life was like in the Riga Ghetto and afterwards. The book is available at www.amazon.com. Also at the Holocaust Museum book store.

*************

From Berta Scheck Wesler, a Survivor in Walnut Creek, California, in response to the e-mail below from Herman Taube:

Dear Mr. Taube,

My mother, Ryvka Weingarten/Eckstein was born in Drohobycz, Poland, and later married my father Gedaliah Scheck. They lived in Dortmund, Germany for many years.

My mother and my sister, Grete, were deported to Riga, Latvia, probably in January 1942. I do not know where life ended for them.

Do you perhaps have any knowledge of either one of them in Riga? I would greatly appreciate hearing from you if you do. I understand from Serena’s postings that you wrote the introduction to Josef Katz’s book.
LITHUANIA

*******************************************************************
From Tobie Dimont, a 2g in Tucson, Arizona:
Looking for survivors from Shirvint (or Servintos) or Kovna in Lithuania.

My mother is a survivor from there.
*****
Esia Baran Friedman, a Survivor in West Hartford, Connecticut:
Looking forany information about Chaja Sczeranska, who lived on Wilkomierska Street in Vilno. We attended school together. Her familyowned a bakery.
It is possible thatshe may have moved to Israel.
******
From e. nathanael kramer, a 2g in New York, New York:
Can someone help me with any information about my mother, Rosa Druck, born in Vilna, Lithuania and enslaved in the Vilna ghetto, then sent to several concentration camps; one in Estonia about 1943, then to Stutthof c.c about late 1944?
My mother was liberated by Russian troops in 1945.

*****
From Lev Raphael, a 2g and author, in Okemos, Michigan:
Did anyone know my mother, Lidja Garbel (aka Lidja Klatchko) from Vilno?

I have a copy of my mother’s Buchenwald prisoner card and it has her maiden name (Klatchko) etc., but lists her as Lidja Garbel, married to a Michael (or Michal) Garbel, “whereabouts unknown.”He had a sister, Frieda Garbel. I have had no luck trying to discover if she actually was married before she met my father. Also, are there any relatives out there of Patti Kremer, a fairly well-known Bundist who was executed by the Nazis in the Vilna ghetto? I know of one relative, Frieda Zewin, who survived the war.

*******
From Relli Robinson, a Survivor in Haifa, Israel, on behalf of a California attorney looking for Rachela (Rachel) Goldberg, who was saved during the war by a Lithuanian family in Lithuania.

My father’s family sheltered a Jewish girl during WWII. My father would like to find his “sister” after all these many years. We believe that the girl’s name was Rachala (Rachel) Goldberg. She was born around 1940 in the Suwalki region of Lithuania. Her father was in the textile manufacturing industry and her mother was a school teacher.

They were taken to the Kaunas Ghetto. In about 1943 the Nazis ordered the elimination of all Jewish children (this is what my father was told) from the ghetto. Rachela’s father sought to hide her.

My birth grandmother lived in Kaunas and apparently had been putting bread on the fence for Jewish people on their walk to forced labor. Rachala’s family approached her and asked her to hide Rachala. She agreed. I do not know if there was compensation involved.

Rachala was taken in a sack by bus to Panevezys, Lithuania, and then to Naujamestis, a small town southwest of Panavezys, where my great-grandfather had a mill. At the time Rachala spoke only Yiddish and/or Hebrew.

Rachala was renamed Halina (Helen) and was raised with my father by my great-aunt Apolonia Shaparis (nee Mazeika), who I refer to as my grandmother. My father, Romuald (Romualdus in Lithuanian), was raised believing that Apolonia was his mother and Rachala his sister.

In the closing days of the war the family fled by train moving ahead of the front. The train stopped in Poland and they settled there in Slupsk. In Slupsk they lived on Chopin Street. My family spoke Polish, Lithuanian, as well as some German and Russian. In Poland my family changed their last name from Shaparis to Shaparys and later to Shaparyski.

Rachala’s father traced the family and came to take his daughter. He took her back in December of 1946 or early 1947.

On behalf of my father, I am looking for the above mentioned Rachala (Rachel) Goldberg. I would appreciate any further leads or assistance in locating her.

Thank you for your time.

