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TWO weeks after lighting a candle at Yom Hashoah, 100-year-old Lena Goldstein died peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday night.
Source: www.jewishnews.net.au/shoah-survivor-lena-goldstein-passes-away-at-100/89950
In Lena Goldstein’s story, we journey from her youth in Lublin Poland, through her life and deathstruggle in the Warsaw Ghetto, to a new life in Australia. Weaving this within the historical context, author Barbara Miller creates a gripping account of how Lena survived the lowest ebb in Jewishhistory. Lena’s story will inspire the next generation to be upstanders, and always to have hope!
Eli Rabinowitz, Educator, genealogist and filmmaker – WE ARE HERE! Foundation
I never met Moshe Fiszman, but I have watched and studied a 9 minute video of Moshe and Uncle Boydie, produced by Viv Parry, which has greatly influenced me. This film will serve as an introduction to an inspiring global project being launched in Australia in August. See below.
The following is what Viv wrote for me this morning, the day Moshe was buried in Melbourne, Australia,
A short documentary conversation between Uncle Boydie (Alf Turner) – grandson of Indigenous activist William Cooper, and Moishe Fiszman – a Holocaust survivor … This movie was mad…
Source: elirab.me/ties-that-bind/
Filmed by Justin Olstein
Ties that Bind forms an important introduction to our WE ARE HERE! Project for Upstanders, starting in Australia in August 2019:
Source: wah.foundation
This program is sponsored by a cultural grant from the U.S. Department of State
In May 2017 I first invited schools to participate in a new project for Yom Hashoah.
So it is with great pleasure I share with you a couple of videos made this week by the students of Bialik Hebrew Day School in Toronto, Canada
Bialik Hebrew Day School, Himel Branch, Toronto Canada 2 May 2019 Yom Hashoah Commemoration assembly. Singing in Yiddish followed by Hebrew.
Source: youtu.be/1I94o3z39Xc
Bialik Hebrew Day School, Toronto Canada, 2 May 2019 Yom Hashoah Commemoration assembly.
Source: youtu.be/tQSt3CkD5Js
Thanks to:
Assaf Mordachay, Beverley Young and Kathy Friedman
The Jewish Day School for Today’s Generation.
Source: bialik.ca
The Partisans’ Song, Zog Nit Zeynmol, has now been translated into 27 languages, the latest being Mongolian:
YIDDISH, HEBREW, ENGLISH, POLISH, BELARUSIAN, RUSSIAN, GERMAN, SPANISH, CZECH, DUTCH, ITALIAN, ROMANIAN, FRENCH, SWEDISH, PORTUGUESE, NORWEGIAN, JAPANESE, FINNISH, SWISS GERMAN, SLOVAK, GREEK, AFRIKAANS, UKRAINIAN, SERBIAN, NOONGAR , ARABIC, XHOSA, ZULU and MONGOLIAN.
In this way we can all share the song’s powerful and positive message and, at the same time, embrace the legacy of the partisans, of those who were incarcerated in the ghettos and the camps and of the Holocaust survivors. See translations below.
A Project For Your School Recite or sing the Partisans’ Song in your home tongue, or in a language you have learnt. Make a video, which can be as creative as you wish or just a simple recording. For the poem, each verse is made up of four lines. For the song, the last two lines in each verse are repeated.
I am pleased to advise that today, on Yom Hashoah 2019, we have added a Mongolian translation of the Partisans’ Song, Zog Nit Keynmol.
Thanks to Michael Anderson and his daughter Saskia for arranging this translation by Mongolian academic, Zandan Bilegt.
We now have the song in the original Yiddish, and 27 language translations on our website. Schools around the world, including World ORT schools, learn and sing the song.
A Project For Your School to recite or sing the Partisans’ Song in your home tongue, or in a language you have learnt. Make a video, which can be as creative as you wish or just a simple recording. For the poem, each verse is made up of four lines. For the song, the last two lines in each verse are repeated.
The background and context The ‘Partisans’ Song’ – Zog Nit Kein Mol–written by Hirsch Glik, 22, in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943 is one of the most powerful songs of resistance and defiance ever written. While Hitler boasted that his Reich would endure for a thousand years, it is the Jewish people who resisted the forces of hatred and have endured, not the murderous Third Reich, which lasted twelve years. Today, 75 years on, long after the demise of Hitler’s murderous regime, the partisans’ song is now sung worldwide to mark the Jewish spirit of resistance. (Michael Cohen, Melbourne)
Source: elirab.me/znk
PARTISAN SONG – MONGOLIAN TRANSLATION BY ZANDAN BILEGT
Бүрхэг тэнгэр зовлонт ирээдүйг зөгнөх мэт санагдавч
Бүхний төгсгөлд ирлээ гэж хэзээ ч бүү хэл.
