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RABBI HILLEL SKOLNIK’S MESSAGE

Dear SOJC,

Every year when the spring comes, it brings with it the hopes of new ideas, new dreams and new possibilities. Of course living in Florida the Shabbat / Holiday Services winter actually feels like spring, but nevertheless, this time of year gives us Sat. Morning, Mar. 1 - 9:30 AM the chance to look ahead to summer vacation, summer travels and summer Fri. Night, Mar. 7 - 7:30 PM smiles. It is a season of looking forward and dreaming about the good Sat. Morning, Mar. 8 - 9:30 AM things in our lives that are yet to come. This particular spring there is much Fri. Night, Mar. 14 - 7:30 PM dreaming taking place as we look ahead to the future of our congregation. Sat. Morning, Mar. 15 - 9:30 AM For those who may not know, after holding our annual elections, the new PURIM Family Friendly Services Board of Directors elected a new president to lead our congregation, Cheryl Sat. night - Mar. 15 - 8:30 PM Nathan-Weiner. Cheryl has been an active member and Board of Directors Sun. morning - Mar. 16 - 10:30 AM member for a number of years and has spent many, many hours working Fri. Night, Mar. 21 - 7:30 PM behind the scenes to help make our congregation run smoothly. We wish Sat. Morning, Mar. 22 - 9:30 AM Cheryl Mazal Tov and look forward to her leadership in this new position. In Fri. Night, Mar.28 - 7:30 PM this moment we also take a moment to thank from the bottom of our hearts Sat. Morning, Mar. 29 - 9:30 AM and overwhelmingly acknowledge the incredible work that has been done by Fri. Night, Apr. 4 - 7:30 PM our now immediate past-President Michele Fischer, who worked tirelessly to Sat. Morning, Apr. 5 - 9:30 AM see all of our dreams realized. Not to worry, Michele will continue to be part Fri. Night, Apr. 11 - 7:30 PM of the Board of Directors serving as co-Financial Secretary and will continue Sat. Morning, Apr. 12 - 9:30 AM to be an integral part of our leadership structure including managing the PASSOVER Services SOJC office. To celebrate these two wonderful women and to officially install Tues. Apr. 15 - 9:30 AM - Day 1 the new Board of Directors and President, the entire Board of Directors will Wed. Apr.16 - 9:30 AM - Day 2 called up for an together on a date that will soon be determined. I Fri. Apr. 18 - 7:30 PM hope you’ll join us for that special moment and for a special Kiddush that will Sat. Apr. 19 - 9:30 AM follow. Mon. Apr. 21 - 9:30 AM - Day 7 As we begin March this year, we also look forward to one of everyone’s Tues., Apr. 22 - 9:30 AM - Day 8, favorite holidays, Purim!! And let’s be honest…who doesn’t enjoy a including Yizkor holiday where we are encouraged to dress in costumes and make noise Fri. Night, Apr. 25 - 7:30 PM during services? Our celebration of Purim this year is going to be extra Sat. Morning, Apr. 26 - 9:30 AM special as it will include the premiere of this year’s Purim Schpiel, “That’s Esthertainment!” I invite you all to join us for this wonderful performance

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which will be on Sunday, March 9. Doors open at 12:45 pm and the curtain goes up at 1 pm. Tickets for the show are $5 per person with a family max of $15. If anyone is interested and/or hungry, we will have a pizza lunch available beginning at 12 pm (immediately following Religious School) which will also be $5 per person and includes two slices of pizza, one drink and one piece of fruit. I hope you’ll join us for the show and the rare opportunity to see members of SOJC take to the stage! Just a few days later, we get to celebrate Purim which begins on Saturday evening March 15th and continues on the 16th. Due to an unusual confluence of events including a Jewish leap year, the changing of the clocks and Purim falling on a Saturday night into Sunday, services on Saturday evening will begin at 8:30 pm. I understand that is a late starting time for a holiday designed for young children, but Purim cannot start until Shabbat is over, so 8:30 pm it is. Despite the late starting time, it will still be a festive service for families of all ages with costumes, groggers, a full reading of the Book of Ester, and ice cream social afterwards. Since it is such a late starting time, on Sunday morning, as part of Religious School, we will have a second family friendly Purim service with a partial reading of the Book of Ester, more groggers and more costumes beginning at 10:30 am. Parents are strongly encouraged to attend with their Religious School student, children not in Religious School and of course families without children in the Religious School are encouraged to attend as well. Those services will lead directly into the last part of our Purim celebration…the Purim Carnival!!!!!!!!! We are super excited about all of the fun games and prizes we will have this year. Bracelets – which will give you unlimited access to all games and fun – cost $20 in advance and $25 at the door. We also will be in need of parent volunteers so please let us know if you can help out at the Purim Carnival. Since this is the March and April issue, it would be wrong to not mention that barely four weeks after Purim comes Passover, which this year begins on Monday night, April 14. Please be on the lookout for announcements regarding service times over Passover as well as information on how to order Kosher for Passover food from “Pesach in Style.” It promises to be an exciting and festive two months!

Sincerely, Hillel Skolnik When Purim Is Here.... Passover is not far behind. Hag Sameach!

SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 3 SOJC PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE I am honored to have been chosen to serve as President of SOJC. Our newly elected Board boasts many new members with a variety of new ideas that will help to better serve the needs of our SOJC family. We also have several long-standing members who serve to remind us of our history and our roots. This coming year it is my goal to continue Michele Fischer’s legacy to meld the old with the new and continue to grow our SOJC family into a place where all feel welcomed and part of our family. I am also honored to share this year and everything we will accomplish with an outstanding group of members who compose the 2014 Board of Directors. These are people with passion and eagerness for SOJC’s continued successes and growth. Cheryl Nathan-Weiner President SOJC 2014 SOJC Board of Directors

President - Cheryl Nathan-Weiner Directors 1st Vice President - Vivian Kerstein Aileen Schaked 2nd Vice President - Jeff Sikora Ed Bromberg 3rd Vice President - Brett Spector Jeffrey Pasler Treasurer - Karla Salvatierra Joe Jamoom Financial Secretary - Michele Fischer/Shelly Blatt Larry Wolfman Recording Secretary - Ben Bolusky Lynell Medel Past President - Michele Fischer Michael Goldberg Yehoshua Saenz

As I told the Board when they asked me how I felt after being elected, I have large shoes to fill but a clear path to follow. I want to thank Michele Fischer for four years of exemplary leadership and true dedication. In 2010, when Michele was elected President, she became the only sitting SOJC president with no financial parachute and a loan that would come due during her presidency. In addition, the social hall roof began to leak, all five air conditioners stopped working and above all else she was determined to hire a Rabbi before the end of her first year as president. These challenges only made Michele more determined to make it all work. She dug in her heels and with her guidance we hired Rabbi Skolnik when many around her said we couldn’t afford to. She had all five air conditioners replaced and had the roof repaired. This past year she received donations toward new flooring and to top it all off, she repaid the loan before we had to refinance again and worked with Rabbi Skolnik to renew his contract for five more years! Michele works tirelessly in the SOJC office with a smile and an answer for all who come with their many questions. She heads the Fundraising committee and the Building and Grounds committee. Michele is truly the face of SOJC. She and her family are fixtures at our Shabbat services on Friday night and she and her husband Jeff provide the wonderful desserts that are served (which they will continue to do for the next year in case you wondered!). What a legacy to leave. Thank you Michele! Moving on to the year ahead, the Board would like to encourage each and every one of you to join a committee this year. Be a part of what is happening at SOJC and make a difference. As we enter the season of spring and the Pesach holiday, I wish all of you, my SOJC family, a healthy, joyous and fruitful holiday.

Sincerely, Cheryl Nathan-Weiner

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Thank You For Your Support SOJC GENERAL FUND Faith, Ella, and Les Slesnick in honor of Gordon (Dutchie) Kotzin for being selected as one of the “8 Over 80” honorees Mercedes Mendez Geraldine Bolusky in memory of Renee Bolusky Ben, Rachel and Jenna in memory of Renee Bolusky Vivian Kerstein in memory of her father, Leornard Kerstein Vivian Kerstein in memory of Rich Waldor’s mother, Alice Waldor Carol Hauser in memory of Marvin Stuart Kerzner Ruth Siegel in honor of Jenna Jacobson’s Bat Mitzvah

CLERGY DISCRETIONARY FUND Susan Meshover in memory of Philip Cohen Jeff Rosen in memory of Philip Rosen Sara Schlossman in memory of her mom, Catherine Schlossman Sara Schlossman in memory of Burton Schlossman Marion Silkes in memory of Grete Munk Yvonne Bleecker in memory of Ruth Bleecker

SOJC BEAUTIFICATION FUND Charlotte Wasser in memory of Karen Gelade’s brother, Marvin A. Kerzman Charlotte Wasser in memory of Bertha Ziswasser Gerald and Ilene Spear in honor of Nathan Spear’s Bar Mitzvah Isabel Goldman, mother of Talli Tischer, in honor of Nathan Spear’s Bar Mitzvah

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SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 7 SOJC – Dates to Remember EVERY WEEK: Sat 12:30 p.m. “As the Torah Turns” Parshah discussion w/ Mary Roufa Rabbi Skolnik will be teaching a Conversion Class at SOJC. MARCH & APRIL EVENTS: Class will meet on Wednesday, weekly Sun., Mar. 2 - 6 p.m. - SOJC Night at Orlando Magic Game when there is religious school (through Wed. Mar. 5 - 7 p.m. - Choir Rehearsal Mar. 19, 2014) – 7:30 pm Wed. Mar. 5 - 7:30 p.m - Conversion Class If you, or someone Sun, Mar 9 - 12:15 p.m. - Pizza Lunch you know, is interested, Sun. Mar 9 -12:30 p.m. - Purim Schpiel please get in touch with Tues. Mar. 11 - 7:30 p.m - “Time for Text” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Rabbi Skolnik for more details. Wed. Mar. 12 - 7:30 p.m - Conversion Class Sat. Mar. 15 - 8:30 p.m. - Family Friendly Purim Services & Ice Cream Social Sun. Mar. 16 - 12 p.m. - Purim Carnival Rabbi Hillel Skolnik will be teaching Wed. Mar. 19 - 7 p.m. - Choir Rehearsal “ 101 - Peseach” Tues. Mar. 18 - 7:30 p.m - “Time for Text” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Sunday, 9:15 AM – April 6 Wed. Mar. 19 - 7:30 p.m - Conversion Class Sat. Mar. 22 - 9:30 a.m. - Hunter Magen Bar Mitzvah Tues. Mar. 25 - 7:30 p.m - “Time for Text” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Wed. Mar. 26 - 7 p.m. - Choir Rehearsal Tues. Apr. 1 - 7:30 p.m - “Time for Text” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Rabbi Skolnik will be teaching Wed. Apr. 2 - 7 p.m. - Choir Rehearsal “Time for Text: Joshua” Thurs. Apr. 3 - 7:30 p.m - “The ABCs of Passover” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Class will meet on Tuesday Evenings Sun. Apr. 6 - 12:15 p.m. - Chalutzim Meeting at 7:30 pm. Beginning March 11, 18 & Tues. Apr. 8 - 7:30 p.m - “Time for Text” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik 25 and April 1 & 8. Sat. Apr. 26 - 9:30 a.m. - Amanda Bechor’s Bat Mitzvah Sun. Apr 27 - 11 a.m. - Yom HaShoah Commemoration Wed. Apr. 30 - 7 p.m. - Choir Rehearsal

For more information, including the most up-to-date calendar, visit us at: www.sojc.org SPONSOR a Friday Night Oneg or Saturday Kiddush for $36 to commemorate a momentous occasion, BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES, BIRTHS, GRADUATIONS, ETC.

