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Events in July – September 2004
5 July
A day of lectures,
discussions and tours, and a cultural evening in the Valley of the
Communities, for participants in the 24th
International Conference for Jewish Genealogy. The evening
included performances by singer Shuli Natan, cantor Asher
Hainowitz and the Gogol Harmonica Orchestra conducted by Alex
Reiss. Benny Hendel acted as Master of Ceremonies .
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July Ceremony honoring Righteous Among the
Nations Stephan and Anna Tchaikovsky,
Feodosi and Melanya Ploshchadni, Leonid and Antonina Stavenko and
Nadezhda Makrushits from the Ukraine and Belarus. The certificates
and medals were given to members of their family, in the presence
of the survivors’ families.
29 July
Ceremony officially presenting to Yad Vashem the ring used by the
Polish underground and the ZZW (Jewish
underground) in Warsaw to contact each other during WWII (see
Magazine 34, Summer 2004). The ceremony was attended by Professor
Moshe Arens, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev,
Dr. Sarah Osazitsky-Lazar, Adi Lazar and their families, Director
of the Jabotinsky Institute Archives Amira Stern and the Yad
Vashem Museum staff.
3 August
Annual ceremony in memory of the Jews of Rhodes murdered in the
Holocaust, attended by dozens of Jews from Rhodes and their
families. Speeches were given by Director of the Yad Vashem
Library Dr. Robert Rozett, author and poet Matilda Cohen-Serano,
and Chairperson of the Rhodes-Kos Association Renee Kapuya.
5
August Annual memorial ceremony in honor of Dr.
Janusz Korczak and the children he
habored, marking 62 years since their deportation to the Treblinka
extermination camp. The ceremony was held in the Janusz Korczak
Square, attended by members of the Korczak Association, cadets
from Mahanot Olim Youth Movement, and members of the Youth
Movement Council. After the ceremony, there was a performance of
“Facing the Wall”—describing Korczak’s last three years and life
in the orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto—by the German “Five Loaves
and Two Fishes” ensemble, conducted by Reverend Klaus-Peter Rex.
The performance took place in the Valley of the Communities.
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August Ceremony marking the publication of
Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations – The Netherlands,
attended by Avner Shalev, the Dutch Ambassador in Israel H.E. Mr.
Bob Hiensch, Senior Editor of the Lexicon Dr. Joseph Michman, and
Jews from the Netherlands living in Israel. On the same day, the
annual conference of the Association of Members of the
Hachsharot and Underground Pioneer Movements in Holland,
including the Westerweel Group, marked 60 years since the
execution of Righteous Among the Nations Joop Westerweel.
6-7
September On 6 September,
members of the Organization of Former Residents from Lodz and many
guests from Lodz (including Chairman of the Organization Avraham
Zelig and Chairman of the Future Generations Uri Weisenberg)
visited Yad Vashem and held a memorial ceremony marking 60
years since the liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto. The following
day, the annual Assembly of Jews from Lodz took place in
the Cameri Theatre.
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September Annual
ceremony and assembly marking 63 years since the murder of Jews by
the Nazis in the Ukraine, and the massacres in
Kamenets-Podolski, Babi Yar, Bogdanovka, Drobitsky Yar and other
regions. The ceremony was attended by Minister of Diaspora,
Society and Jerusalem Affairs Natan Sharansky, representatives of
the Jewish Agency and the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel, Avner
Shalev, and Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Jews David
Levine.
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