By Eli and Jill Rabinowitz Perth Australia 13 December 2024 Burning The Synagogue Australians Jill and Eli Rabinowitz visited the site of the Great Synagogue of Kassel Germany in November 2024, whe…
The town square
The Australian Jewish News
Pogromnacht anniversary visit
The Rabinowitzes spent an hour with Rabbi Shaul Nekrich in the current synagogue, rebuilt in 2000 on the same block as the memorial.
By Uber to the Kassel Wilhelmshohe Railway Station
The trains to Hannover Airport at 266km / hr
My post from 2023
Kassel Germany
Kassel Germany – hometown of Dorrith Oppenheim Sim 12 July 23 With Gabriele Hafermass of the Stadmuseum Hofgeismar The train from Hofgeismar which converts into a tram in Kassel Hofgeismar to…
Australians Jill and Eli Rabinowitz visited the site of the Great Synagogue of Kassel Germany in November 2024, where 86 years ago, on 7 November 1938, Kristallnacht, known as Pogromnacht in Germany, began.
Translation of this plaque
The Synagogue
This is where the Great Synagogue of the Kassel Jewish community stood, completed in 1839 and having 2,301 members in May 1933.
Many had already fled when, on 7 November 1938, activists from the Nazi Party broke into the synagogue and broke open the Torah shrine, setting fire to prayer scrolls and cult objects.
The city administration immediately demolished the intact building in order to build a parking lot there. The community was broken up.
Jill and Eli Rabinowitz with Tanja Colgan, German teacher Goethe Institute
The Project is a two-hour workshop of a book reading with a creative art activity for upper primary classrooms (Years 5 and 6). The story links with HASS units on civics, migration and refugees. Intercurricular learning opportunities promote values of empathy, kindness and inclusivity in the multicultural classroom.
This project is a stepping stone to the study of the Holocaust, refugees and anti semitism in high school. The project is unique at the primary school level.
The WE ARE HERE! Foundation provides the calico pockets, art materials and paints together with a free mini copy of In My Pocket for each student.
In My Pocket is Dorrith Sim’s true account of her escape from danger on the Kindertransport.
The Project is supported by the German Embassy in Canberra and the German Hon Consul in WA.
The German version of the book, In Meiner Tasche, is promoted by the Goethe Institute in Australia.
Zoom/Teams training is available for teachers.
The project was first launched at Jewish Day schools around Australia and South Africa in 2023/4. Since then, it has been successfully extended to state, private, Catholic and Independent schools as well as to public libraries.
Today in Perth started off with morning tea at the State Library of Western Australia with my mining experts, historian Lenore Layman, Richard Hartley (who just completed “Westralian Founders of 20th Century Mining,”) and Peta Chappelle, whose PhD thesis on “Merton’s Reward” explored the involvement of Charles Kaufman (Ken’s Baden-born great great uncle) in the Western Australian mining boom in the 1890s. They brought me the kinds of goodies genealogists love & suggested new avenues of research. Thanks to Michelle Urban from the local JGS for arranging this & providing lunch with the effervescent Eli Rabinowitz followed by a tour of Perth.
Tuesday 2 August – Day 3
Crossing Westminster Bridge
Meeting Laura Konviser
With Daniel Horowitz
Enjoying the London weather!
The 4th and final day – 3 August
The Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
Back to the Park Plaza for the end of the conference
Jaffa Gate – Google Search The name Jaffa Gate is currently used for both the historical Ottoman gate from 1538, and for the wide gap in the city wall adjacent to it to the south. The old…