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Arts and Crafts

Merchants Corner Food

Costume Contest Face Painting

Prizes Silent Auction Carnival Games Baskets Popcorn

March 16th Snow Cones 12 noon - 2pm Tickets Includes carnival games activities and child lunch Obstacle Course $20.00 in advance My Gym $25.00 day of Carnival

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SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 10 SOJC Yom HaShoah Commemoration April 27, 11 AM

Join us for a Yom Hashoah Commemoration to remember those who perished in .

We will be interviewing Herman Gluck, Holocaust Survivor, and will have a time of remembrance. All SOJC members and non-members are welcome.

Herman, age 5, front and center, with his family pre-WWII. Read more about Herman Gluck at www.sojc.org/HolocaustMemorial/stories/Herman_Gluck

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“SOJC Knowledge College”– Lifelong Learning March -- April 2014 Schedule SOJC’s Knowledge College continues with an exciting variety of lifelong Jewish learning opportunities!

“The ABCs of Jewish Holidays” series with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Purim – Thursday, March 6: 7:30 PM Pesach – Thursday, April 3: 7:30 PM Join Rabbi Hillel Skolnik for a discussion of the meanings and rituals of the Jewish holidays throughout the year. Our spring session will include Purim, Pesach and Shavuot. No prior knowledge about the holidays is required.

“Time for Text” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik: Joshua Tuesday, 7:30 PM – March 11, 18 and 25, and April 1 and 8 This semester we will be returning to the beginning of the Prophets to study the Book of Joshua. After the death of Moshe, Joshua is tasked with leading the Israelites into the promised land, conquering it, and dividing it up amongst the tribes. Join us as we celebrate Joshua’s triumphs and understand his shortcomings.

“Judaism 101” with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik: Pesach Sunday, April 6: 9:15 AM Join Rabbi Hillel Skolnik for this every-other-month opportunity to discuss basic Jewish concepts, learn about an upcoming Jewish holiday, and explore our tradition in an informal setting which is accessible to people of all backgrounds.

“Hebrew for Advanced Beginners: An Exploration in Hebrew and English of the Teachings of the Sages (Pirkei Avot)” with Rich Waldor Sundays, 9:15 AM – April 27, and May 11 and 18 Designed for beginning Hebrew learners, the class will use Pirkei Avot, a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims of the of the Mishnaic period, to practice reading in Hebrew, work on strengthening vocabulary, and discuss ancient writings (in English) in a group setting. Join us for a lively discussion of a traditional Jewish text and an opportunity to improve your knowledge of Hebrew.

“As the Torah Turns” with Mary Roufa Saturdays after Shabbat services Mary Roufa leads a lively discussion of the parashah, the weekly Torah portion, Saturdays after Shabbat services. This is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the Hebrew Bible and to explore its meaning in a relaxed, conversational setting.

Conversion Class with Rabbi Hillel Skolnik Wednesdays at 7:30 PM when there is religious school (through March 26) Under the guidance of Rabbi Hillel Skolnik, SOJC’s class for those interested in converting to Judaism will continue meeting every Wednesday evening through March 26 (when there is religious school) and will learn about the foundational beliefs of Judaism, take a trip through the Hebrew Bible, explore our history, discover Jewish tradition and learn to read Hebrew. For more information, contact Rabbi Skolnik directly by email – [email protected] - or by phone – 407-239-5444.

For more information about SOJC’s Knowledge College programs, please contact: Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation (SOJC) 11200 South Apopka Vineland Road Orlando, FL 32836 Tel. (407) 239-5444

SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 12 SOJC – Education Station A head’s up to parents, these next two months are full of school activity! Between Grade Shabbatot for 2-5, Purim services, the Purim carnival, spring break, the Chocolate Seder on Super Wednesday, and Pesach break, there’s much to keep track of so be on your toes. There are plenty of family activities around Purim and I encourage you to take advantage of all of them this year, including the Purim Schpiel (a fun and funny parody of the Purim story), the Purim Family service, and the Purim Carnival (right after the Purim Family Service). If you would like to volunteer for some aspect of the Purim Carnival, please speak to Robert Moszenberg any day either before school begins or at dismissal. We always need volunteers, so get invovlved! When your child’s grade has a Grade Shabbat, please make a point to attend! We pride ourselves at SOJC for having a strong youth engagement in worship services. But your child won’t benefit from that nurturing environment unless they attend regularly. When we teach tefillah (prayer) beginning in Kindergarten we are endeavoring to give your child a familiarity with the service so that they Cantor Doug Ramsay can participate and feel like a part of a greater whole. We can’t accomplish that with school alone. You must be our willing partner. Please take time from your busy schedule and at least start Shabbat with the prayer of peace and rest that is Friday Night Services. You’ll be pleasantly surprised and you’ll get to know other parents as well. We have two week-long breaks coming up (because why would the counties coordinate their calendars with Passover and Easter? Blah!), and in between them is our Super Wednesday! This is a Wednesday day of school for ALL GRADES so that we can come together for the Chocolate Seder. For parents concerned about their students coming home sick from chocolate (its happened in a few circumstances) we will be substituting more chocolate covered items to step back from the brink. Parents please remember to come into the rear of the Sanctuary to retrieve your students at the end of Religious School (both on Wed and Sunday) and leave the Sanctuary (with your child) by the side door of the Sanctuary. Teachers must maintain control of where your child is and who they are transferring responsibility to at the end of school. This is for your child’s safety, liability, and your peace of mind. Remember that you can always download registration forms, volunteer forms, a School Calendar at a Glance page and view the most up-to-date Calendar at our website: www.sojc.org Here is our busy schedule 3/2/14 9:00am Religious School for Grades PK-7 3/30/14 7:30pm NO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 3/5/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades 3-HS 4/2/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades 3-HS 3/7/14 7:30pm 2nd & 3rd Grade Shabbat: Friday 4/6/14 9:00am Religious School for Grades PK-7 Night services led by Grades 2-3 4/9/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades PK-7: 3/9/14 9:00am Religious School for Grades PK-7 Super Wednesday, Chocolate Seder 1:00pm Purim Schpiel-That’s Esthertainment! 4/13/14 9:00am NO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 3/12/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades 3-HS 4/16/14 5:30pm NO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 3/16/14 9:00am Religious School for Grades PK-7 4/20/14 9:00am NO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 10:30am Family Purim Service 4/23/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades 3-HS 12:00pm PURIM CARNIVAL 4/27/14 9:00am Religious School for Grades PK-7 3/19/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades 3-HS 4/30/14 5:30pm Religious School for Grades 3-HS 3/23/14 9:00am NO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL 5/2/14 7:30pm 4th & 5th Grade Shabbat: Friday Night 3/26/14 5:30pm NO RELIGIOUS SCHOOL services led by Grades 4-5

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Hunter Magen will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, March 22, 2014

All about Hunter Magen Hunter Magen, son of Eli Magen, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Hunter is currently in 7th grade at Gotha Middle School.

Hunter enjoys basketball, guitar, playing video games and hanging with his friends. He is a member of SOJUSY and several basketball leagues.

Sharing in the family’s simcha will be aunts and uncles from Ohio and Tampa, and speacil family members Lorri, Mitchell, Lance and Marc Levine.

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Amanda Bechor will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, April 26, 2014

All about Amanda Bechor

Amanda Bechor, daughter of Sheryl Michele Miller Bechor and Yaron Bechor, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Amanda is currently in 7th grade at Hunters Creek Middle School where she is a member of the Orchestra and enrolled in the Dual Language Enrichment Program. She is also a member of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Florida.

Amanda enjoys playing the piano and violin, and listening to her favorite band, The Ready Set. She also likes to hang out with her friends and watch TV. Her favorite shows are Supernatural, Friends and Nashville.

Sharing in the family’s simcha will be her sister and brother, Susie and Matthew Bechor, Great Grandma Rita Rodman of Orlando, Grandparents Malvina and Sasson Bechor of Atlanta, Georgia, and Cousins Aimee, Michael, Joshua, and Jacob Kesten of Orlando.

She will be working with Spring Hill Retirement Community to work on events for her Bat Mitzvah Project. She choose to do this for her Bat Mitzvah project because her parsha is all about helping and supporting the elderly. Amanda is interested in Interior Design wants someday to be an Interior Designer.

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In January and February Gabe Klavans, Cubby Rubenstein, Chad Sikora, Matthew Jamoom, Stix Rubenstein, Matthew Marsel, Nathan Spear, and Grant Sikora, all chanted from the Torah beautifully. Rebecca Lubin, Matthew Jamoom, Cubby Rubenstein, Gabe Klavans, Chad Sikora, Helena Cooper, Stix Rubenstein, Nathan Spear, Rebecca Goldberg, and Grant Sikora all led Shabbat services with confidence and skill. Please support our spring fundraiser for next summer’s CC trip to Boston! We will need additional resources to make this dream experience happen, so your generous contributions to our All Natural Car Wash are greatly appreciated. Buy a ticket from a Cantorial Corps member and leave your car outside waiting for the first rain. It’s that simple! No date to remember, no harsh chemicals, no lines, and no fuss. All for the modest cost of a donation to a worthy cause! Mazel tov and yesher koach to Chad Sikora on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah. We look forward to you continuing your participation in our Shabbat services in the future. Am shalom v’shir, Cantor Doug Ramsay

Here’s our schedule: Sunday, March 6 12:15pm CC Meeting-3 Scoops if by Air!

TORAH TEAM

This January and February Emily Lubin, Shira Spector, Yvonne Bleecker, and Cheryl Weiner chanted from the Torah with skill and grace. Mel Marsel, Dan Rubenstein, Ed Bromberg, and Mark Silverstein all chanted their Haftarot beautifully. Mel Marsel and Ed Bromberg also assisted in leading services on Shabbat mornings. These adult Laypeople are an inspiration to us all. Some of them have honed their skills all their lives, but most have come to their mastery of these skills during adulthood and continue to practice these skills in service to our synagogue. If you would like to learn, or want to get on the list to read Torah, Haftarah or to lead a service, or if you just want more info, e-mail me at [email protected]. It’s a mitzvah, it’s uplifting, and it’s a wonderful experience!

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In January, over 20 SOJUSY members enthusiastically lead Friday Night Services after enjoying a pizza dinner. SOJUSY January Event – Pizza Party The SOJUSY kids had an incredible time at Yom Disney 2014! SOJUSY March and April Events No events are planned at this time. SOJUSY May Event Sunday, May 4 – Car Wash Fundraiser Chalutzim April Event Sunday, April 6 at 12:15pm - details to be sent out via email • The 2013-2014 YOUTH Calendar can be found at www.sojc.org/youth/. • Stay tuned to Facebook (www.facebook.com/groups/SOJUSY/) and look for future emails.