***

From Tobie Dimont, a 2g in Tucson, Arizona:

Looking for survivors from Shirvint (or Servintos) or Kovna in Lithuania. My mother is a survivor from there.

*****

From Esia Baran Friedman, a Survivor in West Hartford, Connecticut:

Looking for any information about Chaja Sczeranska, who lived on Wilkomierska Street in Vilno. We attended school together. Her family owned a bakery.
It is possible thatshe may have moved to Israel.

*****
From e. nathanael kramer, a 2g in New York, New York:

Can someone help me with any information about my mother, Rosa Druck, born in Vilna, Lithuania and enslaved in the Vilna ghetto, then sent to several concentration camps; one in Estonia about 1943, then to Stutthof c.c about late 1944? My mother was liberated by Russian troops in 1945.

Last update - 20:15 08/10/2008

Vatican defends wartime pope against charge he turned blind eye to Holocaust

By Reuters

Tags: Holocaust, Vatican

The Vatican on Wednesday rejected charges that wartime Pope Pius XII turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, saying it was a “black legend” not backed up by history.

An editorial in the Vatican newspaper defended Pius two days after the first Jew to address a Church synod, Haifa’s Chief Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, told the gatheringthat Jews “cannot forgive and forget” Pius’s silence.

The Osservatore Romano called him a “man of peace” who tried to do his best during one of the most violent periods in history. The editorial was published on the eve of commemorations to mark the 50th anniversary of his death.

more.

RELATED ARTICLES:

SHAR YASHUV COMPLAINS TO VATICAN

POPE VISITS VIENNA HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

BY JEANETTE FRIEDMAN
The First Lady of the Republic of Poland, Madame Maria Kaczynska, acting as special envoy for the
President of Poland, the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, and Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, a secretary of state in the President’s Chancellery, were warmly welcomed by Holocaust survivors and their descendants at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, at an event hosted by The North American Council for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Rabbi Arthur Schneier. Cheryl Halpern (2G) former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting offered greetings. Also in attendance were Sam Bloch and Roman Kent, president and chairman of the American Gathering. More than 150 people attended the September 25 reception to meet the First Lady, who introduced them to the Museum’s mission and watched as the Foreign Minister and the Secretary of State posthumously awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic, Poland’s highest honor, to Irena Gut, who had hidden 12 Jews under the noses of the Nazis in Tarnopol during the Holocaust.
The medal was accepted by Gut’s daughter, Jeannie Smith of Seattle. A benefit performance of the play about her mother, Irena’s Vow starring Tovah Feldshuh, followed at the Baruch Center for Performing Arts. Also attending the ceremony was Roman Haller, director of the Claims Conference Successor Organization in Munich—who was born in Gut’s hiding place after she convinced his mother not to end her pregnancy.
Sigmund A. Rolat, chairman of the Museum’s North American Council and a Holocaust survivor from
Czestochowa, said the hi-tech, state-of-the-art museum being built in Warsaw on the site of the Ghetto will tell of the almost 1,000-year history of the Jews of Poland. The museum is one Poland’s largest public works projects, with $110 million committed to construction from the Polish Republic and the City of Warsaw.Another $35 million is needed to create the core exhibits. The Museum is being designed as a portal to Poland and its Jewish history for all people visiting Jewish heritage sites and the camps and sites of destruction, aiming at participants from March of the Living programs
and Polish students. It is expected to become the most important museum of Jewish history in the world.The museum will offer a perspective often neglected in the post-Holocaust period and present the positive, rich Jewish heritage and culture that invigorated pre-Holocaust Poland while setting the foundations for contemporary Judaism. While this millennial history is marked by violence and antisemitism, the museum will also tell the stories of those Polish Jews who, after the Holocaust, revitalized Jewish culture and Judaism in America and around the world, and of those who are reestablishing Jewish culture in today’s Poland.
“After the Inquisition, Poland welcomed us with open arms and we thrived there compared to the rest of
Europe,” said Rolat. “When visitors come to Poland, they rarely see anything positive that Jewish people have contributed to Polish society. Jewish and Polish youth must discover the important and nation-changing contributions Jewish people made to Polish culture before the Holocaust—we were poets, artists, industrialists, philosophers and philanthropists, as well as Torah scholars, who were part of the fabric of Polish society.”
Rolat, himself a recipient of the Commander’s Cross, is a frequent visitor to Poland who often speaks in Polish schools. Over the years, he has been approached by hundreds of young Poles seeking their roots and feels the new museum will be a good place for them to start. Many feel driven to study things Jewish and many suspect they are Jews. “I want to make it easier for them to discover who they are,” said Rolat. “This museum is needed. Anyone who visits it, if he is Jewish, will be proud, and if he is not Jewish, he will know all there is know about Jewish history in Poland. The past, after all, illuminates the future.”

