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December 13, 2020

Witnessing Holocaust History: From Generation To Generation

Witnessing Holocaust History: From Generation To Generation – A New Global Project Partnership between WE ARE HERE! Perth, Australia, HAMEC Philadelphia and World ORT, London #education
From: Eli Rabinowitz
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020

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Perth, Australia

This global program will start with 19 ORT schools on 27 January 2021, and will continue with more schools for Yom Hashoah through 8/9 April 2021
Website:
https://wah.foundation/witnessing-holocaust-history-from-generation-to-generation/

Press Statement from HAMEC:

WITNESSING HOLOCAUST HISTORY: FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

HAMEC ORT WAH! Ruth Almy Intro 27 January 2021

Source: youtu.be/Fqm3R-h6RPE

Participating ORT Schools for the 27 January 2021 event are:

Country/ City	Timezone	School
Mexico/ Mexico City	CST	CIM-ORT
South Africa/ Cape Town	SAST	Herzlia
South Africa/Johannesburg	SAST	King David Victory Park High
Bulgaria/Sofia	EEST	Dimcho Debelianov Hebrew and English Language School
Netherlands/ Amsterdam	CET	JSG Maimonides
Spain/Madrid	CET	ORT Colegio Estrella Toledano
Russia/ St Petersburg	MST	ORT de Gunzburg Secondary School # 550 “Shorashim”
Russia/ Samara	SST	Samara ORT Secondary School# 42, “Gesher”
Russia/ Moscow	MST	ORT Tekhiya, Center of Education # 1311
Russia/Moscow	MST	ORT Moscow Technology School, Gymnasium # 1540
Russia/ Kazan	MST	ORT “Mishpahteinu” Secondary School # 12
Ukraine/ Chernivtsi	EEST	ORT Specialized School #41
Ukraine/ Kiev	EEST	Kiev ORT Educational Complex #141
Ukraine/ Odessa	EEST	ORT Secondary School # 94
Ukraine/ Zhaporozhie	EEST	ORT “Aleph” Jewish Gymnasium
Moldova/ Kishinev	EEST	ORT Technology Lyceum
Estonia/ Tallinn	EEST	ORT Tallinn Jewish School
Latvia/ Riga	EEST	ORT Network Jewish Secondary School
Lithuania/ Vilnius	EEST	Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT School

Bielski Reunion, Belarus

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For more info about this post, contact Eli Rabinowitz eli@elirab.com

The World Premiere of the four language Partisan Song

Ellenbrook Secondary College & Carmel High SchoolAt Ellenbrook Secondary College5 August 2019

Source: youtu.be/iIJ-rC-DcWA

April 20, 2020

Yom Hashoah – The Partisans’ Song Legacy

Commencing tonight, on 20 April 2020, and continuing tomorrow, on the 21st, corresponding to the 27th day of Nisan, the State of Israel and many Jews around the globe, commemorate the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, as well as the heroism of survivors, and Jewish Partisans and rescuers.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and global lockdown, regular ceremonies will not be held.

We have compiled this YouTube highlights video to give you a perspective of why the the Partisans’ Song is so integral to a meaningful commemoration:

Educators and students are welcome to download a functional powerpoint presentation (1.8gb) that matches this video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18g67tFpg0YpKtAp2dtSX1J1CyUTOsVeQ/view?usp=sharing

I can also run an online ZOOM presentation for your school or organisation. Please contact me at eli@elirab.com to arrange this. There is no charge for this or the accompanying lesson plans and films.

Here is a pdf of the List of Slides on my presentation:

A List of Slides

Here is more information for you:

Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah or Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In Israel, flags are lowered to half-mast, there is no public entertainment; ceremonies are held, and a siren at 10:00 signals the start of two minutes of silence.

The ceremonies held, usually conclude with Zog Nit Keynmol, the Partisans’ Song and Hatikvah.

“Zog nit keyn mol” (Never Say; Yiddish: זאָג ניט קיין מאָל‎, [zɔg nit kɛjn mɔl]) or “Partizaner lid” (Partisan Song) is a Yiddish song considered one of the chief anthems of the Holocaust survivors and is sung in memorial services around the world.

The lyrics of the song were written in 1943 by Hirsh Glick, a young Jewish inmate of the Vilna Ghetto. The title means “Never Say”, and derives from the first line of the song. Glick’s lyrics were set to music from a pre-war Soviet song written by Pokrass brothers, Dmitri and Daniel, “Терская походная” (Terek Cossacks’ March Song), also known as “То не тучи – грозовые облака” (Those aren’t clouds but thunderclouds), originally from the 1937 film I, Son of Working People (story by Valentin Kataev).

Glick was inspired to write the song by news of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. During World War II, “Zog nit keyn mol” was adopted by a number of Jewish partisan groups operating in Eastern Europe. It became a symbol of resistance against Nazi Germany‘s persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust.