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past for the future THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL at Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation

connecting the will be represented at the Jewish Heritage Festival in Daytona Beach, Sunday, April 6, 2014, 11AM-5PM. Festival Venue: News Journal Center 221 North Beach St. Daytona Beach, FL 32114

For those who are intersted in going to the festival, we hope to set up some carpools to the event. Please contact the synagogue and leave a message if you want to get a ride or can provide transportation. From the Festival Website: www.jewishheritagefestival.com/

The Jewish Heritage Festival Committee is already hard at work planning the 2014 Festival. Our first three extremely successful Festivals have made the JHF a staple of our Community and a greatly anticipated event. We continue to look for people who want to join the planning Committee or one of our subcommittees in your area of interest or expertise. We are also seeking additional Corporate Sponsors. If your business would like to be associated with this great project please contact us. For further information, please call the Festival at 386-316-3626. And remember to “Like” and “Share” the Festival on Facebook.

Jeffrey Bigman, Chair

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Be Part of the legacy . . . Be a charter sponsor

Donate now and fill the plaque next to the memorial with your name, your company’s name or name of someone you want to honor or be remembered as Charter Sponsors of the Holocaust Memorial.

____World Peace supporter $504

____Future Generations supporter $306

____Never Forget supporter $108

____encourage Tolerance supporter $72

____story supporter $36

In keeping with the living memorial concept, the amounts are in multiples of 18, or Chai (Life).

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“My father returned from “My mother was a different story. Auschwitz before my mother. She was beaten down by her Ruth Klüger HENRI LANDWIRTH He found their house experience and the Jack Gluck Hungarian Holocaust survivor Jack Gluck’s “Well, I hadn’t ever been on a big train, … Sophie’s Identity ransacked but these loss of both her sons, The Bear “Refugee” it was evening,…when my dad … took us to Holocaust Survivor Laura, Sophie’s mother, escaped the with “When the newspapers reported of , testimony is very touching as he recounts the (the ketuba and tanaim) parents, sisters, brothers, the station. And the station was fairly filled For over 50 years Sophie held on “Night of Broken Glass,” most could not believe many miracles that saved his life and the lives were in the middle of nieces and nephews - Sophie Turner-Zaretsky Sophie to Krakow. This began the hiding under false with many—obviously parents, with their to the bear that she had received it, but I was aware of the very same pattern of of his family members. Jack was two years old the floor and he took everyone. She walked home identities. Sophie, only 5, was named Zofia and children. There was so much talking, you as a little girl. It was with her behavior being a prelude to hostilities and hatred when his family was liberated by the Russians that as a sign that my from the camp and swore her mother Bronislawa Tymejko, posing as Polish know, between them, and tension, and the when she was Zofia, a Catholic in and began inquiring about emigration to the USA mother would return. that she was done with Catholics, was hired by the SS Commander in the from a Jewish safe house established by Raoul Henri’s Parents–Fanny and Max smell of the smoke from the engine. And then where I began citizenship procedures for my He cleaned the house, everything Jewish. When ; it was with her when she Wallenberg. They had lived there after Raoul From the Krakow ghetto, his father, Max, as the time grew a little shorter, I actually resort town of Busko-Zdroj. Have light eyes and set up a kosher kitchen she got home, she found grew up in ; and it was family.” gave them Schutz passes at the railway station in was taken to a prison called Radom and think I saw somebody, a woman. She could blond hair few suspected Sophie was Jewish and her and started rebuilding his the house ready for her and with her when she moved to the Budapest, enabling them to be seen as Swedish not—when her child was about to get on the identity was hidden from her as a child. She grew up then to the killing fields along with other hardware store connections to get product her husband with his determination to “I became even more religious and dedicated to Elisabeth N. Dixon train, she couldn’t let her go. She got her to begin a new life citizens. Jack expresses his deep gratitude for prisoners and shot dead. His mother, Fanny, and reopen. At my father’s funeral, survivors rebuild their lives and she said that she hating and after the war, they went to relatives my faith and raised my family orthodox. The grief Holocaust Survivor through the window, and she said, “I can’t yet again. The bear was a silent the many righteous Christians who hid and was moved to the Plaszow labor camp and told the story that they returned to find him just started going through the motions. Born: May 21, 1928 in in England when her mother told Sophie she was and disbelief of losing our entire extended family Holocaust Survivor let you go. My dad must have felt just as bad witness to the miracle of Sophie’s aided his family from April 1944 on, knowing survived, only to be killed in a boat filled hammering and trying to rebuild the shul Eventually, she was able to reconnect Name at Birth: Jewish. Sophie had a breakdown but eventually was unbelievable.” Founder of 6 Philanthropic Alice Leopoldine Franziska as she did, but he had the love to let us go.” rescue, rebirth, and success. that if they were caught, they would be shot. with women that was blown up by the singlehandedly. The men picked up both with her life and with Judaism.” learned about Judaism and embraced it. Pincus Vogel Organizations Nazis at the end of the war. tools and started to help.” The arrival of Jews at the Terezin Holocaust Survivor (Theresienstadt) Ghetto, near Prague

Living as a Refugee Jews lining up in front of the List of his Philanthropic Organizations Sophie’s The Space Shuttle “Glass House” during World War II Raoul Wallenberg Henri with his twin sister, Margot. “Finally we realized that it was time for the train Ruth Klüger wrote an account to obtain protective exit visas. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky was born as grandparents • The Fanny Landwirth Foundation to go, and they started shouting. So then there Discovery Pincus became a naturalized US citizen in 1909, Raoul Wallenberg, Für Das Kind Selma Schwarzwald in Lvov, Poland Josef and Mina of her remarkable wartime was a lot of crying and a lot of hugging, and Westbahnhof Station In December 2006, Space Shuttle Discovery secured passports for his wife, Gusti Pauker a Swedish diplomat Vienna, 2008 on September 2, 1937 to Daniel and Litwak experiences to share with a few assigned to Sweden’s • The Mercury 7 Foundation some of the children didn’t want to go. It was one Commander Mark Polansky took a replica of “Refugee” Vogel and his two daughters to return to the U.S.A. Laura. Her parents were educated friends. Today, her story of growing embassy in Budapest, of the last trains to get refugees out of Vienna. with him on the shuttle’s mission. The Commander They left just weeks before the Polish ghetto was and had a successful business Story about Sophie’s Father Thousands of Jews were murdered or sent into forced led one of the most Polansky visited the US Holocaust Museum and met up Jewish during the Holocaust created. They pleaded with family to accept extensive and • Give Kids The World (GKTW) Then the last thing—and then the train started Collections highlight: Selma Schwarzwald exporting lumber. On June 30, 1941 labor at nearby Janowska camp. Later in 1942 they were continues to resonate with sponsorship and leave before falling under Nazi successful rescue Mary Roufa, member to move, slowly at first, of course. So he walked Sophie Turner-Zaretsky on February 27, 2007.. the Germans entered Lvov and their and her bear, "Refugee"deported — ID to theCard Belzec. Sophie’s occupation but they insisted that the hostilities efforts during the • Dignity-U-Wear of SOJC, was born along with us on the platform, and as the train countless people worldwide. lives changed forever. Her family, grandparents Joseph and Mina Litwak died there. “Although we can send people into space, we were just a temporary misunderstanding and Holocaust. He protected after WWII ended. Both of her parents hurried more, he hurried more. He was running, About GKTW grandparents, aunts, and uncle were still can’t seem to stop them from hating and would soon pass. tens of thousands of • Memories Of Love survived Auschwitz and reunited back finally. And he said—he sort of called back a tribute to the Hungarian Jews from killing one another. A child’s stuffed toy from Pincus and his wife Gustie lived a pious life in the in their home, having lost their two to Hans and me. He said, “Gewährt Sie dem British people for forced into the ghetto. Trying to get Pincus’ Naturalization Papers deportation to the saving the lives USA until his death in 1976 and her death in 1989. Kleinen.” He meant, “Take care of the little one.” of thousands of out with false papers at the Jewish the Holocaust and a photograph of a refugee April 9, 1909 Auschwitz-Birkenau • Gift Of Life In America Foundation boys and other family members. children from Nazi The Holocaust strengthened his faith in the hope That was me. And then the train just hurried out, terror through the council, Daniel was shot and killed from the genocide today in Darfur remind us the killing center. and he was gone.” . by the Germans. lessons of the Holocaust have yet to be learned.” that the world would recognize injustice. • Heart Of America Foundation About Janowska About Belzec Children deported from Theresienstadt Sophie’s parents Laura and Daniel SchwarzwaldDaniel Schwarzwald Labor Camp Pincus Vogel Born: Byelts, Poland to Auschwitz November 1, 1901 Ruth Klüger Wikipedia Daniel, usually known as Danek, was one of three children born to Raphael and Amalia Schwarzwald, a Jewish couple living in a village near Lvov. When he was a young boy, his family moved to Lvov, where he went on to attend secondary school and a business college. Daniel opened a lumber export business. He traveled extensively and could speak Polish, German, Russian, and English. 1933-39: Business prospered and in 1935 Daniel married Laura Litwak and settled in an apartment in a Christian section of Lvov. But war loomed and industrial Lvov was coveted by both the Germans and Soviets. Daniel wanted to emigrate to Britain, where he had business contacts. But his wife, who was pregnant, did not want to abandon her parents. In September 1939 the Soviets occupied Lvov and Daniel's ketubah business was expropriated. Schutz-Pass sample A is a special type of 1940-42: After the Germans occupied Lvov in 1941, the Schwarzwalds were forced into the Lvov ghetto. With his remaining money Daniel bought false "Polish Catholic" ID cards for his family. Polish friends Jewish prenuptial agreement promised to help them in case anything happened to him. One day, while he was at the Jewish council Speaking of a non-Jewish friend of her “So it happened on that blustery winter night, offices, soldiers surrounded the building and ordered everyone out--someone had killed a drunken German. In September 1942 Ruth and her mother “Henri had lived in hell. He considered an integral part of a Hans Knight People were shot as they left, so Daniel tried to save himself by jumpingNye, from aFrance, window. 1941. Sylvia and her parents At only six months old, her family was forced to “To this day we have found no surviving relatives father’s Elisabeth said, “so he decided Nichtenhauser I became a refugee. I found myself on a boat As Daniel jumped from the window that Tuesday, September 1, 1942, he was shot by the Germans. He was were forced to leave Vienna on one of the had seen the worst humanity traditional Jewish marriage. 41 years old. leave Belgium and fled to . In the summer from Poland. I have never been able to forgive the It outlines the rights to volunteer for one of the Nazi things Brother of Elisabeth crossing the English Channel, clutching my little Sylvia last transports to Theresienstadt, a ghetto in Dixon of 1942 with her father ill, the Vichy police Germans for the horrible losses of family, culture, had to offer and yet he chose and responsibilities of sister Lilly’s (Elisabeth’s) hand. There were some 40 (military branches). He thought that if he Born: April 25, 1923 arrested her mother, her sisters and her and northwestern Czechoslovakia. and the enduring prejudice that is their legacy Vienna, kids, huddled together under damp blankets. We The Raoul Wallenberg exhibition at the to answer with the best. Where the groom, in relation showed the rest of the people that you Ruth shipped them to the Rivesaltes camp. The majority of transports from Theresienstadt to the bride. could smell the heavy, salty air that seemed to press although I understand that they were misguided House of Sweden in Washington, D.C. there was abundant reason for can do that (be with Jews as friends) and In his narrative called “The were bound for Auschwitz, and in May 1944 and manipulated.” Man in the Trench Coat”, on down upon us in our makeshift cabins. Few of us Gutmann still live and be a decent person. … he mother and daughter were among the prisoners anger, hate, and bitterness there Tanaim or tannaim are literally how he became a writer, he would ever see our parents again, but we didn’t Born in Antwerp, Belgium Vogel Family 1969 “The ugliness and hatred of prejudice must never “conditions.” Originally signing had a red convertible. … And he drove us wrote about his young years know that at the time. As children will, we thought to parents Nathan and deported. After escaping the death march in was only love, forgiveness, joy, Malcha Gutmann. Sylvia, this was a separate ceremony that through the town, waving to everybody. in Austria, the Nazi takeover, of our escape as a great adventure. I imagined February, Ruth and her mother joined the flow of be tolerated and we must not enable such actions LOVE & HATE the youngest of 3 sisters, to go unchallenged. Education and understanding and – yes – gratitude.” served as a formal announcement …he was proved wrong, because the next and his escape to Britain. I was Long John Silver sailing to Treasure Island. survived through an refugees from the East into , obtained The Story of of the engagement. Now, only a Perhaps, too, I sensed that there was indeed a underground network Gustie and Pincus is ultimately the best long-term weapon against thing we knew, he’d vanished.” identity cards and settled in Straubing (Bavaria) Henri Landwirth that hid the children until 1969 bigotry and we must assist the victims of bigotry formality, a tannaim contract is treasure awaiting us in England: our freedom.” until their emigration to the United States in - Bill Halamandaris by Bill Halamandaris signed and read aloud prior to the the war ended. Ruth Klüger wherever we see it.” Badeken or veiling of the bride. reads Still Alive October 1947. Sisters, Adele and Sally