The concept of a family reunion always seemed impossible for our family, which, like so many Jewish families, was spread out all over the world. I was always envious of my American friends, whose families had huge reunions or cousins’ clubs, all organized well in advance–including the obligatory souvenir family T-shirt. Since my parents were Holocaust survivors, I grew up with very few relatives and did not know most of them except from photographs and letters we received from Uruguay, France, Israel, Poland, Brazil, and Australia.

As I got older, I made an effort to meet many of the relatives at least once. I really thought I had met everyone, until my father received an email in mid-2007 from someone named Toni asking if he was the grandson of Rosa Findling. Toni was working on her family tree and doing some serious research, trying to connect the branches of the Findling family from around the world. The tree grew over the last year and today, a beautiful Sunday in October 2008, we had a reunion of my father’s grandmother’s family in New York City.

The Findling family descendants came from near and far–the youngest was only a year old and the oldest was 87. Of course, there was food. What Jewish family can get together without food? But it was an amazing feat and fete to bring five branches of the family under one roof for several hours of schmoozing, picture taking, and connecting dots on a chart. Many brought old black and white photos of family members they sometimes could not even identify, and we tried to help put together the pieces, touching these fragile documents with full knowledge that we would probably only see them once. Almost all those attending, or their ancestors, had left Poland before World War II. One representative from each branch of the family presented a short summary of their family history and, as I listened, I couldn’t help thinking how fortunate they were not to have memories of the Holocaust hanging over them like dark clouds.

My father, the only survivor in the room, told his grandmother’s story, including that she was killed at Belzec. Several of the young people in the room later led him to the genealogical chart hanging on the wall afterward, and asked him to tell them more about each individual from his part of the family. I don’t think there was anything that could top that for him. They wanted to know.

We may never meet again, but we had this unique opportunity. The laborious research of one woman paid off as we connected names and faces we never knew, places we never heard of, and a series of events that brought us together on a Sunday in New York.

World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust Conference, Washington, DC, November 7-10, 2008

Second Generation Programs

Dear Second and Third Generation Friends,

There’s still time to register for the upcoming WFJCSH Conference in Washington!
A great deal of time, work, and energy has gone into making the Conference stimulating and thought provoking for we the participants. In addition to the many fascinating speakers such as Sarah Bloomfield, the Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Eli Rosenbaum, the Director of the Office of Special Investigations, America’s top Nazi hunter, and Sallai Meridor, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., there will be many opportunities for us to meet one another other and attend stimulating workshops and discussions. Some will be open to all participants; some will be limited to the second generation only. We are listing a sampling of some of the planned workshops:

Finding Happiness Under the Shadow of the Holocaust
All people seek to be happy. More often than not, happiness seems to be elusive. As a generation that has grown up under the shadow of the Holocaust, we recognize the impact of tragedy and loss in our lives and histories. We recognize the factors that make us who we are. Nonetheless, can we live happier lives? How can we find ways of increasing joy and happiness in our lives? This workshop will give us an opportunity to look at the emotional roadblocks of our being able to find happiness and will explore ways of increasing joy and happiness in our everyday lives.
Transmitting the Legacy: Speaker Training and Using our Parent’s Testimonies in our Public Presentations
This seminar will cover some of the basics of public speaking: preparing your talk, knowing your audience, time management, how to handle problematic situations, etc. Sandy Rubenstein intersperses her presentation with music, photos, and segments from her father’s memoir and video clips of her father speaking about his experiences in testimonies to Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.
From Whence We Came - Our Identities Through Their Identities:
Many of us have somehow “always known” something. As children we often overheard bits and pieces of conversations or witnessed displays of sorrow or anger. How did we piece it together? How can we understand the worlds from which our parents came as they clearly were different from the worlds in which we’ve been raised? Whether the journey is verbal or culminates in a trip to the “old country”, many of us feel the need to comprehend our parents’ lives in order to fully comprehend ourselves.
Holocaust Programs in our Communities: What works / what doesn’t?
This is an open sharing session where people can sign up for a three-minute time slot to talk about what programs (commemorations or 2G / 3G programs) they have had in their local communities. What programs were good? Which ones were not successful? Why? This is a wonderful opportunity for us to learn from each other’s experiences and get new ideas.