Хүсэн хүлээсэн цаг чинь ирнэ,
Бид ирлээ хэмээн цэрэг бидний алхаа аянга мэт нүргэнэ.
Наргил модны нутгаас цаст уулсын нутагт
Гуниг ганихралаа тээн бид чинь ирлээ.
Бидний цус урссан газар бүр
Эрэлхэг дайчин сүнс маань орших болно.
Мандах нарны алтан туяа нулимсыг маань эгшээж,
Өнгөрсөн жилүүдийн гашуун дурсамжийг мартагнуулна.
Нар мандах цаг мөдгүй бол
Энэ дуу минь сайныг зөгнөн эгшиглэг.
Энэ дуу тугалгаар бус цусаар маань бичигдсэн,
Энэ дуу шувуудын жиргэдэг дуу биш,
Энэ дууг бүрээн дуунаар буу агсан,
Нурж буй багануудын дунд дуулж байсан юм.
Тиймээс хэдий бүрхэг тэнгэр зовлонт ирээдүйг зөгнөвч
Бүхний төгсгөл ирлээ гэж хэзээ ч бүү хэл.
Бидний хүсэн хүлээсэн цаг ойртсон,
Цэрэг бидний алхаан дор газар доргих болно. Бид ирлээ!
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1 May 2019
Carmel School Choir Sings Zog Nit Keynmol – Video
Yom Hashoah, Perth Australia
1 May 2019
Source: youtu.be/883P_npMqmw
A short exerpt from Melbourne’s video – thanks to Herb Epstein
Cape Town
http://www.gitlinlibrary.co.za/ActiveConnect/default.html
From Tachlis, Michele Gogoski & Elona Steinfeld, Beyachad, Johannesburg:
Eli, who is the founder of the We Are Here Foundation, gave an inspirational presentation about the importance of educating Jewish youth about the Holocaust and the Jewish partisans during the World War II. The talk was accompanied by video footage of the youth of various communities across the globe, who have been taught and are being taught to sing the famous Partisans Song – Zog Nit Keyn Mol (Shir HaPartizanim).
His message is loud and clear: WE MUST NEVER FORGET!
For more information please visit the website
WE ARE HERE! An Education Program That Inspires Upstanders
From Stan Smookler on the Good Shabbas Newsletter
I attended a Lecture by Eli Rabinowitz @ Beyachad last week, and it was a VERY interesting discussion, the Subject being “ Zog Nit Keynmol’ ( Never say never again), the Partisan’s song…. see https://wah.foundation/ …. I never realized that such a project would have soooo many opinions and ‘Machlokes’ …. The project is to revive the Partisan song that was written by Hirsch Glik in the concentration camps…… The project involves getting schools to start learning the song and of course understanding the meaning…. Eli has teamed up with various Schools, especially in Russia, Poland, Souff Effrikka etc, and World Ort have given him huge assistance, with ORT schools around the World joining in the programme….. The question is ; Should the Song be sung/learnt in any other language than Yiddish, as this is what it was started as…???? Methinks, yes, as it will get lost if not promoted.
At the meeting were a few knowledgeable people in Yiddisher circles, and Saul Issroff ( Absoluuuuut BOFF on Lithuania) from London (Ex PE ‘Amolikke Yoren’), Eli Goldstein who is very involved in the teaching of Yiddish in Joburg, Ishvara Dhyan, who takes walking tours of Joburg, and covers many of the old Yiddisher places, Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft (The Travelling Rabbi) ,Darryl Frankel (King David) Marc Latilla who runs a website Johannesburg 1912, which has a lot of info on many suburbs (in detail) and Joburg City … , https://johannesburg1912.wordpress.com/ where you can find in depth info on Joburg/suburbs….. Tali Nates from the Holocaust Museum also came, and Eli did a show with Howard Feldman on Chai FM 91.7 .. Pictures; http://www.stantgsm.com/category/pictures/4
ChaiFM – my interview by Howard Feldman
ChaiFM
With some of the educators who attended my presentation.
Also caught up with:
This is the third online collaboration on the Jewish Partisans between Herzlia School in Cape Town and World ORT schools in the FSU.
Herzlia School Vocal Ensemble sings Zog Nit Keyn Mol, 15 March 2019
Source: youtu.be/wjHPwDsffQk
For more information please visit the website
WE ARE HERE! An Education Program That Inspires Upstanders
In Lena Goldstein’s story, we journey from her youth in Lublin Poland, through her life and deathstruggle in the Warsaw Ghetto, to a new life in Australia. Weaving this within the historical context, author Barbara Miller creates a gripping account of how Lena survived the lowest ebb in Jewishhistory. Lena’s story will inspire the next generation to be upstanders, and always to have hope!
Eli Rabinowitz, Educator, genealogist and filmmaker – WE ARE HERE! Foundation
Book Launch Sydney Jewish Museum 10.2.19
Melbourne JHC – 14 February 2019