Grauel sailed aboard the famed illegal refugee John Stanley Grauel (1917 – September 1986) running ship the on March 23, 1947. The FamiliesFamiliesFamilies Deported Deported Deported PrisonersPrisonersPrisoners in incamp incamp camp He who saves a It was a small boat that took them to , Lucille Eichengreen, was a Methodist minister and American placed him aboard under the cover of a Ernest was one of three children born Eliane Norman/Meyer September 1942. Children saved at Rivesaltes by Lisl Hanau. Drancy, 1999 of Polish nationalty, was born as “It was very frightening, to see a Deblin, 1939 Deblin Ghetto 1942 single life is as in in 1942. Her mom couldn’t bring single life is as Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member foreign correspondent for the Episcopal journal, to a Jewish family in the city of Breslau, Sylvie (bottom left), Rita (2nd row, 3rd from left), Susi (back row, 5th On Sylvia’s Blog: Sylvia visited Drancy. Cecelia Landau synagogue burning, to see people much money with them, but she hid gold in her He was 4 years old ifif hehe hashas savedsaved of the famed refugee ship the SS Exodus-1947 The Churchman. He organized and transferred Germany. His father owned a factory Eliane Norman/Meyer was from right), and 18-year-old Lisl Hanau, our rescuer (half visible, far left). “To this day, I do not know the on Feb. 1, 1925 laughing and to see books burning, is very that made matzah, the unleavened born 11/15/1931 in Lyon, underwear. The investigators stripped her of her circumstances surrounding my father’s Sam Harris was born when the war broke the entire world. and a secret “Haganah” operative. refugees from the Displaced Persons Camps in , frightening. That was 1938, I was 13 years Szlamek Rzeznik in bread, used during the Jewish holiday of France. Lyon was the center clothing to see if she was hiding anything and capture in 1943. Recently I learned he was old and it was a feeling that is not to be out in 1939. Upon Grauel is credited with being the key individual to the ship. Filling multiple roles, he acted as a Germany to May 1935 in Deblin, Nazi occupation a Passover. Ernest was 12 when Hitler took of the textile business, and fortunately they didn’t find it. They went to New first held in the infamous Prison Fresnes, described.” who persuaded the United Nations Special liaison for the crew and the refugees. power in 1933. with several hundred resistance fighters and Sala Landau, Poland. He was the portion of Deblin she had one older brother York to meet her cousins. “I did not know the saying Committee on Palestine to recommend for the downed Allied airmen. In February of that and Benjamin youngest of 7 siblings. was turned into and her mother was a by Heinrich Heine, “When Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating In February 1939, three months after year, like my mother the year before, he Landau. Her His father, Shmuel Rzeznik was a Torah a ghetto where Sammy and his family Kristallnacht (the “Night of Broken homemaker. The family they start burning books, it scribe. The first three of his siblings came the State of Israel. In a speech to the Jewish was transferred to Drancy, a holding center sister, Karin, lived. Soon overcrowding, lack of food Glass” ), Ernest and his mother moved to Paris, where her won’t be long before they Samuel from his aunt, and after she died his father Agency, Golda Meir, referred to his testimony as for Jews in the Paris suburbs, and then was born in and medication caused men, women and fled to , one of few havens for father had a shop but in 1939 the Germans started to deported to Auschwitz, where, like 1930. Cecilia start burning human beings,” married the younger sister Sheva, Szlamek’s children to die from typhus, dysentery and the first appeal by a “priest, a perfectly worthy mother, which was the custom in those days. refugees without visas. His father and invade the country and they had to close the shop. They my mother, he was gassed.” survived the and that was written 200 Harris starvation. In 1942, Sammy and his family gentile, a priori, no Jewish witness was to be sister stayed behind in Germany; they years prior.” Sheva’s four children were Rosa, David, were rounded up for deportation. During the HelenHelenH elenG arfinkelG arfinkelGarfinkelG reenspunG reenspunG reenspun had previously bought a home in the country in 1938 Łódz Ghetto and the Nazi concentration Interview: May 30, 2002 One of the Youngest believed.” perished during the Holocaust. A brother Eliane Summer by the sea: 1931 in Sara and finally Sammy. chaos Sammy’s father pushed him out of line Ernest G. Heppner and moved there for refuge. camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme, John Stanley Grauel …one…one…one family’s family’s family’s miracle miracle miracle escaped to England. and April 24, 2003 Humanitarian and Supporter of the Jewish People Holocaust Survivor and Bergen-Belsen.LucilleCuxhaven (Nordssee) with her and told him to run and hide. of a Death Camp Ernest younger sister Karin

The State of Israel recognized Rev. Grauel “It was a ghetto. It was Throughout his life through the Humanity Medal, the Fighter for Lucille arrived in Auschwitz in August, She published From Ashes to Life: Helen GreenspunHelenHelen Greenspun Greenspun was born was inwas born Chmielnik, born in Chmielnik, in Chmielnik, Poland, Poland, Poland, surrounded by barbed Norman 1944 and was later transferred to the Israel Medal and the Medal of . He My Memories of CzestoChowa Camp he maintained close in 1926in to 1926in Sara 1926 to and Sara to Kalman Sara and and Kalman Garfinkel. Kalman Garfinkel. Garfinkel. She and She her Sheand andher her wire. And we were “And if it really got bad, he The hiding worked, as no immediate family were killed. “On September 13, 1942, Rosh Hashanah, “In November of 1942, with the help of the While in the concentration camp, Sammy died at his home in Roosevelt, New Jersey, and work camp,Eichengreen Dessauerufer in October the Holocaust associations with Jewish under a volunteer would send you for one night It took her mother some years to get a good my mother was selected for deportation. She French resistance, we were passed illegally chose wetting the bed and getting six brotherssix brotherssix and brothers sisters and and sistersgrew sisters up grew in grew an up Orthodox inup an in Orthodoxan Orthodox To make money they rented part of their country home 1944. She was then transported to The Deblin ghetto concerns. In the 1950s and was buried in Jerusalem, Israel, at services service called the into the bunker [punishment paying job in the government until she passed left us behind in the care of a stranger, a into Switzerland, where my father had a sister. in 1994. All her infected as the better alternative to having JewishJewish home.Jewish home.Helen home. wasHelen Helen 13 was years was 13 old years13 whenyears old oldthewhen when the the Heppner to farmers. the slave labor camp in Neungamme Her father was arrested twice. First was was converted into a attended by an Israeli Naval Honor Guard, B’nai Pao Chia, under the Polish Refugees in barracks]. The bunker itself young woman, a nurse who worked with the family died in the to go past those dead people outside 1960s he led investigations GermansGermans enteredGermans entered Chmielnik entered Chmielnik Chmielnik in September in September in September 1939. In1939. 1939. In In Fortunately they didn’t experience the concentration the civil service exam. Eliane went to school but We hid again.” concentration camp. the Shanghai Ghetto clandestine child rescue organization known in November and December of 1944. on October 27, 1938 and returned in concentration the barracks. This choice caused him into the terrible conditions Brith, members of the and fellow Japanese, um, uh, was a death sentence, one they moved her back two years until she could Since Sammy was SeptemberSeptemberSeptember 1942, Helen’s1942, 1942, Helen’s four Helen’s older four foursiblings older older siblings were siblings were were supervision. Uh, self- night. Because the bunker was camps or the ghetto and they didn’t go hungry but the as Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), and After the war she and There, Lucille worked until the long the spring of 1939. The second was the camps. great pain. of Jews living in Morocco crew members of the Exodus. speak English well. It took about one and a half too young to work he hid from the guards, roundedrounded uprounded for deportation.up forup deportation.for deportation. Sent by Sent her Sent bymother herby hermother to mother to to defense...kind of self- food was bad. They had little meat, ate root vegetables, walked us back to the empty barrack. Several walk to Bergen-Belsen in February and day World War II began and only his full of typhoid. Typhoid. Uh, if years to speak and more to write. her sisters moved to hiding in the darkness of the barracks. and Algeria. In 1975 he give hergive oldergive her brother herolder older brother a packagebrother a package a of package bread of andbread of bread warm and and warm warm protection. Um, they you got out of the bunker the saved their eggs in salt water which made them taste weeks later a Mademoiselle Rothschild also the U.S. to live with March of 1945 where she ashes were returned in a cigar box tied Eliane went on to an impressive education and working with the OSE took us out of the camp.” led one of the first Jewish socks, Helensocks,socks, alsoHelen Helen was also herded also was was herded onto herded a ontotruck. onto a Helentruck. a truck. Helen Helen Ernest Heppner wore armbands and next day, it would take about bad and had bad bread. After her father’s death in 1940 their uncle. Many was finally liberated in with a rubber band in September 1941. Jewish forCeD life receiving a PhD from Cornell University In 1944, the Nazis moved the Jewish workers youth tours of the Nazi survivedsurvived twosurvived labor two twocamps labor labor camps camps they had to be at the a week or two before you got they left for Portugal while they waited to be allowed years later she traveled April 1945. She moved Lucille was 16 years old and her regular from the Deblin camp to Czestochowa labor in the in Botanical Science and teaching at Stetson Above, Switzerland, 1945. Suzie Sammy watched his parents and four sisters concentration camps in Europe. Reverend Grauel was and fiveand concentrationand five five concentration concentration camps: camps: camps: ghettoShanghai exits and entrances, to guard against anybody ill, and...but everybody knew into the United States of America by other relatives back to be reunited to the United States schooling ended after being deported concentration camp. Upon arrival in the CzestoChowa (left), Rita (right), Sylvie (center). and brothers march towards the railcars. Skarzysko,Skarzysko,Skarzysko, Chestochowa, Chestochowa, Chestochowa, leaving who was not authorized. And, uh, uh, at already you have about two University for 26 years. in 1946, married Dan to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland where Camp drawn to numerous humanitarian efforts including the who vouched for them. Right, entry visa to Switzerland,1943. with Mademoiselle That was the last time Sammy saw his main camp Sammy was lifted up, kissed and that time, conditions were such that the ghetto was weeks to live.” Eichengreen (at right) she remained for nearly four years and American Civil Rights and Native American struggles. John.Stanley.GrauelSOJC BergenBergen Belsen,Bergen Belsen, Turkheim, Belsen, Turkheim, Turkheim, Rothschild, the woman family. Sammy was able to escape death, hugged, by each prisoner. The prisoners, governed by a very brutal, sadistic Japanese named USHMM Polish Jewish Refugees in the and had two sons. where her mother died of starvation. many of whom had lost their own children, Burgau,Burgau, DachauBurgau, Dachau and Dachau Allach. and and Allach. Allach. HelenHelenHelen in theatre in intheatre theatre group group group Shanghai Ghetto & Ernest G. Heppner who rescued her. his survival was nothing short of a miracle. Ghoya. He was paranoid, he was a psychopath, and were overjoyed at seeing a child. in DPin incampDP DP camp camp he called himself the “king of the Jews.” oral history HelenHelenHelen center center center in DP in incampDP DP camp camp Shanghai Ghetto Eichengreen’s Books