We hope you can attend. Please check the website: www.wfjcsh.org or E-mail: Holocaustchild {at} comcast(.)net

David Friedmann, A Berlin Press Artist of the 1920s

David Friedmann (Mährisch Ostrau 1893-1980 St. Louis, Missouri) was one of the many visual artists for whom the expression of the “Forgotten Generation” was coined.

He lived in Berlin since 1911, during his most successful and artistically significant years. Here he was a student of Hermann Struck (etching) and Lovis Corinth (painting). He was successful as a painter and graphics artist producing late impressionistic landscapes, still lifes, and nudes - until the Nazis came to power in 1933. In 1938, he fled to Prague with his young family and was deported to the Lodz Ghetto and then to Auschwitz. Almost all of his works were confiscated by the Gestapo and presumably destroyed. His wife and little daughter were murdered by the Nazis. He survived and painted his memories of the ghetto and concentration camps: “Because… they were Jews!” Later he remarried and via Israel, came to the United States, where he died after a lifetime of achievement.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of his daughter from his second marriage, Miriam Friedman Morris, this artist has been rescued from oblivion. Perhaps for this reason the remainder of his missing works may yet surface and be found.

David Friedmann, who was known as a brilliant and respected portraitist, had the opportunity in 1924 to sketch for various newspapers and magazines at a time when they were the main medium of information. According to his own account, he sketched hundreds of portraits of celebrated personalities from the theater, in music, politics and sports. Now for the first time, a volume has been published of a small selection of Friedmann’s sketches portraying musicians, authors, actors, among others:

David Friedmann (1893-1980). Ein Berliner Pressezeichner der 1920er Jahre

David Friedmann, A Berlin Press Artist of the 1920’s

by Detlef Lorenz. Teetz, Berlin: Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, 2008

Jüdische Miniaturen - Spektrum jüdischen Lebens 69

64 p., Numerous Illustrations, Price 5,90 Euro
http://www.hentrichhentrich.de/lorenz_d_friedmann1.php th

David Friedmann had a special connection with music and the famous musicians of his time whom he sketched. Many of them were outstanding soloists and members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra before it was taken over by the Nazi Government. Presently the Philharmonie Berlin, Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, is planning an exhibition in the Foyer of the Philharmonie, which will open on November 8, 2008 at 6:00pm and can be viewed through January 4, 2009. The exhibition will show reproductions of a number of “David Friedmann Portraits of Musicians”.

For information about the artist please see the David Friedmann Website: http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/friedmann/

www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/friedmann/because.html “>
www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/friedmann/because.html
www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/friedmann/lostArt.html “>
www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/friedmann/lostArt.html

Janny L. Manasse: Dutch resistance, Holocaust survivor
1918-2008 | Carried messages, weapons throughout Holland before capture, torture by Nazis

September 23, 2008

BY LARRY FINLEY Staff Reporter/lfinley {at} suntimes(.)com
It was painful for Janny Manasse to tell strangers about her days in the Dutch resistance during World War II and the almost 20 months she spent in a German concentration camp. But she did it for her sons and for history.

“After the movie ‘Schindler’s List’ came out [in 1993], I applied to Steven Spielberg, who wanted to document all of the surviving Holocaust people,” said her son, Joseph. “They sent a film crew to do a video of both my parents. That was what Spielberg wanted to do — to help educate the next generation.”

Mrs. Manasse told about torture and depravation at Ravensbruck camp in Germany. Her Jewish-born husband, Henri, told about his escape from Westerbork camp and his months in hiding in Holland.

