We are planning a series of worldwide events leading up to the 75th anniversary of the Partisan Song next April.
This 4 minute interview with Phillip Maisel below highlights the importance of the Partisan Song, and the role of our youth in keeping alive the legacy of Hirsh Glik’s poem of hope!
Phillip, 95, was a friend of Hirsh Glik, and one of the first to hear this poem recited in the Vilna Gheto in 1943
I visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne: www.jhc.org.au
where I presented my Partisan Poem and Song Project to leading Jewish educationalists and oulines the plans leading up to Yom Hashoah.
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At the Jewish Holocaust Centre
With Sue Hampel, Ricki Mainzer, Anne Gawenda, Edwin Glasenberg, Phillip Maisel & Freydi MrockiWith Sue Hampel, Ricki Mainzer, Anne Gawenda, Michael Cohen, Phillip Maisel & Freydi Mrocki
A month after I met Alli Bak Itzkowitz for the first time, she passed away.
Alli was my mother Raele (Ray) Zeldin Rabinowitz’s first cousin.
They never met!
When Alli and I met in North Dallas in July, we shared stories, laughed, held hands and exchanged Yiddish rhymes
Here are photos from my visit:
A family dinner held on 20 July 2017
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Part of the Zeldin family tree that Marny printed.
Alli and her son Gene
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From my previous post
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Meet Alli Bak Itzkowitz
A young Alli
Here is my relationship chart to Alli, my mother’s first cousin and the last of her ZELDIN generation. They never met.
Allis’ paternal Bak grandparents – Leib and Naomi
Alli’s dad, Avram BakAlli and her late husband JuliusAlli’s sister Luba & husband JashaAlli’s family. The mother Sonia in the frontAlli’s family in Memel, LithuaniaAlli, Morris Back and Harry BockMy mum, Ray and my grandfather Socher ZeldinBack of the photoGene & Vicki with their daughter, Marny and her husband Cody
Alli is a Holocaust Survivor and has her testimony recorded at USHMM as well as the Spielberg Foundation.
The USHMM link is here:
Oral history interview with Alli Itzkowitz – Collections Search – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
I also met my second cousins Steven, Lawrence and David Bock and the extended Bock and Itzkowitz families.
My visit to Southfork Ranch
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Dallas (1978 TV series)
Dallas (1978 TV series) – Wikipedia
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