About Book Burning The young boy showed musical talent at a very About 20,000 refugees, including Ernest and the Italians, the Jewish population did “They (Nazis) went to public libraries, they Cantor young age. His paternal grandfather was a Baalei SheShe was was liberatedShe liberated was fromliberated from Allach Allach from by by AmericanAllach American by Americansoldiers soldiers on soldiers on on his mother, settled around the synagogue, Heppner was self- On January 16, 1945, Sammy was liberated by Isaac Nehama not initially suffer. Yet, in September of sam besiDe a rail Car at went to school libraries, they went to private T’Filah, a person who leads the congregation AprilApril 29, 29, 1945.April 1945. 29,Miraculously, Miraculously, 1945. Miraculously, Helen’s Helen’s brother, brother,Helen’s Nathan, brother, Nathan, Nathan, in an area called the Restricted Sector for reliant, energetic, Born April 29, 1927 in Athens, Greece the Russian army. As a young child, he survived four William Hauben Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener 1943, when German troops began to occupy the holoCaust museum homes, and the authors and the titles of in prayer and who brings new melodies to the andand her her sistersand sisters her Bela, Bela, sisters Regina Regina Bela, and andRegina Sonia Sonia and also also Sonia survived survived also survived Stateless Refugees but more commonly and clever, and years in the Deblin and Czestochowa concentration congregation by traveling to the big cities to listen (Gerd Zwienicki) the area, the situation On the Move & eDuCation Center certain books were just pulled off the shelf. known as the Jewish Ghetto. The 2.68 his story of finding A Student in a Nazi School Isaac and his two younger Ann became a nurse and married Henry camps. After living in an orphanage in Lublin, to the great hazzanim (cantors). His father loved the thethe death death thecamps. camps. death Tragically, Tragically,camps. Tragically, her her parents parents her and parentsand youngest youngest and youngest for the Jewish popula- They were loaded on trucks and they were square kilometers, or about a square mile, niches for his brothers were born and Poland and then Vienna, Austria, Sammy made violin and played for family and friends. At the age siblings,siblings, Rachelsiblings, Rachel Rachel Rabbi Wiener was in high school Jan- tion took a turn for Ann Rabner and had a daughter, Beverly. After the Born March 25, 1917, Ann Rabner was born June 13, 1922 in taken downtown to the famous street of Holocaust Survivor, His father specialized in imported bakery which was cordoned off by the Japanese skills that enabled raised in Athens, Greece. his way to the United States and lived in a foster of 6 in 1928 he began to sing in the synagogue andand Fishel, Fishel,and had had Fishel, had uary 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the the worse. Aware of German invasion of Poland in 1939, Unter den Linden, which is one of the main ingredients for pastry shops in Poland. who controlled the city, also was home to him to survive in a Bremen, Germany The Nehamas were tra- Kiev, Russia to parents who were living home in Chicago. On April 10, 1948, through the Cantor and Author choirs, as an alto, and he became a soloist. He was beenbeen deported deportedbeen deportedto to to Nazi party came into power. Anti- what had already hap- people fled Warsaw towards Mosheska thorough fares in Berlin, in front of Humboldt He traveled all over and spoke many languages. 100,000 Shanghaiese. precarious fashion Died February 15, 2011, ditional, Sephardic Jews pened to other Jews, in Russia under Stalin and communism. Jewish Children’s Bureau, He continues to speak Born in Krakow, Poland surrounded by music as a young child. Semitic legislations began immedi- where they were living and in the military. University, which is a longstanding of He was the oldest child of 12 siblings. Treblinka,Treblinka,Treblinka, where where where is a tribute to New York, NY who observed all Jewish Isaac’s father, mother, Her father was an office worker for a fruit Sammy was adopted by extensively on the ately and unannounced in school. holidays. Isaac’s father was They left the army during the war and learning, and they piled the books sky high March 25,1922 in inOctober Octoberin and October and and In 1945, after the liberation of China, human endurance. brother, and maternal and vegetable company and her mother Dr. Ellis and Harriett Harris local and state level 1942 Wansee Conference The teachers had to join the party an accountant at a Jewish- and they waited.” William Hauben was a teenager when the NovemberNovemberNovember of of of Heppner found a responsible position grandmother went into worked in a sugar factory. The communist the couple kept moving south towards in Northbrook, Illinois. Today, Sam is an active member of the about the lessons of the Holocaust and his 70th Anniversary Observance Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. They were with the American forces there. He and and follow the brainwashed policy owned textile firm. Both of hiding. Isaac fled to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ending in community, serving as President of the 1942,1942, the the 1942,Nazis Nazis the Nazis Isaac’s parents belong to government encouraged Anti-Semitism and experiences, which can be found in his “And at night, again, the torch parades; Video of Presentation forced to live in the 16 block ghetto of Krakow. his wife, whom he had met and married in to teach Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. Thessaly and joined a remnants of DestroyeD Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois. murderedmurderedmurdered most most of of most of Family Photo local Jewish organizations. Tashkent, where the weather was warmer memoir Sammy: A Child Survivor of the that’s standard operating procedure for They began teaching Judenhass partisan enclave there. Isaac, studio portrait Ann remembers name-calling as a child. Jewish Cemetery in by Kurt Marburg Chmielnik’sChmielnik’sChmielnik’s Jews. Jews. Jews. the ghetto, arrived in the United States in and they didn’t need winter clothing. Food He led the efforts to build the new Illinois Holocaust. Holocaust Survivor [hatred of Jews]. Josef, Jacob’s father ran a bicycle Isaac was still in high school when Athens Isaac worked mostly with toy dog She had one older sister named Sonia. CzestoChowa 1947 with only eleven dollars but boundless to eat was growing in trees. Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Kurt Marburg hope and energy. Shanghai Refugee (Amazon) shop and Selma, his mother was a was occupied by the Axis powers in 1941. as a telephone operator teacher. Jacob was the eldest. Because Athens was administered by and a cipher clerk, but did participate

Listen to the WMNF Radio Herbert Launer was born March 28, 88.5 FM interview YouTube.Cohen/ShaharText Tunis in March of 1944 in a sabotage operation in 1946 where he studied and obtained 1925 in Vienna, Austria, the only child in He survived 4 concentration Contrary to common

Nazis.” “…lends, let’s say, the impact, against a German convoy. his master’s in electrical engineering at a middle class Jewish family. Herbert’s camps, one was the camp run perceptions, the Holocaust After the War Journey’s End makes the impact stronger. They marched Kristallnacht commemorations Jacob was used as an example in the University of Illinois. father was a fur dealer and a highly by the vicious commandant was not a strictly European Upon returning to They were scared and separated from

from the side streets onto that square, 1937 They stayed in a point to the need to show the Amon Goethe, who was From his book, “From class, “You can recognize a Jew Athens in November their families. Stalin censored information decorated soldier of the Austrian army played music. They waited until it was really tragedy; the Jews living “You are wrong, sir, portrayed in the film the Flames: Miracles and Rabbi simply by his features. A German, a 1944, Isaac learned that Displacement Camp until during World War I. dark, until the torches on, then they threw world that we must stop hate Cantor Hauber teaching Bar Mitzvah boys. under colonial rule in North Africa were “Oh, no, sir,” and they were not aware of the extent of Schindler’s List. His message Wonders and Survival” th there is not such a thing, Nordic, is tall, has blond hair, blue only his father had 1949 training to move On November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht (the gasoline onto that mountainous pileup of also victims of the Nazis. Although the Jews Rabbi the Holocaust. They were in Turkmenistan in its tracks before it leads to Romek, William’s younger brother, did not have is about “honoring people I replied. eyes, a straight nose, and detached survived in hiding. to Israel (learning how to night of broken glass), Herbert and his books. And then they took their torches and I am often asked, “Cantor, how have you 38 at the end of the war, made their way to the ultimate: a . traditional Jewish looks and spent most of his time as that did the right thing suffered from anti-Semitic Nazi-inspired as you say, as superior ear lobes. A Jew is short and stocky, His mother, brothers, operate sewing machines, family were severely beaten by four Nazi threw them onto the books. That was the end an outsider with gentile friends. During the time of during the Shoa (Holocaust).” found the power to forgive?” And I tell legislation across North Africa, Tunisia was “You are has dark eyes, a crooked nose, and and grandmother had Kiev to see if any family remained and then of literature, of free literature, in Germany. or inferior. I would rather printing presses, repairing hoodlums who broke into their apart- Yet, in remembrance, there the Krakow Ghetto he lived outside and smuggled in His second book “Light: them that forgiveness is part of the Jewish the only Arab country to come under full Born on June 1, 1937 in Piotrków, Poland, His father, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lau (above), was his earlobes are tied to the skin. The been denounced by an to a Displacement Camp looking for other wrong. I also informer and sent to machinery) but ultimately ment, smashing furniture and forcing “My father read the book that was written is hope. food and money helping them to survive. Courage Hope” is about tradition, that the people who perpetrated Nazi control during the Holocaust era. Over Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (above left) is a the last Chief Rabbi of the town. Yisrael Meir is Jews are no religion, no ethnic or survivors. Ann and Beverly, along with these courageous people. say that we humans are Auschwitz. Only his received a letter from an Herbert’s father into the street to scrub by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the crimes against our people are for the 5,000 Jews were sent to forced labor camps, survivor of the Buchenwald concentration the 38th generation in an unbroken family chain have blue cultural group; they are a race like Ann’s mother, went to Kiev – then went to — Kurt Marburg On October 28, 1942 they had a major “selection”. brother Samuel survived uncle in America which the sidewalk with a toothbrush. The next the Western Front, which was also–Erich most part not around anymore. How can camp. He lost both of his parents in the of rabbis. His father was beaten by the Gestapo all different. And thank everyone else. Now, there are supe- Henry’s family in Moskiska, but no one had Read on the 72nd Anniversay Romek got sick and stayed in the ghetto for the night. Light: Courage Hope where some of the prisoners were tortured eyes and Isaac (left), his brother after two concentra- Maria Remarque was I think he had some we blame the children and grandchildren– Holocaust. His older brother Nephtali because he defied the German order for the Jews rior and inferior races. We, the Aryan, allowed them to leave the day Herbert was kicked and nearly beaten Romek and William’s parents were sent to a death and/or murdered, while others were forced G-d for that. We need Samuel (right) tion camps and a death Family Photo survived except for some family friends. Herbert French relatives in his family. But anyway, of Kristallnacht they should not have to share the guilt. Tunisia, North Africa (above right with their mother Chaya in to shave their beards. Yisrael remembers his DP Camp and go to the Yisrael Meir Lau Yisrael detached with Isaac’s to death by his closest non-Jewish friend, camp that day and died there. to build the Trans-Sahara Railway. Gerd Zwienicki, holding a are the superiors. The Poles, the march. Samuel was Henry’s family, his parents and younger Launer a teammate on his soccer team. Holocaust 1927) helped save his life. father’s strength in standing tall after the beating. earlobes.” picture book. each other.” Gypsies, and the lowest, the Jews, reunited with his remaining family in nanny brother, were killed. United States of America. are all inferiors.” July 1945. Isaac immigrated to the U.S.