Mrs. Manasse, 90, died on Sept. 8 in the Coventry Village retirement community in Northbrook. Her husband died in 2003.

“The filming [in 1996] was very difficult for them,” he said. “My mother did it more for me, at my urging. My father was more open for it. If you watch these tapes, you can still see the pain.”

His mother was born Jannigje L. Borst on March 21, 1918, in Lopik, Holland. She was in nursing training in 1940 when the Germans bombed and invaded her country. She became a member of the Dutch resistance, carrying messages and weapons, and providing hiding places, fraudulent identification and ration cards for Dutch Jews, her son said.

“Men were not allowed to travel,” said another son, Robert. “Males were picked up and put in work camps. She was smuggling information from her home in Amsterdam to the Hague to Rotterdam. She also provided illegal ration cards and hiding places.”

She married in early 1942, a non-Jew marrying a Jew, shortly before a Nazi edict that banned the marriage of Jews and non-Jews, and was arrested by a Dutch collaborator after she lent her passport to a Jewish woman who tried to use it to flee to Switzerland.

“My mother was arrested in Amsterdam and taken to prison,” Robert Manasse said. “For six months, she was tortured and interrogated to extract information, but my mother said she never divulged anything about the resistance movement.”

Her husband had escaped from a camp that was a staging point for transit to the Auschwitz death camp, in Poland, the son said, and stayed in hiding until the liberation of Amsterdam in May 1945.

The couple and their four sons came to the United States in 1954 on a program sponsored by a church group in Holland. She worked as a housekeeper until becoming a nurse’s aide. Her husband got a job as a carpet layer.

“Her passion became the Selfhelp Home” on West Argyle, Robert Manasse said. “It was founded for refugees and Holocaust survivors, and that became her calling — to help them.”

He said that, after six months in a church basement, the family lived in a small apartment in Lake View and acted as a clearinghouse for families arriving from Holland.

“She would stretch a can of Spam and a box of macaroni and an onion into small portions to feed everyone,” he said. “She would ask the butcher for bones to put in the pot for soup. It was like war rationing.”

Mrs. Manasse enjoyed traveling, “swimming at the ‘Y’ three times a week” and riding her bike “like Dutch people do,” he said. “Then, in June, she had a stroke, which left her left side paralyzed.”

The morning she died, she asked for her usual bath and put on clean clothes, he said.

“She said, ‘Let me lay down,’ ” her son recounted. “They put her in bed. She put her arms over herself, and she died.”

Mrs. Manasse’s survivors also include two other sons, Henri and Casey; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Services have been held.

Fall 2008 Calendar
The Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center presents
The Exhibit: A Journey to Life

On Sunday, March 15, 2009, the opening of The Exhibit: A Journey to Life at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, N.J. will bring to life the lost world of Holocaust victims. Suitcases, symbolic of the travels and travails of so many Holocaust victims, will present the life experiences of local survivors. Scrapbooks containing treasured photographs, letters, documents and other mementos will weave the story of each survivor’s personal journey. Maps, timelines, video clips and other exhibit materials will be part of each suitcase.

If the world had answered the cries of “Never Again,” The Exhibit: A Journey to Life would end here. However, genocide persists. The exhibit will feature a global perspective of genocide featuring historical and contemporary genocides, current areas of crisis and suggestions for individual activism.

The Exhibit: A Journey to Life is a multi-media, interactive exhibit appropriate for students in grades 5 and up. Groups should contact the Monmouth Museum at (732) 747-2266 to schedule visits as soon as possible. Space is limited; reservations are necessary. Groups wishing to see the exhibit outside of the regular museum hours should contact the Center to make special arrangements. Preparatory materials for students will be available to registered groups. Teacher workshops are being offered in the Center’s Fall and Spring programs. A limited number of scholarships to provide funding for school buses are available.

The Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Education Center charges no fee for the exhibit. However, the Monmouth Museum will require their standard group fee of $6/person.

The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Center gratefully acknowledges the B’nai Sholom/Beth El Foundation of Temple Beth El, Oakhurst, New Jersey, for funding the Exhibit.

