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…
The Hercules monument is a landmark in the German city of Kassel. It is located in the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe (Wilhelmshöhe Mountainpark) in northern Hesse, Germany.
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Presentation by Franzisca Schubert
International center on the Nazi era – Arolsen Archives
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A walk around Bad Arolsen& lunch with Ernst & Beate
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
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Meeting Laura Konviser
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Enjoying the London weather!
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The 4th and final day – 3 August
The Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
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Back to the Park Plaza for the end of the conference
Meeting Susan Hodgins, Dorrith Sim’s daughter. We walk up the road to the Garnethill Synagogue.
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Meeting Harvey Kaplan, Director of the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre
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Meeting Deborah Haase, the educator
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Lunch with Steven Anson of Gathering The Voices
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Walk to down to the city
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Buying my ticket for travel to Edinburgh
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Meeting David Sim
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Hagana Station
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Jerusalem Station
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Bus to Givat Shaul
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Cousin Nachum Stepansky
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Lunch with Tony Sacks near Mahane Yehuda
Back up the hill to the train station
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Mount Herzl - Google Search
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Yad Vashem - Google Search
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With Karin Dengler
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In My Pocket Project – Introduces a powerful family story to 9 to 11 year olds
From: Eli Rabinowitz
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 01:38:14 EDT
In My Pocket Project – an autobiographical picture story and related art workshop about the Kindertransport
Introduces a powerful family story to 9 to 11 year olds
Dorrith Sim was born Jewish, went on the Kindertransport in July 1939, and was fostered by non-Jewish people in Scotland.
Her parents were murdered in Auschwitz. She commemorated each year with a yahrzeit candle.
Most importantly, Dorrith wrote a children’s book, age appropriate for 9 to 11 year olds, to tell her true story, explaining how she went from the discrimination as a Jew in Germany to the kindness of people in Scotland. Dorrith’s family story speaks powerfully to all young children today.
Dorrith’s children in Scotland, the Scottish Jewish Archives, Gathering Voices in Glasgow, Points of Arrival at the University of Edinburgh, the Stadmuseum in Hofgeismar, the German Embassy in Canberra and the Hon German Consul in Perth, all have freely provided the resources to the WE ARE HERE! Foundation, to make this project available globally.
Starting this week, the WE ARE HERE! Foundation’s CEO, Eli Rabinowitz, is travelling to Germany, Lithuania, Israel, Scotland and England to further develop these resources. Eli will be presenting at the IAJGS Conference in London at the end of July.
Schools, public libraries and museums are adopting the project, a true life story powerfully introducing the subject of family history to primary school students.
Carmel Primary School in Perth Australia together with the WE ARE HERE! Foundation recently ran the first ever incursion of the project.
The German Embassy in Canberra reports:
Permission to use these photos have been obtained.
The project consists of a book reading, a Q & A session, and an associated art workshop with the students.
Each student gets to take home a free mini pocket book of Dorrith’s true story and their painted artwork.
In addition, the WE ARE HERE! Foundation prints A4 books for school libraries.
The project is also being run in public libraries in Perth and Mandurah as well as the main WA Boola Bardip Museum in Perth.
All five Sydney Jewish Day primary schools are running the project in 2023, as well as non-Jewish schools such as the Montessori School in Perth.
The project has now expanded into South Africa whereHerzlia and Weizmann primary schools in Cape Town will run the project this year – the first collaboration with schools outside Australia!