Rena wrote in her mother’s book “Bitter Freedom – Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor“: They took her deep into the “There were notices “The next day we were Due to the quota system in place at the Two months after his 18th birthday, Herb “On the day before forest of Bezmiechowa to a “small, addressing the Jews alone. taken by foot all the way Near the end of the war, Rena Wallach decaying hut, and lived in a tiny time, Herbert was the only member of joined the U.S. Army, though he was still he wrote the book, and it tells about a the transfer of the Jews We were assembled at to Safsaf, a farm owned Jewish prisoners from the his family to qualify for immigration so not a citizen. Because of his military German group of students, university from Lesko to the Zaslaw room with one small window”. For Bergen-Belsen the next two years she pined for the Alliance school and by some farmer. There In 1939 Rabbi Wiener Rabbi Wiener later immigrated The Moment of to escape further persecution, Herbert’s service, Herb’s parents students, who volunteer in World War I. Bernstein Concentration Camp, two During Kristallnacht, November 9-10, extermination camp were her parents, but the forest had Jewish doctors were asked the Germans put us up in negotiated with the to the United States on a being transported to And he describes the agony of the trench unknown women came Selma was murdered and Jacob was parents sent him alone to the United were finally able to for her “a haunting beauty that to separate those able to a place where we slept on Gestapo and set up a student visa to attend the Liberation another camp when the to our house and took me arrested and held in the Wuerzburg ABC News States at age fourteen. Herbert left Vienna receive the visas they warfare, and none of them come back. school for Jewish chil- Friday, April 13, 1945 Germans abandoned the away. My parents stood remains” with her to this day. She work from those whose straw, in those stables, that jail. When he was released and re- Baltimore Rabbinical College. on April 30, 1939 and arrived in New York needed to come to Of course, that was anti-military: that book selection dren. Josef had family train. The U.S. Army came aside as these strangers grabbed and imagined her parents Gad Shahar health made them unfit for from which the dung had Shushan Cohen turned to Bremen, 8 days later, he In 1944 he was ordained as had to be–my father hid the book, because in Saskatchewan, upon the survivors and on May 8. America. They arrived in Visual History, were beyond two huge a rabbi and took a position at it told his story, what he went through on USC carried me, crying and fighting, into work. We were taken from the school to the train station. not been removed. We were taken for digging chores, deportation found out his brother Benno was the stories of horror the tree trunks watching and Canada who were able the Hebrew National At 17, Herb had moved into a Boys New York on the day that the Somme in 1917. But that book was Shoah Foundation the street. My parents stood sobbing On the way something happened that changed my whole mainly digging ditches and the like from dawn to dusk. sent to a concentration camp. He soldiers heard, which they protecting her. This kept to get papers that Orphan Home in previously thought were Home, was working full time and going to the Army sent Herbert to also banned.” Born April 7, 1938 in on the doorstep as these women took life. We passed through the street where I grew up and In the evening we’d come to eat whatever there was, traveled to Hamburg where he found college at night. It took Herbert nearly a the Pacific Ocean Theatre Krakow, Poland, me, still screaming, through the town to her calm and secure. She If your name was called you left. Lau’s mother allowed the family to Yonkers, New York. propaganda, became

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Kurt Siegbert Marburg, Interviewed by Tori Lockler had my friends – I was 19 by that time and suddenly the worms or no worms, we’d eat what we were given. The liberation 1945: Rena was four years a dirt road that led into a dark, heavily spent her days wandering was called but not her sons, so she didn’t leave Germany. Rabbi reality. year to learn that his parents had of War. At the end of the November 4, 2010 through the woods, eating neighborhood I thought was open, loving, encouraging, was can we used for eating also served for drinking and left Israel with his mother, she knew that Lau Born August 17, 1924 in Berlin, Germany old when her parents wooded forest just beyond the town’s respond. His mother grabbed her children Wiener and his family escaped Vienna and had arrived in war, Herbert was finally Herbert Launer in Photo: 1938 Interior of Berlin wild berries and lying on would have a better chance of survival with the U.S. Army Immigrated to the United States, gave her to a family streets. They walked all afternoon, the overjoyed and cheered the Germans for taking us. Here urinating at night. The same can. It’s hard to imagine and moved swiftly with both children. The left Germany on May England on September 1, 1939, the start reunited with his parents Arrived in Hoboken, NJ, Nov. 4, 1938 the ground watching the able bodied men and threw him onto the train synagogue after Kristallnacht to hide in the forest. two women taking turns carrying me, and there one could hear: “Dirty Jew”, etc. that human beings can do such things. The lice started Germans grabbed Shamuel, an older brother, 31, 1939 and immigrated to Canada First Person series— of World War II. after 7 years apart. Five days prior to Kristallnacht, 11/9/1938 clouds, only coming back with his brother. He stayed in Buchenwald despite all my protests.” My world was shattered.” to plague us. All over the body, like ants.” he was shipped to Treblinka that same day. by way of Great Britain. Conversation with a Holocaust survivor to the hut to sleep. with Naphtali until liberation at age 8. [2005 season at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum]

arianka (Marianne) Zadikow Each one of them was skeleton thin with History Teacher, Matthew Rozell, brought May was born in Prague in Her parents spent 2 years with Herman Gluck starvation, a sickness in their faces and the together the survivors and their liberators Born March 11, 1926 from the U.S. Army for a reunion in 2009 1923 and spent the years Jafa’s brothers hiding in a man- is mother perished with his way in which they stood-and there was something Ujora, Romania at Hudson Falls High, NY. 1944-1945 at transit camp afael Schächter, was a brilliant made cave 1.9 meters by 1.4 meters younger brother and sisters in else. At the sight of Americans they began M covered with wooden flooring. The Herman grew up in a Manya Moszkowicz Friedman laughing in joy-if it could be called laughing. It M young Czech opera-choral Theresienstadt, a 50 year old fortress at Auschwitz where they were Nazis used the Jewish community in was an outpouring of pure, near-hysterical relief. Terezín, Czechoslovakia. The creative Jewish conductor who was sent to Drafted in gassedH to death. His older brother was shot Born December 30, 1925 building as a factory There they came upon a long string of grimy, talent of Prague were forced to live in this R Terezín in 1941. Under the most Transylvania, Romania in Chmielnik, Poland R during a death march towards the end of ancient boxcars standing silent on the tracks. As Poland and the four had to in ISrael brutal of circumstances, with his parents and six Palestine Palestine the American uniforms were sighted, a great stir ghetto, but their creative spirit continued and be silent during the the war. His father died of starvation in Manya was born December 30, gave them purpose and hope. he sustained dignity, siblings. His father was Germany. Rifkah survived Auschwitz, a 1925, in Chmielnik, a small went through this strange camp. Many rushed day and could only toward the Major’s jeep and the two light tanks. humanity, and hope with a whiskey maker and taster for the local town in central Poland. Her Left above: World War II infantry veteran Carrol Walsh, from the New York Jewish Week Shep was born in Vilna, Poland, May 27, 1917. Vilna was talk at night. factory labor camp, This had been-and was-a horror train. In “I was in the chorus since its beginning in the his fellow prisoners. With an known as the “Jerusalem of the East.” After the liberation of Lesko, Barons. Herman was the fourth child of the father owned a furniture shop top, hugs Holocaust survivor Paul Arato. Right above: and Bergen Belsen. Naphtali had a career in journalism and and her mother took care of these freight cars had been shipped 2500 people, Matthew Rozell Below: Reunion at Hudson Falls High. fall or winter of ’42,” Marianne said. “We sang abandoned piano he found Rena’s parents came to the forest to seven. Of his family only he, one older sister, Herman and Wilhelm The boys joined an OSE transport of children politics. In 1981 he became the Israeli the home and children. German jam-packed in like sardines, and they were people in the basement, he recruited In early 1939, Hitler turned his attention to Poland and be reunited with their daughter. that had two things in common, one with the some Mozart operas, including ‘The Marriage Rifkah, and an survived Mauthausen. from Buchenwald to France. (Yisrael above Ambassador and consul-General in New troops invaded Poland on of Figaro’. Since it was a necessity to work and taught 150 prisoners Shep was drafted into the Polish Army. On September 17, This Jewish community numbered September 1, 1939 and three other: They were prisoners of the German State older brother, left). But Naphtali wanted to immigrate to York. Yisrael Meir followed his father’s and they were Jews. eight, 10 or 14 hours, it was much Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem by 1939, the Red Army invaded eastern Poland, including about 30,000 before the war, after Bitter Freedom -– days later, Sosnowiec, where Rena and Jafa, her mother, Wilhelm, Palestine. One month later, they made the footsteps. Later was appointed chief rabbi they had moved in 1938, was Marianne Zadikow May rote, after grueling days of Vilna. In July 1940, the Soviet Union absorbed the Baltic there were only 81 survivors. Rena Memoirs of a Entrance to Mauthausen appreciated that we did not have to think are reunited after two years survived the journey and arrived in on July 15th. of the State of Israel. He wrote Out of the occupied. At the end of 1943, Manya’s extended family taken at a wedding. Excerpt from Wayne Robinson, Move out Verify: the forced labor. Marianne was was the only child survivor. Holocaust Survivor Concentration Camp, Combat Story of the 743rd Tank Battalion Shep Zitler buchenwald at Shabbat of what tomorrow will bring if tomorrow Scan for more information on countries of Latvia, Estonia, and . in the Bezmiechowa Forest. (The brothers in Palestine above right.) Manya’s family was deported School Girls dressed in costume for a school (Manya standing at far right) Rafael Schächter one of the chorus members. by Jafa Wallach Holocaust. Austria Depths, his memoir of the Holocaust. (Germany, no publisher, 1945) brought a rehearsal.” Marianne Zadikow May’s book to Auschwitz when the ghetto was liquidated; she never performance. (Manya, second row, second saw them again. from left)