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For more information on the WE ARE HERE! Foundation, a not for profit organisation, please visit:

WE ARE HERE! For Upstanders

For Upstanders – Founded by Eli Rabinowitz

Source: wah.foundation

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

WE ARE HERE! In South Africa

Human Rights and Social Justice Project

Eli Rabinowitz introduced his highly successful WE ARE HERE! Education Program to key educators and students while on a recent visit to Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Here are some photo highlights:

King David Victory Park, Johannesburg – Presentation

KDVP

Rabbi Ricky Seeff – Principal

King David Linksfield – Leadership Meeting

Darryl Frankel, Shelly Freinkel, Myleen Ben Melech & Eli Rabinowitz

ORT SA – Johannesburg

Evelyn Green & Russel Lurie.

A Possible Collaboration on a multi-language Partisans’ Song in the Future!

Professor Russel Lurie and Evelyn Green

Professor Russel Lurie and Angela Lurie at Beyachad

United Herzlia Schools – Cape Town

Highlands House, Cape Town – Presentation

Slide Show Presentation

Nance Adler Slide

WE ARE HERE! Project Australia

WE ARE HERE! For Upstanders

For Upstanders – Founded by Eli Rabinowitz

Source: wah.foundation

The World Premiere of the four language Partisan Song

Ellenbrook Secondary College & Carmel High School At Ellenbrook Secondary College 5 August 2019

Source: youtu.be/iIJ-rC-DcWA

January 27, 2020

Auschwitz Commemoration

Photos from Auschwitz Commemoration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day – 75 years.

27 January 2020

Watch and take in these scenes!

November 10, 2019November 10, 2019

Continue to Remember and to Make a Difference!

https://wah.foundation

WE ARE HERE!

A UNIQUE SOCIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM FOR UPSTANDERS

‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’ – Edmund Burke, philosopher.

CONTINUE TO REMEMBER AND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Today, 10 November, we commemorate Kristallnacht, also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland on that date in 1938.

The Perth ceremony will be held at Perth Modern School at 5pm tonight. The keynote address will be delivered by Malcolm McCusker, the former Governor of WA, who will speak on:

“Evil Creeps Back, If Good People Stand Aside”.

The final item on the program is the Partisans’ Song, to be sung in four languages, Yiddish, Hebrew, Noongar and English, by the joint choirs of Ellenbrook Secondary College and Carmel High School, under the direction of Stuart Rhine-Davis. The song was originally written as a poem by Hirsh Glik in 1943. Jesse John Fleay, a lecturer at ECU translated it into Noongar, and Suzanne Kosowitz re-arranged the music by Dmitri Pokrass to fit the Noongar. Michele Galanti coordinates the Carmel School Choir.

The joint Ellenbrook Secondary College – Carmel High School choir first performed this inspiring anthem on 5 August at Ellenbrook Secondary College in front of 2000 people, and then repeated it at Carmel School on 7 August. The original recordings are here: https://wah.foundation/program/

The Kristallnacht ceremony this year will be attended by Lance Turner, son of Uncle Boydie Turner and great grandson of William Cooper, the indigenous Australian, whose protest against the pogroms, at the Nazi consulate office in Melbourne, was finally recognised by the German government in 2017, 79 years later!

Eli Rabinowitz

Perth, Australia

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,

Moshe Fiszman passed away aged 97 May 13, 2019

Moshe Fiszman, at 17 years of age, was a young man who suddenly became the sole carer for his family in the ghetto at Radom, Poland.

For the next five years Moshe was interned as a slave labourer at five different Concentration camps including Auschwitz.

As Moshe would say “How I survived I will never know “. He did survive and went on to be a caring husband of his wife now 99 and a loving father to his two daughters.

Moshe gave his testimony on a regular basis to the Aboriginal men in drug and alcohol recovery as part of the program I devised to help these men learn about William Cooper and to witness a role model in Moshe, a man who survived against all the odds.

Moshe told of the day, lying in the snow with the last of the survivors after a final “Death“ march, he realised they were finally free; the Nazis had fled, fearing the advancing Russian Army.

Freedom after five and a half years meant no family, no country, no future. He wept for twenty four hours, then picked himself up and decided to go on. His mission was to search for any remaining family members.

Most importantly, though, his mission was to tell what really happened during the Holocaust, to make sure those who were murdered were honoured by his telling their story and to keep their memory alive.

Now it is Moshe’s story that must be kept alive. I am hopeful in my own small way, through my film Ties that Bind, Moshe’s story will inspire and will be shared, and it will honour his family and all those who perished, for generations to come.

May his name and his memory be as a blessing.

Viv Parry

Melbourne, Australia

Ties That Bind

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: