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Holocaust Survivor Who Lost His Entire Family, Parents and Coming Months – the Work Is Going on Without Letting Off! Seven Siblings NEWSLETTER 70 Years After... ISSUE No. 72 March 2012 AT YOUR SERVICE Each File Has a Name The Project of Computerizing Open Archives at the Annual Meeting (May 5, 2012) our Archives Started t the annual meeting, Beit Terezin will open its archive files For the first time in the history of our archives, all the material A for perusal by interested participants. The list of personal of the many files in our possession will be scanned, catalogued files will be published on Beit Terezin’s website and all who want and searchable for researchers, students and the team of Beit to see a specific file – will be able to order it beforehand. The Theresienstadt. pre-ordered files will await the participants of the meeting and The project began in the winter of 2012 and will last for a number enable them to look at them and even add additional material, of months. It is quite complex and requires the preparation of to complete the information. all files for scanning, insertion of key words for searching, the scanning itself of hundreds of thousands of pages including After the project of scanning our archives, the files will not be documents, pictures, testimonies, newspaper clippings and more. accessible for a long time, so this is an excellent occasion for The documents were written in different languages, many of our members and friends to peruse the files of their families. them in German and Czech. To enable us to peruse them, We will not be able to remove files from the archives without Udi Adler joined our team; he is a new immigrant (he immigrated ordering them beforehand – please take this into account. not long ago) from the Czech Republic who knows these languages and he helps us to carry out the project. This will bring us up to the international standards of the EHRI project of which we are a part, in the framework of the European Union. Now is the time for you to let documents and photographs in your possession to be part of the project. In the end, all the Happy documents will be searchable, according to key words and accessible – some of them in Beit Terezin’s computers and some through the Internet. Holidays Miloš Pojár – in Memoriam Miloš Pojár, t h e fi r s t ambassador of the Czech Republic in Israel, father of Tomáš Pojár, the present Beit Theresienstadt Team Czech ambassador in Israel, died, aged 72. Miloš Pojár was a great friend of Beit Terezin and of our members and even after he ended his service in the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs he remained in touch. When his son became the Czech ambassador in Israel, Miloš also came and visited Beit Terezin – a dear and honored guest at our annual meetings. Beit Terezin extends its condolences to Tomáš Pojár and the family. IN THIS ISSUE AT YOUR SERVICE ...............................................................................................2 EDUCATION CENTER / TAMI KINBERG ..................................12-13 YOURS, ODED ...........................................................................................................3 FROM HERE AND THERE ............................................................................14 NEWS FROM BEIT THERESIENSTADT ..........................................4-9 RELATED BY OUR MEMBERS .................................................................15 NEW IN OUR ARCHIVES / SIMA SHACHAR........................10-11 Editor: Oded Breda Translations: Chava and Mordehai Livni Design: Studio Orni Drori, Haifa 2 Newsletter Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association YOURS, ODED To all members and friends of Beit Theresienstadt It is now 3 years since I began my work in Beit Terezin. During our courtyard, allocating for this purpose these years the team of Beit Terezin and I continued to build, to a very large sum and gave Beit Terezin develope and to bring Beit Terezin to the public’s awareness. The an impressive new appearance. For the work is very intensive and the team works hard and under pressure first time it was possible to get through to maintain the momentum in ongoing educational activities and the rainy winter without trouble, without at the same time to cope with the many events undertaken in puddles, without mud, broken tiles, the last months. with no leakages anywhere. Kibbutz There is no question that the high point of our activity in the Givat Hayim Ihud also lent a hand and last half year was the event on the 70th anniversary of ghetto renovated the parking area in front of Theresienstadt. We brought and re-enacted songs from cabarets the buildings and now the children are in the ghetto, together with a group of very talented young people safer from moving cars in the area. from our annual seminar “History, Music and Remembrance”, most And that was still not all. In a moving and dignified ceremony, well of them students or absolvents of the Jerusalem Academy of Music attended by the media, the businessman Meir Shamir connected and Dance, together with their teachers. the memory of the soccer players and fans of the Terezin league to a real soccer stadium, the new “Hamoshava” stadium, opened in There is no better Petah Tikva. M. Shamir, too, had relatives, including his grandfather way of preserving the who did not survive Theresienstadt. A copy of part of the exhibition heritage than seeing at Beit Terezin was installed at Shamir’s VIP room at the stadium. this re-enactment on the He regards the place as having an important educational value stage, for young people for the visitors. some of which did And finally – another exhibition from our archives of works by not know the story of Theresienstadt children was opened in the USA, in Reading, Penn. Theresienstadt; some of And there is great demand to continue the exhibition in the USA. them even returned after The story of ghetto Theresienstadt evokes much interest there, in the summer seminar to many places. During the week the exhibition opened there were the protest tents at at least four more events connected to Theresienstadt. Rothschild boulevard. The above mentioned events were very important, but in one There was another, area we did not succeed: renewal of your membership, you, the very important high readers of this newsletter. The membership dues are today not point – the moment I the main source of our operating budget but they are also a sign got a phone call from of your appreciation of our efforts to achieve the main aim – to Idit Amihai, director of tell the story of ghetto Theresienstadt, everywhere, to all who the Museum’s Department, who told me that Beit Terezin was are ready to listen. officially recognized as an Israeli museum. It was very difficult to get this recognition. The last time a museum got it was in 2009 Please do not postpone it, do not wait for an occasion – just and since then only we received this recognition. renew your membership, now, in whatever way. I know this from But there was more. We have no words to thank the family of Eliezer my own experience – I, too, was a member, and if I did not do Olenik, who founded an outstanding company for infrastructure. something on the spot I forgot it. Please note the events for the He is a Holocaust survivor who lost his entire family, parents and coming months – the work is going on without letting off! seven siblings. His children donated the whole reconstruction of Yours, Oded Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association Newsletter 3 NEWS FROM BEIT THERESIENSTADT Inter-Generational Meeting – Hanukkah 2011 he lighting of the second Hanukkah candle at the dining room are the members of Kibbutz Givat Hayim Ihud was held with participation of of the “Beth abt.T 150 of our members and guests who came for an inter- El” community generational meeting – first to fourth generations. from Zikhron Ya'akov that had The meeting consisted of three parts: contributed for The first – lighting the second candle by Achim Begiansky, a the publication קמילה boy in the ghetto who survived, he was in the transport to of the book. The Switzerland on February 19, 1945. director of Beit Terezin Oded The second – an extraordinary general meeting of our association Breda thanked chaired by Prof. Eli Lawental, our chairman. The meeting decided all those who to add to the articles of the association the word “museum” in participated in the the list of our activities; this completes the steps necessary for project and the previous director Anita Tarsi who edited and Beit Terezin to be acknowledged officially as a museum.Oded produced the book. Anita related on her research about old Breda reported on the activities of Beit Terezin in 2011. people in ghetto Theresienstadt. The academic consultant of Beit Terezin, Dr. Margalit Shlain, described her work on the The third and main part – launching diary, especially regarding Austrian Jewry; Ruthie and Miriam told טרזיינשטאט the new book “Yomana shel the participants about the process they went through preparing יומנה של קמילה הירש Camilla Hirsch” [Camilla Hirsch’s the book and researching the family’s roots. The audience was diary, Hebrew], published by Beit moved hearing that Camilla Hirsch left the ghetto on the train Terezin. The event was attended by to Switzerland and on the same train were Achim Begiansky, the families of Ruth Elkabetz and Tsvi Cohen and Eva Eben - all three present at the event. ,Miriam Prager, both nee Wolf and Pavel Korn and his dauhgter played and sang Hanukkah songs עורכת: אניטה טרסי their guests. Especially noteworthy volunteering, as always. ”Whole Fractures” – Study Day in Honor of Ruth Bondy year ago the team of Beit Theresienstadt decided to their acquaintance and common work with Ruth. Finally, the organize an event in honor of Ruth Bondy and her life’s journalist Tally Bashan spoke about being a member of the work.A Ruth Bondy was one of the founders of Beit Terezin and second generation after the Holocaust, but at the same time is actively working for it until today.
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