“Shoe Memorial in Budapest, Hungary” produced by James Ayala The Story of the Torah red remembers his childhood home “I was a member of the Jewish Scout Group by seconds all kind of thoughts flashed through my mind. Frederick R. Homburger and The Arrow Cross Party Scrolls of Czechoslovakia Manya’s Story About Eva (Szeva) Galler was born on January 1, 1923, in the life as very comfortable, with They performed on 16 occasions Rehearsals for the 150-member chorus were then and unlike scout groups anywhere else our Why me? Where to? Sneaking a quick glance at the Lore Marck Homburger Romeo Rubino 1936 (Hungarian: Nyilaskeresztes Párt – Hungarista Mozgalom, Early in February 1964, in the nineteenth Her Liberation others around me, I tried to figure out how I differed town of Oleszyce in southeastern Poland. Eva’s father Israel Vogel was a his parents and his brother. The Sabatino Finzi for fellow prisoners, with the last, generally every other day, but there were the Holocaust Survivors goal was—What can we do to literally “Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement”) year after the last German troops had “The shrill sound of the Kapo’s whistle, like a whip cutting from the rest. Again the thought, why me? And why now, businessman exporting Jewish ‘articles’ and a leader of Oleszyce’s Jewish Fextended family lived nearby. Social Salmoni Deported to Auschwitz most infamous performance on transports that regularly shipped prisoners survive? We would meet, and by surrendered in Prague, there arrived in through the air and through our shivering bodies, reminded when there is a spark of hope that this hell may finally end, Salmoni, a native of Rome, was October 18, 1943 n 1942, at 16 years old he moved to 1,564 Torah scrolls representing community. Eva’s mother Ita was from nearby Jozefow. The family was contact among Jews and non-Jews were T June 23, 1944, in front of high- to Auschwitz. By the time the chorus was this time the Nazis did not allow that it was time for the appell (roll-call). I rushed to get in judging by the frequency of air raids, and the roar of Allied “It was 7am. They knocked T maintained until 1933, when restrictions for arrested by Italian fascist police hundreds of Jewish communities in a Jewish community in Budapest, line — lines of grotesque-looking figures. In the winter we planes above our heads. There was no use trying to find a Orthodox and Eva was oldest of eight: Hana was 14 in 1939; Pincus 13; Berko ranking SS officers from Berlin and the Inter- ordered to perform Verdi’s Requiem for the more than three Jews to meet Bohemia and Moravia that had been wiped Jews began. At that time 3,358 Jews lived in on our door, and we opened POW Camp shivered from the cold underneath the striped, thin dresses, reason, there was no reasoning in camp. To the many 12; Molly 10; Dora 8; Gezel 6; and Aariel 1. Eva was the only survivor. in 1944, held in a Roman prison, national Red Cross. The Requiem expressed to International Red Cross and high ranking SS unless at school or in prayer and Hungary to work as a machinist. His out in the Holocaust. For many years, the Karlsruhe. Fred wrote, I “clearly remember Lore and Fred in Their Younger Years it because my mother had Between 1939 and 1941, Nazi scrolls had lain unused and unattended in in the summer we sweltered under the oppressive heat, questions circling in my head, there were no answers. transferred to an Italian internment their oppressors what they thought of them, officers in June 1944, its membership was fatherI told him, regarding anti-Semitism, the abuses suffered on Monday afternoon, Germany and the Soviet Union were we met with our prayer book. If a Prague synagogue that had been used waiting to be counted. The countless reading of the numbers, Though one thing was certain, a selection had never Lore emigrated to America via England, and camp at Fossoli near Modena in injections every morning and absent of having firearms for armed rebellion. down to 60. ‘allies.’ The Soviets transferred Vilna anyone would come up we “to be worried more from the Hungarians, as a warehouse. Then they traveled across no names, the faint reply “here,” counted by one of the meant a better lot. January 30, 1933, when the gym teacher moved to New York. Her father and Fred’s northern Italy, and was a forced laborer in Auschwitz she thought it was the nurse who had come Europe and arrived at the Westminster Kapos then another; often someone in line fainted from After the selection, our small group of girls, with Marianne said, “This wasn’t in our capabili- back to Lithuania and it became a would immediately switch to than the Germans.” Herman took a job in a arrived in SS uniform for the first time.” father, Dr. Paul Homburger, were in the same until the camp was liberated in 1945. His book, “In to give them. It was the Germans who held a Ernst Heinrich Loewenstein [Henry Lowenstein] was Synagogue in London on February 7, exhaustion and weakness, and had to be supported by others. stooped shoulders under the weight of uncertainty, Fred continued at the school for two years English class. Lore was having a party and her ties - but there was still a way to show that satellite of the Soviet Union. The Shep and other Jewish soldiers ‘of Lithuanian origin’ were sent to be there praying.” garage led by the Gestapo. 1964. From there, over the years that have Even in this small camp it seemed like an eternity, being resigned to feeling helpless and dragging our feet in the the End, I Beat Hitler,” used “flashes of irony and dark document written in Italian. It said to take all Born in 1918, Fred Homburger was before leaving for Switzerland in 1935. father asked Paul to invite his son, Fred. There we can preserve human dignity. Perhaps the Germans classified Shep as a Jewish soldier ‘of Lithuanian origin,’ a POW camp and separated from Polish-Jewish soldiers (who were 1925 born in Berlin, Germany in 1925 to a Jewish father, In 1944, Germany invaded Hungary passed since, they have been sent out to counted and recounted, again and again. wooden shoes, was marched toward the gate of the camp, the son of Herr Doktor Paul and Anna humor to describe conditions in Auschwitz, where food, jewelry and money we had because we Henry remembers one Gestapo Jewish communities in Great Britain and On Kristallnacht, November 9–10, 1938 they met, married, and re-located to Lancaster, Germans did or did not get the message - but and no longer a Jewish soldier ‘of Polish’ origin. The Nazis were killed). Shep didn’t know why the Nazis didn’t murder the Lithuanian Max who practiced medicine, and a non-Jewish mother, Maria who and Herman was sent to Mauthausen Arrow But that day was different. While standing in line to be leaving the others behind, and not knowing what the Homburger, bankers in Karlsruhe, he was sent.” His memoir of surviving Auschwitz had to leave our home to work elsewhere.” who came and watched awhile Sorting of ritual objects twenty other countries of the Western world, counted, a Kapo accompanied by a military person walked future would bring. Would there be a future? were destroyed and his father Pennsylvania. They made their home there it did help the inmates.” ‘cautious’ with prisoners (like Shep) who came from an ally country, Jewish soldiers. Shep and 9 friends from Vilna, spent the next was an artist and designer. Maria was married previously and had Henry’s membership card in Cross Party – on their arrival in Prague including West Germany, to be cherished Germany. Lore Marck was born and grew inspired the film “Life is Beautiful.” Henry Lowenstein and then went away. He said, concentration camp in Austria to work up to our group, pointed a finger at about a dozen or so girls, Outside the gate, a white, covered truck was waiting, a Manya Moszkowicz in her first civilian and uncle were deported to Dachau. A and raised their two children, Eve and Frank, a daughter Karin Steinberg, Heinrich’s older non-Jewish half-sister. wikipedia during WWII as memorials to a tragic past but at the up in Mannheim, Germany, the daughter Salmoni wrote in his memior, fearing diplomatic repercussions. 5 years and 7 months in various German POW and labor camps. the Jewish scouting group. and ordered them to step forward. You could sense the few Kapos and soldiers were mingling about, flirting and Eva Galler A Jewish Boy Scout “We got away with it that time.” in a stone mine. The Allies liberated Photo: Archive of the same time to be read and studied by a dress after the war, speaking with a security month later, they were released when they making sure to always remember their past. Scan for thoughts uneasiness and anticipation in the lines, the lines laughing, a familiar sight. The Kapos motioned to us Israel Vogel, Eva’s father and of Herr Doktor Marck, an attorney “At Auschwitz I was no longer Rubino Romeo Salmoni, them in 1945. Southwest Orlando Jewish Congregation’s Jewish Museum in Prague new generation of Jews, the guarantors of officer at a school in Lund, Sweden Eva, mother Ita and sister Hana agreed to liquidate the bank. but Jew number A15810, to be exterminated.” from Terezín in BerlIn DURING WWII shifted like an ocean wave. What now? In those few to climb into the truck, but it brought few results. Holocaust Survivor and Mrs. Marck, a homemaker. Czech Memorial Sefer Torah - Number 478 Jewish survival and rebirth. Ita, Eva’s mother