This exhibition was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any view, findings, conclusions or recommendations in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the national Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. (insert logo here)

Rescued by Raoul Wallenberg
Monday, October 6, 2008, 7:30PM
Warner Student Life Center, Navesink Room 1

“I wouldn’t have survived without him,” she says. “I would have been gone the moment I hit a death camp.”
Vera Goodkin doesn’t know why Raoul Wallenberg saved her when she was a little girl in Budapest, Hungary, but she is grateful that he did. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who arrived in Budapest at the height of the Nazi murder of the Hungarian Jews, spent 6 months of his life arranging the rescue of thousands of Jews, one of whom was Vera Goodkin.
Please join us to hear Vera Goodkin, professor emeritus at Mercer County Community College, share her history and her connection to this renowned rescuer.
Teacher Workshop
The Exhibit: A Journey to Life
Preparing Your Students for the Museum Experience
Friday, October 17, 2008 1:00 – 3:00PM
Warner Student Life Center, Navesink Room 1
This workshop will provide teachers with an overview of the exhibit, its thematic focus and the key features they should utilize with their students. Materials that have been developed for use by your students will be distributed. These materials will prepare them for visiting the exhibit and will engage them in interactive activities at the museum. Professional development credits will be provided.
Pre-registration is necessary.

Talking with Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide
Monday, October 20, 2008, 9:15AM
Brookdale Community College Professor Terry Konn spent Spring, 2008, in Rwanda, working with young adults who are survivors of the genocide in Rwanda. Most of them orphaned and now in college, they shared their experiences with Professor Konn. Professor Konn will give a brief history of the Rwandan genocide, its aftermath and re-building. Via videoconferencing, there will be an opportunity to hear directly from these young survivors and ask them questions. This program is for high school juniors and seniors and Brookdale Community College students. Space is limited; pre-registration is necessary.

The Genocide in Rwanda: Aftermath and Re-building
Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 7:30PM
Warner Student Life Center, Navesink Room 1
Brookdale Community College Professor Terry Konn spent Spring, 2008, in Rwanda, working with young adults who are survivors of the genocide in Rwanda. She will share her experience working with these young adults, most of whom were orphaned and are now in college. A presentation of excerpts from her interviews with survivors will provide a look inside this country 14 years after the genocide.
Space is limited; pre-registration is necessary.

Talking with Holocaust Survivors
Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:30PM
Location: MAN 212
To meet Holocaust survivors in person is to touch history. No two stories are alike, yet the struggle to survive, the personal loss and the strength of the individual, despite overwhelming odds always touches the listener.
Pre-registration is necessary.

Survival of the Human Spirit: Triumph over Adversity
November 3 -30, 2008
Location: Westfield Public Library, Westfield, NJ
Drawn from the Center’s publication To Tomorrow’s Children, this exhibit consists of 33 panels featuring a group of Holocaust survivors associated with the Center. The panels depict their photographs with personal histories and pertinent messages of hope to future generations. The exhibit is accompanied by a timeline of key events during the period, both historical and in the lives of the survivors. Please call the Westfield Public Library at (856) 845-5593 for information about the opening event and exhibit hours.

Teacher Workshop: Art of the Holocaust
Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 2:30PM
Monmouth University
Jane Denny, Director of Education at the Center, will introduce the teaching materials she has developed for the Holocaust Suite Lithographs by Jacob Landau. The three areas of study are: history, art and literature. This workshop will present suggested approaches for integrating the lithographs into these disciplines. Professional development credits will be provided.
Pre-registration is necessary.

Soulsaving: Common Threads of Kindness
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7:00PM
Location: Westfield Public Library, Westfield, NJ
During the Holocaust, there were singular acts of kindness that changed survivors’ lives allowing them to survive another moment and more. These acts were often performed anonymously, by ordinary individuals who demonstrated the responsibility and the ability we all have to make a difference in another’s life. Please join us for this heartwarming film and hear Holocaust survivors share the “Threads of Kindness” that saved their souls, their lives and restored their belief in their fellow human beings. Jane Denny, Director of Education at the Center, will discuss the film.

70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht: Eyewitnesses Speak
Sunday, November 9, 2008, 3:00 –5:00PM
Warner Student Life Center, Navesink Room 1

November 9, 1938, a day seared into the memory of Holocaust survivors, marked the beginning of the violent descent into hell for the Jews of Europe. In the space of a few hours on Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass, thousands of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were burned, damaged or destroyed in Germany and Austria. At least 91 Jewish persons were murdered; more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

Seventy years later, child survivors of Kristallnacht will share their experiences of that night and answer your questions.

The Role of Art as a Key to Studying a Historical Tragedy
Friday, November 14, 2008
Monmouth University
Jane Denny, Director of Education at the Center, and Dr. David S. Herrstrom, President of The Jacob Landau Institute, will participate in a panel discussion on the role of art in studying the Holocaust. They will be using The Holocaust Suite Lithographs by Jacob Landau as a model. The lithographs will be exhibited at this program.

Singing for Survival: From Holocaust to Hope
Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 7:00PM
Monmouth University, Pollak Theater

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event with Monmouth University featuring Raya Gonen, Israeli soprano, as she sings some of the music that came from the Holocaust. Despite the horror of the experience, many victims turned to music to cope with their despair, maintain their humanity and hold onto hope for the future. Ms.Gonen, a child of survivors, will also share the background of her father’s Holocaust experience. Ms. Gonen’s father, Jerachmiel Siniuk, survived the Holocaust thanks to the courage of a Lithuanian farmer who hid him from the Germans. An excerpt from a documentary film, created by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, will show the recent reunion of Mr. Siniuk with his rescuer.

The Council of Holocaust Educators Annual Conference
The 60th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention: Where Do We Stand Today?
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Warner Student Life Center, Navesink Room
This Thursday evening program, which will be open to the community, will be announced shortly.

Friday, December 5, 2008
Warner Student Life Center, Brookdale Community College Lincroft, NJ
The Center for Holocaust Studies is pleased to host this conference in cooperation with the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education. The conference program will be available in September.
There is a fee for this program. Pre-registration is necessary. For further information, please call the Center to request a brochure and registration form.

Talking with Holocaust Survivors
Thursday, December 11, 2008, 1:30PM
Location: MAN 212
To meet Holocaust survivors in person is to touch history. No two stories are alike, yet the struggle to survive, the personal loss and the strength of the individual, despite overwhelming odds always touches the listener. Pre-registration is necessary.

UPCOMING Events and their Dates: Please Plan Ahead

Teacher Workshop
Echoes & Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Friday, February 6, 2009, Noon-3:00PM
Warner Student Life Center, Navesink Room 1
This award winning curriculum developed by the Anti-Defamation League, The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and Yad Vashem will be presented by Holocaust educator, Rebecca Aupperle. Appropriate for administrators, middle and high school educators. All those participating in the workshop will receive a copy of the curriculum. To register for this program please call (609) 292-9274, or via e-mail: holocaust {at} doe.state.nj(.)us and specify workshop J.

The Eighth Annual Catherine Woolf Student Leadership Conferences
Conference I: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 9:00AM - 1:00PM
Conference II: Friday, February 27, 2009, 9:00AM - 1:00PM
In this exceptional one-day program, middle school students learn how they can make a difference in eliminating prejudice from their schools. This unique experience empowers them to educate their peers as they develop skills to counteract prejudice. Due to the high demand for this program, we are offering two conferences this year. This program is by invitation only; pre-registration is necessary. Interested parents and teachers should contact the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Center for information at (732) 224-2769.

Summer Fellowship Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Genocides & Human Rights Issues
Summer 2009
This Institute will broaden knowledge and enrich teaching skills in the Holocaust, genocides, and historical and contemporary human rights issues. Participants will:
• Learn techniques and strategies to address these topics with students
• Study the Holocaust, other genocides and genocide-like tragedies, such as Armenia, Nanking, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur
• Discuss issues of prejudice, racism and human rights

Options Include: a 2-day genocide program, 3-day Museum studies program, 5-day Holocaust Studies program or comprehensive 10-day program.
• For middle school and high school teachers, administrators and professional staff
• Targeted to meet the state mandate in several disciplines, especially the social sciences, English, modern languages and the arts
• Endorsed by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education
• Professional development hours provided by the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education
Space is very limited. For further information, please call the Center at (732) 224-2769.