Banking was a long- This scroll came from The Homburger Reunion Herman reflected on the time the Nyilas fter the war, Herman and surviving the town of Rokycany Though the truck’s tail-gate was down and we tried The truck kept rolling on with its exhausted, Henry Galler standing family business n 1940, after 5 years in Switzerland, On the 75th anniversary of Yom HaShoah, Czech Torah hard, we were too weak to conquer this hurdle, despite helpless, resigned cargo, and we had no clue where to. and the privately owned Fred emigrated to . Estes Park, Colorado The troop began to meet at the apartments of Jews By this time, the Jews were trying to get away Throughout the war, the rest of the Loewenstein (the Arrow Cross), a Hungarian Armed siblings were reunited, and moved and was written in 1850. After the war she met her high school ‘sweetheart’, the fear that at any moment the Kapo’s whip come No one spoke, each one of us preoccupied with our own “We were a big family. We Homburger Bank that On October 22, 1940, 895 Jews were Fred always said that he felt as if they “The great raid on the Roman Ghetto began around PBS aired Defiant Requiem that reenacted that were being rounded up by the Gestapo who put from Germany any way they could. My parents family, including his half-sister Karin Steinberg, Hitler force, came to the garage where he from a DP camp in Germany to Henry Galler, another Holocaust survivor. They 1937 1938 1946 down on our emaciated bodies. Instead, to everyone’s thoughts. Then, lo and behold, the truck reached Denmark. Fred’s family ran Iexpelled and interned by the French Vichy were the “sandwich generation” and 5:30 on October 16, 1943. Over one hundred Germans the musical choral piece at the site of Terezín were eight children; I am married in Sweden December 24, 1946 and had three a seal on the door. applied for a visa to come to remained in Berlin. The family was working for the Gestapo. IsraelA in 1948. He became a chef in the disbelief and amazement the Kapos actually helped us climb FREEDOM? Incomprehensible! We were all dazed, unable hoped that Eve and Frank would lead armed with machine guns surrounded the Jewish was taken over by authorities in Gurs labor camp in France. Plaque in Rome in memory and practiced as the prisoners had in the up into the truck. Somehow, from nowhere a crate appeared to comprehend what was going on around us. (It was the oldest of eight. When daughters. The family moved to New York in 1954. A day or two later America in 1938. It meant suffered because they lived in Israeli army. In 1956 he moved to Brazil, From New York, Fred worked to get six healthy, happy lives and perpetuate quarter. At the same time another two hundred of that fateful day cold damp basement. Conducted by Murray Ponary Forest “The Nyilas demanded that the SS which we used for a step to climb up. I thought I was the end of April 1945, and Denmark was still under they took us to the trains to the Nazis the Gestapo would that we could be allowed to a Jewish household, yet Maria married and had 2 children. He moved to the during WWII family members out of Gurs, including his the Homburger name...the family, soldiers were distributed in 26 operational areas Sidlin, his journey led him to Edgar Krasa and (Gestapo), hand over all the Jews. hallucinating, or this must be a dream, I did not trust my German occupation). take [us] to the death camp, return and confiscate apply, not that we could get was able to save Max from being USA in 1970 where he was a chef at Corky senses any longer. But momentarily I recalled how the It appeared that the white truck that our group was as their father. Of the six, one died in the camp but though scattered throughout the where the German High Command had divided the Marianka May, survivors of the camp, who The SS officer asked, “Why do you I was seventeen years old country, get together for a reunion every year! In the wake of the German Army’s advance, the Nazis all the furniture and a visa, and we could apply to transported to concentration camps and Lenny’s in Cleveland, Ohio. Germans often used all kinds of tricks to get the people to being transported in was from the Swedish Red Cross. headquarters. the other five arrived in New York in 1941. city in search of other victims. When the gigantic raid participated in the choral singing to the Red want the Jews?” and the Nyilas The plaque below the Czech Sefer Torah come to an assembly point, using the pretense either to It had markings on the sides and on the roof, but we were Roman Jews being deported to dispatched (‘special strike commandos’) goods left behind. come to the US in 1942 and on several occasions. Many of the Today, Herman and my youngest brother In 1943, Fred was drafted into the U.S. Cross and the SS officers. is dedicated by SOJC alumni members register, or to check and stamp the passports, but instead not aware of it. Later we learned that negotiations were ended, 2091 Roman Jews were captured. Auschwitz – October 16, 1943 Post War said, “I want to kill them.” The SS lives in Delray Army and was shipped to England in 1944. to shoot Jews and other ‘sub-humans.’ Their policy was The scouts would that wasn’t promising.” When Loewenstein’s friends and family were put in trains or trucks and deported. going on between the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, was three years old and I Two days later in 18 sealed wagons all were Memoria/YouTube Beach, FL. He has and Holocaust survivors, Elias and Felicia He landed at , Normandy in to kill every Jewish individual in Lithuania. Out of 70,000 Shep and his fellow POWs were liberated from Gorlitz by break the seal, which the opportunity arose Henry’s members died in concentration officer said, “You take one more After being settled in the truck, each one of us received head of the Swedish Red Cross, and Himmler, head of the still hear him scream.” ‘ transferred to Auschwitz. Only 15 of them returned at 2 children, Friedman, in memory of their families early July. He was discharged in 1946 after Jews living in Vilna, only 7,000 survived. Shep’s family the Red Army in April, 1945. After the war Shep and his would be a terrible mother got him out of harms camps or . The Loewensteins step and I will kill you. These Jews a “C.A.R.E.” package. Again disbelief, but no time to rational- Gestapo, about the release of Norwegian POWs, but since I WANT TO LIVE TOO’ the end of the conflict: 14 men and 1 woman. 13 grandchildren, the war ended. He married Lore Marck in was murdered at Ponary Forest, a few miles south of Vilna. friends pretended to be members of the Jewish Brigade, offense if they were caught, and met Henry’s identification card Henry, 3rd from left in the front way on the Kindertransport to immigrated to the US in 1946 and are working for us, do not touch and the Six Million Jews who perished in ize “HOW” or “WHY”, even if this would represent our last it was the end of April, and Himmler was realizing that 1 great grandchild, meal. Within seconds the packages were ripped open and the Germany lost the war, he agreed to Bernadotte’s request Most died upon arrival in the gas chambers. None Jewish people were marched to Ponary, shot in the back of attached to the British Army and they were sent to England. issued by the Gestapo row, at Wilsnacker Strasse Jewish the Holocaust. Portrait of Manya Moskowicz New York and they moved to Lancaster, PA inside, figuring they wouldn’t come England in 1939. Heinrich in 1947 from England where them.” Herman said, “I owe my life and another on One of the many storehouses of contents devoured. IT WAS FOOD. There was powdered milk, to release from the camps some Jewish women of Polish Eva Galler’s extended family of the over two hundred children survived. “ after Kristallnacht. School in Berlin. This was the last Nazi-confiscated items, this one where he continued his engineering career. the head, and buried in pits. Between 70,000 and 100,000 In 1948, Shep immigrated to New Orleans where 2 of his for the material goods the same day. they were reunited and changed their to the Gestapo that day, otherwise I the way! cocoa, sardines, crackers, everything was eaten at once, origin and hand them over to the Swedish Red Cross. as a teenager Henry Galler, in the Polish Army Homburger Bank - early 20th century (left) (F. Cohen, 16 October 1943. Jewish school in Berlin. The Czech Torah’s Certificate containing Czechoslovakian books. Scan for more information Scan for more information Jewish people were murdered at Ponary. uncles lived. we were not even aware what it was. Some of the girls Thus began the brave rescue operation.” Today, a plaque on the building of the In 1942 most of the Jews in Gurs were deported to The great raid of the Jews of Rome) Murray Sidlin family name to Lowenstein. wouldn’t be talking with you now.” about PBS’ Defiant Reqiem on Verdi’s Reqiem got sick, our stomachs not used to digesting such food. Homburger Bank tells of its history. (right) Auschwitz. By 1945, 18 Jews were left in Karlsruhe.

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Children's Ark Feb. 8, 2013 SOJC invites its members and their families to be part of our exciting dedication ceremony on We have many opportunities for you to honor your most precious jewels: your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and special friends, whose name plaques will be engraved on its doors.

To be part of this lasting legacy, please choose to have your loved ones honored by making a donation through the following options:

_____ Ark: (3” x 6” plaque) $360.00

_____ Ark Doors: (2.7” x 5.5” plaque) $154.00

_____ Eternal Light: (2.7” x 5.5” plaque) $118.00

_____ Curtain: (2.5” plaque with child’s name & message = to 40 characters) $72.00

_____ Stuffed Torah (2.5” plaque with child’s name & message = to 40 characters) $54.00

_____ Plaque with Child’s Name and message $36.00

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SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 21 SOJC – March Celebrations March Birthdays 23 Ruby Yablon March Anniversaries 6 Michael Gerber 24 Jayme Epstein 11 Isadore & Ruby Yablon 8 Alex Fennessey 28 Michele Fischer 13 Evan & Bonnie Rayman 8 Abigail Siegel 30 Paul Drimmer 20 Brian & Stefanie Levine 9 Kim Siegel 30 Bonnie Rayman 27 Lonnie & Helene Reiver 9 Dafna Skolnik 31 Marissa Kotzin 28 Marvin & Shelly Blatt 10 Tom Goodman 10 Sara Schlossman 11 Michael Goodman 11 Amanda Jacobson 12 Marian Bromberg 12 Jason Ramsay 12 Mark Silverstein 13 Charlotte Moody 13 Lily Rhoads 15 Edward Bromberg 15 Marc Feldman 15 Mary Roufa 17 Hunter Magen 20 Andrew Spector 21 Sarah Aronow

THANK YOU To Mel and Judy Marsel for donating the Challah every Shabbat morning.

To Marian and Ed Bromberg for donating the food on Shabbat mornings.

To Michele and Jeff Fischer for donating the yummy desserts every Friday night and cooking the Family Friday dinners.

To Stephen and Susan Meshover donated a case of wine to be used for Shabbat.

Rob Singer for using your photography talent to record the SOJC events.

SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 22 SOJC– April Celebrations April Birthdays 20 Scott Regen April Anniversaries 4 Hannah Feldman 20 Mr. Jesse Rhoads 10 Peter & Charlotte Moody 5 Jake McLaughlin 22 Sadie Klaff 20 Robert & Sandra Bryan 5 Mrs. Cheryl Perlmutter 23 Mr Ben Schiffer 30 Jose & Yesrima Alvarado 6 Mitchell Frank 25 Joshua Rosen 6 Cheryl Weiner 26 Jessica Silkes 8 Ben Bolusky 29 Michael Weiner 8 Ron Goldberg 30 Susan Meshover 9 Mr Joseph Fennessey 9 Arielle Lipschitz 10 Yale Schwartz 10 Elizabeth Wurm 13 Charles Dorra 14 Mrs. Paige Fennessey 15 Hannah Nelson 16 Alana Fischer 16 Nathaniel Klaff 17 Mr Gary Glassman 18 Margie Brozanski 18 Doug Ramsay 18 Mindy Schwartz 19 Rachel Goldman 20 Robert Bryan

SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 23 SOJC – March/April Yahrzeits Observance Deceased Observer

3/1/2014 Leon K. Ackerman Charlotte Moody

3/1/2014 Daisy Seidner Barbara Siegel

3/6/2014 Evelyn Nathan Cheryl Weiner & Steven Nathan

3/8/2014 Robert Aaron Allen Amy Karr

3/8/2014 Goodman Abraham Glasser David Glasser

3/10/2014 Phillip Krieger Marion Wolfman

3/10/2014 Joan Ehrlich Ann Smith

3/11/2014 Joseph Koffler Merrille Koffler

3/14/2014 Jean Roufa Alan Roufa

3/17/2014 Eshter Drimmer Paul Drimmer

3/20/2014 Ralph Nathan Cheryl Weiner & Steven Nathan

4/2/2014 Joseph Kotzin Gordon Kotzin

4/2/2014 Richard Schwartz Jill Schwartz & Justin Schwartz

4/4/2014 David Seidner Barbara Siegel

4/5/2014 Alvin Roufa Alan Roufa

4/6/2014 Herman Slass Alfred Spear

SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 24 SOJC – February Yahrzeits (continued) Observance Deceased Observer

4/7/2014 Nathan Berwish Anna Gordon

4/10/2014 Morris Wasser Charlotte Wasser

4/11/2014 Joseph Ziswasser Charlotte Wasser

4/12/2014 Katherine Gan Gordon Kotzin

4/12/2014 Fred Solomon Maris Ramsay

4/14/2014 Maria Hauser Michele Fischer

4/15/2014 Frances Meshover Stephen Meshover – November Yahrzeits 4/16/2014 Bernard Schonbach Miriam Lewis

4/16/2014 Maurice Kuperman Yvonne Bleecker

4/16/2014 Burton Schlossman Sara Schlossman

4/18/2014 Harry Ehrlich Ann Smith

4/22/2014 David Ostrin Selma Schifter

4/23/2014 Amy Keller Charlotte Wasser

4/25/2014 Florence Cohen Susan Meshover

4/26/2014 Leonard L. Silkes Marion Silkes

SOJC NEWSLETTER - 11200 South Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, Florida 32836 407-239--5444 • www.sojc.org MARCH – APRIL 2014 / 29 ADAR – 30 NISAN 5774 Page 25 SOJC – This Board SOJC Spiritual Leaders DO JEWIS AN H and Board of Directors RL CO O N Rabbi T G S R Hillel Skolnik...... [email protected] E E G W A H Cantor T T

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